The man's memories only went as far as nearly getting hit by a car.
After the near accident...
Hmm...
His head felt even more swollen.
He seemed to have left the scene...
And then...
What happened after that?
How had he ended up collapsed by the roadside?
"You..."
The old woman shook her head.
"You need to drink less from now on."
The old woman was giving him the same old lecture again.
"This time, a kind person helped you..."
"But you can't count on being lucky enough to run into someone kind every time."
"You could easily end up lying outside for a long time."
"And it was raining, too..."
The more she spoke, the tighter the old woman's brow furrowed.
"Then you'd wake up the next day with a hangover and a stuffy nose and runny nose from catching a cold..."
"You'd be the one suffering."
"Can't you be a little kinder to yourself?"
"Take better care of your health?"
The old woman spoke earnestly and kept trying to reason with him.
The man could only change the subject again.
"Someone brought me back?"
He was changing the subject, but he really was surprised by that.
Especially...
"How did he know I lived here?"
"No..."
"How did he end up bringing me to your place?"
"He—"
"Stop, stop."
The old woman cut off the man, who was getting more and more worked up.
"One question at a time."
"You're asking so many all at once. I can't answer them all."
The man gave an awkward laugh.
He'd only just realized that he'd gotten a little worked up without noticing.
The main thing was, he really was confused.
He couldn't remember what happened after he'd ignored the driver calling after him and walked straight away.