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Matchmaker's War
Love, Hina
Dear Urashima Naru,
I heard about the wedding. I wish I could have came to see it, but I had trouble leaving the country of Molmol. Some group of militant socialists had toppled the ruling monarchy. It took months for the fragments of the ruling monarchy to regain control. During that time, the United Nations had pressured surrounding nations not to accept Molmolian commercial aircraft. The current ruling queen, a woman by the name of Su Kaolla, has taken the weighty task of rebuilding a nation from scratch. She has a lot of courage.
Anyways, I read yesterday in an article in a medical journal about Urashima Keitaro's fall from the Tokyo University clock tower six years ago. He still has the world's leading scientists completely stumped as to how he survived the fall. It should have killed him, but he woke the following morning with nothing more serious than an empty stomach. His strength still impresses me after all these years.
I also received news about the other girls at the Hinata-sou. Maehara Shinobu found a nice man and plans to marry him soon. From his picture, Miyagi Kanno looks a lot like my grandson without his glasses on. Anyways, the guy has degrees in the culinary arts and home education, so he pretty does all the cooking and cleaning for her. Shinobu doesn't mind, I heard she spends most of her time handling the duties of superintendent of the Hinata-sou, accepting new tenants into the all-girls dormitory. I praise her for her efforts.
I even heard about Aoyama Motoko's upcoming marriage. When I first met her, I had different expectations of her love life than what had actually came to pass. Still, despite my old-fashioned views, I can tell she has brought happiness to one of my grandchildren, so for that I thank her.
When I heard about Kitsune's going steady to that horrible Sakata Kentaro, I nearly had a heart attack and died. But, it seemed, during those six years, Sakata Kentaro had journeyed the world in a soul-searching mission. When he came back, he had very little money to his name, but his personality had grown in the absence of his horrendous wealth. Someday, I hope those two marry.
Noriyasu Haruka's letters had finally reached me. Their wild-eyed six-year-old has a spirit for adventure and Sarah McDougal loves him like a brother. He has found a beautiful six-year-old named Watanabe Sora who lived in a house near the Hinata-sou. From what I gathered, the girl has to move away and little Noriyasu Hitoshi decided to make the Promise to her. Of course, this time, he will know the girl's name and remember what she looked like.
In fact, I have heard people making the Promise in countries outside of Japan. I have heard a Harvard version of the Promise occurring on the east coast of the United States and a DeVry version on the west coast. The Promise had spread like a plague that needs no cure. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of young lovers have made the Promise for eternal happiness since its public revelation six years ago. It gives me a warm feeling inside.
Funny, the Promise did not even exist until I created it. In fact, I wrote this letter to reveal the full truth behind the Promise, the truth that you and Keitaro have spent the last six years trying to hunt down. I needed time to arrange my thoughts on paper.
I always used to play the role of the matchmaker. Before I had given birth to Haruka, I had a neighborhood reputation as an unstoppable matchmaker. I never thought anything of it. I just saw people I think belonged together and took all the barriers out of the way of their love. I got quite good at it and when I saw my grandson, I knew he would have trouble dealing with the opposite sex when he grew up. So I planned to pair him up with a daughter of a friend of mine, Otohime Mutsumi. I put the idea of the Promise in Mutsumi's head and let the mysteries of puppy love do the rest.
It looked so perfect until you played that game of rock-paper-scissors and won the Promise from Mutsumi. I got angry and wanted to undo this mess, but I realized you really really wanted Keitaro, no matter what I thought to the contrary. So, I set up a plot to bring you and Keitaro together again. When your parents divorced, I got you a room at the Hinata-sou and I expected Keitaro to follow, after he graduated from Toudai. With two failures behind him, he arrived two years ahead of schedule and I panicked. In a rush, I left the Hinata-sou to his care, so he would have a reason to stay near you.
Otohime Mutsumi has continued my legacy of matchmaking and has a number of suitors planned for Sarah McDougal when she reaches the right age. Will any of them work? She really does not know. Mutsumi does not seem concerned with marriage or her own happiness for that matter. It seems her only joy comes from bringing the right people together, the core assumption of any great matchmaker. But I believe she will find the right match for herself someday.
Kitsune really helped a lot at the end for you two, but she merely continued the battle plan I had started twenty-one years ago. Now, with you two married and graduated from Toudai, the Promise spread throughout the world, and you pregnant with by my great-granddaughter, I can honestly say I have won the war I started twenty-one years ago against the cold inhuman workings of Fate. I have won my war, a matchmaker's war.
Love,
Hina
----- THE END -----
Matchmaker's War
Love, Hina
Dear Urashima Naru,
I heard about the wedding. I wish I could have came to see it, but I had trouble leaving the country of Molmol. Some group of militant socialists had toppled the ruling monarchy. It took months for the fragments of the ruling monarchy to regain control. During that time, the United Nations had pressured surrounding nations not to accept Molmolian commercial aircraft. The current ruling queen, a woman by the name of Su Kaolla, has taken the weighty task of rebuilding a nation from scratch. She has a lot of courage.
Anyways, I read yesterday in an article in a medical journal about Urashima Keitaro's fall from the Tokyo University clock tower six years ago. He still has the world's leading scientists completely stumped as to how he survived the fall. It should have killed him, but he woke the following morning with nothing more serious than an empty stomach. His strength still impresses me after all these years.
I also received news about the other girls at the Hinata-sou. Maehara Shinobu found a nice man and plans to marry him soon. From his picture, Miyagi Kanno looks a lot like my grandson without his glasses on. Anyways, the guy has degrees in the culinary arts and home education, so he pretty does all the cooking and cleaning for her. Shinobu doesn't mind, I heard she spends most of her time handling the duties of superintendent of the Hinata-sou, accepting new tenants into the all-girls dormitory. I praise her for her efforts.
I even heard about Aoyama Motoko's upcoming marriage. When I first met her, I had different expectations of her love life than what had actually came to pass. Still, despite my old-fashioned views, I can tell she has brought happiness to one of my grandchildren, so for that I thank her.
When I heard about Kitsune's going steady to that horrible Sakata Kentaro, I nearly had a heart attack and died. But, it seemed, during those six years, Sakata Kentaro had journeyed the world in a soul-searching mission. When he came back, he had very little money to his name, but his personality had grown in the absence of his horrendous wealth. Someday, I hope those two marry.
Noriyasu Haruka's letters had finally reached me. Their wild-eyed six-year-old has a spirit for adventure and Sarah McDougal loves him like a brother. He has found a beautiful six-year-old named Watanabe Sora who lived in a house near the Hinata-sou. From what I gathered, the girl has to move away and little Noriyasu Hitoshi decided to make the Promise to her. Of course, this time, he will know the girl's name and remember what she looked like.
In fact, I have heard people making the Promise in countries outside of Japan. I have heard a Harvard version of the Promise occurring on the east coast of the United States and a DeVry version on the west coast. The Promise had spread like a plague that needs no cure. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of young lovers have made the Promise for eternal happiness since its public revelation six years ago. It gives me a warm feeling inside.
Funny, the Promise did not even exist until I created it. In fact, I wrote this letter to reveal the full truth behind the Promise, the truth that you and Keitaro have spent the last six years trying to hunt down. I needed time to arrange my thoughts on paper.
I always used to play the role of the matchmaker. Before I had given birth to Haruka, I had a neighborhood reputation as an unstoppable matchmaker. I never thought anything of it. I just saw people I think belonged together and took all the barriers out of the way of their love. I got quite good at it and when I saw my grandson, I knew he would have trouble dealing with the opposite sex when he grew up. So I planned to pair him up with a daughter of a friend of mine, Otohime Mutsumi. I put the idea of the Promise in Mutsumi's head and let the mysteries of puppy love do the rest.
It looked so perfect until you played that game of rock-paper-scissors and won the Promise from Mutsumi. I got angry and wanted to undo this mess, but I realized you really really wanted Keitaro, no matter what I thought to the contrary. So, I set up a plot to bring you and Keitaro together again. When your parents divorced, I got you a room at the Hinata-sou and I expected Keitaro to follow, after he graduated from Toudai. With two failures behind him, he arrived two years ahead of schedule and I panicked. In a rush, I left the Hinata-sou to his care, so he would have a reason to stay near you.
Otohime Mutsumi has continued my legacy of matchmaking and has a number of suitors planned for Sarah McDougal when she reaches the right age. Will any of them work? She really does not know. Mutsumi does not seem concerned with marriage or her own happiness for that matter. It seems her only joy comes from bringing the right people together, the core assumption of any great matchmaker. But I believe she will find the right match for herself someday.
Kitsune really helped a lot at the end for you two, but she merely continued the battle plan I had started twenty-one years ago. Now, with you two married and graduated from Toudai, the Promise spread throughout the world, and you pregnant with by my great-granddaughter, I can honestly say I have won the war I started twenty-one years ago against the cold inhuman workings of Fate. I have won my war, a matchmaker's war.
Love,
Hina
----- THE END -----