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Chapter 1: Act 3: Scene 1


 * While Kayo strolled through Enbizaka, young men whispered to each other.


 * Man #1: "Hey, that's, the proprietess at the Sudou place, isn't it?"
 * Man #2: "Yeah...... was she always a beautiful woman like that?"
 * Man #1: "Hmmmm...... I feel that's it, but also not it."
 * Man #2: "What sex appeal for a widow...... hehehe, I might make a candidate for her new husband, huh?"
 * Man #1: "You're finished; with a nose like yours, you won't be her partner...... that woman needs an actual--"
 * Kayo didn't hear what the men were whispered to each other.
 * [Space]
 * Kayo was visiting the neighborhood hairpin shop of Oyuka that day.
 * It was burned in the fire last time but was reconstructed a little before Kayo's tailor shop was.
 * Kayo: "Hello, here you are."
 * Kayo handed Oyuka a beautiful purple of shallow purple.
 * Oyuka: "Oh my, it's lovely...... thank you, Kayo-san."
 * Kayo: "No, no. It's come four years too late."
 * Oyuka: "But the kimono I requested burned in the fire back then, didn't it? You dared to reproduce it this brilliantly? Truly."
 * Kayo: "...... The fire was dreaful for all of us."
 * Oyuka: "...... That it was."
 * Like everyone else, Oyuka didn't question the fact that Kayo's form had changed.
 * Oyuka: "Kayo-san, it'll be dinner time soon. Since you're too focused on your work as is, you haven't prepared anything, right? If you'd like, you can eat dinner at our home tonight."
 * Kayo: "No, that...... would be a nuisance to your husband and daughter."
 * Oyuka: "Don't mind the both of them. They say it'll make the food better with company......  Kayo-san, aren't you alone at home?"
 * Kayo made a little, lonely nod.
 * Kayo: "My son and husband aren't come back home."
 * Oyuka: "Yeah...... that's right."
 * Kayo: "Honestly, that pleasure seeking of his is so troubling."
 * Oyuka: "...... What?"
 * Kayo: "Even Ren, though I get his job at the Freezis trading house keeps him busy, he should show his face around the house sometime."
 * Oyuka: "Kayo-san..... you......"
 * Oyuka knew Kayo's husband and son died in the fire four years ago, of course.
 * Since Kayo was saying such things, she was puzzled.
 * Without realizing she was upsetting Oyuka, Kayo continued saying these things.
 * Kayo: "But I'll have to refuse today after all. I had another tailoring job I wanted to finish today." (roughly)
 * Oyuka: "O-Of course..... see you, Kayo-san."
 * Oyuka waved her goodbye while Kayo headed off back to her tailor shop.
 * Immediately after she turned back, her husband the hairpin craftsman opened the sliding door and showed his face.
 * Husband: "Look like she came by. The Sudou proprietess."
 * Oyuka: "Yes...... it seems the rumors are true after all."
 * Husband: "Oh, the story that, since her husband and son died, she's been mentally unwell?"
 * Oyuka: "To tell you the truth, since Kayo-san had come back to Enbizaka, I was a little scared. While I was walking together with our, I spied her staring at us with a super scary face. But because of what happened to her recently, I assumed she'd get over it for sure......"
 * Husband: "Did she say something?"
 * Oyuka: "It's like Kayo's forgotten her husband and son are dead. Her husband's not back because he's pleasuring himself outside and her son's working at the trading house...... it's like she's convinced of that."
 * Husband: "Well, even during the time her husband was alive, he didn't stick around his house much. She could easily justify it's his playboy habits despite their marriage. But saying her son's working, wasn't the boy still just a baby?"
 * Oyuka: "[basically she's full of contradictions and it's all very strange]..... poor girl."
 * Husband: "...... You and the neighborhood going to share your thoughts?" (I think?)
 * Oyuka: I'm not going to do that. I've been indebted to Kayo-san and the late Kagura-san and Nagare-san for a very long time. I need to care about Kayo-san, especially if she's mentally unwell."
 * Husband: "Even though it's generally unasked of you......."
 * While Oyuka's husband was amazed, his face looked a little amused.
 * Husband: "Well, I'll stop. I haven't stopped liking that." (I think?)
 * [Space]
 * Kayo ostensibly lived a normal life with only the thing about her son and husband being any obviously strange behavior.
 * You could say it was natural that rumors spread through Enbizaka.