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"We think it only natural."

"To be able to go half-way around the globe if we decide to."

"To be able to express our feelings at any time."

"That our ordinary, contented days will just go on and on."

"In a world that's forgotten what day and night are."

"However..."

"All of that was given to us."

"By all those caught in the battles of history..."

"Those who struggled in pain..."

"Who lost their lives..."

"And those who survived."

"Ours is the crystallization of hard won victories."

"That's why..."

"...we have to bring still more light."

"With..."

"...these hands..."

Heiwa Fansubs Presents

Episode 1: "The story of love and life beyond time and space finally starts! The needle of history begins to move again... People can't save only people"

"1864 (Genji 1) Summer"

"Two years have passed since I arrived here."

"In Tokyo of 2009,"

"I was a neurosurgeon who operated on an enigma of a man's brain."

"I removed a fetus-like tumor from him."

"For some reason, that man tried to run off with..."

"...both that tumor specimen and a package of emergency medications."

"On the emergency stairwell, that man and I struggled..."

"For some reason, I time-slipped back to the Edo era."

"And there..."

"My having saved one young man then became the trigger directly leading to..."

"...my meeting many other people in Edo while giving them medical treatment."

"Both the historical and the great..."

"Ancestors of those important to me..."

"And possibly other people, as well."

"Those people both saved and supported me..."

Oi! Can you stand?

Ow...

"Somehow, I'm able to live here as a doctor."

Please wait!

This is in thanks.

"However, I had a sudden thought."

"Would I be here forever?"

From here on, I...

...will try and make a future where your tumor can be cured.

"I had come up with my own way forward, but..."

"If that had been an act of God..."

"I could assume He had some plan for me..."

Number 18 is effective!

"What I was doing... would it fulfill that plan?"

"If that plan lies beyond my powers..."

"...would that mean I won't be able to go back?"

Will I see... the Meiji era? (1868-1912)

"For what reason was I brought here, I wonder?"

"Jinyu-do�" ("Jin's Friends Hall")

Minakata-sensei.

The retired owner of Matsuda-ya has a severe case of gout.

I'm going to visit him for a little while.

Please take care of him.

Saki-san, I've just returned.

Here.

Saki-san?

Ah, I am much obliged.

Welcome back, Minakata-sensei.

I'm back.

Ah, Fukuta-sensei went on a call earlier.

Jinyu-do� depends upon the income Fukuta-sensei's medicine brings in, doesn't it?

It's because ordinary people just don't think, "I'm ill, so I'll go see the doctor."

Not to mention if it involves surgery.

It'd be nicer if they felt more at ease about coming.

Well, it's tough getting people to change.

Especially when it comes to changing the world.

Ah, by the way, Sensei.

Is Saki-san feeling down about something?

I guess she is, isn't she?

Has anything happened, Saki-san?

No.

What am I doing?

Aren't you tired?

You work here at Jinyu-do, and after that you have the housework.

It is not like that.

Please take tomorrow off.

Ah, it's been awhile; why don't you go to your Tachibana home?

I...

...abandoned the engagement presents and have given myself up to being here...

Given its significance...

...I think it'd be best if you returned and apologized properly.

"Commit suicide!"

"Go for now. I'll do something about this afterwards."

Um...

In the future...

...is it possible to be able to run away from a betrothal match?

Well, I've heard of weddings having a Dotakyan. ("dotanba Kyanseru" "last-minute cancellation")

Do... Dotakyan?

My conduct...

...was something like a Dotakyan?

Ah...Ah... Yes, well...

In the future...

...will this "Dotakyan" still be difficult for family members to forgive?

Well, it depends upon the case.

My marriage partner was from a higher rank Shogunate vassal family than the Tachibana's...

...with the implication that he far outranks my brother.

How would it be in that case?

Well, that would make it a bit unpleasant...

Yeah, unpleasant.

If it is such a circumstance, then please forget all about this matter.

Ah...

"Kyoto"

"Sanjo-gawara" (a section in Kyoto�)

It's the Jyui-ha again. (an anti-foreigner faction)

Choshu, huh... (southern province of Japan, strongly anti-foreign)

This is bad. More trouble...

"Sakuma Shozan has been killed"

Fried dough cakes! Get your fried dough cakes!

One fried dough cake, please!

One fried dough cake, please!

One fried dough cake, please!

"Fried Dough Cake" Sure thing!

And? That's what she's worried over?

Saki-san told me to forget about it, but...

At this rate, it'll just keep bothering her.

That's no good, Sensei.

Tell her, "Saki-sama, accept it," properly.

Eh?

There's a rumor going 'round.

That the daughter of a samurai family has run away from home...

...and is living as a slut with a man under the same roof.

Is that right?!

Kyotaro-sama has had a Sashika as well.

Sashika?

It means he won't get calls from the castle.

But if after some time...

He'll be passed over and stay as he is his entire life.

Seems that affair has pulled him down.

I think the person whose betrothal presents were rejected reported it to his superiors.

You didn't know that, Sensei?

Minakata-sensei!

I knew nothing about all the troubles I've been giving you...

Sensei, you have no reason to apologize.

So long, Tachibana-sama.

Um...

Is Ei-san not feeling well?

It appears to be beriberi.

Beriberi?

You did not hear about it from Saki?

Did Saki-san come here?

About ten days ago, Saki suddenly appeared, wanting to have a talk.

"Brother, for her future life..."

"...please allow me one look at Mother."

"That would be impossible."

"In that case, Minakata-sensei..."

"No, please find another doctor for her."

"Please just ask her to accept an examination."

"I will not see her."

"Mother..."

"...you're being quite obstinate about this."

"That is for Saki..."

"Never again..."

"I can never again return here."

"I am ashamed."

"I should have conducted myself much better."

"I am the one who did wrong."

Mother will not even allow her to cross the threshold.

Saki has been turned away.

Saki-san didn't say one word of this...

She has been abandoned by our family.

It would be impossible for her to even whisper it.

Well then.

Kyotaro�-san, please wait.

Would you allow me to examine Ei-san?

Still, will my mother meet you...?

Please allow me to.

"In those days, what we know as Beriberi was then called the 'Edo Sickness.'"

"It was a very common disease."

"The cause is a deficiency of Vitamin B1..."

"...due to the people of Edo eating nothing but white rice."

"The source of the disease was the nutritionally poor side dishes they had."

"For a long time it was an epidemic of unknown cause..."

"...lasting well into the Meiji era."

"It was a disease which continued to claim huge numbers of casualties."

"The symptoms were first a numbness in the hands and feet..."

"...which made it difficult to stand..."

"...and led to a tendency to fall."

"The peripheral nerves became paralyzed..."

"...and, as it progressed, it would express itself in a shortness of breath."

"The pulse also quickens."

"In the worst case, beriberi induced heart failure."

"In other words, death due to heart failure."

"In this era..."

"...beriberi was a fatal disease."

Come in.

I haven't contacted you...

...in a long time.

Mother!

You are...

...a person like this defensive sword.

At the same time as it can be used to protect one's self...

...it can also be used to end one's life.

If you were not here...

...Kyotaro� would not have survived.

However...

...you also caused Saki to run away.

And thus Kyotaro�...

...had to meet the bitter misfortune of a Sashika, did he not?

I will accept only a medical examination.

You went to some pains to travel here, after all.

Thank you very much.

Excuse me.

Ei-san, have you been eating your meals?

The only cure for beriberi is a dietary one.

Please stop eating white rice for the time being and only eat brown rice.

And also please eat plenty of potatoes and beans.

Nerve paralysis has appeared and your pulse has quickened.

When beriberi causes a heart failure, your condition will turn unusual.

And, if left as is...

...you'll die.

I...

...no longer wish to live.

Ei-san...

...beriberi can be cured.

To do this intentionally would be a painful way to die...

Assuming I lived...

What sort of hope...

...would you say I would have from this point on?

So that Kyotaro� may reclaim our pride as a samurai family...

...shall the day come when Saki becomes a full-fledged daughter of a family?

Please leave.

The only cure for beriberi is a dietary one.

There's no choice but to try and get her to eat.

I think that may be beyond our power.

This is...

...my mother's punishment to me.

I have disgraced the Tachibana family.

She will punish me with her death.

In that case...

...I have no choice but to accept it, silently.

That's a little...

...wrong, isn't it?

Sensei, this may be something you cannot understand.

What we call family to us is...

It's not that.

Saki-san...

...aren't you also a doctor?

To say you'll just watch on silently while...

That's wrong, isn't it?

Should we make some sort of food for her...

...so that she does not realize...

...it is also good for beriberi?

Yes.

"Kobe; Naval Soldiers Training Center"

Oi!

It's somethin' truly remarkable!

Remarkable!

Would it possible for us...

...to take the Vitamin B1 from out of these foods...

...and then cook it into her meals?

I feel it must be possible.

I also think it'd be difficult to mix in these flavors and not have her notice though.

It would have been better if I hadn't told Ei-san...

...about food being good for beriberi.

We cannot help that she knows...

...but I think my Mother will now not take anything other than white rice.

Is it a thief?

Ruffian! Prepare yourself!

Yamada-sensei!

What are you...

I forgot I'd bought some fried dough cake in Edo today...

...so I dropped by to get it and tripped...

"Mother."

"What is it, Saki?"

Mother, as well...

She loves Edo fried dough cakes very much.

She would monopolize them and eat them all herself!

That's it.

Sweet things.

Sweet things!

That's a fake sayin'...

...Sanjo-gawara's Shozan-sensei was beheaded.

I'm reading right now.

The real one got saved by his disciples who shielded 'im...

...but he still gots 13 cuts on 'im.

He was seriously injured, however he's still alive somehow...

...so isn't there a doctor who can save him?

Why didn't you read that first!?

Still...

...he's alive, huh?

The one who 'kin save Shozan-sensei...

There's only one man, right?

What we'll be making as of today is... this.

What is that?

A drug specifically for beriberi.

With this, we can cure beriberi?!

They'll recover.

If they keep eating this, they'll surely recover.

And, what is the name of this medicine?

(Do� - Course, Na - Name, Tsu - Haven)

This medicine is...

...known as "Donatsu."

Donuts?

"Donatsu" (Donuts)

Well then...

I'd like to make them at once.

"We have to meet 3 conditions."

"It must be a food effective against beriberi."

"It must be a fried dough cake or other similar sweet."

"And it must be unusual."

What are you doing?

"Something Ei-san would pick up spontaneously."

In the future...

...do men also stand in the kitchen?

Well, it depends upon the person.

Sensei, did you used to do this as well?

No, not much.

Well then, how would you know of such a thing?

Ah...

We used to make them together.

Ah...

Ah, that is right.

"Once..."

"...there was a person important to me that I couldn't save."

"But by saving the person I thought was her ancestor..."

"...it may be she won't be born any longer."

I'm sorry.

There's nothing I can do thinking about it anymore.

As long as Nokaze-san is healthy, that's all that matters.

Ah, they've risen already.

"Yokohama"

As long as you're here...

"Study Room" ...our husbands are ready to run from us.

With someone like you around...

...too many men want to be at a place where an unmarried woman is.

They just get over-excited and that's no good.

I wishth only to teach children to read and write...

And that, that speech of yours.

I heard you were a famous courtesan in Yoshiwara, weren't you?

Hurry and move out.

"To Nokaze-sama, If you know of a suitable candidate for this, please use it From Nagaryu"

Nagaryu? (Dragon School)

Sakamoto-sama?

- What is this?! - It's delicious!

Delicious!

Fukuta-sensei, what is it?

Um, I was thinking how best to deliver this.

If she finds out this is from Jinyu-do�...

...Ei-sama won't want to eat it.

That's true, isn't it?

How about putting on a play for her?

Brother...

Would I be able to have a bite as well?

Please do so!

Will something like this truly work?

Let's trust in them and wait.

Truth is, the child from Daikichi-ya has something that looks delicious.

He said that it is a sweet.

It's a new sweet we've made at Daikichi-ya.

I have to say I made it, too.

I heard that the lady of the house knows quite a lot about pastries...

...so I thought I'd bring her a sample.

This is?

It seems they are calling them "donuts."

Go ahead, please eat them.

I wouldn't understand the flavor...

I am wrong for it.

Respect the feelings of the child.

Please.

Well then, just one bite.

Mother.

Eat just a little more...

I have had more than enough.

Kiichi-chan.

It was extremely delicious.

I am sorry.

Kii-chan?

My mother was cut down right around here, wasn't she?

I'm sorry.

I've made you remember.

I'll bring them again tomorrow!

Tomorrow and the day after, too!

I'll bring them until she eats them!

I don't want to see anyone else go away.

Thank you, Kii-chan.

I hope that it works.

I wonder if Mother has realized it?

Yes.

I wonder what we can do...

Eh?!

- What is it? - This is a hold-up!

Sensei.

Ryoma-san!

Abandon all hope, Sensei!

How's it going at the Naval Soldiers Training Center?

Oh...

We started last month.

Did'jya hear 'bout da incident of Aizu clan Shinsengumi members...

...raiding the Ikeda-ya Inn for Sonno-Joi? (those with a philosophy of revering the Emperor)

Yes. Somehow or other.

And they also struck us where our soldiers was training.

So that's where Sensei comes in.

I want ta bring ya ta Kyoto�.

To Kyoto�?

And there I want'cha ta personally treat someone.

Sakuma...

Shozan. (1811-1864; politician who pushed for modernization)

Sakuma...

Shozan-san...

That one?

Ya know 'im?

Sakuma Shozan-chou's a Dutch studies doctor...

...an authority in Western studies...

...and he's also an expert in gunnery...

...and our greatest scholar of the day.

I've learned a little off 'im meself...

...but he's a really incredible guy.

What illness does he have?

He was attacked in Sanjo-gawara and got hiself beheaded.

But...

...that's, well...

That story of 'im bein' beheaded's a fake.

The real one's hidden and bein' treated by his student doctors.

It's said he was on the verge of death from his injuries.

But it's also said he still lives.

You're asking me...

...to save this person?

Shozan-sensei was Katsu-sensei's master...

..and now he's da husband of his younger sister.

Kyoto�s dangerous...

...so Katsu-sensei wanted me to tell Minakata-sensei about this.

Deep down...

I think he wants ya to save 'im.

The only one who kin save 'im...

...is you, Sensei!

Could I have just a little time?

But Shozan-sensei could die...

...today or even tomorrow...

Truth is...

Ei-san has beriberi.

At any time, her heart...

Her heart and organs could stop if her condition changes.

So to leave her right now...

I see.

That's a problem...

I'm sorry.

Please, do not worry about my mother.

If it comes to it, I will wrench open her mouth and force her to eat them.

It's not just that.

Ryoma-san didn't mention it...

...but I believe this Shozan-sensei...

...is an extremely influential person.

I wonder if it's best to save such a person...

Wouldn't doing so cause a huge change in history?

Ah...

Maybe everything I've done so far...

...has already made changes to the future.

Maybe now's a little late to be worried about it.

Then...

Sensei, you are a doctor, are you not?

Just watching on silently while...

That is wrong, is it not?

Kyoto�, huh...

"Things to take to Kyoto�"

"Things to take to Kyoto�"

Let's hurry.

We are going to the Tachibana house.

If you would please.

Sensei.

What will we do about the penicillin?

Can it be transported in this heat?

Penicillin weakens in heat and humidity.

I have an idea about that.

Eh? You'll dry the penicillin?

Yes.

By holding it at this state in the paper chromatography...

...it isn't possible to keep penicillin effective for long.

So...

By not applying the heat when it reaches this point and only removing the water...

I think I can transport it...

...while being careful about humidity.

Still, our craftsmen'll be out starting tomorrow on holiday.

Ah, pay 'em double and tell 'em to dry it.

Understood.

If you would please.

Is this not just the same thing?

"Thus I had to leave for Kyoto�."

Sensei...

I have heard Kyoto� is in a tempest. Please be careful.

I will.

Well then, I'll be going.

'Kay, let's get goin'!

Yes!

"And, traveling in this era was quite harsh."

"Movement over land was by foot."

"And you also had to shoulder large bags."

Thank you very much.

I have this huge ship waitin' fer ya.

Go ahead.

Saki-san put some Anko on them, huh?. (red bean jam)

Well then, here's the "An-donut." Have one.

An-donut, huh...

"And the ship was a steamship."

"The amount of vibrations it had were beyond imagination..."

This is refreshin'.

Yes.

Ah, Ryoma-san.

Tell me about something.

Sure.

Who was it that attacked Shozan-sensei?

A Jyui-ha of mass killers...

...had declared a Tenchu on him... (divine punishment)

...but truth is, it was a pretense by the Matsushiro clan to cover the attack on Shozan-sensei...

...and frankly there's rumors the chief retainer's party's in on it, too.

Why's that?

Shozan-sensei's said to be a genius who "can see 100 years into the future."

"We have to become a country that can do the things Western countries can!"

"It's urgent we develop and cast artillery cannons and propagate them!"

But, it was that arrogance that made many people enemies of him.

"I think we should break apart the old schools now and appoint wise men!"

Actually, dyin' with wounds on yer back...

...is disgraceful fer a samurai...

...so the Sakuma mansion could be confiscated from 'im.

Then, what about this fake beheading?

In order fer the Matsushiro clan to put the Jyui-ha off the scent...

...they had ta feign that.

Shozan-sensei's an enthusiastic advocate for openin' up the country...

...and the Jyui-ha's are goin' 'round issuin' Tenchus and attackin' people.

So there's no suspicion he's still alive by doin' that.

The ones cuttin' down the Jyui-ha as traitors...

...are the Shinsengumi.

Truth is, the country right now's like brothers fightin' one another.

And over 'cross the sea...

...outrageous enemies are out there waitin'.

What's gonna happen ta this country?

"I couldn't remember all the details..."

"...but after this point Ryoma-san..."

"...would busy himself putting the country in order."

"And..."

"...without seeing the Meiji era, he would die an unnatural death.

"As long as Minakata Jin is there..."

"I, Sakamoto Ryoma, won't die!"

"I will save you."

"With my hands."

"But..."

"I wonder if I could do such a thing?"

"Would God..."

"...allow me to do that, I wonder?"

"Osaka, Nakanoshima" We've been waiting for you, Sakamoto-sama.

Sorry fer makin' ya wait.

This is the doctor.

Minakata-sensei.

"Shozan Follower Arikawa Kennosuke"

They are?

A company of Choshu.

The other day at Ikeda-ya, leaders of the Sonno-Joi faction were killed by the Shinsengumi...

...so they've lost their tempers.

These Choshu people, why are they being bullied?

The Choshu published principles of Sonno-Joi the Satsuma didn't find amusing...

...so they've set out to destroy them.

Are Satsuma and Choshu on those bad of terms with one another?

Like dogs and monkeys.

The result is the Choshu have been driven from Kyoto�...

...and their lord and his sons had punishment passed on them.

Since then the Choshu have been despised as traitors.

Kusaka Genzui asked that the lord and his sons be pardoned...

... and, as his repeated appeals simply piled up...

...it inevitably resulted in Ikeda-ya.

You could say that the Choshu just couldn't endure it any longer.

What are the Choshu intending to do?

Carry away the Emperor 'imself...

...and then have those of us with the government's army...

...be named with the disgrace of bein' traitors, then give up at once.

Eh? Are you sure about that?

Stop!

This man's a famous doctor.

In order to treat a person, he came expressly from Edo.

You...

Are you a Dutch studies doctor?

Yes.

Dutch studies doctors...

They're all traitors influenced by the West!

Get all their baggage!

Yes!

Wait! Please wait!

Please don't open those.

That's enough!

"Choshu Retainer: Kusaka Genzui" - Kusaka-dono...

"Penicillin kills the syphilis bacteria."

"It's possible to cure syphilis."

"How much to buy it?"

But, these people may be from the Shogunate.

I have met this person.

He has nothing to do with the Shogunate. He's just an eccentric doctor.

Yes sir.

I'll apologize for that time, Minakata-dono.

"Sensei!"

Penicillin is the medicine that will save this country.

That was ya then, Kusaka?

So why didn't ya...?

I was originally a doctor myself.

Sakamoto.

You were mistaken.

About what?

Hurry and go.

"Otokoyama Hachimangu Choshu army stronghold"

It's said Satsuma has arrived at the capital.

In addition to the Shogunate forces...

Aizu, Ogaki and Kuwana have also dispatched troops to Kyoto�.

The preparations by the enemies of Choshu to meet our advance has begun.

Even though we're afraid...

...at this rate we're just on our way to self-destruction.

At this stage, what is there to hesitate over making an advance?!

To dispel the crimes for which we are innocent, we have piled up many appeals.

If we start a war with our hand out like that, all of it will come to nothing.

Not to mention that we have 2,000 soldiers compared to the Shogunate's 20,000.

Even if we did fight, it would be a hopeless cause!

Then we should run if we can't win?

If we gain victory by invading the imperial palace...

...then we truly will be traitors!

What would a doctor-boy like you understand!?

"Kyoto�"

He's here.

I apologize for it being so narrow.

To escape the eyes of the enemy...

...we're sheltering him in this place.

Sensei...

Excuse me.

Is this something Sensei made?

I don't know. It's been something he's always worn since long ago.

What does this mean...

What are ya doin', Sensei?

Hurry and examine him.

Yes.

How is he?

Shozan-sensei has lost far too much blood.

He's in a hemorrhagic shock due to a loss of blood pressure. He's also unconscious.

DIC complicated by coagulopathy. (problem with the blood clotting)

Also his wounds have started to fester.

Um...

That he's even still alive given his condition could best be described as a miracle...

I'll do my best.

Please return the penicillin strips to the distilled water.

Yes.

"The materials this bag was made from weren't of this era."

"Its use was as the netting in modern-day medical treatments."

"If..."

"...he had made it himself..."

"Then he's a monster."

"If..."

"...he had obtained it from somewhere..."

"Then he and I are the same..."

"He's a person from the future."

"If that really is so..."

"...then I want to hear about it."

"Sakamoto."

"You were mistaken."

What have you been thinking about, living up to today?

This era...

...how was it reflected in your eyes?

"Choshu Army"

What is it...

...that I should be doing here?

"Genji 1, July 19th (1864)"

"Kyoto� Gosho Palace - In front of the Hamaguri-gomon"

Fire!

Kusaka!

Kusaka! Kusaka's me friend!

Where's me friend Kusaka?

Ow!

Damn!

Don't flinch! Don't flinch! Shoot!

Sa...

Satsuma!

Where's Kusaka-dono?

I want to be with 'im at the end!

Kusaka-dono...

...is at the Sakaicho palace gates.

But, given the situation...

...perhaps Takahashi-sama is making one final plea for the Emperor's favor.

Emperor, please!

Let go!

Insolent rebel!

That man was against this battle.

Kusaka!

Minakata-sensei!

Shozan-sensei's heart has stopped.

"Genzui"

Sensei!

Please move aside.

This is?

By applying and releasing pressure to the heart...

...he's trying to get it to start again.

Sakamoto...

What da hell do ya think yer doin'?!

Let go! What have you come to do?

Please lift his legs.

That will increase the blood going to his veins.

If you die here, what'll you do?!

Branded with the dishonor of being traitors...

Is that okay with you?!

Is this it for you?

Don't you have unfinished things waiting for you?!

Expel the foreigners!

To hell with that 'expel the foreigners' crap!

Was it your voice...

...that called me back?

Yes.

Leave us.

They truly believe in expelling the foreigners, so they're idiots!

Choshu's a bunch of idiots!

If so, why d'jya rush and take it this far fer?

I only wanted to make this country whole!

Japan is a target for foreign enemies.

In order to truly confront those foreign countries...

...we first have to make this country whole!

Without that, we can't confront them.

But...

...they haven't been thinking about this country!

The people of Choshu think that those from Tosa are like from a different country.

They need to get over that...

...and move off their one track mind of "imperial rule and expulsion of foreigners"!

This was to be the trigger to make it whole!

But Choshu...

...became too hot-tempered.

Fire! Fire is surrounding us!

Kusaka!

Let's go!

Kusaka!

Kusaka!

Sakamoto.

You were mistaken.

This country's future...

Kusaka!

Mom!

Did you come from the future?

Yes.

I went through an opening.

I was still about 10.

One day, I fell from a tree.

When I came to...

...there was a dazzling light coming from the ceiling.

People in white like westerners spoke to me.

That was the first time I'd seen an IV drip.

At first I didn't understand what was happening at all.

One day, I looked out a window.

There a vast, never-seen landscape stretched before me.

But...

...there was also the familiar mountain of home. That landscape hadn't changed.

I understood that this was the future in the same place.

Everything was a surprise.

I who was a curious lump...

"February 13th, 2010" ...tried to find out about everything.

But, after just a little while...

I fell down some stairs this time.

When I recovered consciousness, I was under the same tree.

I thought I had been having a dream.

But those clothes and the head net told me it hadn't been a dream.

So that I could draw nearer to the world I had seen so little of...

I tried to learn about everything...

...and broaden my thoughts.

I often didn't understand them.

I envy you.

Eh?

I wasn't able to make such a thing.

You...

...have a mountain of knowledge and skills.

You can foresee the future.

It's possible for you to save this country.

But...

Is that something I'm allowed to do?

It's as if I'm involving myself in history.

Don't you think that is the will of God?

In order to change history...

...is why you have been sent here.

You and I are different.

I'm just an ordinary...

You're afraid you'll change history.

Turn that inside out...

...and don't you think it may be it's your own history that you can change?

Have a greater confidence in yourself.

I'm different. I'm...

Spare me your complaining!

Let's flee, please. The fire is all around town and will be here soon.

Rather than me...

...carry out these tools and medicines.

- But... - Hurry up, you fools!

Yes.

If you intentionally don't do the things you should do...

...God will show no mercy and will cancel out what you've done!

God is not one to be taken lightly!

In that case...

...save them!

With that heart of yours...

Save them!

Save them!

"When I was back out on the streets of Kyoto� again..."

"...the world had changed."

"The world had been changed."

This morning, it seems the Choshu forces surrounded the imperial palace...

...and were met by the Shogunate army.

The Choshu were routed.

The Shogunate army then barricaded the Choshu lord's residence and set fire around it.

That's how this...

Sensei!

If you try to save one, the rest'll surge in and push them aside.

We only have a little penicillin left on hand.

Let's find a safe place somewhere so we can insure the treatments.

Sensei...

We'll just do what we can do.

If we just left, I couldn't face Shozan-sensei.

Yes.

- Go to a safe place. - Yes!

Ma'am, let me examine your child.

Okiku is...

I'm a doctor.

Can you save Okiku?

"Genzui"

Ya alive?

Oi, ya okay?

Hey, hey!

Oi! Oi!

Oi, hang in there!

"Choshu Retainer Higashi Shuusuke"

Ya okay?

Endure it a little longer.

It may be it's caused an infection.

Additional penicillin!

Yes.

Hang in there.

Sensei!

He's been shot.

Hurry and do somethin', Sensei.

His leg, his leg. This way.

Steady yerself.

There's a slight infection.

Endure it.

The bullet didn't pierce through.

It's just outside an artery though.

We'll take the bullet taken out immediately.

A Choshu who's escaped death!

Causing such a fuss was a bother!

- How shameless! - Shouldn't you be ashamed?!

Please wait a minute.

If I don't take it out now, you may develop gangrene.

Understand? It won't be just your leg, but your life...

I'm well prepared for death!

You... don't ya have a wife?

A woman ya like?

Sake ya like ta drink?

Isn't this enough?

Ain't there things ya've left undone?

Just one...

In that case...

...don't say such bad things.

If you would please.

- Please hold down his hands and feet firmly. - Yes.

Please endure it for a little while.

Okay, forceps.

It's over.

Wash out the wound with lots of distilled water. Then carefully disinfect it with alcohol.

- After that, some penicillin. - Yes!

What's being done here?

It's the Shinsengumi!

The Shinsengumi...

Seems a Choshu man ran in here.

You Shogunate dogs.

Please, please stop that.

Traitor!

Please don't!

The bullet...

...it just flew out accidentally.

It was just an accidental shot.

Here, look.

So scary.

After him!

Sensei.

Who was that person?

A man from Tosa called Sakamoto Ryoma.

Tosa's...

...Sakamoto.

Minakata-sensei. We have more penicillin.

A new batch by local craftsmen who just returned with it.

Check the condition of each disease and use it with discretion.

Hang in there.

You'll be saved.

I'm indebted to you for doing such a thing.

But Sensei, this really is the last of it.

The last, huh...

I don't know what the reason behind what you're fighting is...

...but as long as they are here, these are my patients.

Killing one another...

You're wrong!

We have business here.

Huh?

Our General's life. We want you to cure him.

I can't leave here just now...

I have lots of patients who need to be cured.

The one we want you to cure is an important personage in the Shogunate army.

Don't compare him to people like these.

Come with us!

Please let me go! Let me go!

It's essential I be here to save them...

Let go!

Please wait! Where are you taking Sensei!?

Let go!

Let me go!

Minakata-sensei!

Your patient is waiting here for you.

Please return me. There are other doctors...

This is...

"Shinsengumi General Kondo Isami"

...the garrison supreme command in the role of the imperial court guard viceroy.

Hitotsubashi Chunagon-sama himself directly requested you. (The next and final Shogun: Tokugawa Yoshinobu)

Feel grateful!

But I'm...

What are you doing? Please let go of me.

Go!

Yer the one...

...who uses that miracle medicine in Kahara.

Ya be some doctor?

I'm very sorry.

I need to return to Kahara and...

Excuse me fer my appearance.

I'm... Satsuma's Saigo Kichinosuke. (1828-1877, one of the more influential samurai of Japanese history)

I'm called Oshima right now.

Saigo�...

...Takamori-san?

Lord!

Ever since the evening of the day before yesterday, he's had stomach nausea...

...and the pain hasn't lessened.

After fighting and burning and winning a victory over the Choshu...

...now at last, when his plans were all set, he can't get them done.

Worried, we sent a request to Hitotsubashi Chunagon-san...

...but he said to use the unusual medicines of the doctor at Kahara.

Given these circumstances and his need for examination...

...the Lord here gave us the order.

Saigo�-san, huh?

You commanded this battle?

The Choshu traitors had to be crushed.

It was a splendid battle.

It wasn't necessary to set that fire...

Enough! Hurry and examine him!

Yes.

I thank ya.

It's an appendicitis.

Appendicitis?!

A section at the end of the abdomen's intestines known as the appendix has become inflamed.

That inflammation further stimulates the peritoneum, which then causes peritonitis.

If left as is...

...it will certainly lead to his death.

I've never heard of such a disease.

Kin ya do somethin' so I kin recover?

By an operation...

...cutting open your abdomen.

My belly?

Are you saying you'll cut open his belly?!

Oshima-dono!

You're planning something strange to Oshima-dono so you can cut off his head!

You're an assassin sent in by the Choshu!

I was brought here by force by you guys...

All of ya!

Don't be rude!

Sensei...

...though I put ya ta all this bother...

...I can't let ya cut open my belly fer that operation.

It's so the morale of me troops don't fall.

I'll let Hitotsubashi Chunagon-sama...

...know about it.

Go ahead and take yer leave.

Well then.

I will do that.

We'd better warm his body.

Which is it, chill or warm the stomach?

Oh, that's right. Wait.

First we should warm the legs to warm the person.

- From the chest, isn't it? - From the legs.

Which is it... Which is it?

"Save them!"

Let me cut him.

Let me open his stomach!

What was that?!

We have no intention of letting you touch him!

What I've been curing...

...is the burns on people from the fire you guys started!

You guys don't care what happens to the people!

But I can't do the same things you guys do!

Rather than wasting my time saving guys who selfishly start battles and burn towns and fields...

I'd rather help the children who have been burned.

What was that?!

But, right here and right now...

Saigo�-san.

If I let you die without helping...

...I would become the same as you guys.

I'm not someone who discriminates against life!

So somehow...

Please allow me save you!

For my sake...

Please allow me to save you!

Even if I'm not saved...

...the Sensei's not ta be meddled with!

Sensei.

Please...

I ask ya ta do this.

Yes.

"Though I have no ear for history..."

"...I do know Saigo� Takamori..."

"...was a leading figure in the Meiji Restoration."

"Yamada-sensei"

"Penicillin"

Wouldn't that be the last of the penicillin?

If Sensei says it's essential, then...

"If this operation fails..."

"...would the history of Japan change?"

"But, thinking about it another way."

"If I wasn't here..."

"...would this person even have had his illness?"

"Is this incident some contrivance of God's?"

"Is He using me to change something?"

I've finished administering the anesthesia.

"Still, but, for right now..."

I'll begin.

At the center of the pressure point is where I'll cross cut.

Yes.

I will cut through the external oblique muscles and aponeurosis (tendon membrane).

Yes.

The straight pean forceps.

What is that?

I'll exclude the omental and small intestine. (peritoneum hanging down from the stomach)

Is it this cord that's free?

The source of the inflamed appendix is at this convergence point.

The wind's changed! The fire's surrounding us!

Our target's that wicked traitor...

...the Satsuma leader, Saigo's neck!

The pus...

It's a perforated peritonitis.

The inflammation of the appendix is to the point where it's adhered itself to the abdominal wall.

I'll use my index finger to peel it off.

What's that?

Just who are you guys?!

That's Saigo� there!

I'm performing an operation!

Please get out!

My eyes...

My eyes!

Villain! Yer villains!

You Satsuma rebels!

Allowing them to slip into the mansion like this!

What a disgrace! Make amends!

Minakata-sensei.

Minakata-sensei!

The patient'll die!

We should be going already, Sensei.

Oi, here, here.

Use this.

Thank you very much.

Not at all.

Sensei!

Ever since ya was taken ta the Satsuma mansion, I been wonderin' what happened ta ya.

What happened?

Where's that Choshu man?

One of his comrades came and he left with them.

In that condition?

Nennena saresamase Sleep, sleep my precious

Wait, not yet...

The penicillin was all gone.

There was nothing we could do...

I'm very sorry!

Truth is, I took the last of the penicillin over to Satsuma.

"Then, for the next few days after that..."

"I continued seeing the patients off."

"I was powerless."

"This was the history God had chosen before..."

"...so why had I been brought here?"

"For what reason am I here?"

"To this era."

"Oh cuckoo..."

"...whose cries come from the land of Ariake..."

"You know more of the people of the moon than you do of the earth"

It's Kusaka's death poem.

"My voice, which I thought of as my hometown..."

"...did not reach anyone."

That's what it's 'bout.

I did listen to Kusaka's voice.

Um, Sensei.

I don't think there's just one way...

...to repay their deaths, right?

I've been... born again.

And havin' done so, I should be thinkin' 'bout da country.

Don't ya think so?

"But..."

"Ryoma-san too, as well..."

"...halfway through his ambitions, would have death approach."

"In the not-too-distant future."

"If he knew his destiny..."

"...Ryoma-san might be able to avoid it."

Ryoma-san...

...you'll be running around trying to make the country whole from here on, right?

Oh?

Yeah.

But...

Along the way...

...a dark...

Ah, Sensei!

"Return to that world..."

"Is this also the will of God?"

"In that case, I..."

"Will I have no choice but to keep seeing them off?"

"The deaths of those important to me."

Oi, Sensei!

Saki-san.

This hair...

"God decides who dies."

Ei-san.

"Ei-san..."

A dream, huh...

Have you regained consciousness?

I'm sorry.

How's Sensei doin'?

Oh, oh, Sensei!

We've arrived in Edo.

Minakata-sensei!

It can't be...

It has been awhile.

This time you are...

Thank goodness.

Thank goodness!

This is something you thought up, is it not, Sensei?

I understood that at the first bite.

Because it had Saki's flavor in it.

Then why did you eat it?

I thought he would do something to make me eat it in any event.

Kiichi-chan...

He would come here day after day after day.

I felt there was nothing I could do for him.

He explained it to me in all honesty.

I... did not want to live any longer.

Thereupon...

Kiichi-chan...

"Lady of the house, it was the same for me."

"When my mother died..."

"I also had the Korori (cholera) and thought, 'it would be best if I wasn't saved.'"

"It would be bad for Sensei..."

"...but it would've been better if I'd died."

"But, lots of good things came from it."

"I am not young the way you are, Kiichi-chan."

"There's still LOTS of things that can be changed."

"After penicillin was made..."

"...those who were cured from diseases increased."

"This time we made a snack that works against beriberi."

"Since Minakata-sensei came to Edo, so many things have changed."

"So I'm sure change will keep coming from here on, too."

"Saki-sama might laugh at me..."

"...but I feel sure that Saki-sama will become Edo's first woman doctor."

"I think having women doctors would be a wonderful thing."

"And um... let's see..."

"I'm sure the day will come when the lady of the house will smile!"

"I'm sure Minakata-sensei will make that happen."

"God only gives us challenges that we can overcome."

"But... you aren't smiling."

"If you die, that's no good."

"If you're not alive, you can't smile!"

"Itadakimasu."

"It is delicious."

I...

...was saved by that child.

Me, too.

How's that thing about Saki?

She knows that our mother has recovered, but she still will not see her...

Um...

I will not forgive you if you lose, Saki!

How you walk through life is like a battle, is it not?

However...

...the one who chose it was you.

Even if you disgrace the family of Tachibana...

...this is the path you have chosen.

In that case...

...win.

For the sake of the Tachibana family...

...and for the sake of other young women in this world...

...who choose similar ways of life.

Open the path!

I will watch you from here.

I will not forgive you if you fail!

I will look forward to it.

Saki.

"Acts that God allows."

"Acts that God doesn't allow."

"What the difference is between them, I just don't know."

"However..."

"...there is one thing I am certain of."

"If I stopped this hand..."

"...you could say that nothing will change."

"The Tachibana family's name can be cleared."

"And Ryoma-san's fate can be changed, as well."

This is...

"Heisei 22." (2010)

Is that the one from that time?

No.

I got this from that person.

Well then...

...was that person in that time as well?

I don't know.

But...

I think our meeting was a destined one.

God's plan...

"Save them!"

"In that case..."

"From my heart..."

"I will first rescue the city of Edo from the beriberi."

"Dai-Kichiya, a Jinyu-do idea An-donuts"

Our famous an-donuts!

An-donuts!

Made by Jinyu-do�...

...good for your health and effective against beriberi.

"Jinyu-do�" He also examines those with other than beriberi.

All his medicines seem to be snacks.

The an-donuts are doing well, aren't they?

Sensei, are you going somewhere?

I'm going over to Matsumoto-sensei's place for a bit.

Oh.

So long then.

Well then, I'll leave the rest to you.

"But at that time, I still didn't know."

"That those an-donuts would give rise to an incident."

- So long and take care. - Thank you very much.

Stop!

Genken-sama. (Taki Genken, 1824-1876, Shogunate medical officer)

It's been awhile...

...Genkou.

"And that..."

"...it would lead to Jinyu-do's greatest crisis."

- Where did he go? - Look over there!

Yes, hang in there.

You will be okay soon.

"God's..."

"...great scheme."

"The whirlpool of intrigue over an-donuts"

"The needle of history begins to move again"

"The Shogun's wife and Jin"

"A crisis pays a call on Jinyu-do�"

"For who's sake is it?"

"Unreachable feelings"

"A Fated Reunion"

"And, to the future"

"This drama is fictional"