Red Flowers

A nameless traveler comes across a young girl running an inn. While showing the traveler where the best fishing hole is, a bratty schoolmate reveals the girl must run the business because her alcoholic father is incapable. At the story’s end, the traveler witnesses an unusual act of kindness from the boy...

(Source: Drawn & Quarterly)

Note: Published in Monthly Manga Garo No. 38 (October 1967).