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Well now, does everyone know of the region that was formerly called Kinumi Village?

The green mountains, the vast fields...

...the fresh air and the pure, clear streams.

It's said something terrible is now occurring to the people living in this beautiful place.

Ah. I'm suffering from pains from an unknown cause.

I have this terrible dizziness anymore.

My Mom died all of a sudden.

My husband...

And finally...

...the one who was our emotional support, our former Village Chief...

...was stricken with cancer.

Tane-san! Tane-san!

What on earth has happened here?

The cause of all of this...

...is that!

Senba Chemical's 4th Factory!

How could this be?

That a large company like Senba Chemical's chemical factory is causing pollution to occur.

Polluting this beautiful nature...

...causing a health hazard to the residents and...

Health hazard...

Ah, I'm sorry, what was it again?

Cut! Cut!

How many times do we have to do this?!

Keep your head on straight! I'll sue!

- I'm sorry. - Sensei. How were we?

You were perfect. You make it so that your misery isn't an act.

- Yeah! - Yeah!

Compared to them, you're nothing like Takigawa Christel at all! (Famous female newscaster for Fuji TV. Mayuzumi is made up to look like her here)

Of course I don't! Please ask for a professional!

The major media outlets won't pick up on this story. So it can't be helped.

The Senba Group is one of their biggest sponsors...

...so they would put incredible pressure on them, wouldn't they?

We'll produce this ourselves and aim to be top number of hits on video access sites!

It's unnatural to keep crossing and uncrossing my legs like that, so I don't like it.

Just who is gonna watch a video with pockmarked old people in it? It needs sex appeal.

But Machiko-chan is hopelessly unsexy.

That is a problem.

Could we make her skirt shorter? Just barely covering her up.

But she's got those bowlegs!

AAAH! I wish she was Nagasawa Masami! (J-drama actress)

So sorry about that!

Sensei.

About what we discussed the other day; we've decided on what our trial goals will be.

"One. Compensation, 500 million yen." ($6.3 million)

"Two. Stop the factory until it's safety can be assured."

We don't need anything more than that.

I will get it.

"Courthouse"

Put up with it. I have cystitis. (Urinary bladder inflammation)

I will be striking at full strength. This is a no-holds bared fist-fight.

You're an excellent manager, but when it comes to going into the ring yourself...

...you're just an ex-boxer who can't go even three rounds.

This "ex-boxer" will be using his full strength on you!

Aren't you going to wash your hands?

I didn't touch it!

Well then, court is in session.

Heiwa Fansubs Presents: "Legal High"

Episode 10: "Bankruptcy or 500 million?! Farewell Proud Village of Bonds"

Something wrong?

Helmut 38 is in fact, Clorotasium Hario-propolene.

A progressive new chemical substance that gave birth to some fearful toxic pollution in the Kinumi region.

Plant Manager Kiyokawa.

With any new substances that occur during the manufacturing process of Carbon X...

...how is the contaminated water disposed of?

Yes.

At the disposal plant, it is treated two or even three times with high-efficiency filters...

...and then the water is stored in this pool, so there is no problem with safety.

From here, contractors finish it...

...by transporting it to industrial waste facilities in the neighboring areas.

I would like to submit a document to the court...

...of a quality test done on the contamination pool that I requested.

These are the test results, aren't they?

Yes.

Plant Manager Kiyokawa. Please read out the 5th item from the top found on page 3.

"Clorotasium Hario-propolene."

That is all.

At issue here are 2 points. First, the source.

It's said in the world of chemical substances, between 200 and 300 are discovered every year.

And the majority of them are not completely elucidated.

This Helmut 38. Is it really harmful to the human body?

It's why the health of these victim's were damaged, isn't it?

And next is its route.

How on earth was the Kinumi region polluted?

Plant Manager Kiyokawa.

Is there a possibility this substance was discharged from somewhere other than this factory?

I don't think there have been any leaks from the storage pool.

Can you think of another reason why this substance could have been detected in the Kinumi region?

It is a substance that can be carried along by the wind.

Carried by the wind?!

In other words, there is a possibility it was carried along by the wind from some far off place...

...and then came showering down in the rain onto the Kinumi region.

That's right.

Yes.

At a point 45 kilometers south of Kinumi district, there is another company's disposal treatment plant.

And at a point 50 km to the west, there is a large group of factories.

Additionally, when you factor in the tiny research centers and tiny factories that are around...

...you could think there are a countless number of places that could be the source.

While the plaintiffs have been taking Senba Chemical's 4th factory to task as the source...

...their reasoning is nothing more than that it is the closest one.

What do you think of this point?

That it's immature. They should have presented more for their basis.

More than anything, can the plaintiffs prove the above 2 mentioned points?

That is all.

Those four are firmly set, huh?

Sure enough, he came out swinging at us harshly, didn't he?

Could it be said since studies about this new chemical substance haven't been developed yet...

...proving that it was that particular chemical will be difficult?

However, we have no choice but to press forward with that.

I will make them acknowledge how harmful it is with whatever I have to use.

This is a gamble. Both for us and for them.

It's me, Ranmaru, at your call right now!

Whaa! Where did you come in from?

That isn't the front door.

I thought I would try and sneak in from time to time.

Here, Sensei.

Itadakimasu!

- Good work! - Thanks!

Mayuzumi-sensei, will you have dinner, too?

Yes.

What's that?

Mayuzumi-sensei has been bringing in her own homemade bentos recently.

Somehow my dishes don't seem to suit her taste.

It's not that.

Since Hattori-san's dishes are much too good I've been eating too much...

...so I'm on a diet.

A diet?

"Senba Chemical"

Who's she?

Senba Chemical's Chief of Research and Development Dept., Yaginuma Kana.

She's the one who knows everything about the 4th factory and Carbon X.

If we make her testify, she'll be the traitor in the ranks, right?

May we join you?

I know your faces.

Aren't you worried? That the cause of such a thing was a substance you developed.

You didn't think it would turn out this way, did you? I understand.

You have a chance here to escape your pangs of conscious by cooperating with us, Yagimuma-san.

You seem to have made a mistake in the one you want to recruit.

Carbon X is a project being pushed for by both public and private sectors alike.

It's for the sake of keeping Japan a developed country.

It's inevitable that there will be a few sacrifices.

Are you saying the elderly people of Kinumi are being made into sacrifices?

It's because companies like mine are working hard...

...that we're just barely able to pay the pensions of those unproductive aged persons.

That I'm complete agreement with.

I heard you were proposed to, weren't you? By a younger lover in that hard-working company.

I wonder what he would think?

If he knew you had become Chief of the Development Dept. at such a young age...

...because of your service as the President's night partner for so many years.

Would it be okay to spread that around the company?

He knows about that.

That when the President grows tired of his mistresses, he promotes them.

My boyfriend fools around, too. That's why I'm not interested in marrying him.

Damn!

He seems to have given up recruiting her.

Komikado-sensei knows how tough Senba Chemical's union can be, too.

A fighting man... is sexy.

Sensei? Did you do something to your lower back?

- I didn't. - You did, didn't you?

I didn't...

You can understand what the substance called Helmut 38 is just by looking at this.

I can't understand it just by looking. Explain it.

It's a so-called inorganic arsenic compound.

Well, it would probably be fine to think of it as being the same as hexavalent chromium.

This hexavalent chromium twin can cause serious illnesses such as cancer, can't it?

You would say it's what damaged the health of everyone in Kinumi, so of course this substance was the cause.

Since it has a structure very similar in parts to those that cause carcinogens...

...well, there's no doubt about it.

Thank you very much, Professor Emeritus Machimura. That is all.

Counsel for the Defense.

Professor Machimura.

You're said to be a leader in this field, and that you hold teaching jobs at 3 universities.

How many lectures do you give each week?

Eh... About 15, I guess.

In other words, teaching is your current job...

...so wouldn't it be hard for you to say you're an active researcher?

Well, even now I set aside at least 20 hours a week towards research.

In the online game, "Adventures in Mu," you play as the Hero known as "Machimura," don't you?

Ah...

You hold the high score with 3,650 experience points...

...and are worshiped as a god among your fellow players.

What is it you spend those 20 hours a week on again?

Well... I have become a little addicted to that recently.

Addicted. You HAVE been addicted to it recently, haven't you? That is all.

Let me ask you, Dr. Utsunomiya.

Is Helmut 38 harmful to the human body in the same way hexavalent chromium is?

No. It's difficult for it to accumulate in the human body and is easily discharged.

When taken in large quantities all at once it can be harmful...

...but in small amounts, even over the long term, it would be harmless.

I see. In other words...

...if you are being hit with a strong force you can be injured...

...but if you're being hit with just a light force, no matter how long it might be, you won't get hurt.

It would be something similar to that, right?

That's a good analogy.

Do you think given the symptoms of everyone in the Kinumi region, that they are due to this substance?

That would be scientifically impossible.

The symptoms are too disparate. Couldn't they just have come from old age?

Thank you very much. That is all.

Counsel for the Plaintiff.

Your opinion is quite different from that of Professor Emeritus Machimura...

... but you were a student of Professor Emeritus Machimura, weren't you?

Why would there be such a difference?

You could say that Machimura-sensei's research is a little out-of-date or old-fashioned...

...and that's why I left his laboratory.

You left his laboratory?

Ala, ala, don't you mean you were driven out? Because you were exposed as a molester.

Objection! That's unrelated to this case.

It's a major point. Please allow me to continue.

Please continue.

You were groping the buttocks of a junior women in the same laboratory.

When he saw how serious the situation had become...

...Professor Emeritus Machimura had you banished from his laboratory.

You bear a personal and unjustified resentment against the Professor Emeritus.

So you want to criticize the Professor Emeritus by taking the opposite argument as him, don't you?

You're wrong.

You were groping buttocks, weren't you?

It wasn't "groping." It was just a little touch.

You're lucky you weren't charged with a crime. That is all.

Are we winning?

- Are we losing? - I'm spinning here.

Next will be proving the source of the pollution in Kinumi is from the 4th factory, right?

There are a great many underground water veins around the 4th factory...

...and I think that connects it to the Kinumi region.

Polluted water leaking from their pool...

...permeated to these underground water veins and then flowed into the Kinumi region.

If we dig a well under the 4th factory and detect Helmut 38 in one of those underground water veins...

...we can prove the factory is the source of the pollutant.

But the factory's defenses are tough and we can't get in there.

We'll just dig at random around the factory. If we do that, they can't complain.

Still, it will necessary for us to ask for a large-scale excavation contractor.

The amount of money needed will be vast.

Moreover, we'll have to obtain permission from the landowners.

We won't get permission.

All the landowners around this region are being paid off by Senba Chemical.

Can we do it with just the power of money?

We can draw that from here. The roulette wheel is already spinning.

"South Mont Blanc City - Formerly Kinumi Village" Excavation investigation? That'd be a problem.

We won't trouble you. After our investigation, it will be restored to the way it was.

Truth is, someone from Senba Chemical came by the other day saying they'd like to buy the land...

...so I'm selling.

I guess they moved on this first, didn't they?

How much are you going to sell it for?

I'll pay you double their price. For this place, right now.

I have 100 million yen. ($1.2 million)

Have the excavation investigation begin immediately.

Sensei, please tell me. How did you raise that money?

The cruiser, cars and my home. I mortgaged them all.

- Eh?! - If we win, there won't be a problem.

But if we lose, you'll be a homeless lawyer.

Well, if you go into personal bankruptcy, you'll also lose your lawyer qualifications.

We must use any means to win. If selling my home lets me win, then it's cheap.

We'll dig wells at random until that Helmut 38 turns up in the groundwater.

They seem to have started.

It's okay even if it does appear.

Sensei. The results of the investigation came out.

- Did Helmut 38 appear? - It didn't!

We'll have to dig for a different vein.

Even if an onsen appears or the Tokigawa treasure appears...

...or even if remains of the Yamatai Kingdom show up, ignore them all!

Dig, dig, dig away!

- Sensei! - Did it appear at last?!

- It didn't! - Your tension is confusing me!

Expand the scale of the construction!

Dig until the mountains collapse and you come out in Brazil!

It didn't appear?

It appeared in buckets!

Your tension is the opposite! We did it!

We did it!

- It really appeared! - We should have a toast.

- Kanpai. - Kanpai.

"Compromise Report (Draft)"

It's unexpected for you to suggest a compromise.

We wanted to convey our client's wishes.

Compensation of 500 million yen.

And, if operations at the factory cease until safety conditions there can be assured, they'll compromise.

That's the decision.

Dragging this out endlessly would be mutually unproductive.

The one who doesn't want this dragged out is you, Komikado, isn't it?

Won't your cars and cruiser be seized before long?

And your house as well.

You put everything up completely.

We won't compromise. Not for 10 years or even 20 years.

You will lose. And when you're abandoned by the Senba Group, you'll be finished.

The one who will lose is you. You'll lose everything!

Sawaji-san. When this place goes under, come see me.

I won't coerce you into perverted plays like Miki-sensei, so feel at ease.

- What about our bullet? - I know. That's to deal the finishing blow.

Don't worry.

You'll win.

Because you are Japan's best lawyer.

I will...

...definitely avenge her!

Our opponent is on the ropes. We'll knock him out of the ring soon.

This point on the map is approximately 1 km southwest of the 4th factory.

From an underground water vein 150m below the surface...

...a high concentration content rate was detected of about 8PPM.

This vein of water then flows into the Kinumi region like this.

From the above-mentioned investigation results, there is no room for doubt but that...

...Helmut 38 leaked from Senba Chemical's 4th factory to this underground water channel.

I believe we have established the proof. That is all.

Okay! We've knocked them out of the ring!

Counsel for the Defense.

We still feel there is doubt as to whether Helmut 38 is the causative agent in all of this.

It's not wrong to give up.

From the Kinumi region as well as other nearby regions around the country, we selected 18 points...

...mobilized many researchers and diligently conducted interview surveys.

In those results, the percentage of those suffering diseases within the same elderly age group...

...including those of the Kinumi region, was on average, 68.6%.

By comparison, the illness rate among the elderly in the Kinumi region is 72.3%.

A difference of only 3.7%.

That is, there isn't an especially larger number of sick people among those of the Kinumi region...

...but rather aren't they in a quite typical, ordinary status?

That's just a trick of numbers.

The problem is that they have been increasing rapidly over the last 1 or 2 years.

In the next round, I will also disprove the toxic nature of Helmut 38.

That is all.

They're still in by the tips of their toes.

Good afternoon.

Don't worry. I've only come because it's such a pleasant park.

Where did you go wandering about? If you have free time to waste, do some work.

I wasn't wasting...

Trying to snag Yaginuma Kana is a waste, too. That would just fail.

I think she's eager to talk to us about something.

Maybe she feels guilty about it.

If we persuaded her with all our hearts...

What have you learned from my place? Shape up and graduate from being an asadora heroine.

All that woman has on her mind is her own research.

To her, humans are only animals who act according to her desires and her gain.

I am Izumi Mai. High school teacher. I teach chemistry.

You were at Professor Michimura's laboratory last year, weren't you?

Yes.

Please tell us about the unpleasant case between you and Utsunomiya-san.

Utsunomiya-san was kicked out by Professor Machimura due to touching your buttocks, wasn't he?

I... It wasn't particularly to the point where it could be called molestation though.

This is a line of questioning unrelated to the case.

My witness was labeled as being a molester and I would like to disprove it!

Please continue.

That wasn't the act of a molester?

It was a measure of the good terms Utsunomiya-san and I were on.

Professor Michimura went a little overboard in his anger.

Why did Professor Michimura become so emotional over it?

That's difficult to say...

I think it was because Machimura-sensei had a liking for me.

I'm sorry. Any more than that...

That is all.

- Counsel for the Plaintiff. - No questions.

- I do. - Stop.

Utsunomiya-san resented the Professor for labeling him a molester, didn't he?

That's why he gave an opposite opinion...

Utsunomiya-san isn't that sort of person.

I, as a chemist, support Utsunomiya-san's opinion.

He's the researcher who has progressed the most in this field.

That is all.

Fool.

What's happening?

Looks like our side is on the ropes.

Ah. Welcome back.

"Seized Property" All of the expensive things...

...were taken away.

"Senba Chemical"

Ah, Yaginuma-san.

Carbon X could be called your baby, couldn't it?

Aren't you actually quite worried?

Are you okay with this?

Shut up.

I would like to get further testimony concerning the toxicity of Helmut 38.

I am a Professor of Berlin Chemical University, Dr. Helmut Meyer.

Helmut?

We appreciate you coming all this way from Germany.

It's also a big help that you're fluent in Japanese.

Dr. Helmut Meyer. What is it you research?

Water quality chemistry.

As the discoverer of Helmut 38, it was named after you, wasn't it?

Yes.

Let me ask this of you, Doctor Helmut.

Is Helmut 38 as harmful to the human body as hexavalent chromium is?

No. There are fundamental differences in the chemistry with hexavalent chromium.

Is it strongly carcinogenic?

It's impact on human beings is unknown.

Dr. Helmut, do you think Helmut 38...

...is the source of the symptoms being experienced by the residents of the Kinumi area?

I don't know.

It might be, but then again it might not be.

That is something no one knows.

In other words, asserting that Helmut 38 is the cause is...?

That can't be done.

Danke shoen.

That is all.

We've been picked up and totally thrown out of the ring.

Counsel for the Plaintiff.

Do you know of the specialist here in Japan by the name of Professor Michimura?

He isn't at a level where he could be called a specialist.

He's Japan's number one leader in this field.

In this field, he is lagging behind us.

Do you know of the true situation here in Japan?

My wife is Japanese.

And he's said to be a huge Japanophile as well.

Tororo soba is the best. (grated yam soba noodles)

Just because he's German doesn't increase his reliability.

He's the discoverer of Helmut 38.

There isn't anyone in the world who knows more about it than him!

Just because he's the discoverer doesn't mean he's right!

Thing is, there's doubt as to whether he even is the real Dr. Helmut, isn't there?

Isn't he just some foreign celebrity you hired from an actor's office?

I happened to see him in a repeat of "Unbelievable."

Counsel for the Plaintiff, calm down.

It's impossible that it's harmless!

Even in the air of this room, there are toxic substances by the dozen!

- Taken up one by one... - You will be silent during this questioning!

- You aren't asking anything anymore, are you! - Can the same thing be asked of the dead?!

Counsel for the Plaintiff. Please return to your seat.

Presiding judge. It's already obvious.

It is too difficult to prove with absolute certainty...

...that the cause of these illnesses is connected to the 4th factory!

And these unnecessary pranks about pollution...

...aren't they just to undermine the image of an advanced company like Senba Chemistry with pollution?

Our questioning hasn't finished yet.

At this moment Senba Chemical's stock price is falling...

...and the national interests of our country are being damaged.

- That is completely unrelated to any of this! - "Large companies are evil."

"Pitiful old people are just."

This lawsuit is all about using the circumstances of the weak to...

What was that?!

Without fear of misleading things, and with their object of getting a solatium...

...this is as close to being a fraud technique...

...as jumping off a roadway and then claiming to have been hit!

- That remark is insulting! - Take that back!

Silence!

I understand I was too forward in my remarks, Presiding Judge.

However, I will dare to say this here.

This is ABSOLUTELY not pollution!

Please calm down!

The trial is still continuing, after all.

Please be quiet in the back!

Please calm down!

Do we still have a hand to play?

Of course. It'd be impossible for me to lose.

And what is it?

Mayuzumi-kun. You will hand over 10 million yen to the judge. ($125,000)

- Huh? - There's a possibility he'll sell us a judgment with that.

- Sensei? - And if that doesn't work, try hypnosis.

Get a hypnotist to sit in the public gallery and hypnotize the judge...

...and then he'll issue a judgment of mercy on us.

And if all else fails, we'll try kidnapping.

We'll kidnap the family of the Presiding Judge and threaten him.

Unless we win this lawsuit, the life of his child...

Sensei?

You have guests.

There's been a compromise proposal from the people with Senba Chemical.

President Ikebe is very anxious about everyone in Kinumi...

...so he's saying to offer them 30 million yen. ($380,000)

It may be...

...they want to be the adults in the area who resolve this.

Please consider this as being the President's kindness.

We've been extremely clear.

Sawaji-kun.

There are some fine furnishings and other goods here.

If this house comes up for sale, I will buy it.

Understood.

Mayuzumi-sensei.

Miki-sensei wishes for your return to our firm.

I don't want you drowning while riding on a sinking ship.

Even now, your desk is just how you left it.

Mayuzumi-kun. Please come back.

I'll be waiting.

I won.

This is my win!

You're finished, Komikado!

This is my revenge! You've lost everything!

And now hang yourself by the neck and apologize to her in the next world!

It was because you engulfed yourself in a trial that she lost her life!

Sensei.

If you thought you couldn't win from the start...

...why did you pick such a reckless battle this time around?

Who knows. Why, I wonder, did I do such a foolish thing?

Did you unwittingly come under someone's influence?

You are intolerable at word play, Hattori-san.

Please excuse me.

Hattori-san, please look for a new job as well.

If possible, I would like to trouble you here for at least a little longer.

Because I don't have any strong points.

You've gone well past humility and into sarcasm.

This is why taking the 30 million yen in settlement money is the most realistic conclusion.

Is that okay with you?

Sensei.

Don't tell us by your attitude that we're defeated.

I don't know what attitude you mean me to take. Anyhow, this is my first experience with it.

For our lack of ability...

...we are really and truly sorry!

- So fresh! You can do such things. - Sensei, please lower your head, too.

- I refuse. Sorry, I don't grovel like that. - Sensei!

That's right, Sensei. You don't have to apologize.

Because we don't need that 30 million yen.

For all that we've lost, 30 million yen isn't near enough.

500 million.

Anything less than that and we don't want it. That's what you said, isn't it?

But that's...

Rather than shutting us up with some chump change...

...we'd much rather die penniless like dogs!

All of us are resolved for that.

That's the spirit of the Kinumi people!

That's right! That's right!

Komikado-sensei.

We won't permit you to get off on your own like this.

It isn't like we knew you would go bankrupt.

We're the ones who hired you.

You will fight until you die in this battle!

500 million yen or nothing!

That's right! That's right!

The elderly are such a bother.

The only things you accomplished were the postwar renaissance and high growth.

In that case, this is my condition.

That until this case is settled...

...not a one of you can die.

Please let me contact Yaginuma Kana-san one more time.

What is the basis for your eagerness to speak to her?

My intuition.

Wrong answer.

She's a super-stoic woman in the research line who eats a bento by herself everyday...

...and who holds no dream of either a man or marriage.

Still, her fastidiousness is such that she can't be silent to injustice...

...and that crappy seriousness just might be inseparable to her.

Similar to you here and there. So that may be why you're feeling down.

That's right.

I'm very unwilling and this is the acme of humiliation, but this all hangs on you.

Believe in her good intentions and then break her!

Yes.

You guys just don't get it, do you?

The pride of those people who work for a company that carries the country on its shoulders.

You shouldn't sympathize with beggars who are only thinking of extorting from it.

They aren't beggars.

Anyhow, you can't prove a causality.

As a chemist, even you can say it's a fact that a health hazard HAS occurred in Kinumi.

Do you think nothing of that fact?

I don't think about it. Let go!

Isn't it because you're isolated within the company that you eat your bento in this park every day?

The truth is, you feel uneasy about Senba Chemical's structure, don't you?

I said to let go!

Don't joke around with me.

Don't joke around, I said!

They said it's stress-induced gastroenteritis.

I'm sorry.

How absurd. It was a waste calling for an ambulance.

I'm leaving.

Undergo a thorough examination.

Because you're a foolish beyond imagination person...

...with a satiety center such that you've been stuffing your mouth day after day...

...with the rice and vegetables you received from Kinumi as well as drinking Kinumi well water.

That's right, isn't it?

You who foresaw that the biggest issue in proving a pollution lawsuit is establishing causality...

...turned your own body into a laboratory test subject.

I thought if I got ill, that would be proof of causality.

Are you an idiot?

Yes, she's an idiot.

Undoubtedly, if we could get into Senba Chemical's 4th Factory's waste plant even once...

...we could get a heating process analysis done.

That would have been a little more preferable, wouldn't it?

We should use every means possible to win.

That's what Sensei taught me.

This was my way of doing that.

Even if I do get ill, since I'm young, I'll recover right away.

There are also illnesses that progress faster in younger people.

I'll get a postponement for the next round in court.

Have a detailed examination done immediately.

You're worried, aren't you?

Have the test results come out?

Not yet.

Mayuzumi-san.

The test results have come out. I'd like to have a talk with you about them.

Kana-san.

I don't mind if you're here.

She's my friend.

We'll hear it together.

Is that right.

Well then.

Mayuzumi-san.

I'd like you not to be shocked when you hear this.

When we examined you in detail...

...we found a tumor in your colon...

...so there's a high probability you have colorectal cancer.

It will require an additional detailed examination...

...but, well, since it was detected early...

We did it.

With this, the trial will turn in our favor.

Don't worry. It was detected super-early, so I'll recover.

Because I'll have to be hospitalized for a while, Sensei I'll have to leave the rest up to you.

Please win for sure.

Ah, this means I can join as one of the plaintiffs and get a solatium, too!

Pay the medical bills out of your own pocket.

Please make it worker's compensation.

I don't think...

...the flow of the trial will change because of this.

You were a child who...

...upon finding a 100 yen coin, wouldn't be satisfied until you reported it to a police box, weren't you?

Yes.

Me, too.

All this time...

...I've been holding onto a 100 yen coin.

I'll pass it on to you.

What is this?

As you can see, it is a copy of Senba Chemical's internal documents. It was treated as top secret.

"4th Factory Disposal Plant Workers A Report on Health Hazards"

In summary, of the workers who were working at the 4th factory disposal plant...

...several of them have been complaining their physical health was bad from an unknown origin...

...and they were obliged to take long rests.

The results of the internal investigation...

...showed chemicals released during the manufacturing process of Carbon X were the probable cause.

This is that report.

Where did you get this?

Wherever is fine. Senba Chemical was aware that Helmut 38 caused damage to people's health.

This is irrefutable evidence of that.

The point of our argument is that without chemical corroboration...

The "chemistry" is irrelevant. The problem is that Senba Chemical was concealing this fact.

This is just a stale, forged document.

When you show it to their President, you'll know, won't you?

I can't put such a black market document in front of their President.

Well then, let's have all the people other than the President see it, shall we?

Of course we'll also submit it to the court.

I'll prove that's a fake.

Since big media outlets would jump all over this, I couldn't keep it quiet from them, now could I?

I'm looking forward to our next round in court.

Me, too.

Please inform President Ikebe of this.

Compensation of 500 million yen and stop all operations until safety concerns are satisfied.

There will be no compromise other than that. This is the elderly people of Kinumi's kindness!

If he can't swallow that, be prepared to battle until the end.

Even if those old people run out of strength and the last one dies...

...there will be always be someone who picks up their bones and follows them.

Resolve yourselves!

That is all.

This is what's called the settlement report and a check for 500 million yen!

Yeah!

Sensei, thank you!

Are you going to make a Contact Center, Building 2 with this?

Don't joke.

This time around we'll restore the land...

...and revive the Kinumi industries!

We'll work and work and work until we die! Right everyone!

En'ya kora dokkoi se Pack it up, heave-hoh

Dokkoi korakora yoi yoi Heave-ho, here, there, yoi yoi

En'ya kora dokkoi se Pack it up, heave-hoh

Untoko seeno sassa With a grunt, one-two, quickly

What is this song?

This is all thanks to you, Kana-san. Truly, thank you very much.

We'll keep it confidential that you were the source of the leaked info.

Still, this was because I didn't say anything. I should be exposed right away.

Yeah. I should be revealed already.

Kana-san.

It's okay, even if I am fired.

Because someone like me will be in demand everywhere.

More importantly, you should do your best.

You must definitely never lose to your cancer.

You must definitely overcome it.

Yes. I'll do my best!

So long.

Sensei.

Fool.

You really are a fool.

Sensei!

Mayuzumi-kun! They said your test results were a mis-diagnosis!

Mis-diagnosis?

It wasn't cancer. It genuinely was just gastroenteritis.

It's totally difficult to forgive such an error but even noted doctors can mis-diagnosis. Can't be helped.

Well anyhow, you're in fine health. Thank goodness, thank goodness!

Sensei. Don't tell me...

Huh? I was just providing some backup for your "risk-my-life" strategy.

While I was watching my life pass before me like a revolving lantern you were...

And what I told my parents...

You are the superhuman-strength stupid woman...

...who doesn't catch a single cold and who, even if she foolishly ate all the crops in Kinumi...

...wouldn't under any circumstances get cancer.

Now, hurry and leave the hospital! We have to have a victory celebration tonight!

I'm sorry.

I couldn't avenge you.

I'm sorry...

...Saori.

Saori...

I'm sorry.

Saori!

Sensei.

It was thus that I won the 500 million yen settlement!

My contingency fee was 150 million yen! ($1.8 million) How about that, Ranmaru-kun?

Incredible! Just like you, Sensei!

The majority of my debt repayments have vanished...

...and my house is as it was and my cars and cruisers replaced with new ones!

Still Sensei, you didn't lose!

I really didn't lose!

There are those who foolishly wish to defeat me, but no one can defeat me, right!

I'm too strong and those who call themselves my enemy are ineffective.

I now fully understand Darvish's feelings in migrating to America. (Yu Darvish - Japanese baseball pitcher now with the Texas Rangers)

Well, well, Mayuzumi-sensei.

Welcome back.

Machiko-chan. Welcome back.

Mayuzumi-kun. You're late, aren't you!

Now, drink up. All you've had is polluted foods from the country, so you must be tired of them.

Feast heartily upon Hattori-san's dishes!

Is there something the matter?

- Komikado-sensei. - Huh?

You have been very kind to me until now.

I...

...will be leaving this firm as of today.

Why?

She can't stand that I had tricked her.

You're wrong.

What I can't stand is...

...the tactics Sensei is willing to resort to.

Will you return to Miki's firm?

No. I will try it on my own.

What about the debt you still owe me?

Of course I will continue to repay that from here on.

In that case, it's fine. Feel free to go anywhere.

Ranmaru-kun. Good luck on your path to being an actor.

Contact me anytime if you need some work done.

Hattori-san.

I really...

...and truly thank you for everything.

Just as you said, even if I thought I was being tricked, I was glad I came.

Did you find it?

The something you said...

...you were looking for to believe in.

There is one thing I understand.

Yes?

I can't be like Komikado-sensei.

Obviously.

It's not necessary for me to be like that.

I will absolutely never become a lawyer like Sensei.

From here on... I will follow my own path.

Mayuzumi-sensei.

I wish you great happiness.

The next time we meet, I will defeat you.

As ever, her only point of praise is her sense for redundant phrases.

I'll knock you out.

Didn't you grow even one bit?

Not like Sensei's skill with the violin.

Thank you very much.

You're welcome, asadora heroine.

You piece-of-junk tadpole you.

You drunken frenzy, tone-deaf fool and Kanitou Village's "Anne of Green Gables" pervert goddess.

At last we have quiet.

Just you wait, Komikado!

In the end, she didn't fix those bowlegs of hers!

"Legal High To Be Continued"

"The Fight Isn't Over Yet!"

"A Large Corporation's Retaliation Personnel!"

"The Plaintiff is Unjustly Dismissed?!"

"The Final Episode is Komikado vs. Mayuzumi"

"And, All the Mysteries..."

"...Will All Be Cleared Up Now!"

"The Truth is Always a Comedy!!"