“Onēsan, watashi ippen dake wa, asobi ni itte mo ii deshō.” ane no nimotsu o amidana ni okinagara, Miwako ga iu to,“Big sis, it’s okay if I come visit you just once, right?” asked Miwako as she put her sister’s luggage on the overhead rack.

Itsumo mezurashii kaseki kenkyū shiteru aru yo!We are always studying rare Pokémon fossils!

“Nankai mo nankai mo akirameyō, gibu appu shitai to omotta. Dakedo, rinku kara ie ni kaeri, musume ga waratte kureteitari suru to, “kekka ga dō deare, akiramenai to iu koto wa sugoku taisetsu na koto da” to iu koto o tsutaetai to omō yō ni natta” to furi kaeru.“Again and again I wanted to resign, to give up. But when I would leave the rink and go home, my daughter would smile at me, so I wanted to convey the message, ‘No matter the result, it is very important never to quit,’” she reflected.