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A Splendid Family Chapter 8

June 1968

Before Keisuke-san passed away, he once said to me.

Some time in the future,

perhaps the day will come Teppei

has to fight against his father Daisuke.

If such a day ever comes,

I want you to convey this to Teppei...

that he should pass through his own road,

the road in which he puts his belief.

That's what Keisuke-san said.

And why Keisuke-san said such a thing...

it was because...

Teppei-san's real father is......

Manpyo Keisuke-san,

I think.

He's wondering if Okami's letter was the truth,

then was he the child born from Grandfather Keisuke

and his mother Yasuko?

Teppei's blood type was A,

while Yasuko's blood type was O.

If Keisuke's blood type was B or O,

It would be proven that Keisuke was not his father.

In order to confirm the truth,

Teppei went to the Manpyo Family's usual hospital.

Ashiya Daiichi Hospital

I'm sorry to keep you waiting.

It's about the blood type of your Grandfather Manpyo Daisuke, isn't it?

Yes.

Keisuke-Sama's blood type is A.

In medical science,

if the child's blood type is A while the mother's blood type is O,

the father's blood type is restricted

to either A or AB.

Based on this,

both Grandfather Keisuke

and his father Daisuke whose blood type was AB

had an equal possibility to be his real father.

Hanshin Bank Headquarter

"Accident Management Committee"

A week later,

in order to discuss about the support of

Hanshin Tokushu Seiko from now on,

an Accident Management Committee *Sanei Bank, President Kusakabe*

was convened by The Association of Financing Banks *Itsuwa Shinyo Kinko, President Ugawa"

Please pass it around.

Let me start this meeting now.

The result of the financial investigation

which we carried out the other day

revealed a very serious problem.

Before the accident happened, Hanshin Tokushu Seiko is ...

already 2 billions yen

short of funds.

Wait a minute!

Before the accident happened, our bank and Hanshin Bank

already gave 2 billions yen each for the additional funds...

It is true that Daido Bank gave the 2 billions yen of additional funds, but...

Hanshin Bank did not give the funds.

What??

As a result,

it is Hanshin Bank giving 8 billions yen compared to Daido Bank

giving 9 billions yen...

in other words it resulted in an unusual situation where the amount of funds given by the sub bank is

higher than the amount given by the main bank.

It's impossible for such a stupid thing to happen!

We had confirmed that Hanshin Bank really transferred the 2 billions yen additional funds to our bank account!

Our bank too....we gave the 2 billions yen additional funds only AFTER we confirmed of that fact.

President Mikumo...

Could it be...

that you did not hear about it?

Because we feel that the plan for the blast furnace rush work is too reckless,

our bank had decided to withdraw the funds

so we had the additional funds of 2 billions yen returned to our bank.

Concerning this matter,

I have talked properly with Manager Zenidaka who's in charge of the accounting affairs,

therefore I thought it would be natural for him to convey about this matter.

I DID NOT hear anything about it!

And to fill up the gap

caused by the withdrawal of the additional funds,

Hanshin Tokushu Seiko

has been paying a high interest for the loan,

and by this only, a considerable amount of financial debt has been expanding.

What is this, Zenidaka-san??

What have you done to us, Zenidaka-san?!!

You know...

that it means you are paying a high interest!

It's something that is most abhored by banks!

Don't you know it??

Huh?

SAY SOMETHING!!

I am very sorry.

I thought that as long as the blast furnace could be completed in June,

we should be able to return the funds....

We will terminate our funding early,

I can't think of any reason to support your company.

Right?

Yes I agree!

We can't support you more than this!

President Manpyo!

As the President of the main bank,

how are you going to decide on this matter?

Isn't there no other way than to adapt to a renewal of your company?

Wait a minute! Are you saying that my company should declare bankruptcy?!!

Watanuki-kun!

Don't be so outspoken in this occasion!

Well...

I sympathize with president Manpyo...

Such a company like that...

I think the only way is to abandon it, isn't it?

WATANUKI-KUN!!!

Okay, okay I got it.

Just as Daisuke wished,

the meeting ended with an impression that the only path Hanshin Tokushu Seiko could take

was to decide on doing a renewal of the company.

And all the while,

Daisuke...

couldn't even once look straight into Teppei's eyes.

Why, Zenidaka-san??

You were sweating together with me to complete the blast furnace, WHY did you do this?

Although it's a matter of believing or not , Zenidaka-san, but during the whole meeting...

you kept searching for President Manpyo's facial expression.

No!

All of this happened because of what I did alone.

BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU DID,

Hanshin Tokushu Seiko's business operation is risking a failure!!

Can you bear the responsibilty on your shoulders alone??!

I am really sorry.

Teppei-kun.

Hai.

Now that each of the funding bank

refuses to give a support and

put the responsibility on Hanshin Bank,

I have to say this despite it's hard for me...

but what Manager Watanuki said earlier...

about requesting for a renewal of the company,

seems to be a necessary thing to do.

Mikumo-san...

Although it's a painful decision,

it's in order to save the sub-business from the worst situation.

As the President of Daido Bank,

whatever happens, I intend to support your company.

And one more thing...

You...

have a duty...

to make clear...

the truth concerning this incident.

Hai.

Mother,

how is Teppei Onisama doing?

Since the accident, he seems to hardly returns home.

Isn't it because he's feeling too ashamed to return home?

I heard it from Mima,

that thanks to the accident, you became extremely overjoyed because

Tsugiko agreed to get engaged, right?

Ichiko!

Araa, no...

the engagement is by her own will...

isn't it, Tsugiko-san?

Father.

Maybe it's time we have a drink over there?

Sure.

Ah in the day time,

we met President Yokoyama of Chuo Seitetsu at the banquet, didn't we?

He seems to have heard the rumor about Hanshin Tokushu Seiko,

and said: "We would certainly love to buy it."

"Let me see President Manpyo one of these days,"

that's what he said to me persistently.

Somehow in the steel industry,

they are now talking about which company

will buy Teppei-kun's techonology.

What do you mean by this?

Does Father mean to sell..

Teppei Onisama's company??!

Tsugiko.

The situation is pretty bad.

Selling Teppei-kun's company to some other company

is the only way to survive.

In that case,

then what did I get engaged for??!

Teppei Onisama...

From the very start, you have intended to sell my company, haven't you?

That's why you didn't lend us the additional fund,

with the intention of crashing my company.

Don't make such a silly speculation.

Why would a father want to crash

the company of his own son?

Yes, if Father...

were my real father,

you would not do such a thing.

Since I was small, I have been feeling this...

....that I was not loved by Father.

I wanted Father to also give me the same smiling face

which Father has always been giving Ginpei.

Since I was small...

until now, always...

always, always...

I have wished for that.

In my memory your smiling face does not exist.

Even if only once,

I wanted you to smile to me.

Please tell me the truth.

WHO is my real father?

I already made up my mind.

My real father is....

Manpyo Keisuke, right?

That's why Father...

found me disgusting since I was small.

That's why you want to make Hanshin Tokushu Seiko, which Grandfather ...

loved the most, disappear from this world, didn't you?

SHUT UP!!!

Do you seriously think that way?

You can't deceive me anymore.

Stop it, Teppei-san!!

Please....I ask you...stop it!

Mother!

Although it's painful for you, please tell me the truth!

You are...

the child I gave birth to.

What I am asking is about my FATHER!

YOU ARE MY SON!!

Mother!

For me now, it is necessary to know the truth.

Otherwise I won't know what to do in the future.

Since Mother has long been suffering about this matter, Mother should have known how I feel!!

STOP IT, TEPPEI!!

I am asking Mother, not asking you!!

I am the child...

conceived as a result of Mother..

and Grandfather's relationship, right?

Father?!

Father...what's wrong with you?

Father...what are you going to do??

Mother.

Forgive me!

Please forgive me.

Please forgive me...

I am sorry, Teppei-san...

I am sorry...

STOP IT!!

What are you apologizing for??!!

DON'T TOUCH HER!!!

I understand it well now.

I do not admit you as my father.

With this, I can fight you seriously now!

Fight, you said?

I will sue you!

You will sue me??

Are you in the right mind?

What are you going to sue me for?

Did you forget that while at the same time being the President of Hanshin Bank,

you are a Non-executive Board Director of Hanshin Tokushu Seiko?

Being a Board Director,

you have committed a disloyal act towards the company.

You must take responsibility for

the damage suffered!!

I....

will appeal to the Court and seriously FIGHT you!

Mother.

Excuse me!

Finally we learned..

of the ghost ...

who has been haunting this house.

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I can't stay in this house anymore.

Sanae.

I am really sorry to have made you marry into such a house like this.

I will soon become ..

penniless.

As for all the inheritance,

I have to use it to atone for the accident.

My life from now...

is only a time for that atonement.

I don't want you to live such a life.

Therefore...

Take Taro with you and return to your family.

I'm Manpyo Teppei's wife!

However starving it is,

whatever life it is I will follow you!

You have not done anything wrong, not even one.

Please be proud of yourself.

I am on your side.

Thank you.

Today I finally understand ...

why I am necessary to you.

But please rest your mind in peace,

unlike Yasuko-san,

I won't betray you.

Two days later,

Teppei left the house.

Is it alright for you not to see them off?

Up to now I have always been Father's accomplice...

what could I possibly say to Niisan now?

Father has undergone various sufferings as well..

After all...

you can only live under your Father's feet, can't you?

I'm thinking of....

leaving this house too.

Do as you wish.

You won't even try to stop me?

Being in such a place like this, why should I stop you?

It is better to release you quickly from this house,

so that you can be free.

They really left the house.

Aaa...

About the Court...

Will you really be alright?

I don't think he can do things that

will draw disgrace upon his family in society.

After this I will get rid of President Mikumo from Daido Bank,

The preparations concerning the merger of the small swallowing the big are all in order.

Then after taking care of the latest matters,

it will be a straight progress toward the goal.

The next day,

Teppei visited a lawyer friend, Kuraishi.

Manpyo.

Even if you win temporarily,

the possibility that you can win even only the damages

is very low, you know.

No, the problem is not the sum of money.

The real purpose of this trial is...

to investigate the truth, and to recover trust.

In order to rebuild my company, they are most important.

But Manpyo...

*Lawyer Kuraishi* (Close friend since High School)

But the way things are now,

we don't have any decisive factor to win in the trial.

At the present situation,

President Manpyo's judgement as a bankman

in withdrawing the fund using the excuse of the blast furnace rush work

is not wrong in any case.

Unless we have a decisive evidence

of President Manpyo ordering Manager Zenidaka

with the intention of causing Hanshin Tokushu Seiko

to go bankcrupt,

we can't do anything.

I will do anything within my power.

The first thing you have to do is to investigate the managing documents thoroughly.

I got it.

The father Daisuke,

through Mima's mediation,

visited the official residence of the Prime Minister. *Nagatacho, Tokyo*

The Prime Minister will come here soon.

Please wait for a while.

This is the later half of last year's documents from the accounting section.

Thanks.

If Minister Nagata allows me,

with the justification of removing the interference of The Bank of Japan,

the plan to realize the merger *Villa of Finance Minister Nagata in Hakone*

is already well prepared. *Villa of Finance Minister Nagata in Hakone*

But I wonder whether The Bank of Japan

will keep silent and allow this to happen.

When that happens,

Prime Minister Sahashi will help to keep it under control.

*Finance Minister Nagata*

Prime Minister Sahashi??

Actually...

my daughter is engaged to Prime Minister's nephew...

The Prime Minister said...

that the next term president,

would likely be Minister Nagata

for the most part.

You...

since the moment you abandoned Okawa Sensei,

you have intended to abandon your son too, haven't you?

You're really something!

Please don't be joking, Minister.

Look...

concerning the 9th-ranked Hanshin eating up the 5th-ranked Daido imbalance....

that imbalance...

do you think society will accept it?

Minister,

That Kurama Stone and Chichibu Stone are completely different in shape and color

therefore generally it's unthinkable to put them side by side together....

yet in reality, when they are combined together like that, unexpectedly....

they look attractive, don't they?

Isn't bank mergers...

the same as those stones?

No...

Two more big stones are still lacking.

I see.

Two more, isn't it...

Two more of the big one, isn't it?

2 oku yen. (1 oku = 100.000.000 yen)

So I should transfer the money straighaway to Minister Nagata's secret account, right?

- Please do it. - Hai!

The Minister ...his way of saying it was interesting and smart, wasn't it?

Watanuki-san.

With this, all the obstacles to our merger are buried away.

From now on, it depends on you.

Unless you also win the voice of the neutral faction

in addition to those of the original Daido faction, you can't win over the Bank of Japan faction

in the Board of Directors Meeting.

Please leave it up to me.

"Accounting" "Zenidaka"

Director....

Do you think we can really find...

a decisive evidence?

It's really a sad thing...

The factory which usually worked all through the night

now had no one working at this hour because of the production restriction.

In fact at this time the blast furnace would have been completed,

and we would have succeeded in our dream to enter the American market!

Father!

It's not a time to whine!

If we don't win in the trial,

we might be unable to make steel anymore here.

That's right. Sorry.

Here you are.

Loan Deposit List from January 1968 ~

Hmm, loan deposit list...

Why is it here in such a place?

1/10: 2 billions deposit received from Hanshin Bank 1/13: 2 billions deposit received from Daido Bank 1/31: 2 billions returned to Hanshin Bank

Got it!!

1/10: 2 billions deposit received from Hanshin Bank 1/13: 2 billions deposit received from Daido Bank 1/31: 2 billions returned to Hanshin Bank

Because we feel that the plan for the blast furnace rush work is too reckless,

our bank had decided to withdraw the funds

so we had the additional funds of 2 billions yen returned to our bank.

Director...

Ichinose-san!

Here it is!

The decisive evidence!

Hai!

Thank you.

Hai!

Excuse me now, I'll go home with this guest list of the politicians to be invited to

Tsugiko-san's wedding party.

You look really happy, don't you?

Yes, because his ambition

will soon become a reality.

Even if Hanshin Bank will be saved,

it doesn't mean that you will be saved as well, you know.

If the merging is successful, and Father receives attention from society,

The one to be most on his way would be you, his lover.

While you still can, it's better for you to spread the branches of your own keibatsu (=connection).

In the Manpyo Family,

we are similar, two people without a pedigree.

29th of June... *Hanshin Tokushu Seiko*

in Hanshin Tokushu Seiko,

they held a special Board of Directors Meeting.

Hanshin Tokushu Seiko decided...

to request for

a company renewal.

And next,

for the people who agree to file a suit ...

.... against Hanshin Bank, *President Ishikawa of Hanshin Tokushu Seiko*

please raise your hands.

Looking at the number of the ones who agree,

it is decided that we will file a suit to the Court.

*Kobe District Court*

The plaintiff is Hanshin Tokushu Seiko. *Kobe District Court*

The defendant is Hanshin Bank.

Umm, Manpyo...

Now I'm not speaking as a lawyer,

but speaking as your best friend.

Are you sure you won't regret this later?

If father and son fight in the Court,

the wind blowing from society will be stronger.

Your family will feel distress.

Unless someone...

fights with Manpyo Daisuke,

no one in the family can be free.

What??

Teppei filed a suit at the civil court??

Hai.

Contact Lawyer Soga!

Yes, Sir.

Zenidaka-kun,

You have gone through various things too, haven't you?

By the way...

you understand the matter discussed on that day, don't you?

Hai.

Concerning this matter,

I will make it something I did at my own discretion.

Our new bank will be standing on par with the four big banks,

The biggest enterprise in the country,

Teikoku Seitetsu, will also become much stronger in business.

I am thinking of some day

entering your name into the Board of Directors in Teikoku Seitetsu.

Hai.

Hanshin Tokushu Seiko and Hanshin Bank in a Court Battle.

After the Battle, A Large-Scale Bankruptcy

Ginpei.

Did you sleep in the office, Niisan?

Are you drunk?

When I heard that you really filed a suit,

who wouldn't want to drink?

And then you came here...

to persuade me not do it?

How could I possibly persuade Niisan?

There's no way I could possibly beat Niisan.

Although Niisan said...

that you wanted to be loved by Father the way he loves me,

I have always felt envious of Niisan's strength.

If there is anything I can beat Niisan,

that is only my being loved by Father.

There is nothing other than that.

But even so...

it doesn't mean that he acknolwdged my character nor my talent.

It's just because I'm his only real son, isn't it?

If it's Niisan...

perhaps you can surpass Father.

While working under Father,

somewhere in my heart I have always wished for Niisan to win...

but.....

why did you let that explosion accident happen?

Had Niisan won...

I had dreamed that I, Ichiko, Tsugiko, and Mother too...

would be released and could live FREE!!

Ginpei!

I am NOT defeated yet!

I'll show you I'll win!!

*Manpyo Father And Son Battling*

This is bad...

if it came so far as to an affair of the Court.

Are you saying that...

you won't agree with the Daido merger?

No, no...

I didn't say that.

Talking about having difficulties

in agreeing because of one's position,

well...it's this kind of situation.

Do you mean that if he wins at the Court, then there'd be no problem?

Winning is the least condition!

The point is...

how to win CLEANLY

Well, that's the problem.

Does it mean....

that unless Hanshin Bank strongly let society

know of its legitimacy at the Court,

he won't allow its merger with Daido Bank?

I think that's what he meant.

In any case,

in order not to hurt your image,

I think it's better if President doesn't get involved with this trial.

No..

if i do that, I won't be able to fulfill Minister Nagata's condition.

At a time when I am receiving critical comments such as: "Is he escaping from his son's company crisis?",

if again I am perceived as if escaping from the Court,

the impression will worsen instead.

So.....

I will accept the challenge!

President!

At the Court,

I will show my bank's uprightness to the world,

this is a one-and-only chance to reverse the criticism of society!

I will accept the challenge face to face!!

I will show that I can certainly win!

October 1968

The First Time Witness Examination

Stand up!

Bow!

And then...

the battle at the Court

between my father and me began.

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