Barbecue For Two
Cast:
Scorp, Yasuda Takeo - age 36
Shiki Mizusu - The Woman Like A Durian - age 28
Yasuda Takenori - age 71
August, 2009
A year and some months ago, Yasuda Takeo was struck by a car. While his best friend knelt by his side and begged him to stay awake, the woman was doing something more productive: calling an ambulance. Not being a family member, she wasn't able to accompany him inside the ambulance, nor wait next to his bed for him to wake, but Shiki Mizusu is the woman who has been called "like a durian." When the man who saved her life, and whose life she may have also saved, was able to receive visitors, she was one of the first.
More bones were broken than he likes to think about. An injury to his spine has paralyzed his legs. His employer at the time fired him, and he has been forced to sue them for his rightful severance. His father, a decrepit widower, sold the family home and came to the city to help care for him.
Scorp snorts indignantly at the thought. As if he needed it. Scorp is sitting in his wheelchair and tending to a barbecue when he catches his father trying to sneak out of the apartment.
"Hey, old fart! Where do you think you're going?"
"Out! I need more booze!"
"Don't you dare! Dinner's almost ready!"
"You're not the boss of me! I'm going out and that's final!"
"Mizusu is going to be here, and you know it! Do you think she won't notice that my old man is avoiding her?"
"Yeah? How is that my problem? Tell her I died, for all I care! And give her a tumble while you're at it, you stinking cripple!"
"I don't stink! You're the one who stinks, you stinking geezer!"
"I don't have to take this! I'm gonna go drink until I can't stand anymore, and just you try to stop me!" The old man walks out, slamming the door.