Kaigo Sha D

[Machine Translation] I am an adult, over 30 years old, and still his child. Thirty-year-old Kotomi works as a temporary worker in Tokyo. There is a ray of light in those days. It is Yuna, an idol she met by chance at a street live performance. Kotomi goes to live shows, makes new friends, and immerses herself in Yuna's life. However, when her father collapses and she needs nursing care, she decides to return to Sapporo. Her mother passed away five years ago in a car accident, and her younger sister got married and moved to the United States. In their first time living alone together as father and son, their father, a former private school teacher, is always right, and his unchanging "rightness" is sometimes unbearably hateful, while their father's body becomes more and more crippled day by day. Witnessing this, Kotomi pursues Yuna more and more... In a closed environment with no bright prospects in sight, Kotomi struggles to find a way to continue living, and this is the author's newest work.

私はもう大人で、30歳も超えて、それでもまだこの人の子だ。ゆるゆる静かに衰えていくだけのこの人の娘だ。30歳の琴美は東京で派遣社員として働いている。そんな日々に一筋の光が。それは偶然、路上ライブで出会ったアイドルの『ゆな』だった。ライブへ通い、仲間もでき、彼女への没頭が、ゆるく過ごしていた琴美を変えていく。しかし、父親が倒れ、介護が必要になったため、札幌へ戻ることを決意する。交通事故で5年前に母親は他界、妹は結婚し、アメリカへ。初めての二人きりの父子生活で、元塾講師の父親はいつだって正しく、その変わらない「正しさ」は時折、耐えがたいほどに憎らしい一方で、日に日に不自由になっていく父の体。それを目の当たりにした琴美は、ますます『ゆな』を追い求めていく...。閉鎖的な環境、明るい展望も見えない中、生き続けるためのよすがを求めて懸命にもがく姿を描き切った、著者の新境地。