MaruMA:MaHon:SSS20
Happy Birthday Dear Yuuri![edit]
"Look forward to your birthday this year." Everyone says that but…
A friend said 'I read through the baseball rule book carefully for you.'
"In order to talk with you. Right now I'm sort of a professor of baseball. Ask me anything. I'll know what a fielder's choice and an infield fly is, you know?"[1]
Another friend said, 'I planted a tree for you.'
"It's a tree that blooms amazing and colorful flowers. If you let it be, it'll grow as big as a dragon and want food and start walking around at night."
"W-why such a scary tree…"
"What? You always use that rod-shaped weapon, right? The wood from that tree was the closest to that material."[2]
My sibling said, 'Since you've added another unnecessary year to your age,' and handed me a video game.
"Learn urban planning, building administration, and farm management by the end of the day. Until yesterday you were just a single citizen, but now that your birthday has passed you acquired the skills to be a great mayor. Oh my, have you grown!"
My mother said, 'I thought I would give this to you when you turned sixteen,' and pulled out a thick book with her special smile. I-is it an album jam-packed with embarrassing photos of when I was a child!? It's finally come. The present I've been dreading! Wh-wh-wh-what embarrassing things are in my past!? As I thought that, I saw that the inside was pure white and there wasn't a single photograph inside.
"Honestly, Yuu-chan, you're supposed to start filling it yourself now. Fill it with photos of friends and companions and lovers."
However, as she was speaking my mother stroked the album with a slightly glum expression.
"But it definitely doesn't measure up, huh?"
"What?"
"No matter how much I try to think up something clever to give you, it never measures up to the wonderful present that I gave you on your zero birthday."
Of course I don't have any memories of when I was zero years old. I wonder what kind of nice present I got. Even so, why couldn't I remember it? It's a waste. It's really a waste.
"What are you saying? Papa and Mama gave you your first step into life."
A sturdy body and a strong heart.
There's really nothing better than that.
Thank you, everyone.
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- ↑ Due to how this person speaks, it is clear that this is Murata. This gets a bit lost in translation.
- ↑ This person is Wolfram. I'd like to point out that the word for 'friend' he used for Murata and Wolfram are different. For Murata he used 'tomodachi' which is the more common word and for Wolfram he used 'yuujin' which is still very common, but less so. On a dictionary level, the only difference is that 'tomodachi' is plural (although it is frequently used as a singular noun), and 'yuujin' is singular. On the colloquial level, 'yuujin' is more formal and can imply that they are someone you are particularly close with or they have some sort of higher status than you like an upperclassman or a senior at work, etc., although this usage can vary depending on the speaker and some interchange the two words freely.
