2019年6月7日
A Dosage of Medicine(3) by Akihisa Ogino, translated by J.Kageyama
Genzo puffed at the half-extinguished cigarette then, staring at the ceiling, inhaled deeply. "The bride told her mother, and her father came, and I learned for the first time why the bride couldn't sleep. And why she ran home. She's only eighteen. I can’t blame her. And no matter who hears this, they’d say our boy, Kinsaku, is at fault. He wasn’t like this, before you started treating him, though I didn’t come here to complain, just 'cuz I’m drunk, tonight. Yeah; I'm drunk, and I've got a bottle here with me, too." (He brought out a bottle of cold sake, which resembled an old small whiskey bottle and brought it up to the light.) "I’m not going to be unreasonable, Doctor. I just thought you could help me.” (He swayed his upper torso back and forth.) “I want to ask one thing. When you get sick, like my son did, does it happen that way, after two or three years?” He glared at me.