Japanese → English transcript

You took a step

forward and…

joined this?

Yeah, that might

be part of it too.

Recently I really

did nothing.

I don’t do anything,

seriously, I

did nothing,

re… cently.

I just zoned

out all day,

the whole day.

And I was like, wow,

this is bad.

Even if people

invited me out…

Yeah, I didn’t even feel

like going.

Yeah, I was like,

what should I do…

Right, you kept

ignoring them.

Ah, no, that’s not it,

that’s different.

That’s different,

that was, um…

I just thought everyone

had already… … given up on me.

But seriously,

it’s not because everyone’s Fuwei or anything.

Everyone really has piled up a ton of messages.

You can tell when you look, LINE— I’ve got like eight hundred ninety- three

unread right now.

Huh, like… you let it pile up that much?

No, but I get it.

Sometimes I think,“ Ugh,

can’t be bothered,”

and leave them unread,

then I forget.

But it never piles up to

eight hundred.

It’s like, there are so many, you know?

So now there are a ton of people I feel super awkward with.

When I scroll back,

I’m like,“ Oh no, I never replied…”

But replying now,

after all this time…

Yeah, that’d

be awkward.

There are so

many people

where it’d be

really awkward.

Like, seriously— Huh?

I honestly can’t remember where we went the very first time.

You don’t remember?

I remember the second time.

I just can’t recall the very first one.

You can’t remember it?

What was it again?

It was really bugging me yesterday.

Oh, really? What was it again?

Okay, hang on a sec.

Uh, what did we eat?

Just tell me that. Huh?

What did we eat?

Okonomiyaki.

Ah! That’s right! Well, you said you wanted to eat it, so… Now I remember. Oh yeah,

you’re right. I’m not the one who suggested it, that time. Whoa, that’s right,

I remember now.

When you said“ okonomiyaki,”

I was like,“ Huh?”

and then we went for okonomiyaki.

Whoa, now I remember everything.

Did we have mega mugs

of beer? It was coke highballs, right? So I was like,“ Oh, it was coke highballs,”

and then it came back to me. Yeah. And after that? I remembered.

And after that? After that? Then we talked about love stuff.

Now I remember.

We just went on and on and on about it.

Yeah, I remember,

I remember, I remember.

I remember, that okonomiyaki made me remember everything.

Yeah, I remember, I remember,

like when I started piling up notifications on all kinds of apps Even when

they came in,

just by looking at them I felt like I’d replied,

so I left them there,

like for example before going to sleep at night

If they come then and I reply real quick,

that’s fine,

but if they come during the day while I’m doing something,

I’ll forget once I’m caught up in it But even when I see them later,

like before I get in the bath, I’m like,

I’ll reply later,

I’ll reply later,

I’ll reply later And then before you know it,

you even forget that you’re supposed to return it at all,

it just slips your mind,

and I was one of those people But I do honestly

feel bad that I

couldn’t return it,

even for me,

up until I came here,

until I came here and

Fuwei was here I

had forgotten,

so it kind of came

off like I was

provoking them