At dusk, the outside was already stained with glossy cedar.

In it me and Lisa are walking towards the house.

Lisa, walking side by side, looked at me with a worrying look on her face.

"Oh, my God. You're getting extra red."

"That's okay. Because this is also a commandment to me."

"So you won't beat it until it swells yourself, will you?"

I still feel sore when I rub my cheek.

I left it to momentum to beat a few times, but I think I beat him too hard.

But I don't mind this.

Ninglo, it has to be like this.

"Because if you don't do this, you'll get emotional flushes.... I wanted my daughter to change, but when it comes to the occasion... I found it really hard to separate emotions at all."

"Spring was worried about you too ~? You said you were going to beat her up and put her back in the mood."

"I don't think that's to say I'm worried. And I'm afraid that Haruka will overdo it."

Me and Lisa, and Mr. and Mrs. Fujii have been friends for a long time.

Haruka is fortuitous, but has a straight, rusty personality.

I laughed unexpectedly at the same argumentative technique for the many emotional moments.

—— Power has power.

—— Talk about it.

'Eyes for eyes, teeth for teeth', that's her policy.

But being a good friend of mine who stops us both when I'm wrong is still the same.

I've been helped again this time.

Lisa also usually looks at things best, even though she seems to move in the mood as a decoy.

... You're no match for Lisa or Haruka at all, I am.

I looked up to heaven and exhaled.

"Hey Lisa. Did I behave as a fine father earlier?

"Yeah, it was fine."

There was no usual moody vibe and they stuck together perfectly to lean against me.

The person Rin sees with his own eyes and decides for himself, don't deny it without a heads-up.

I left it to my emotions to say at the outset... oh, this is something I really need to reflect on.

It's not what fathers do to push you not to believe in your own daughter.

I'll protect you when something happens.

Because it should be...

I smile bitterly and see Lisa.

"Right. Good for you. Perhaps if it were time for my daughter to travel, she'd feel this way again."

"Hehe, right"

"Uh at all. You can't stop sweating like you control it."

"Oh, that's tough. It would be harder in the future if you were sweating so much from now on, wouldn't it?

"Ha, right. No matter how much you discipline yourself, it seems like I was just a father too."

"But I can't believe you think that much, Rin."

Don't leave it to your emotions.

Even so, there are things that people can't give way to.

I am also one person, a man, a father.

I know by my head, and even if I have to convince myself -- an animal called emotion is trying to storm around undeniably.

But still, I need to be strong.

He must remain a fine father in front of Rin.

Because that's what I do, as the parent of that kid.

"Ah, but about once." I don't want you to have a daughter. "

"Pfft. But you've already missed that timing, haven't you?

"Well, yeah."

"But Pong might even go out with the farce. She's a sweet girl."

"Oh, right. I know that too."

If I hadn't known him then, things would have been different.

It was all a coincidence, and that just happened to mesh.

If the order in which I found out about him was different, I would have been evil pushing him with 'The One Who Keeps My Daughter' or 'There's a Back'.

But we met without knowing each other, so I could know who he was.

What I told you was just kicking ass.

It was my daughter herself who decided how to judge that and then actually looked at it.

The feeling of love that once poured out doesn't disappear easily......

It just flows and gradually grows bigger so that the water in the river goes from upstream to downstream.

No one can stop it.

Even if I try to block it with something, it slips out of the gap from side to side.

So all I can do is trust Rin and watch and support you... I won't stop you.

"Lisa, I don't know what to say as a father next"

"You've decided that."

"" Please make my daughter happy ""

We look at each other and laugh ticklishly.

It's been a while since we got married, but the thought still seems to be with us.

I'm happy about that, I'm ticklish.

"I'm still a freshman in high school, so I might be a little quick to say this."

"Oh yeah? It's just a matter of time before the kids grow up. That could be the time when you realize it. Wow."

"Ha, indeed. I felt it this time. So now we have to practice, so we can say it with dignity."

"How about elbowing in the study and waiting commander-style?

"That's nice. Let's give it a try next time."

What shall I tell you when I invite you home?

There may also be things that Rin can't say, men can say to each other.

Even an arm wrestle, a little mean... no, let's not do this because Lisa or Rin can blame me me for this.

Anyway, I just need to be aware of what I care about, that's fine.

I stop on the spot and put my hands on my hips.

And I took a big, deep breath.

"Hey Lisa. Will you stop me if I'm going to be emotional again?"

"Yeah, of course. Because I'm your wife."

"Thanks"

Handkerchief given by his gently smiling wife.

Handkerchief in silk that looks soft given to me.

So I... won't stop inside just now, —— I wiped the sweat that seeped in my eyes.