Shota found the farm's bookwork very heavy going. He didn't understand why you subtracted credits and added debits, though Aunt looked very pleased with what she apparently thought were clear and cogent explanations.

Anyway, this wasn't really a farm, though they'd always called it that. It was an estate! It wasn't just the few fields around here that they could see, that Endo-san now worked, that Shota remembered from his childhood. A few rice paddies, a couple of dry-land fields, ...