2019年6月10日
A Dosage of Medicine(4) by Akihisa Ogino, translated by J.Kageyama
I was reflecting that, while he had been ill, I had given his son a daily apical injection, so I wondered whether it could be some kind of after-effect.
"Then bring your son over tomorrow. I'll discuss it further, after-examining him."
“Don’t have to go through all that trouble. I think he can be cured with just an injection or some medicine. Actually---”
He brought his breath reeking of alcohol close to my nose. With some hesitation, he related to me that his twenty-five year old son, on the wedding night, had committed a "shameful act" to his bride. The eighteen year old girl had been so shocked that she had quickly run back home.
Later, I learned from her, though, that she had run home, not because of some "act," but because her period had started unexpectedly. She had merely run home for advice. When she saw her mother, like the young girl that she was, she had cried. The father had seen her tears and overheard their conversation, when the daughter had chanced to remark, “I didn’t know men did such things. Men are so dirty minded″ Her father had been against the marriage, to begin with, so assuming that the son had forced some horribly vulgar act upon his daughter, he had jumped on his screechy bicycle and sped, for eight kilometers, to yell at the groom’s father. Because he had been angry and rude, Genzo had been quite startled.
