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Number 18 is effective!!

"Historically, penicillin shouldn't exist yet in this world."

"But, can this act really be forgiven?"

Left as is, the Medical Office will soon switch over to Minakata-sensei and Ogata-sensei.

I told you I came across Saburi with a ohaguro gutter girl once.

The prostitute he seems to have visited at that time

was recklessly cut up and seems to have been murdered.

What's more, the criminal hasn't been caught.

If I were to drop this scalpel in her room,

what would happen? "Saburi"

I'm very sorry!

Be more careful after this.

Ah, this is a significant event.

Sensei, if you have any problems, just let me know.

We'll give you our assistance.

Yes!!

How were ya able ta make such a thing, Sensei...

Ah...

I was just lucky.

A guest from the Medical Center is coming over to see Minakata-sensei.

What's that?

The Medical Center?

The building right across there?

Yes.

The head annex for traditional Chinese medical treatments.

"Study of Medicine Complex"

For the time being,

you could say the Western Medical Office is a section of the Hondo.

"Hondo = Traditional Chinese Medicines Center"

Um...

Are you quarrelling with the Medical Center?

Between us and the Hondo,

when it comes to keeping the ancient ways and the soul of medical treatments in our country,

that would surely be the Hondo.

From their perspective,

we are neophytes who are selfishly bringing over Western medicines.

However, these days,

those who are especially allowed in to see the Shogun and Ooku

and who continue to be appointed by the Oku itself, one after the other,

are we Dutch doctors.

We have not endeared ourselves to them.

They hate being sidelined to the bench.

Huh?

Ah, nothing.

When news of Minakata-dono's fame reached his ears,

the Medical Center's Taki Geen,

wished to have a meeting with him without fail.

"Medical Center - Oku Physician Fukuta Genkou"

Therefore, as it was his desire that you come to the Medical Center tomorrow,

I came to call upon you.

If I may ask...

If he wishes to speak to Minakata-dono,

"Western Medical Center - President Matsumoto Yoshinobu"

Taki-sama should be the one who visits our quarters!

Matsumoto-dono.

Taki-sama is an Oku physician for the government,

and has been, from the beginning, a doctor of the Houin.

On the other hand,

Minakata-dono is an unranked Dutch doctor.

To ask that he come visit him is...

I am saying this is a matter of etiquette!

Even...

Even so, he is extremely...

...low ranked, and so...

Minakata-sensei is my guest,

and, right now, the one I look up to the most.

Does Fukuta-dono think of him as someone unworthy of being visited?

How about it? Is that how it is?!

Ah...

I want to go!

Sensei...

I've thought this before.

I'd really like to see the Medical Center.

Ah, may I add one thing?

These guys here can be his attendants and go along with him.

"Attendants..." As in, like guards?

Are you really sure about being my guards?

It's an order from Katsu-sensei.

Leave it ta us!

He may be planning to fix some fault on us based on Minakata-sensei's past,

and use that to influence the government.

The Hondo side these last few years

has vigorously attempted to whittle away at the activities of the Dutch doctors.

The fall of Itou-dono as a distinguished person would be a good thing for him;

one he might try to use to regain influence.

"Western Medical Office - Former Supervisor Itou Genboku"

That fall...

The rumor is that you, Matsumoto-sensei, were the one planning it.

I have defended Itou-sensei against various disturbances.

That...

At the time, I was also planning for my own fall.

Due to previous circumstances,

I held secret conversations with the monkey man to punish me

depending upon how things went.

I regret, somewhat, coming up with that plan.

Ah...

The thief was ferocious.

Wasn't the origin of this from Itou-sensei's Medical Office?

Oi,

are they making any progress with that item in this case?

Yesterday, a policeman went to that prostitute's room.

They were investigating what the circumstances were.

The murderer is one of their pupils,

so Ogata will be put on the spot.

When that's so, along with their fellow traveller Minakata,

the Matsumoto group will lose major face.

Gather round, gather round!

Now, now, everyone present,

hear about the honorable doctor who made a cure for the Yadoku, penicillin,

Minakata Jin, Minakata-sensei!

Now, as a popular charm against the Yadoku,

I have the Minakata Daimyoujin. (Great Shining God)

The Minakata Daimyoujin charm!

Sensei, yer a shining one now.

And, well, as a shining one,

yer sure ta cast a shadow.

There's bound ta be a lot who'll fall under the Sensei's shadow,

so since anythin' could happen,

it's best ta be careful.

You're exaggerating things.

In the darkness...

...there's a shot!

Get a beatin' maybe...

Or even slashed at.

If I'm slashed, I wonder if I'd die...

"She looks like Nokaze-san, doesn't she?"

"If I can advance the needle of medical history,"

"it may be that her operation will be a success."

"Miki."

"Today I was called... shining."

"By Sakamoto Ryoma."

"But, even if I do say it myself,"

"it's true that here in this place, Minakata Jin is shining."

"He is associating with historically great people."

"He's a living god for whom charms are made."

"The me here doesn't seem like me."

"It's been over half a year already since I came here."

"With this hand, I performed operations,"

"took charge of the sick,"

"and produced penicillin."

"However,"

"even after causing such vivid, green events to occur,"

"in many respects, it just doesn't feel real."

"Perhaps I..."

"...I wonder if I am actually really in the middle of a dream?"

"Never to awaken."

"If..."

"I were cut..."

"...would this blood flow, I wonder?"

Heiwa Fansubs Presents

"Jin"

Episode 6: "I am Alive..."

In turn.

We'll check every one of you for syphilis in turn.

Please wait just awhile longer here.

Does your body feel hot or languid, yes or no.

It does not.

Have you any red spots on your body, yes or no.

I do not.

Is there anything the matter with the samurai princess?

Minakata-sensei does not seem to have come, has he not?

He was suddenly asked to attend to some business at the Medical Center.

I was asked to perform the preliminary examinations today.

I thought at long last I would have the chance

to let Minakata-sensei take a look at me.

Get started.

Yes.

But first, I must tell you something.

What is it?

I envy you.

The samurai princess does?

What is it you envy?

Your face...

My face?

"Study of Medicine Complex"

"Medical Center - Supervisor Taki Geen"

Recently, such things as this have been appearing around the city.

Things about this place are being written.

"Everything about Minakata's past is mysterious."

"It is also unclear where he mastered such medicines."

The Medical Center is an institution of the Shogun.

When a person of unknown origin comes to an official place such as this,

it makes for an alarming situation.

The Taki house has various reports and duties to make to their superiors.

Would you please tell me the details of your background?

Ah...

Right, Genkou?

Minakata-dono has lost his memories.

It is a waste for you to even ask.

Then what is a person without memories doing teaching medicine at the Medical Clinic?

However,

his memory for medicine is certain.

Where is the evidence that it is certain?!

That's...

Sensei, that's...!

A secret of da Imperial Court, ain't it?

A secret of the Imperial Court?!

Keepin' an eye on us causes a problem.

It's a secret of da Imperial Court, after all.

When yer keepin' an eye on us,

it's like keepin' an eye on the Shogun.

That's not likely!

There's nothing about either the Shogun nor medicine that doesn't reach my ears!

Isn't that right, Genkou?!

Fool!

Don't cause such a disturbance over a stomachache!

His abdomen, his abdomen...

It may not be just a normal stomachache.

I'm sorry, excuse me.

It's firm and his defenses are strong.

Could you lie on your side?

It's hard, huh?

Does the upper part of your abdomen hurt dully,

like you're being stabbed?

Isn't it just a stomachache?

It appears to be a perforated gastric ulcer.

His stomach has developed a hole and its contents are leaking out.

A hole in his stomach?

Then, can he be saved?

Yes.

If left as it is,

it will progress into a disease known as peritonitis if it gets too late.

I don't believe you.

How can you know all that just by touching him from the outside?!

He kin tell.

May I perform an operation on him?

What do you mean by an operation?!

I will cut open his abdomen

and block the hole in his stomach.

Cut open his abdomen?! ('Hara o kiru' sounds like 'Harikiri:' disembowelment)

If he cuts my stomach, I'll die...

Please don't move.

Don't mind him, Sensei. Do it.

Yes!

"Study of Medicine Complex"

Excuse me.

They look ready to butcher us.

Yes, it is full of enemies.

Ryoma-san,

please find some cloth to cover this desk.

Gotchya!

Sensei, will dis do?

Yes!

Prepare an intravenous drip, please.

Yes.

Hey!

Please...

Cancel the operation.

It's impossible to commit harakiri and live.

If he dies...

Then I will commit harakiri here, too!

By allowing this operation,

it also becomes my responsibility.

Such words...

...are more than such as me deserves.

Go ahead and cook me!

However!

If I am killed!

You will receive judgment from the authorities!

Begin the anesthesia.

In the event that happens,

Geen-sensei will take it in the belly?!

If he does,

we'll cut those guy's bellys, too!

That's right!

This place seems ta have its mind on puttin' holes in stomachs.

What is that?

A rubber glove for use in operations.

I went to the surgical tool shop and had them made for us.

They're to prevent microorganisms and bacteria from getting inside the body.

Introduction of the anesthesia is complete.

Well then, I will make the incision.

The peritoneum has been cut through.

Saki-san,

using the forceps, raise the peritoneum apart on both sides.

To separate the peritoneum from the internal organs, I will do the incision.

Yes.

I am sorry.

Are you okay?

I am fine.

Found it.

It's quite a large one.

Saki-san.

Saburi-sensei, bring me the saline solution.

Yes.

Ah, I will...

Saki-san, please step down.

It was absurd to ask someone

who is seeing internal organs for the first time to remain calm.

It was insensitive of me.

I am fine with it now.

I'm sorry.

For the patient's sake, I need to keep the length of the operation as short as possible.

Please watch carefully for the next time.

Yes.

How will you block this hole?

Just beneath the stomach,

I will use this large network of fatty tissues to close it.

Will doing such a thing be okay?

I've done lots of them, so it'll be just fine.

I don't believe this.

That such a thing is able to be done without him dying...

What business do you have?

"Western Medical Office" As a matter of fact, I have a few things to ask you.

That's a serious matter!

We need to inform Itou-sensei, too.

Looks like it's over.

Geen-sensei, how is Fukuta-sensei?

The operation was a success.

It wouldn't be accurate to call it a success just yet.

We'll have to keep watch on his progress

and there is still the need to remove the drain and sutures as well.

Best keep an eye on this 'un...

"Minakata Daimyoujin."

Courtesan, coming in.

Yes.

Still, Sensei, you've got a lot of guts.

Going in and doing an operation like that without a twitch.

Saburi-sensei, you too.

I thought the same of you who was seeing the insides of a person for the first time.

Eh?

It wasn't your first time?

Ah, well...

Saburi-dono!

Saburi-dono, your scalpel.

It was found in the room of that prostitute who was murdered.

Coming in.

Itou-sensei...

I heard it was a serious matter for the Medical Clinic,

so I was concerned.

I happen to be a retired person here.

I will ask once more.

Is this scalpel one of yours?

I was performing fubunkis!

"Funbunki = Autopsy"

These are the prostitute diseases I would examine from time to time.

"Saburi-sensei"

"Count"

Since I didn't ask for a fee,

they would let me autopsy them after their deaths.

That was all I asked in payment.

I swear I didn't murder them!

As well from the neighborhood prostitutes who are still alive,

I have their testimony of a doctor coming to them without asking for a fee.

Was that what the situation was?

Yes!

They also said incense had been offered to the corpse.

Was that you, as well?

Yes.

Giving them a funeral ceremony was the least I could do.

Still,

even though it can't be called murder,

you would normally go to the authorities to request an autopsy.

Nevertheless, such an affair should have been mentioned to us.

A person with the Medical Center is a government official,

so his going out performing autopsies without permission, must be disciplined!

I say that someone has to take the responsibility.

No...

Why should a dedicated doctor have to hide they are performing autopsies?

Let alone that I wasn't violating graves.

It's enough to hear about fault-finding.

The point is, if we don't do it this way, we'd never do an autopsy, would we?

The authorities only allow an autopsy two or three times a year.

How are we supposed to learn medicine that way?!

Like this...

Minakata-sensei will forever be a god of medicine

and we will never be able to catch up with him!

Is that okay with you?!!

Well then, what should we do?

My student's dishonor is my dishonor.

Along with Saburi, I will retire...

Ogata-sensei!

I did it for the sake of medicine!

For the sake of the country!

For the sake of our methods!

When you say "methods,"

you mean it was for the sake of YOUR methods!

When you say you are opening a path,

it's just your way of justifying "I should be able to do autopsies,"

and that's why you shout it out like that, isn't it?

That's not...

Both Genboku-sensei and I

were told "you're murderers" and "get out" while having stones thrown at us

as we tried to pave a path to vaccinations.

Ah,

for this Medical Office too,

Genboku-sensei had to throw in all his private property in order to create it.

Paving a way is not simply a method

of making yourself an escape route!

Matsumoto-sensei.

Genboku-sensei.

What is left of the remaining students,

I leave in the care of you and Minakata-sensei.

Very well.

It seems your wish is impossible to come true.

In that case,

please have me slashed at.

It should take place at the large gate, shouldn't it?

It will be a sport for them.

"If I had made the penicillin at the Medical Center,"

"would Saburi-sensei and Ogata-sensei"

"have ended up like this?"

Minakata-sensei.

Yes?

Um...

If it is not asking too much,

could you please talk of things to me?

I think it could be about important events,

since I know about Sensei's circumstances.

Rather than speaking to the photograph, if you asked me your questions...

I am sorry.

I am out of turn.

You're wrong.

What you say is perfectly reasonable.

Even you can tell...

I've been speaking to it all this time without it saying anything back.

Must be a habit of mine.

As a good adult, I'm embarrassed.

I'm sorry.

"It's true, I haven't gotten the answers I want from you."

"Besides,"

"even though you may be fine in this photo taken of you,"

"there are valid reasons not to disturb,"

"the tomorrows of the people in the here and now."

"We hereby resign from the Medical Office"

"This is all, perhaps, caused by my inviting chaos to history."

"Western Medical Office"

Then, you are saying you want to resign?!

Yes.

I remembered something I had said earlier to Saburi-sensei.

"If you aspire to medicine, you first have to know the body."

I'm the one who stirred that up in him.

Therefore,

could you please forgive Saburi-sensei?

Minakata-sensei...

I will report to the magistrate's office

that I was the instigator in this current matter.

When I tell them that a suspicious person such as myself led him on,

the Medical Office won't bear any of the blame.

That's certain.

If that were so, we wouldn't suffer any damage.

Then that's what I'll do.

No. That will not be.

The Sensei should remain here.

This is for the sake of the country

and for the sake of the methods we use.

I could say the same thing for Ogata-sensei being here.

For the sake of the country

and the sake of those methods.

As I expected,

I think medical technology and medicine will advance even if they are left alone.

It's easy to understand the benefits

in leaping ahead to give them to everyone.

It's the easy way.

But,

after having had stones thrown at you,

and given up all your property,

all with the desire to save people while conveying the soul of medicine...

That, I think, was the far more difficult thing.

What will happen with the penicillin?

Ogata-sensei will continue producing it.

Sensei.

How could this happen?

I still had so many things to ask you.

I'll be fine.

I will be.

How is this fer da best?

From here,

how much could ya have done ta spread yer medicine?

Tellin' yer fibs,

takin' da blame that ain't even yers...

Where... where'dya get the authority for a reasonin' like that?

What's the matter?

I want to see ALL of the Sensei's desires!

Desires?

Yeah!

A man lives fer his desires.

Like the patriot willin' ta die fer his country!

Like the doctor who prattles on 'bout living fer a person.

Take off da mask,

and they're all just upstarts.

They want money.

They're all bound by da desire of leavin' their names behind.

I'm da same way.

Not even asked,

I'm thinkin' of makin' this country of Japan a much better country.

Now that I've been born,

I want ta do somethin' ta satisfy that desire.

It's that desire what makes me walk on.

So I kin keep movin' toward it.

Desires are the source of my livin' on!

But the way Sensei does things...

...is like bein' a Buddha.

If there is such a person...

...then he's a dead.

Dead...

I'm worried fer ya!

If ya have no desires,

Sensei could be struck down an' killed just like that!

Someday life'll say,

"Yes, it's time,"

and toss ya away like some pawn.

"At that time, I first understood."

"I had nothing to hold me here in this world."

"Because Ogata-sensei is here."

"For the sake of the country and the sake of the methods."

"So,"

"with no selfish motives, I could be like a Buddha."

"But, for that same reason,"

"I didn't have even one, real feeling."

"Maybe I really was already..."

"...one of the dead."

Ah! Dat's exceptional!

Even with the medicine I have learned,

it is too little to help anyone.

Even after being by his side,

I do not understand even one thing about his heart.

Then what purpose...

...do I have?

"A secret of da Imperial Court."

When it comes to uselessness,

I am the same.

As long as that man is around,

we will be destroyed.

A rumor about Minakata-sensei?

Yes.

Some customers who seemed like doctors with shaved heads were in Natsuya

speaking about Minakata-sensei...

What sorts of things were they speaking about?!

"Minakata is a monster."

"We have to murder him for the sake of the medical world."

Courtesan, where are you going?

This is to me?

Yes.

"Nokaze"

Mother! Where is Minakata-sensei?

He has gone out.

Was he accompanied by Brother?

Sensei told him he would be fine and turned him down.

"Saki-sama,"

"I am certain no one other than yourself will understand."

"Minakata-sensei's life is being threatened."

"However,"

"I am not permitted to step one foot outside of Yoshiwara."

"Like a bird in its cage."

"I can only depend upon you."

This way!

"Saki-sama,"

"you said you were envious of me, but..."

"I am the one envious of you."

"You have the air of a wildflower,"

"one without taint, and with a honest heart."

"And, most of all,"

"you have a future."

"For example Saki-sama,"

"you have one beside you that you like."

"One you can go towards on your own feet."

This way!

"Such a thing is an impossible dream for me."

"Saki-sama."

"Please,"

"please watch over the Sensei."

Resolve yourselves!

Kyaa!

Who's that person!

He seems to have gone.

Sensei?

I am here in a dream.

It may be...

I was so calm because I thought I couldn't die.

But...

I'm trembling.

I was afraid.

That is only natural!

Sensei, you are alive.

Being calm about death...

A second time...

That's true, isn't it?

I am alive here, aren't I?

Thank you very much, Saki-san.

Thank you!

No.

You should thank...

...Nokaze-san.

Nokaze-san?

"Peacefully, my life was saved."

"I sincerely thank you."

"Minakata Jin."

For what reason do you have such an unbound look for?

I cannot stop to worry about what bounds I may pass through.

Into a tiny bowl

only a tiny amount of sake can be held.

This means the bowl into which we were born

may be impenetrably difficult.

Even a tiny cup can be good, too.

In a large cup,

the sake would be soon be gone.

You really don't see all that well?

Wait!

Wait, I said!

The one who sent that killer...

...after Minakata-sensei...

...was YOU!

It's true he is a dreadful man.

Once his medicine starts to spread,

we will rot like rice-bran and be thrown away.

However I, Geen,

born of the Taki clan,

have been proud of my life as a doctor!

To protect my life,

I would not think of taking another's life away!

Then, if not ya...

Rather, isn't there another Dutch doctor

who is every bit as dreadful?

What the...

They said at the same time my scalpel was stolen,

it was deliberately left behind there.

And now the attack on Minakata-sensei as well...

It may all possibly be the work of one of the members of the Medical Office.

"Western Medical Office"

Sensei...

I'm fine.

Leave all of this to me.

One step backwards, huh?

I...

...don't have much time left.

"Heisei 22" (2010)

"2010..."

"The Mystery of the Time Slip Deepens"

"The Medical Center is Attacked... ...With A Mighty Malice"

"A Chain of Tragedy That Doesn't Stop..."

"And..."

"At The Last Moment..."