- Minira: Oh, it's you.
- Ichiro Miki: What are you doing?
- Minira: Nothing, I have no friends.
- Ichiro Miki: Then you're just like me.
- Minira: Why did you come back?
- Ichiro Miki: You said you'd help me climb up on Godzilla's back.
- Minira: Oh, right. I wonder where he is now?
- Ichiro Miki: You're not with him all the time?
- Minira: No, he gets mad.
- Ichiro Miki: Why?
- Minira: Godzilla says I have to learn to fight my own battles.
- Ichiro Miki: He's tough on you, huh?
- [Reports are stunned to hear Ichiro credit Minilla, Shinpei explains]
- Shinpei Inami: He means Minilla the monster. I think I understand, he's like a higher power.
- Reporter: A higher power?
- Shinpei Inami: That's right. Adults believe in gods, so why can't children have their own gods too, like Minilla?
- [Ichiro's father talks with his cowerker]
- Train engineer: Your boy feeling okay?
- Kenkichi 'Tack' Miki (Ichiro's Father): Why?
- Train engineer: A lot of kids get asthma. You should be careful. He looked pale.
- Kenkichi 'Tack' Miki (Ichiro's Father): Nah, but I wish he were more assertive. He tends to keep to himself. He needs someone around, but my wife works.
- Train engineer: A latchkey kid, huh?
- Kenkichi 'Tack' Miki (Ichiro's Father): We want to save up and move to where the air's is clean, but when?
- Ichiro Miki: It's Minilla!
- Minira: Come here. I won't hurt you.
- Ichiro Miki: You sure?
- Minira: We don't lie like humans.
- Ichiro Miki: Thanks for saving me.
- Minira: What brings you here?
- Ichiro Miki: I wanted to see you guys.
- Minira: Mmm, won't your mother and father be worried?
- Ichiro Miki: They work all day. I'm all alone after school.
- Minira: Ehhh.
- [a loud cry interrupts them]
- Minira: It's Gabara!
- Ichiro Miki: Gabara?
- Minira: Come on!
- Ichiro Miki: That's Gabara?
- Minira: Yeah. He's really mean.
- Ichiro Miki: You ever fight him?
- Minira: No, he's really strong.
- Ichiro Miki: It's just like my situation.
- Minira: Your situation?
- Ichiro Miki: With the Gabara I know.
- Minira: Hmmm.