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Wait!

Don't do this, Hazama!

In 1967, the world was stunned by news of an astonishing achievement:

the first heart transplant was a success.

Yabu-san, you can't be serious.

You don't mean to interfere?

But the patient died soon after.

Though several other heart transplant cases followed,

the rejection of the transplanted organ was acute,

presenting a new challenge to the medical community.

But you know this now...

You know that this will be murder!

Black Jack

Young

Episode 2: Abduction

What the...

That must've been isoflurane.

So you're finally awake.

Tachiiri?

Abduction is a bit extreme, wouldn't you say?

You have no right to complain.

You're 300 million in debt with me.

Th-Three hundred million?!

Hazama, you never told me you were that deep in debt!

Yabu-san?!

Why are you here?

You know I have debt, don't you?

I got a call to pay up,

so I went with the 50 grand you gave me, and here I am.

Hey!

What do you plan to do with us?!

Right!

This is going way too far for just a little cash!

Let us out of here now!

Quiet, please!

I had all of you gather here today

to propose a wonderful plan that will clear your debt.

C-Clear our debt? For real?

It's nothing shady, is it?

Eh, I just need you guys to provide an organ.

Organ?!

I hear you can still live a normal life even if you lose some.

Sure, if that'd clear my debt,

I'd be happy to give one to ya.

All right, I'll do it!

No, I will!

And which organ are we talking about?

The heart.

I figured as much.

You bastard!

You want to kill us?!

That's harsh.

Well, it'd be inconvenient to not have a heart,

so I'll swap in a heart from a person of means.

In other words, it'd be an exchange.

D-Don't take us to be fools!

Why would we want a bad heart?

Well, keep an eye out for your medical examination results.

Everyone's being a poor sport about this.

You reap what you sow.

Look at you being so calm and collected.

Are you high on something?

No, just thinking it may be my time to pay up.

I survived the war for no reason at all,

and now I'm just a drug addict.

I'm even using the hospital Dad left me as collateral.

What's the point of someone like me going on living?

More to the point,

I had no idea you were 300 million in debt.

How'd you end up with that on your plate?

It was to save a life.

It didn't work out in the end, though.

I see.

You're not like me, after all.

Damn it all!

How long are they gonna make us wait?!

The hell'd he mean by an "examination", anyway?

He was talking about donor screening.

You can't just use anyone's organs in a transplant.

So if I don't pass the screening, I'll live?

I hope I won't be a match!

I don't wanna die!

Well, happy day!

It's very difficult to find even one match,

but we found two!

What a miracle!

So, one of the lucky winners is...

Hazama-kun!

Hazama!

And the other one is... Raymond-kun!

So, the rest of you go home!

If you don't want this to happen ever again,

get your shit together and pay up!

So, we'll decide who'll actually give up his heart at a suitable time, but...

And who's going to actually do a live donor transplant, huh?

Last December, Dr. Barnard from South Africa

performed the first successful heart transplant,

but the patient only lived for eighteen days.

There has been several other cases this year,

but it's said that patients can only hope to live several months at most.

Besides, there aren't any hospitals or doctors in Japan

capable of performing that operation.

Not out in the public, no,

but there is always a black market in any society.

As long as you can shell out the big bucks,

there will be doctors who'll take on any transplant surgery!

And one doctor exists who's been rewriting the record

for how long a heart transplant patient survives!

That's impossible!

I've never heard of anyone like that!

That's why I say it's the black market.

Doctor Joker... that's what people in our trade call him.

Doctor Joker...

He is here.

Well, well.

I'm honored by your presence.

This is the man who'll receive the heart transplant.

He is the founder of the Kyuukoku sect,

Kaneyama Tamezou-sama.

He wanted to meet the one who'll provide him with a heart.

So he's the one:

a greedy money grubber who thinks he can get anything he wants with money!

How dare you talk to him in that way?

This man is...

I'd thought that it would be impossible to buy life with money.

I didn't believe there'd be anyone who'd throw away their own life for money,

but there was indeed.

There are those who'd sell their life for money!

I'll give you as much money as you want!

Take it!

Take it!

Take it and die!

I choose you.

Your eyes are rebellious, but they're full of life.

I like that!

I'll take your heart!

Don't!

That's going too far!

Yabu-san...

No matter what,

you have no right to rob a promising young man of his bright future!

Silence!

Who is this man?

They know each other.

Then let him see the end of a man who sold his life for money.

Sir!

Take him to his bed.

Yabu-san, why did you come back?

I couldn't leave you behind, of course.

Our founder's condition has turned for the worse.

When will Dr. Joker be here?

Don't rush this.

We have no time left to lose!

Hey, out of the way!

What is it?

Well...

What?!

He went underground?

A-Apparently there was a tip-off,

and he's up and gone to hide from Interpol for the time being.

We've lost contact with him.

Dr. Joker can't come!

Well, shit!

There goes 300 million!

Shit!

Guess this is it, Tachiiri-san.

There's no point in keeping us here any longer.

It's time to let us go.

Guess you get to keep your life, Hazama.

It's time to go!

You think you can end this here?

What?

We trusted you.

We're waiting for our founder's recovery.

If he does not even undergo surgery

and passes away...

The members of this sect shall never forgive you!

B-But there's no doctor.

Please find another one, now!

Find a doctor capable of doing the transplant. Make it happen.

You must save our founder!

Hazama!

You do it!

What?!

You do the transplant!

Young Black Jack

Young Black Jack

Though a student,

he managed to reattach the arm and leg of a boy

that even hotshot Professor Hongoshi, of the surgery department, gave up on!

He's a genius!

Is what he said true?

Huh?

Well, uh...

Did this man really save that boy?

That's what we're asking!

Y-Yes...

Thank goodness there were two qualified donors.

You'll do the procedure.

Hazama, this is your chance!

You can perform the first heart transplant in Japan!

Wh-What gives you the right to decide that?

A live donor heart transplant?

That's no small feat!

Who do you think Hazama is?

Please do it!

Please use my heart to do the transplant.

That's why I'm here in the first place.

I desperately need the money!

Please!

Do the surgery!

Back in my home country,

people have lost their jobs because of rapid industrialization.

They spend their days picking through trash.

Then my daughter was diagnosed with leukemia.

I entered Japan illegally to earn money for her treatment,

but I couldn't find any decent jobs.

That's when I heard that I could earn a hundred million if I give up an organ!

I thought that was God reaching out to save me.

With that amount, I can save my daughter.

If it'd cost me my life, so be it!

Please!

Please do the surgery!

Please save my daughter!

Me, perform a heart transplant?

It's akin to an act of God: transferring life itself.

To perform that feat by my own hand?

Well, how about it, Hazama?

Will you place your bets on granting this man's wish and saving everyone here,

or instead do nothing and be killed like an animal?

Killed like an animal? You're in the same boat.

What?

I'll check on the patient's status.

The patient file, Dr. Joker's instructions...

Everything you need is here.

Let me see a contrast radiography of his coronary.

Hazama, don't do it!

Don't do the surgery!

Hazama!

Acute ischemic heart disease...

Stenosis in the right coronary artery has inhibited blood flow to the cardiac muscle.

The heart itself is on the verge of necrosis.

Huh?

Make him stop?

Please!

Make him stop the operation!

No way!

My own life's on the line here!

The heart transplant itself is not an impossible procedure.

The actual issue at hand is the transplant rejection.

He'll do it.

After all, he's just dying for a chance to operate.

Don't do this!

If you do this,

you'll never be able to go back to legitimate practice again, Hazama!

HLA compatibility check,

evaluation of cachexia,

thorough pre-transplant screening,

plus a massive dose of steroids and immunosuppressants...

So this is Dr. Joker's prescription.

Well?

Can you do it?

Dr. Joker's assessment was perfect.

His prescribed treatment should prevent any rejection.

Hazama!

Well, I figured you'd say that.

I'll need 50 million for the operation.

What?!

You're taking a kickback anyway, aren't you?

Asshole!

Don't get ahead of yourself!

So you don't need me?

You might die here if I don't do the surgery.

Damn it!

Fine, I'll pay it!

You bastard!

Ow!

Oww...

Thank you.

I can save my daughter now.

I'm going to put you under now.

Any final words?

Will you make sure the money reaches my family... my daughter?

Please.

I will.

He's under now.

I'll now start the operation.

Hazama!

Don't do this, Hazama!

Yabu-san, you can't be serious.

You don't mean to interfere?

I know you.

There will come a time when you will do operations like this.

But you know this now...

You know that this will be murder!

No!

This man made a choice to give up his life to save his sick daughter!

He was prepared to give up his heart long ago!

I can tell!

Some people are willing to give up even their life to get what they want.

That's why I have to do this surgery: it's for his sake, too!

That's a lie!

That's not what you really think.

Just look at him.

Do you really believe he wants to give up his life?

There's no chance in Hell that he does.

He just had no choice.

He's only throwing his life away because he doesn't have any other choice!

24 years ago, on the New Guinea front lines

as a freshly minted medic,

I saw a lot of my war buddies throw their lives away "for their country."

Yabu, help me.

Help me...

I'm sorry.

I don't have any meds or anesthetics left.

Then please kill me.

Please kill me now!

Kill me!

No!

Kill me...

No one really wants to die.

They only wish for death because they have no recourse.

You're aiming to be a doctor to save lives

because you survived and got a second chance yourself, aren't you?

Are you actually going to kill a man for a villain like him, Hazama?

Hazama, you can't turn out like me.

You have wonderful talent I can never hope to have.

You can't let it be used for evil.

Shit!

Is he in cardiac arrest?!

Paddles!

It's not working!

Shock him again!

O-Okay...

3, 2, 1...

Ready.

Again!

Ready!

I'll start the operation.

I really don't know how I can ever repay you.

I can't thank you enough.

Thank you so much.

You can look at me, Raymond-san.

Besides, I was already hesitating.

I was being tempted by an operation I'd never done before,

but this man stopped me.

Kaneyama's heart stopped right after.

That's enough.

He's dead.

So on top of letting Kaneyama die, we can't save Raymond's daughter either.

Guess we'll be killed by Kaneyama's cultists.

That's when I had an idea.

They have a similar body structure... maybe...

Hazama, what're you about to pull?

Changing your face and body to look like Kaneyama's

was our only option to save your daughter and your own life.

I'll start the operation.

It's thanks to you both that my daughter and I were saved.

Oh, I didn't do anything.

No, I was the one who was really saved.

H-Hazama?

If I didn't have you there,

I wouldn't have been able to resist the temptation to do a heart transplant.

I would've become a murderer.

Yabu-san, you saved me from that fate.

Thank you.

Y-You're welcome.

Tempted by the prospect of a heart transplant surgery,

Hazama almost lost his way as a doctor.

He was saved by none other than another doctor

who harbored a deep scar within.

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The Vietnam War.

Tragedy after tragedy poured forth from the cathode ray tubes

and shook the world to its very foundations.

Amidst the surge of voices protesting war,

even those on active duty began to take action,

as though pushed by those voices.

Fleeing from the battleground and their own nation...

they became deserters.

Deserters

The world is full of deception,

yet one must continue on this path

in order to face each life.