Episode 1b

manga story #2: “The cures-it-all city weed”

Makoto’s spends her first day of class with Nao. After school, Makoto shows her appreciation to Nao by giving her, as a gift, a valuable mandrake that she finds in an abandoned lot.

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story title


Japanese
kana
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English


第2話:道草は万能薬
だい に わ:みち くさ は ばん のう やく
-th 2 story: town weed ? panacea
2nd story: “the cures-it-all city weed”


vocabulary


道 [みち]
草 [くさ]

万 [ばん]
能 [のう]
薬 [やく]
万能薬 [ばんのうやく]


city, town
grass, weed, herb

everything, all
talent, gift
drug
drug with a talent for everything, .i.e., a panacea, a cure-it-all