Memory Post

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A record of the twelve memories Shu is buying in immediate succession.

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Memory 2/12

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Memory Script: - Mention of this memory is in Human Comedy - Epilogue 1 but the event is off-screen.

Details of his sister and brother as well as the conversation between Kiryuu, Shu, and his grandfather are head-canon, his grand-father's dialogue demanding Shu go back to school and perform or he'll jump out the window is not.

Memory Summary: Shu and his deliquent looking friend are walking down a hospital hallway. Outside the door are a man and a woman who look like they are probably his older siblings— the man tells Shu and his friend to not agitate their grandfather too much, his sister adding in that with as old as he is being hospitalized is fairly serious. Shu informs them that he is already aware, but he will keep conversation to light topics so as not to disturb their grandfather. His brother looks at Shu's face scrutinizing, before sighing and letting him in.

Shu and his friend enter the room, to the old man's hospital bed. It's a fairly large room, with no roommates— his family is paying for him to get a place to himself. They leave flowers, ask how he's doing, Kiryuu tells him about how things are going with Karate club and tells him how he's still taking care of his delicate cry-baby grandson. Shu protests and tries to slap a hand over his mouth, objecting, and Kiryuu grabs his wrists and tells him not to make a ruckus in the hospital. Shu pulls back and crosses his arms, with a small hmph while his grandfather laughs.

Kiryuu shakes his head and shrugs, and finishes talking about school and says sorry, but that's it from him, he can't stay much longer.

Shu waves opens the door to let him out, and then sits down at his grandfather's bedside. His grandfather asks after what he's been up to, and Shu begins talking about the repayment festival— the thing Kiryuu just had to leave for. His grandfather holds out a hand for Shu to stop talking. Why is it that only Kiryuu had to leave for it? Well, Shu was going to spend more time with him— he is hospitalized, afterall, and he can always perf—

And his grandfather is having none of it, immediately getting worked up despite his fragile state. Roaring, he tells Shu, "There are people out there looking forward to your performance! You should be thankful to them! Stop wasting your time here!”

“If you’re so worried about this worthless old bag of bones, I swear I’ll jump out the window right now to sever your attachment to me!”

The noise attracts the attention of his brother and sister, his sister who gives him a dirty look and his brother says he'll also get their mother and father— Shu, put that ridiculous strength of yours to good work and hold him down! Because yes, his grandfather is trying to get out of the bed. His parents burst in and as a group effort the entire five person family is able to get him to calm down, as Shu agrees to go back to school and perform.

Once he leaves the hospital room, he sags against the hall, laughing a little to himself— he was a fool to have worried. That old man is going to live to see 300, that is for certain.