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"2010, Summer"

It's a serious thing having an arrest warrant issued for you by the Prosecutor.

That will have to be thoroughly covered up.

You'll be severely damaged by it as well, won't you?

However, both Mukai and Nishigawa are doing their best.

You can't open your mouth, either.

Only then can Sensei avoid having the Prosecutor pursue this investigation.

Do you understand?

Yes.

"Secretary to Diet Member Togashi Commits Suicide Before Arrest"

"Asai Shinji-san"

The lizard just totally cut off his own tail, didn't he?

And so, once again, the inner circle of Togashi Itsuo remains out of reach.

I'm sure that must bring your guts to a boil, huh?

As the Tokyo District Prosecutor Office's Ace...

No, no, just for yourself, Tatsumi-san. You won't give up now, will you?

That's right.

After all, you just might pick up some god-sent information from an unexpected place.

For example...

At a barbershop like this one.

There's activity.

"Charged with Bribery, Togashi Goes in for Questioning" It's Councilor Togashi. Councilor Togashi has appeared.

He's getting into a car right now.

Togashi Itsuo, member of the House of Representatives.

Ehh... He is voluntarily complying with a request to discuss the charges that he accepted bribes.

What sort of look is on his face? Ah... I caught a glimpse of it.

He has a very grim look.

"Present Day"

Renhou. (Renhou Murata, journalist and politician; currently a member of the Diet)

"If I'm not Number 1, then it's no good, isn't it?

Tanaka Makiko. (Japanese politician; 1st woman foreign minister)

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is in an uproar."

Hillary Clinton.

I can't do her.

Aung San Suu Kyi. (Burmese opposition politician, winner of Nobel Peace Prize)

I can't do her even more! And what is this all about?

- Unsurprisingly, you can't do anything. - I do what you tell me to do, don't I?

Run in the next election and become a congresswoman.

Huh? For what reason?

There are a number of annoying laws I've been thinking about for a long time.

I want those laws amended in the Diet. It would make my job much easier.

That's stupid. Do it yourself.

Ah! You're so disliked that you couldn't get elected, now could you?

If you were elected, we could wring money out of Togashi Itsuo every time he touches your butt.

This time around he was showered with wads of money, so go greet him with a box of cakes.

I never have liked politicians. It's such a dirty world.

A far more suitable occupation for you than being a lawyer would be an Apparapa. Right, Hattori-san? (Slang for imprudent spender out for self-enjoyment)

Togashi Itsuo-sensei's trial is currently in full swing.

Ah, is that right?

I'm sure that person will never be found innocent again, will he?

"For Defendant, Togashi Itsuo Found Guilty, Prison Sentence of 2 years, 5 months"

- A prison sentence. - Oh!

Heiwa Fansubs Presents: "Legal High"

Episode 5: "The Time Limit is 7 Days! Money or Life? Protect the Corrupt Politician"

Please tell me. Where are we going?

Yes?

I'm the lawyer, Komikado.

Please wait.

"Togashi"... Um...

That one.

I won't! I'm not announcing myself as a candidate.

And I don't want my butt touched, either.

We've been asked to defend him. Fool, fool, fool, fool!

Thank you for waiting.

This way.

Let's pass on defending Togashi.

It's best not to get involved with such a person.

Thank you for coming out of your way. I'm his Secretary, Eto, who phoned you.

I'm Komikado.

I'm Mayuzumi.

Sensei. They've come to see you.

Yo.

"The finish of the political world's fixer." "The closing curtain to money in politics."

These newspaper headlines are terrible.

There's also this, "The Dark Shogun's Death Agony," isn't there?

What should we do?

- You there. Have you read the verdict? - Yes.

What do you think?

- I thought it was a reasonable verdict. - What was reasonable about it?

If you think that's so, then it's fine to make an appeal.

You appealed it immediately of course?

About that... Not yet.

If you didn't appeal it, how can you be free on bail?

The court thought he would obviously do so, so they gave it to him out of consideration.

He is a big-shot politician.

He may be a big-shot, but such extraterritoriality shouldn't be permitted.

Togashi-sensei, what happened with your boasted "strongest domestic defense team"?

We dismissed them.

You fired them? All of them?

Because he was successfully prosecuted and found guilty, that's only natural, isn't it?

And after the huge fees we paid them.

Just because you're loaded doesn't mean you can just be made innocent.

When I told them I wanted to have it appealed immediately, this is what they said.

"Even if we appealed to a higher court, we don't know that we could win."

It'd be impossible to stay with a bunch who can't win, now wouldn't it?

As you say, Komikado-kun. I've heard about your reputation.

Is it the reputation that says, "As long as you give him money, he'll take on any kind of dirty job"?

- Is that wrong? - It's exactly right.

I'll be blunt.

I want this finished without me having to enter a cell.

I have 2 principles.

"I will be appropriately compensated"...

...and "I will definitely win any lawsuit I take on."

Are you saying you won't take this on because you're unlikely to win it?

The enemy is more than just the Prosecutor, it's the entire Kasumigaseki. (Location of Japan's cabinet ministry offices and used to refer to the bureaucracy)

Any potential grounds for an appeal of your sentence could be crushed splendidly.

The Prosecutor and the courts are saying this to you.

"You are finished. Give this up already."

It's quite natural that the strongest defense team lost its nerve.

You are a man of the same degree.

It's only obvious that a politician covered in dirty money would be caught.

Isn't this your own fault?

- Eto. - Ah.

Name your own price.

This isn't a problem about money. However much you pile on...

- Could you give me some time to think about it? - What are you saying?

I will decide whether to take this on after careful deliberation.

The deadline for an appeal shouldn't be for at least another week.

in the meantime you'll consider whether...

...you have the confidence to undertake this and win. Is that what you are saying?

Such a thing. Isn't that a little too convenient for you?

If you don't like it, won't that make me the same as the strongest defense lawyers you had no confidence in?

That's fine.

The important thing is that we don't lose the battle.

I'll wait.

That was unexpected from an old boss like him.

How did you do that? When he stared at me with those eyes, my back froze.

The beginnings of this case regarding Togashi Itsuo-sensei's bribery scandal was, as I recall...

...that the source of the 250 million yen he paid...

...for a building in Meguro-ku was unclear, wasn't it?

Yes.

The Prosecutor assumed it was an illegal donation from Hanabayashi Industries...

...so he did a thorough investigation of everyone around Togashi Itsuo. They were arrested.

And in the process, his private secretary and keeper of the safe, committed suicide.

With that, it was thought it would go unsolved.

However, important evidence was procured from that Secretary's office.

A memo that seemed to indicate a donation from Hanabayashi Industries.

Moreover, the other Secretaries who hadn't spoken out before continuously repudiated it.

The evidence appeared during the testimony. That's why he's guilty.

Sensei, what was your goal in telling him you needed some time?

Foolish question. Don't you think that was a little too convenient?

What was?

Although the Prosecutor had tried time and again to find Togashi Itsuo guilty, he hadn't.

Because Togashi would absolutely never expose his faults.

But evidence appeared extremely easily this time around...

...and then those Secretaries started speaking out, one after another.

- What does it mean? - Just what does it mean, right?

That's what I want to hear. From that pomaded rascal...

...the Special Investigation Department's Tatsumi Shiro.

"Time left to file an appeal: 6 days"

Sir. Forgive me if I happen to cut an artery.

Should I do that, Prosecutor Tatsumi?

- What are you doing? - Sharpening this. Could you shave us?

Ah, yes.

- I am the lawyer, Komikado. - I know that.

Isn't once every 2 days excessive for going to the barber?

I'm charmed by the Master here's skills.

Just being stroked on the face is a different feeling.

Such a thing should be done, shouldn't it?

Just the sort of thing that would surely be appreciated by a Kasumigaseki big-shot, huh?

At any rate, Togashi is the rare politician who can't be controlled by bureaucrats.

If by chance he became Prime Minister, your vested interests would be left in shambles.

So you use the press to write up Togashi's bad reputation...

...and thus plant an image of him in the public's mind.

Furthermore, like a knight in shining armor...

...the admirable Prosecutor then finds the unscrupulous politician guilty. Splendid!

Haven't you been overly influenced by conspiracy theories in 3rd-rate magazines?

The Secretary who died disposed of all of his personal belongings...

...but don't you think it's surprising that just by chance he forgot...

...to dispose of the one crucial memo of all, Prosecutor Tatsumi?

It could happen to anyone.

Shouldn't you consider a slightly more coherent plot?

Are you saying it was fabricated?

In the past wouldn't you have been suspicious that it had been fabricated or falsified?

- That is an accusation. - No, no, this is your doing.

What are you trying to say?

- That I know this. - How?

Because you and I are cut from the same bolt of cloth.

I will definitely expose you. Please make preparations for an appeal.

Feel free.

Hot!

"Nohigura Warehouse Transportation"

"Lawyer Komikado Kensuke"

You are Yoshitaka Mukai, one of Itsuo Togashi-sensei's Secretaries, aren't you?

This is a bother.

I've already broken off my ties to politics.

I'd like to ask you for more details about the contents of the Prosecutor's investigation.

It has nothing to do with me.

Why did you talk?

You and one other Secretary who was arrested, Saikawa-san...

...had done your best to endure the Prosecutor's investigation without opening your mouths.

But then you talked. And then Saikawa-san broke down because of that, too.

Have you ever been arrested?

Have you ever been interrogated by that Prosecutor?

Day after day, being interrogated from morning till night.

And when your detention period expires, they just re-arrest you for some other incident.

My daughter was being bullied at school and was on the verge of a breakdown.

Anyone would go weird in the head.

Even so, I was doing my best.

However... One day he showed me that.

"This was taken from the dead Asai-san's office."

"If you confess, you'll get a suspended sentence," he said, and my heart broke.

Didn't you think that might have been fabricated by the Prosecutor?

The handwriting was the same as Asai's.

That could have been easily copied.

There was a symbol indicating the date and price along with the trading partner.

All of it was true!

If it wasn't Asai, then show me how he got it!

That was the real deal.

Even if that's so, there'd be any number of ways of explaining it away, wouldn't there?

If you hadn't confessed, it would have been nothing but a piece of scrap paper.

Why do I have to be the one who's blamed?

It's a fact that Togashi did receive money!

It's as he says. Sensei, please stop this.

I think Mukai-san did a courageous thing by confessing, too.

My wife and daughter are more important to me than Togashi is.

Disappointing, wasn't it?

"Secretary Eto"

Please eat without reserve.

Well then, we will avail ourselves of your offer.

And? What sort of feel do you have for things?

Ah, we're checking into various areas.

- Will you be able to take it on? - Still not quite there yet.

It's okay. I told them I would wait.

6 more days are left. Think it over carefully.

Thank you very much.

However, Komikado-kun.

After making me wait, do you think in the end...

...that all you'll need do is say "I'm sorry" and that you can't do it?

I've entrusted you with the time until the appeal deadline is up.

I...

...know plenty of people willing to do anything...

...if I deposit them enough money.

This is bad! Togashi Itsuo is famous for his threats.

After all, even I secretly hoped that he was, in reality, a good person.

But he just does as he likes!

This is right in line with his reputation as a dark fixer!

Sensei, what should we do?

Getting caught up in the moment and saying all those self-important things, we don't know what'll happen!

He might send a right-wing propaganda truck over! Right-wing or left-wing; they'll ALL come over!

Geez... I knew from the start this would be bad!

In that case, why didn't you stop me!?

I did try! You told me it was best not to concern myself about it!

You should have tried harder to stop me! Stronger and stronger to stop me!

You're really, truly, completely, wholly and perfectly of no use whatsoever! Fool!

I should quit this time around.

You mustn't say such things.

Should you be snapping at Komikado-sensei?

Just think you have been tricked.

That again? I don't want to be tricked anymore.

However, it seems there's something essential here for Mayuzumi-sensei to do.

Something essential?

I think you are serious about beating Komikado-sensei.

If that time comes, I will defend you.

One of my trivial strong points is...

...that I was fond of the martial arts long ago.

Judo? Karate? Boxing?

Mongolian sumo wrestling. A little.

That's reassuring.

Yeah!

I received a call from Ise-sensei earlier and he was extremely pleased.

He's going out for some blowfish even now.

That's good, isn't it?

Sawaji-kun, I'm truly thankful to you.

That I can be of any assistance to you delights me more than anything else.

Do that one more time.

Excuse me.

Oi!

Wait till I say "come in" then come in!

That's the meaning of knocking!

I'm sorry.

And? What's your business?

News has come in that Councilor Togashi has contacted Komikado-sensei.

The defense team Togashi Itsuo has fought alongside over the years has reached its limits...

...and the final straw he's reaching out for is that rouge, huh?

Togashi Itsuo has gotten old, huh?

"Time left to file an appeal: 4 days" A person who could have made that memo?

That memo became evidence which recorded the contents of money transfers very accurately.

Who are the people who could have made such a memo?

First off would have been Asai himself.

After that would have been Mukai, Nishigawa and, in those days, Itou Wada.

That's about it.

Is there a possibility any one of those might have switched sides to the Prosecutor and betrayed Sensei?

We don't have such a person here!

You guys... Will you really be okay?

This is between us...

...but if the Sensei can weather this, he can run in the next presidential election.

Given his age, this will be his final chance to sit down in the Prime Minister's chair, isn't it?

That and this, too, depends on you guys.

Do it right!

That wife was committing adultery, wasn't she?

Her lover is the former Foreign Affairs Tayama-san's Secretary.

- Oshima-san?! - Yeah.

- Ah, I don't believe it. - It's true!

Whaa...

Those ladies are a treasure trove of gossip.

Get closer to them and elicit information about those Secretaries from them.

What about you, Sensei?

I'm going to a grassroots person to get information.

I've found this great restaurant. The grilled chicken there is delicious!

- Shall we go next time? - You'll go?!

I'll go!

I just love grilled chicken.

We could mix in some girl's talk while we're at it!

- Wanna go? - I'll go!

Komikado came here, huh?

He was saying that he and I were cut from the same cloth.

Geez, he's in a totally different dimension from you, Sensei.

I hope that's so.

Thing is, with that fast talk of his, you can't tell what he's talking about.

He's hard to comprehend.

I need to make sure to have a thank you gift made for you, Miki-sensei.

You've thanked me enough.

Truth is, the one who brought in that information was my Secretary.

I envy you having such an excellent subordinate.

What are you smirking about, newbie?!

Ah, ow!

Let's eat one apiece this time. Here.

Wanna go to one other place?

Let's go, let's go. The bill please!

- Will you go, too? - I'll go.

Do they take point cards here?

Ah! I dropped it!

Sorry.

It's okay. You have a lot of these point cards. Incredible.

Thank you.

- Here you go. - Because I'm a point card addict, after all.

Say, say, want to go eat some pork-bone ramen?

Oh no!

Damn!

Ow, ow! Sorry! Sorry, sorry! Please let go!

Ow! Ow! Geez, I'm not a molester or a pervert. I'm...

Komikado Kensuke's spy, Kaga Ranmaru.

I give up.

Go ahead and boil or bake me.

I don't have anyone to drink with tonight.

Great!

What's your profession?

An unpopular actor.

Why are you with Komikado-sensei?

A while back, when I got involved in a dangerous bit of fraud...

...Komikado-sensei helped me out.

His condition was in lieu of an attorney fee, he would send me out as his spy.

There. I've told you everything, so tell me.

That information you leaked to the Prosecutor.

I couldn't tell you that for such a trivial confession.

That's not true! Say, just a little hint'll do. Okay?

This place... has delicious food, doesn't it?

There are a lot of couples here.

Are you seducing me?

I'm not interested in men who are weaker than me.

And then?

- She left. - And you just let her leave!

Because she's super-strong. She's an Angelina Jolie.

Still, why did Miki-sensei offer that information to the Prosecutor?

He was saying it was return present for him.

Do you know of a member of the House of Representatives, Ise Shouzaburo?

He's Chief Secretary now.

He's part of the anti-Togashi faction, isn't he?

There was a time when he was alleged of taking illegal donations, too.

I recall that. However, before anyone realized it, that allegation had vanished.

I know what the reason for that was.

- What was it? - Because he is Miki's client.

He sold the Prosecutor on Togashi and had him wash his hands of Ise.

That's deep, huh?

Welcome back. Now, drink some cold water.

Did we have such a creature here?

Those oba-chan's are strong.

Apparently she's ended in failure, too.

Failure? Ha!

I'm not that kind of fool, Komikado.

You're drunk?!

I heard some interesting stories.

I completely understand it all.

Someone betrayed Togashi.

- Is that true? - Yeah, it's true.

Wanna hear? Oi, Komi.

Komi?!

If you wanna hear it, say so!

Tell me.

Is that the sort of attitude you ask someone for something with?

Isn't it, "Please tell me"?

Say it, say it.

Please tell me.

Say, "Mayuzumi-sensei, if you would please. Please tell this incompetent me."

- Don't get carried away, you piece of junk! - Ah, Sensei! She's just drunk.

- She's drunk. - Tell her, tell her, Sensei.

Hurry, go on.

What shall you do?

Mayuzumi-sensei, if you would please. Please tell this incompetent me.

Sensei, stop!

- I understand how you feel, but Sensei... - Hattori-san!

- She's drunk! - Please stop!

"What have you heard?"

"That is, because I was hiding at the kitchen back door and he was whispering into his cell phone."

"'I dedicate myself to you, Ise-sensei.'"

"That's what he said."

"By 'Ise'..."

"...you mean Ise Shouzaburo, the Chief Secretary?"

"Yeah."

"Isn't he the one pitching himself as a political rival to our Sensei?"

"Yeah."

"I don't believe it!"

- "Who was it that was speaking?" - "Eh?"

"Like I said, it was Eto-san!"

"'I dedicate myself to you, Ide-sensei.'"

"Time left to file an appeal: 39 hours"

- Okusawa roll and a Royal milk tea! - Ah, me too.

As his right-hand man and political secretary for over 20 years...

...Togashi-sensei wouldn't think he'd be betrayed by you either, would he?

You were the one who leaked the info on that memo to the Prosecutor, weren't you?

You badly overestimate me.

I'm just old.

The essential point about all the money that was collected is that I didn't touch any of it.

- I wasn't trusted with it. - Well, still...

Information has come that you are in contact with Councilor Ise Shouzaburo.

Yes.

It's true I will be going over to Ise-sensei.

I was given Togashi's consent for that.

It was my dream to become a congressman.

It was for that sake I spent these last 20 years. I served Togashi without complaint.

But, in the end, Sensei didn't build me up as a candidate.

Sensei told me this.

"You aren't capable of it."

"If you don't like being a Secretary, then leave."

After offering all that I had for these 20 years...

...in the end my annual income is less than what he spends feeding the colored carp in his pond.

My life was mostly wasted.

He's a mediocre man.

He doesn't even have the strength to betray me.

- You're cold to your followers, aren't you? - Stop it, Mayuzumi.

It's okay. Go ahead and say it.

I'll speak frankly.

I don't want a person like you becoming Prime Minister.

I don't want you as a politician, either.

Do you like making money that much?

Being bribed so you can buy expensive carp like that.

So as not to be exposed, you scatter money around to try and get it erased.

And you'll mercilessly cut your followers loose, too.

It's because of people like you that politics doesn't go well.

I'm very sorry. As you can see, she's a fool.

In this world, how many occupations are there where you can be called "Sensei"?

Teachers, doctors, lawyers like you guys and politicians.

Why would a person call us "Sensei"?

A person who wants something of another person...

...will say "Sensei" to praise the listener.

They say it to teachers so they'll be taught. And to doctors, so they'll be cured.

And to lawyers, so they'll be saved.

Yes.

Well then, why would they say that to politicians?

So they can earn money.

This is a path where I can't trust even my own followers.

With each and everyone's aim being my money and power...

...they just swarm around me like these carp.

The more I get to know him, the more I come to hate that person.

To be honest, we should let the deadline to appeal pass and let him serve his prison term.

You're a hard-core ignorant person, aren't you?

Just once it would be good for you to go out on a heavily rainy day...

...wearing a suit of metal and then climb a New Year's firefighter's ladder.

You'd probably be a little better after being struck by a bolt of lightning.

- Was anything I said wrong? - It wasn't wrong.

It's a fact that Togashi is a politician who raised capital illegally and who then seized power.

However, like I thought, you're just a silly fool.

Please don't point.

Money and power are both sides of the same coin. A person who can raise money has power.

Why can't you understand that?

That's why people gather where the money is.

However, those people who raise money in this country are treated as being evil.

"That Togashi Itsuo? I think he's obviously guilty."

"This isn't the time for such old-fashioned politicians!"

"I'm fed up with the problem of politicians and money!"

You seek money, right?

And so politicians will flatter the ignorant public...

...by professing clean politics and the ignorant public will support them again.

As a result, only those politicians who can do nothing and who have no power are increased...

...while adequate politicians are obliterated by a Prosecutor.

And then those same people lament that Japanese politicians are all useless.

Are you defending Togashi Itsou?

I'm saying that's why he has such a viewpoint.

When living with money and power...

...it's only natural not to be able to trust your followers.

What's more, that's a painful life, isn't it?

The only love you can trust is that from a carp pond.

The time limit seems to have drawn near, hasn't it?

Isn't it tomorrow? Togashi's deadline for an appeal.

Yes. It doesn't appear that they have submitted an appeal petition yet.

As expected, Komikado's giving up, isn't he?

"Time left to file an appeal: 27 hours, 38 minutes"

If you want to escape from reality, then please do it outside! You're distracting me!

Geez. For now, shouldn't we appeal to a higher court?

We can say in the appeal that Togashi-sensei has prospects of success...

...and we can then search for the reason for an appeal afterwards.

- Do you feel like helping Togashi now? - It's my job.

Starting something without considering the objections is the same as losing.

I wonder if I'll end up dying some mysterious death?

You'll have reaped what you've sown.

Of course you'll be my fellow traveler.

It'd be good if we were found by an elderly couple hunting for mushrooms around Mt. Takao though.

- Hattori-san. - Huh?

- Please protect me with your Mongolian sumo. - As you wish.

Ah, I'm starving. Hattori-san, give me something to eat.

- Ranmaru-kun, any luck? - None.

- Hattori-san, it's fine not to bring anything. - As you wish.

Don't do that!

Say, Hattori-san. Anything's fine; just something to eat.

Ala?

- This is? - Point cards.

One of the maids dropped them at the restaurant.

I was drunk and put them in my pocket.

This restaurant. It was there.

Where I drank with Angelina.

Mayuzumi. Which of the maids did you get this from?

- Yoshioka Megumi-san. - What's her address?

If I'm right, this is probably very close to Togashi-sensei's home.

Ranmaru-kun. It may be she WAS giving us a clear hint. Your whimsical Angelina.

"Time left to file an appeal: 12 hours, 5 minutes"

Ah, hello.

Sensei just left for the Diet Member's Building.

We want to speak to you, Yoshioka Megumi-san!

Over here!

This silly person brought these home without asking. So we'll return them.

It wasn't necessary to return them expressly like this.

You'll have this card completely filled in just a little longer.

You don't seem to have gone recently, but up till 2 years ago you were gathering them frequently.

Even though this restaurant is quite far from both your home and Togashi-sensei's home.

However, the home of that person is quite nearby.

The Secretary, Asai Shinji, who committed suicide 2 years ago.

I went to this restaurant earlier and talked with the owner there.

"Those two always seemed extremely happy together."

"Here."

- "It's tender." - "Right?"

If you speak honestly, I will protect you.

If you hide anything, I will cross-examine you thoroughly.

Thinking I'd be scolded by Sensei...

...I was keeping my seeing him a secret.

Like a woman forcing a man into marriage...

...I would even come over to help him with his work.

Truth is, he was poor at making calculations...

That's why I kept the accounts instead...

...and imitated his handwriting to do so.

In the future, when he was standing on his own as a member of the Diet...

...he promised that he would marry me.

That future was taken away by Togashi Itsuo.

One day...

I received a call on my cell phone from a number I didn't recognize.

They said, "I'm at a coffee shop in the neighborhood, so could you come?"

"You hate him, don't you?"

"Your lover was sacrificed by Togashi Itsuo."

"There is a way for you to take revenge."

You cooperated in creating that memo, didn't you?

We want you to testify to that.

How do you think the Prosecutor detected the relationship between you and Asai?

Do you know this person?

This person was often at that restaurant and so we became friends.

She's the private secretary of Ise Shouzaburo's lawyer.

Because Asai-san was Togashi's Secretary, she approached you.

You were only being used as part of strategy for a power struggle in this country.

Please testify.

I want him to apologize.

Togashi-sensei...

I want him to apologize and beg.

"Time left to file an appeal: 10 hours, 45 minutes" She is here reluctantly.

An apology is no big deal.

I can't be tripped up over such a point.

I think of Asai-kun with regret as well.

He was a young man with a tender heart.

When I think on it...

...it was impossible for him to endure a persistent investigation by the Prosecutor.

It was my mistake in making him the keeper of the safe.

I am very sorry.

This is just...

...a politician's apology interview, isn't it?

Eh? These are my openhearted feelings.

- Liar. - Yoshioka-san.

You're lying!

It was BECAUSE you thought he wouldn't be able to endure an investigation...

...that you entrusted him with it, wasn't it?

Because you felt he'd kill himself before he'd let anything out!

That's why you let him have that!

And yet...

And yet...

He didn't bear a grudge against you!

Before he died, he sent me this.

His will.

It brims over with words of respect towards you.

"Only you can reform this country," he wrote.

So he didn't die...

...for Togashi Itsuo's sake.

He died for the sake of reform in this country!

There are far more words in there for you than there are for me.

That is what is so regrettable.

And hateful.

I detest you, Sensei!

It seems there are people who will gather around you...

...without having money or power as their goal, doesn't there?

Togashi-sensei, shouldn't you have...

...brought up someone like Asai-san with great care?

- Welcome. - Could I get a shave?

I'm very sorry. I'm the only person here at the moment...

...so could you please wait awhile?

You've lost Yoshioka Megumi.

At present, a petition for an appeal is being prepared.

We also plan to submit an appeal prospectus at the same time.

We'll write the reasons for the appeal in detail.

When it becomes clear that an unwarranted search and seizure has been conducted...

...the guilt of Togashi as well as Secretaries Mukai and Nishigawa will be overturned as well.

You as a Prosecutor will be finished as well.

I also don't want to have to make Yoshioka Megumi take the stand.

Couldn't we do something mutually beneficial?

Rather than battling it out at the Appeal Tribunal...

...we could propose a more quiet form of reasons for appeal.

Komikado-sensei.

I haven't got a clue about what you were saying just now.

Just who is this Yoshioka Megumi?

I'm talking about trying to help you.

Truth is, you also feel regret.

The pressure of the overriding necessity to bury Togashi must have been terrible, wasn't it?

It's not unreasonable to want to run with fabricated evidence.

I haven't felt any such pressure.

Togashi committed a crime. That's why he must be sent to prison.

We in the Special Investigations Department have been working as one for that.

You went further though, didn't you?

I use whatever sort of hand I need to throw the bad guys in jail. That's who I am.

Even if it results in your own ruin?

Yeah.

I have no fear of my own ruin.

Because I have neither wife or child.

Isn't that true for you, as well?

I don't know who it is or what you plan to make them say...

...but I will argue it thoroughly before the Appeal Tribunal.

Prosecutor Tatsumi.

It's said that you are different from others.

No wonder you get shaved once every 2 days.

Isn't it?

Was that Prosecutor Tatsumi?

Seems Komikado sniffed it out.

Ah.

Still, where could that information have been leaked from?

Where, I wonder.

He's got the devil's own luck.

Sawaji-kun.

Could you go "poof" one more time for me?

Excuse me.

Come in after I tell you to! After!

You have NO ability to learn!

"Time left to file an appeal: 2 hours"

Well, this is it.

Enthusiastic and powerful, I think this is a very good appeal prospectus.

Because we absolutely must condemn a Prosecutor's fabrications.

Get going!

Yes!

Mayuzumi-sensei.

Do not rush. The deadline for submission is midnight.

Even if you walked there slowly, you would be there in plenty of time.

Yes. I'm off.

Now then, how many "0"s should I write on that check?

This time around, I'll get a new cruiser.

No, maybe this time I'll buy a helicopter!

Helicopter!

Yes.

Togashi-sensei?

Eh?!

Young people aren't studying it.

Because study meetings of the political world have been stuck with the label of being rotten...

...no one is studying it.

Sensei, I'm certain you studied it, didn't you?

Yeah. I've read the Nine Chinese Classics in the original.

Can you tell me what the Nine Chinese Classics are?

Eh... "Analects of Confucius," "Journey to the West"...

"Analects of Confucius," "Great Learning," "Doctrine of the Mean," "Discourses of Menicus," ehh...

"Ekikyo," "Shokyo," "Shikyo," "Reiki," and "Shunju."

I lose. I need to study, too.

When I come out after serving my 2 years, 5 months, I'll be 68.

Because there's a law stating one can't run for office until 5 years after serving a sentence...

...the earliest I could run for election is when I'm 73.

What do you think, Komikado-kun?

You can still go on for a long time, can't you?

Because they serve healthy meals, on the contrary, couldn't you could return in better shape than ever?

Do a lot of reading.

I think this is a wonderful decision you've made.

It's the least you could do to atone for Asai-san, isn't it?

Atone? Don't say such foolish things.

- This is a calculation. - A calculation?

Obviously, isn't it?

We've caught the Prosecutor's weakness.

By not playing that card now, I can hold onto it until needed.

With that Prosecutor all rolled up, I will be invincible.

You are indeed the Dark Shogun.

Um, what is it?

Is something stuck to me?

No.

I thought this when I first saw you.

That you have nice features.

Huh?

When it comes to finding good politicians...

...I am second to none.

How about it? Are you interested in national politics?

- Huh?! - Look, see! Look, see! That's what I said!

You're right, Sensei. I was saying that myself!

- I'll take charge of you. - Please do so!

No thank you! There's no way I could be a politician.

I fully realized that this time around.

- Such a child could be converted. - That's right! Do that!

Hey, don't touch! Don't touch me! No, that's impossible!

Sensei, sink your teeth into her, please! Sink your teeth in!

Please stop!

Sensei, on three if you please! One, two...

Nooo!

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