Japanese → English transcript

By like the fourth day after we met, we were already attracted to each other.

Yeah, yeah.

I was drawn to her without even knowing she had a kid.

Right, right, right.

And we were both already feeling like, “I wanna go out with you.”

Yeah.

So around the time when we were having those kinds of talks,

once, when we were each at our own place,

I got a LINE message, a pretty long one.

Ohhh.

It said, like, “I do want to be in a relationship with you,

Yeah.

but there are things I have to tell you and things you’ll have to be prepared for,

so I want to talk on the phone,” kind of thing.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

That’s how she put it.

So I was like, “This sounds heavy.”

I mean, obviously, you know,

there are only a few big things it could be, right?

Like, “I work on an airship,” sort of pattern,

Ah, I see.

“I work on an airship,” or something like that—

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I mean, that’s certainly possible as one of the options.

Sure.

Or

the pattern where she has a child.

Yeah.

Or like

some major

chronic illness,

ah, an illness,

that she’s struggling with.

Yeah.

Those were the kinds of things that came to mind.

Right, right, right.

So I figured, “Okay, I’ll just ask,” and

when I kind of asked her, she said,

“If I tell you this,

I think

you probably won’t want to be involved with me anymore,” or something like that.

So I’m thinking, “If it’s something that would make me not want to be with her,

it must be something pretty serious.”

Yeah, yeah.

Wondering what it could be, I asked her over the phone, and she said,

“I actually have a child,

I’m a single mother.”

Right, right, right.

But when I heard that,

I actually thought, “That’s a good thing,” you know?

Hmmm.

I didn’t think it was unattractive at all.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I actually thought it made her more appealing.

I mean, it’s just that the person I naturally fell for

happened to have a child, that’s all.

Yeah, that’s true.

To me, it made her even more attractive,

in my mind.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So

I think I probably

gave a really positive answer.

I’m pretty sure I did.

Yeah.

Normally,

yeah, for a lot of guys,

when they get that kind of confession,

they kind of freeze up like, “Uh…”

I think there are probably a lot of people like that.

With stuff like this,

when they’re told there’s a child involved,

apparently that’s how they react.

Apparently that’s what Ikumin said.

When I told Ikumin about this,

he was like, “I just can’t imagine that.”

Like, “Me, living with a kid who’s not my own blood,

that’d be kind of hard for me…”

“Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.”

“I don’t think I could really love them, honestly.”

“Hmm…”

That’s what he said.

I honestly think there are a lot of people like that.

Whether he can love them or not, whatever.

Even for me,

it’s not like I ever really thought I wanted to love kids from the start.

Yeah.

But like,

even the person I fall in love with,

it’s not like we’re related by blood or anything.

So I’m like, is bloodline really that important?

Hmm…

When I thought about which one I’m connected to,

he’s a total mess anyway,

and I can cut ties with him whenever I want.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.