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Keeping my dad company with 相手

Manga panel from ARIA The MASTERPIECE showing example of Keeping my dad company with 相手.
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Akari encounters an older gentleman looking for a police box, so he can report his missing daughter and son-in-law. Akari offers to take him around and see if they can find the couple. Once they are reunited, the daughter thanks Akari for finding her father.

(むすめ):
迷子(まいご)になった(ちち)相手(あいて)をするの大変(たいへん)でしたでしょ?」
“It must have been tough dealing with my dad when he got lost, right?”
本当(ほんとう)ガンコおやじで…」
“He really is a stubborn old man...”
(とう)さん:
迷子(まいご)()うなっ」
“Don't say lost!”
「うるさい」
“Annoying...”

Vocabulary

相手(あいて)をする
to keep someone company