You weren’t a fan of meat with a lot of fat on it, which was why your mother used the canned stuff, which was reliably lean. And, seeing as she and your father ran a warehousing business, she probably had ways of getting her hands on it. ‘The word “yamato-ni” must have come up in your parents’ conversations,’ continued Nagare, pointing at the characters emblazoned on the can. And, seeing as yama can also mean “mountain”, I reckon you assumed that was what they were talking about. A kid your age would have known no better.’
