Suga met a boy in the ship to Tokyo. It was a stormy afternoon. The boy was almost swallowed by a big wave. He saved him. The boy looked apparently a runaway child. Suga remembered he had run away as well when he was a teenager.
When he saved the boy on the deck, he caught a sight of swirling black clouds in the sky. It moved like an enormous dragon, which sent a shiver down his spine. A thought occurred to him, "Ame-otoko", a man who brings rain wherever he goes. And he grinned thinking he was also an Ame-otoko", his wife Asuka used to say so. He missed his wife. She loved their daughter, Moka. He felt gloomy remembering it had been a long time since he met his daughter last time. As if he would forget the feeling, he talked to the boy,
"What a close! If I were not there early enough, you might be dead already. "
"Thank you, sir...I..." the boy wiped water droplets from his face with his hand.
"Don't you have a towel? Here, use my handkerchief." Suga handed the boy his wrinkled stripe-handkerchief, "What's your name?"
"...Hodaka..."
"Alright, lad. You don't have to tell me your family name. I guess you ran away from home. Well, I won't ask you anymore, if you buy me a lunch." He winked at Hodaka.