Pub-for-All
Bottoms Up
Cheers!
Team Service Counter Pep-Up Party before Year-End Gift Reservations!
Yay.
Wow, I'd rather be anywhere else.
But you know, Zawa.
It should be easy this year 'cuz you made sure everyone could man the counters.
You know it!
If we lose someone, any of our staff can step in!
Chief Maezawa is an excellent trainer.
Oh, I very much agree.
Ohno-san, I see you're going to town on the drinks as always.
That's our Moromoro Station Branch's #1 drinker!
Would you like another beer? Some more sides?
Stop. You're making me blush.
I wouldn't call that a whim.
It was more like you admired that person for years.
For some reason lately...
You really look like you've been enjoying your smokes lately, Yamada-chan.
It took you this long to realize, Zawa? She's a slave to food, booze, and smoke.
Oh, but watching her smoke almost makes me want to pick it up again.
Yeah, it has tasted a lot better lately,
all due to some fan of mine.
Hey, are you talking about Sasaki-kun?!
Tell me more!
Hah, no way.
Sasaki-kun? Do you mean that tall, docile-looking office worker?
Yeah.
Ah, Yamada-chan Fan #28?
Hello, I'm Sasaki.
Fan #28
Right. He's such an upstanding customer.
He's always so grateful that serving him makes one happy.
Oh, I'll have a draft beer, please.
Really? It's not often that Yamada-chan can actually stand a customer.
No wonder he's already promised!
He's already Thomas?
An autumn-leaf forest?
You're saying he's married?
Cig 9 Asking Behind the Supermarket Alone
What're you talking about? Do you have any proof?
Are you sure you didn't just dream it up?
Down, Yamada, down.
But I saw Mr. 28 wearing a ring.
I was manning register two on one of your off days,
when Mr. 28 came along with a woman and...
I'll pay.
Let me. We haven't done this in a while.
Oho?
Mr. 2—I mean, I see we have a married customer in the house.
Huh? O-Oh, yeah.
That's right. It's been, what, ten years now?
You remembered?
Why wouldn't I?
He has a pretty wife at home,
and Yamada-chan at his regular supermarket!
That geezer's totally living it up!
Zawa, don't go running your mouth.
Sit down, Yamada. You okay?
I mean...
It's not like I care about our customers' private lives.
He's an old geezer, so it'd be weird if he hadn't gotten married one or two times.
Yamada, my girl.
The latter would make him a divorcee.
Pub-for-All
Bottoms Up
24-Hour
Supermarket S
Welcome!
Oh, Yamada-chan.
She was pissed during the party, but I'm glad she's back to normal.
Do you honestly believe that, Zawa?
Huh? I do, why?
The thing about her is...
The fouler her mood, the more pleasant she acts at her register.
Performing ID checks
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter to me one bit if he's married or not.
I mean, married people are free to stan their favorite idols.
And if a married man's told he can smoke here on his way home from work,
he's free to come smoke here, no problem.
He has a supermodel wife at home, and he smokes with another girl out back!
The conversation has been embellished in Yamada's mind
That geezer's totally living it up!
Um...
Excuse me. I'll take these.
It's happening!
Of course. Welcome.
Do you have your point card?
I do.
You pick and choose...
when to wear it and when not to wear it?
Huh? Um, I'm sorry, but I don't follow...
You're not wearing it on your left hand today.
Left? Oh...
That's what you meant?
Well, I don't want to damage or lose it, so I don't wear it out often.
My coworkers often tell me it's weird to feel that way about an accessory,
but it's really important to me!
Ah, how lovely. Will you be paying with your points?
Yes, please.
My family's always nagging me to use my points before they expire.
Oh?
Thanks for shopping with us!
Thank you.
So he never meant to hide it. He just didn't mention it because I didn't ask?
It doesn't matter.
Not one bit.
Several Days Later
I've been too busy to go visit.
I'd like to smoke with Tayama-san again.
24-Hour
Fresh! Reliable!
I haven't seen her since that rainy night.
Ran my mouth at a young girl
Carelessly touched a young girl
Now I'm getting worried.
Was Tayama-san really okay with that?
There are times when you get uncomfortable after the fact.
I've come to hate that gaffer.
All it takes for a middle-aged dude like me to hurt a person
is one small misstep in communication!
Either way, let's see...
Good evening, Tayama-san.
I-It's been a...
Sh-She's avoiding me!
I really did make her uncomfortable last time!
T-Tayama-san!
I want to apologize to you.
Apologize to me?
Yeah.
I have to apologize for something.
I was too inconsiderate
T-Tayama-san?!
If you want to apologize,
does that mean you've felt guilty about it?
Yes, of course I have. I've been so worried.
Don't bother.
If you apologize, that'll mean you really were in the wrong.
Stop wasting time here and hurry on home.
Your wife must be waiting for you.
Tayama-san...
I'm single, though?
But I heard you came shopping wearing a ring. With a woman in tow.
A ring? A woman in tow?
Oh, you must be talking about my little sister.
That ring belonged to her husband.
She was here visiting from Mie Prefecture recently.
She and her husband got new rings, so she put his old one on me.
Now you can be a "married man" too.
Yeah, maybe not!
I don't know what to do with her.
But... Yamada-san told me...
that you had an accessory that was really important to you.
Oh, that?
It's my watch.
An old senior at work gave it to me a long time ago, and it's very dear to me.
What the heck?
Could I be any more pathetic?
What?
Oh, sorry.
It's all just so funny.
Me, have a wife?
So what, Tayama-san?
You were looking out for me and my nonexistent wife?
Thanks so much.
Wait, what?
Tayama-san? Um...
How 'bout you get over here and smoke your damn cigarette?
Y-Yes, ma'am!
24-Hour
Supermarket S
What?!
Mr. 28 wasn't married?!
Yeesh, what a misleading old dude.
Yeesh yourself.
Please don't spread misinformation about our customers.
My bad. I made you worry, didn't I?
Sowwy.
Again, the private lives of our customers don't matter to me one bit.
What? Really?
But don't you call yourself "Tayama" and secretly smoke with him out here?
Sounds like it matters a whole lot.
Boss?
It wasn't me. I haven't said a word.
Don't worry. I haven't told anybody about it.
I'm impressed you managed to keep it to yourself, Zawa.
I mean, this stuff is entertaining as heck!
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Ohno-san.
Turns out my fan, Sasaki, was actually single.
Oh, really?
Yes.
How exactly am I supposed to respond to that?
Frankly, nobody really cared other than Yamada-chan.
And it seems he's from Mie Prefecture.
O-Oh?
And Mie's famous for its di-a-lect!
I didn't even know there was a Mie dialect.
There totally is.
One of my fellow mom friends is from there,
and she sometimes slips back into this cutest dialect.
It's similar to the Kansai dialect, isn't it?
Yeah, that's right.
Huh...
That's good to know.
Wassup? Talk to me in Mie dialect.
H-Hey there. Sorry, I couldn't catch that.
Talk to me in the Mie dialect.
You said how your sister visited from back home recently, right?
Oh, yeah.
So you're from there, right?
Right.
I hear it's a really cute dialect. Let me hear it.
Slow down there.
I've never once found it cute, personally.
Tayama-san, please don't laugh, okay?
Okay, okay.
Then, uh...
It's hard ta do all conscious-like.
An' it makes me blush an' all, holy smokes.
smokes
"Smokes"?
My li'l sister still lives o'er there, so hers is awful thick.
But I've lost quite a bit of it livin' here.
My apologies if this ain' enough ta make ya happy.
giggle
Hey, yer laughin'!
No, I'm not.
I can hear yer giggles, y'know!
I'm not mocking you, though. It just really was cute...
holy smokes.
You can't just add that to the end of everything.
You sure, holy smokes?
Tayama-san!
Sheesh.
Put on your jacket.
You'll catch a cold dressed that light...
Says the guy sneezing.
Soddy.
Cold?
Nah, it's really rare for me to catch a cold,
but I do start sneezing when it's chilly.
You do pound a lot of pavement during the day as a sales guy.
And once that's done, you're out here on chilly nights.
Yeah, but I have a feeling it's something else.
What do you mean?
Lately, I've been smoking in the early mornings.
How early?
Just before 6 AM or so?
Sounds chilly.
Yeah, it's freezing.
Heck, I even open the windows and watch the outside scenery as I smoke.
Why would you do that with your old bag of bones?
That's an understandable question.
I picked the habit up back when I was in college back home.
Oh, did that older girl tell you about these holy smokes?
The woman I dated grilled me and gave me my first cigarette.
Don't do that, Tayama-san! It's not nice!
I found it all on my own, and I like it better smoking all on my own.
All on your own?
Winter mornings are really peaceful and quiet.
You can even hear your cigarette burning up.
I just love that so much.
When I was in college back home,
it was even better because everything outside would be covered in white snow.
It'd make me wonder if I'd been left all alone in this world.
A scary thought, right?
But it was equally as exciting.
Can you picture it?
I'm stuck on being surprised that Mie gets so much snow.
Yeah, it's pretty snowy there.
Have you been smoking like that every winter since you were in college?
Oh, nah.
I prioritized my sleep once I started working, of course.
I just recalled it recently and tried it out again.
You see, my smokes have been tasting really good these days.
I mean, my health checkup results weren't too bad!
I guess I'm not as worried when I smoke nowadays.
Huh... I'm happy for you.
So, yeah, I've been doing that, plus I've been swamped in work.
Maybe that's why I've got a little bit of a runny nose.
And you were telling me not to dress light?
Sorry about that.
Anyway, since you're here smoking, has work slowed down for you?
Yeah, I get a day off tomorrow. It's been so long.
I'll probably be up early, smoking again.
You have the day off. Sleep in.
It's all good. I'll smoke my cigarettes,
and by the time people start waking up, I'll go back to bed.
Now that sounds like a good deal.
Right. I should set my alarm.
Maybe I'll try it, too.
Sure, go for it.
Oh, but...
Are you sure, Tayama-san? Can you wake up early?
It's not what you think!
I'm just wondering, since you're working so late,
wouldn't waking up early be hard on you?
I can wake up just fine.
I'm gonna be up early for sure. You'd better be up, too.
Alarm
Snooze
Stop
Shut up. I'm trying to sleep.
Alarm
Eh, close enough.
Damn, it's cold.
Alarm
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This is what I get for getting all happy drunk.
I wonder if Tayama-san finished smoking already.
After all that crap you gave me about waking up early.
Brr!
I hope she doesn't catch a cold smoking this early.
She's usually dressed, uh, pretty lightly.
She even wears stuff that leaves her belly exposed, so I'm worried.
Hey! She just got mad at you for being a busybody, remember?
I've got to stop thinking like this!
Maybe I'll try it, too.
I wonder what she'll have to say about it when I see her next.
"Hey, that was pretty good"? "Not bad"?
Even a casual remark like that would make me happy.
I'm so stupid.
I said this was nice because I felt all alone in this world,
so where's all this coming from?
Yeah, this is pretty good.
Translation: Sriram Gurunathan
Editing & Typesetting: Geoff Mazzolini Subtitle Timing: Krzysztof Kunc
Quality Check: Zachary Carlysle Translation Check: Sho Stifler
Cig 10 Shining Behind the Supermarket With You