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[Song: "The Near Yet Far Dream". See script of
Track 7 for the lyrics and translation.] |
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Tomoe, Tomoe! Can we play? |
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[Glomp.] |
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Ah-! All right, Hinaichigo. What shall we do today? |
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Um, let's see, let's see... Today, would you read me a book? |
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Okay. So then, which book would be good? |
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[Pulling book off shelf.] |
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Would this book be good, do you think? |
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Yay! A picture book ~na no! |
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[Giggle.] This book is one that I used to love. |
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Really? Hey, hey, what kind of story is it? |
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This is a story about a candy house. |
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A candy... house? |
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[Music starts.] |
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Candy?! A house that's made of candy ~na no?! |
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That's right. It's a story about a brother and sister named Hansel and Gretel, and about the witch of the candy house. |
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A witch... Is she scary? |
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Hmm... Let's see... It's fine. She's not scary, because she's a nice witch. |
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A nice witch? Hey, Tomoe, read it to me, read it to me! |
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Okay. Well then, let's read it, shall we? |
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Yayy! |
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[Page turning.] |
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"Once
upon a time there was an older brother named Hansel and his younger
sister named Gretel, who got along very well and were together wherever they
went." |
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Oh boy, oh boy...! |
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"However, their family was extremely poor, and all the two of them had to eat each day was a single piece of bread." |
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Uyu? They must have been starving ~na no... |
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"The two of them would
each take half of the piece of bread and eat it." |
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[Page turning.] |
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"One day, their mother took Hansel and Gretel out to gather berries." |
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Berries?! To gather berries?! |
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[Giggle.] Yes. "Their mother brought them into the deep, dark forest, to a thicket in which many raspberries were growing." |
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Yay! Tons of raspberries! And then what, and then what?! |
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"Hansel and Gretel were overjoyed." |
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[Page turning.] |
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"'I
will come to fetch you home after you have filled your baskets with
raspberries.' Having so said, their mother went home by herself." |
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Uyu? The mother went home? |
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"Hansel
and Gretel worked with all their might to gather raspberries. And, by
the time their baskets were full, it had become very dark." |
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[Whimper.] |
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"'Mother?
Mother?' ... No matter how many times Hansel and Gretel would cry out,
there was no reply. Their mother had left the two of them behind inside
the dark forest." |
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Hweh? The mother won't come to fetch them? |
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No. "Their mother had abandoned Hansel and Gretel." |
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Ehh?! |
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"So poor was their family that their mother and father were not able to go on supporting Hansel and Gretel." |
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[Whimper.]
... That can't be true! Because, the mother promised! She promised she
would come fetch them home once they got a lot of raspberries! And
they got a lot of raspberries like they were told to, and...! And...
they should... be able to go back home... [Crying.] |
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Uh-huh. "And the two of them, inside the dark forest, could no longer find their way home." |
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[Crying.] ... That can't be true ~na no! |
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[Music stops.] |
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[Getting up.] |
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Ah...! H-Hinaichigo...? |
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She said she'd come to fetch them home! She promised! |
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Say, Hinaichigo... This is just a story in a picture book, so... |
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I still don't like it ~na no! That's no good ~na no~! |
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[Sigh.] |
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[Crying.] No one will come to fetch them home! Waiting for so long is lonely...! |
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... Hinaichigo. |
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Hina... doesn't like being lonely ~na no! [Crying.] |
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Look, Hinaichigo. Even so, I think Hansel and Gretel were fine. |
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... Why? |
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To
have been abandoned by their mother and father, I think they would have
been sad at first. But, they weren't alone. There were the two of them
- Hansel and Gretel. They were together. |
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The two of them... together? |
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Yes. Hansel and Gretel were siblings who got along very well, and they were always together. |
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... They weren't alone so... it wasn't lonely...? |
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Right. |
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... But... Hina... |
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Hinaichigo? |
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Tomoe... Tomoe, will you stay together with Hina? |
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Hinaichigo... |
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Will you be with me forever? |
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Yes. |
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Really? |
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Yes, really. I promise. |
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You promise...? Tomoe! |
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[Glomp.] |
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Ah-! |
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Tomoe! Tomoe! [Giggle.] Yeah! It's a promise! Together forever - the two of us together won't be lonely! |
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Hinaichigo... [Giggle.] You're right. |
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Hey, Tomoe. Keep on... keep on reading! |
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[Flipping through book.] |
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[Giggle.] Oh, Hinaichigo... Well, then, I'll continue reading, okay? |
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Yeah! |
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"And then, when the two of them were walking inside the forest..." |
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"When they were walking inside the forest..."! |
