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One day, when I was in third grade,

my father broke the news that he was marrying a certain woman.

It hadn't even been 3 years
since my mother passed away.

Feeling antipathy towards her,
I was adamantly opposed.

However...

Go now.

unexpectedly, I ended up getting help from her, and

feeling a debt of gratitude,
I sent her a notification of acceptance.

But I was to immediately regret

- Thank you.
- I don't know her at all.

sending her the notification.

Saijo-san, sorry to keep you waiting.

Miyamoto-san, come here.

Eager to convey my feeling of gratitude,
I unwittingly got ahead of myself.

Can you please find it in your heart to
forgive me for making you feel uncomfortable?

What? What?

What are you doing, Akiko-san?

I am begging for Miyuki-chan's forgiveness.

Miyuki's forgiveness?

Excuse me, Miyamoto-san, but who is this...

She is the lady who is going to be
Miyuki's new mother...

That's not happening!

No way, no way, no way!

Miyuki, you can't mean that, can you?

What? What is it?

Can I please ask you to reconsider?

I beg you!

My stepmother was a career woman.

I didn't know it at that time, but

this cornering of the opponent by apologizing

was my stepmother's art of dogeza*
(apologizing by kneeling and bowing)

When she does this to you,
Oh wonder of wonders!

Miyuki, don't you think that's enough?
You can see how bad Akiko-san feels.

Miyuki-chan, when you get an apology,
the fight is over.

I start feeling like I'm the villain

if I don't forgive her.

Normal moms...

like my mom...

don't do things like this!

Moms...don't do this?

May 2009

Miyuki, Akiko-san will be here soon.

- Put away your stuff.
- Why should I?

She's not a guest.

Miyuki, Akiko-san's here.
Open the door!

No one's home~.

This isn't everything, is it?

No. I've arranged to have the rest delivered later.

Oh, thank you.

This is for Miyuki-chan.

A present from your business trip to China?

I hope she'll like it.

The other day, I prepared a sure-fire routine

to make Miyuki-chan laugh.

However, the result was a dismal failure.

Which means there's a gap between

the image of a mother that Miyuki-chan is seeking,
and the image of a mother that I'm proposing.

That means I was unable to fulfill the needs of my client...

That's not so. Miyuki probably said that
in the heat of the moment.

I think the image of a mother that you have is just fine.

Then I'll give this to Miyuki.

Please come out after you unpack.

The image of a mother I have...

Is that this anime?

Akiko-san was just trying to be friends with Miyuki.

- Panda says please forgive her~.
- Dad, you're annoying.

I don't think you should be saying "you're annoying" to your father.

Excuse me, but I'm watching Petite Cure.

For this time period,
I recommend that you watch the baseball game.

This time period,
it's our established routine to watch Petite Cure.

A baseball game is the most appropriate broadcast for the three of us to watch as a family.

The subject matter can cover a wide range of topics

from assessment of the players' wonderful skills,

to matters related to economics such as annual salaries and team management, and

the parent-child communi...

The TV is saying, "Please don't fight."

From now on, we'll record the night games too.

Do you watch a lot of baseball?

I speculated that a good mother would suggest watching a baseball game.

Ah, that's how it was in the Showa Era, wasn't it?

My mom loved anime.

That must mean she was a bad mother, huh?

Miyuki, talking that way isn't...

Hello.

You can't help it if it's a call from a client.

I should be back today.

You don't have to come back for the rest of your life.

Miyuki. Cut it out!

Seriously... I'm truly sorry.
I'll give her a good talking-to.

That's all right.

See you later.

Good morning, Miyuki.

Where is she?

She must be asleep in her room.

I've just returned.

Good morning.
Were you working until now?

Yes. The client started saying "If you leave first,
you gotta give us a discount."

That must've been tough.

Have a seat.

- Would you like to eat?
- Please.

That's why I didn't eat the ramen to close out the evening with them.

I'll get it ready right away then.

- Do you seriously want to be my mom?
- Yes.

It doesn't look like you have time to do any housework.

Are you planning to let Dad keep doing it all?

What?

I'm planning to do my very best.

Why can't I just do it?
Akiko-san is very busy.

You're always telling me to help out.

I say that for your sake.

Akiko-san can do it,
but she just doesn't have time.

The circumstances are different, right?

You never know.

Maybe she can't do anything.

All right. Then
you don't have to do anything anymore.

I'll do everything.
Are you happy now?

You know that's not what I said.

When a married couple both work, I believe sharing the housework accordingly

to be a crucial factor for the smooth management of a home.

Miyuki-chan does have a point there.

As embarrassing as it is, I have to admit that

I came here without any plans in regards to that.

Never mind that.

I'll think of ways to become a proper mom, so

please give me some time.

Buchou, if you'd like, how about lunch...

Today I'm scheduled to attend a lunch meeting restricted to female employees.

If you have some urgent matter to discuss,
you can tell me now.

Did you make a mistake that's so hard to talk about?

No, it's not about a mistake...

She thinks dogeza's gonna
take care of everything and anything.

I heard from the kids at the after-school program that you got a new mom?

Someone like that isn't my mom.

She comes home in the morning and chugs an energy drink in one go.

That's not mom, is it?
That's an ossan (middle-aged man)!

Oh yeah? Then why don't you just drive her out?

Drive her out?

But even when you divvy up household chores,
in then end it doesn't really work out, does it?

That's right. It's like whoever can
get around to it ends up doing it.

At our house, we don't even talk about divvying up chores.

- You do all the pick-ups too?
- If I can't make it, I ask other fellow moms.

What's everyone doing? Like for the flu.

I ask my mother in Saitama to come over.

I take off saying I caught the flu too.

I'm sorry, Buchou.
That was indiscreet.

Not at all. I'd like to understand the actual condition,
so please don't hold back.

What you say in this meeting will be off the record.

But Iwaki Buchou, why did you
decide to do this all of a sudden?

Actually, I am getting married soon.

- You're getting married?
- Yes.

- What~!
- Buchou, you're getting married?!

Yes. Under normal circumstances,
holding a meeting like this

for personal reason is nothing to be proud of.
However,

asking you all to enlighten me would be the most valuable and realistic...

So, so, so who is your partner?

A very ordinary man with a child who works for a corporation.

Oh~ He has a child.

- He has a child?!
- What is he like?

He must be a very special person
if you fell in love with him.

I don't like her!

I think you can say that he's someone

who has qualities that I'm lacking.

You know, Inomo-chan,
at your house do you divvy up...

The pollen's still...

It's a miracle.

Drive her out like how?

Say "If I'm getting a mom like you, I'm going away,"

and run away from home.

I'm sorry, but can I leave you here today?

I'm scheduled to hand over a place today.

I'll be fine.
Thank you.

I'm really sorry.
Oh, that's right. Tell your new mom

to give me a call.
It's urgent. Okay?

I told you, she's not my mom.

I can't run home from home.

The thing is, I'm watching the house on Foundation Anniversary Day.

- You mean Foundation Anniversary Day tomorrow?
- Yeah.

Parents tend to forget about that, right?

So that makes it easy to run away from home
on Foundation Anniversary Day.

But still...

- What are all these?
- Oh, these.

They're apparently your new mother's belongings.

I'm sorry. I made a mistake on the delivery date.

When I checked with her,
she said there weren't anything particularly valuable, so

- she told us to leave them here.
- I see.

But I'm happy for you that you got a new mother.

I'm telling you, she's not my mom.

Miyamoto Akiko

Miyamoto!

Hiroki-kun, I'm running away from home.

Did you decide to do it?

I'll be there tomorrow at 9:00.

Summary of Meeting on Sharing Household Chores

This will not do.
This is like putting the cart before the horse.

- Buchou, if you'd like, how about dinner...
- I have another appointment tonight.

If it's an urgent matter,
please give me the details via e-mail.

Now then, good night.

Good night!

I need to confide this feeling to someone...

YAHHO! Adviser

Love Counseling and Human Relationship Problems

"I forgot my position and fell in love."

- I have returned now.
- Okaerinasai.

I see that you brought in the boxes for me.
Thank you.

There weren't that many.

- I'm sorry for troubling you.
- It didn't take long at all.

Ryoichi-san. There's no need to heat it up.

This won't take long either.

What are you doing?

Today I held a meeting with female employees with children

to learn how they balance work and family life.

In conjunction with that,

when I asked what changed the most compared to the time before they had children,

I got the answer that the children's schedule got first priority,
and they planned their own schedule

around their children's schedule.

This schedule is well organized and very helpful.

Foundation Anniversary Day

Did you find something?

Yes, I did.

"So you fell in love with a lovely older superior."

"I can understand why you're unable to tell anyone."

"For you, I'd like to recommend the hot...

"Miracle (Kiseki) Florist"
( the character for "seki" is wrong)

"Kiishi"?

Could they mean "kiseki"?

"When I bought flowers there and gave them to her,
lo and behold, the love..."

"had a long life?"

"Trust me and go visit them..."

Akiko-sama

What? What?

I'm sorry to bother you so late at night.

What's the matter, Buchou?

It seems I've caught a cold.

A-are you all right?!

I'm afraid I may spread the virus so

I'd like to take tomorrow off.

Can we reschedule the meeting we had planned to the day after tomorrow...

That should be easy enough to do.

Thank you. Then I shall impose on you.

Good bye.

I'm sorry~.
For making you take off work.

It's all right.

She imposed on me.

Miracle Florist
(misspelled with wrong character)

Let me know if your confession of love goes well.

Roses.
Give me all the roses you have.

Oh! To~moyo~

What are the roses for? Are you confessing?

You idiot. It's for work.

- Hey, what happened to your courier job?
- Oh~ It seems

someone made a "cream" to the company that I made a delivery mistake.

- You mean "claim."
- That would be 100,000 yen ($900) in all.

- Isn't that a little expensive?
- Sir.

These are miraculous flowers, you know.

- Good morning.
- Morning.

Is she gone again?

Good morning.

You're doing housework today.

- Yes. I have the day off today.
- What?

Today is Foundation Anniversary Day, isn't it?

When I asked Ryoichi-san, he said he hadn't made arrangements for day care either, so

as your mother, I didn't think I should leave you alone and

I took a day off at the last minute.

It was my fault for forgetting about it, but
you should've told me too, Miyuki.

Is it really?

I forgot about it too.

What do I do, Mom? What do I do?

I'll be there tomorrow at 9:00.

Telephone!

Pick it up. Hurry.

Miyuki-chan.

I tried to think of things I can do
with you today as a mother.

This is the proposal for it.

1. Go to the park and practice riding the bicycle

so that Miyuki-chan will be able to ride her bicycle.

2. Go to the library, read a book together, and cultivate Miyuki-chan's sensitivity.

3. Participate in a event for children and
broaden her curiosity as well as her mind.

- 4...
- Mom

Mom always said that it's best to take it easy when you have time to spare.

Therefore, I'll be taking it easy so

please don't mind me.

My mom loved anime.

That was wonderful.

It was extremely entertaining.

- I know, right? It was, wasn't it?
- Yes. I thought

an exceedingly strong magical power
was hidden in this program.

You mean...because everyone's a magician?

No. That is the outward story.

What's hidden is the magic known as an economic effect.

Young girls who watch this anime will long to be like the dream warriors.

"Mom, I want to be Dream Pink."

And here we have it!
The Dream Pink costume.

But that's not all.

"Dad, I can't transform without a Dream Compact."
Here it is, a Dream Compact.

"Mom, Dream Petite Cure is old news now.
This year, it's Friends Petite Cure."

And the same thing gets repeated the following year.

It's a very well thought-out scheme.

Thanks to Miyuki-chan,
I learned something new.

No, thank YOU.

Hiroki-kun?

Shimoyama-san, what can I do for you?

I got a call from Miyamo-chan asking me to come see

if you guys were getting along.

You don't have anywhere to go anyway, do you?

In which case, here.

That luxury condo.

Miyuki-chan, why don't you come take a look with us too?

Shimoyama-san.

Let us talk about that some other day.

But Miyuki-chan's here too anyway.

Miyuki-chan, you want to go take a look at your new house too, don't you?

New house?

Your mom wants to move to a new house.

Move?

Even though this is where we lived with Mom?

But the way I see it,

your mom is always right by you and

looking over you.

- So even if you move...
- You're terrible!

Didn't you say you were coming over at 9:00?

What time do you think it is now?

Just hurry up and come on out.
I'll be waiting down below.

Then how about if you just come take a look first?

For the time being, we shall hold a family meeting as soon as possible,

so for Miyuki-chan's sake as well,
please give us some time.

I'll be waiting then. Make it quick.

Is that the ossan (middle-aged man)?

Do you have some business with my daughter?

Unaware in the least that you were here for a visit,

I apologize sincerely for being rude to you.

- I'm the one who should be sorry.
- By the way,

how is Miyuki's behavior and attitude at school?

Did you just say Miyuki?

I think she's more cheerful now.

Does she get the pleasure of playing with you during recess?

Yes. Recently, I have had the pleasure of talking with her frequently.

Is that right? Well then, excuse me for a while.

Why in the world are you acting that way?

I don't know what it is,
but your mom's power is amazing.

Look. My hands are all sweaty.

I told you, she's not my mom.

Hiroki-kun, do you put sugar in your tea?

Yes, please~.

Shimoyama-san, why aren't you answering?

- Kasahara-san, what is it?
- Miyamo-chan.

Do you have the new estimates
you promised Dainittetsu that time?

- I'm working on it now.
- You don't need to work on it anymore, you idiot!

- What happened?
- We were cut off!

We were outwitted by Mitsutomo once again.

Why do I know about it first?

Under normal circumstances,
you should know about it first.

Miyamo-chan, you should quit your job!

Quit...?

In any case, let's discuss what to do about your quota.

Oh, that's right. I should quit.
I just have to quit my job!

All right, Kasahara Buchou.

I'm going to quit my job!

- What?
- Miyamo-san, are you losing your mind?

Oh, actually, I'm going to be getting married.

- I'd like to take this opportunity to resign to get married.
- To the contrary, this is not the time to quit.

That's right. Calm down. Take a deep breath.
Even if you were to get married,

the husband doesn't resign to get married.
That doesn't normally happen!

It's hard for me to say this with the way this conversation's going, but the person I'm marrying is Iwaki-san from Mitsutomo.

- What?
- You mean that Iwaki-san?

- Yes.
- Iwaki...

That Iwaki Akiko from Mitsutomo?

Yes, that's right.

You know how busy she is, right?

There's no way she has time to do housework, so my daughter's been squabbling about that.

That's right. The problem will be solved if I quit my job.

Kasahara Buchou, thank you for making me realize that!

How can he eat so much.

That's why he gets fat.

Miyuki-chan.

Yes?

Was that all right?

Is that how your mother acted towards your friends?

I guess so.

That must mean I still have a long way to go.

It's past 1 o'clock already.

Why don't we go have lunch at a restaurant you used to go with your mother?

Did you come here often?

She said it's convenient for going shopping before going home.

What did your mother order all the time?

The second thing I want to eat.

What do you mean by the second thing you want to eat?

She orders the second thing I want to eat
and gives me a little bit.

I see. Then what is the second thing you'd like to eat?

Maybe yakisoba.

All right.

- Welcome.
- Yakisoba and...

By any chance, are you trying to imitate my mom?

- Can you tell?
- Are you stupid or what?

There's no way you can be my mom even if you imitated her.

- You don't think so?
- You look completely different too.

Biological issues aside,

if I can get detailed information about her way of thinking and her behavior,

I believe I can copy her for the most part.

Wouldn't you like that better too, Miyuki-chan?

Your ideal mother is your deceased mother, right?

Akiko-san, you're kinda strange, you know.

What? What is it?

You just called me "Akiko-san."

So what!

I lost my mother at an early age too.

Therefore, I don't have much of the so-called image of how mothers should be.

So it's very helpful to have you tell me about your mother.

That's a lie.

You're lying when you say you're just like me, aren't you?

In order to make the other person open up her heart to you,
you have to open up your own heart first.

It's one of the sales technique.

Just as I thought.

If you don't mind,
please commit it to your memory.

- Oh, take a bite.
- I don't want any.

All right.

Akiko-san, are you making dinner tonight?

Yes. Therefore,

please tell me your favorite dish that your mother cooked.

Everything.

- What do you mean everything?
- Just as I said, everything.

Fine. Then let us buy up all the food in the store so that

I would be able to respond to anything.

It will be a fairly big job, so

- we should notify the store manager first and...
- Hamburger steak.

I like hamburger steak.

Got it. Hamburger steak, right?

What are the ingredients for croquette?

- Potatoes.
- Correct.

What else?

Then what do you think are in curry?

Uh...

- This.
Yes~! Right answer.

- I'd sure like to have one more potato.
- Okay.

Thank you~.

Let us do that too.

Let us begin.

Guess-the-ingredients-of-a-hamburger game!

Here's the first question.
Choose the meat to use when making hamburger steak.

This one.

A certain hamburger chain

touts its slogan of 100% beef, but

are you sure your mother used aibiki meat (mixture of ground beef and pork) like this?

I'm pretty sure that's what she used.

Is that your final answer?

- I say aibiki.
- Then I'll place my bet on ground beef.

Place your bet?

Resignation

How to write a resignation

Akiko-san

- Hello. Akiko-san? What...
- Pardon me for bothering you at work, but

there is a matter I need you to answer immediately.

- Yes?
- Is Miyamoto family's hamburger steak

made with aibiki or 100% beef?

What? What is this about?

Is hamburger made with aibiki?
Or 100% beef?

We use aibiki.

Thank you.

What did Dad say?

Miyuki-chan, you were right.

- See?
- Let's move on.

Are we having hamburger steak tonight?

Dad, what about egg? We put
egg in hamburger, don't we, Dad?

We do, but hey, Miyuki. What are you...

Does garlic go in there?

Excuse me, but what are you guys doing?

We've never ever used that.

I've never even seen that!

I think it's used.

There's no way the sauce is made of just ketchup.

Is that your final answer?

Make it demi-glace.

Demi-glace...

Demi-glace sauce...

Thank you.

Which was it? Huh, which was it?

Miyuki-chan, you were right.

All of them? I won all of them?

I suppose that's what it means.

I did it~!

I won, I won. I did it!

I won, I won.
This is it, right?

That will be 1,620 yen.

Um...

Excuse me.

Welcome~!
How about it, Miss?

Come take a look.
How about it?

- Welcome~.
- Stone flower?

Miraculous (Kiseki) Florist
(character for stone is mistakenly used for "seki" in "kiseki" )

How about it?

Welcome. How about it, Mister?
For your wife for a change.

Our flowers are known as miraculous flowers that convey love, you know.

They're not stone flowers?

Can't you see that it says "Miracle Florist" right here?

Oh, that?

I see, I see.

Not that it really matters, but

the "seki" for the kiseki you want to talk about is

this or this, I think.

Using this

makes it a florist of odd stones,

which doesn't make much sense.

Is that why customers have been staying away?

You might want to fix it.

So, what would you like?

Well, let's see...

Tadaima.

How's it going?

Okaeri.

What's Akiko-san doing?

She says she's going to find a recipe that's most like Mom's hamburger.

Mom's hamburger?

She started saying she's going to be a mom that's a copy of Mom.

- Copy?
- It wasn't me who asked her to do it.

Akiko-san started doing it on her own.

Looking at the ingredients,
could this be it?

I've just returned.

I've just returned.

Okaeri nasaimase (polite way of saying okaeri).

- I can make the hamburger.
- No.

I'd like to learn how to make it too.
Mom's hamburger.

Then let's do it together.

Miyuki, put this in a vase please.

Okay.

Then bite down.

Leave that there and mince the onion.

Biting down on the chopstick doesn't stop me from crying.

Here comes the salt.

Mix it vigorously please.

Make sure you let the air out.

Let's see.

Now then...

Itadakimasu.

It's very good.
You're a good cook.

Thank you.
I make good hamburgers.

Ryoichi-san, would you happen to have your first wife's recipe notes?

If you do, I would like to make a copy of them.

I do, but I don't think they'll be too helpful.

What do you mean they won't be helpful?

Well, take a look for yourself.

Oh, found it. Here you go.

This is...

Stir fry until golden brown

Mix as appropriate!!

She wasn't a detail-oriented person at all.

When it gets fried nicely,
add ketchup!

Cook for a while and add seasoning.

I tried to copy her at first too, but then I found out this was useless.

So to be precise, this isn't exactly her hamburger either.

But if I read carefully,
I may be able to see something.

There's no way Akiko-san can do it.

It's even impossible for Dad who had been eating Mom's cooking all that time.

Besides, I don't like the idea of a copy of Mom.

Then if Akiko-san

succeeded in doing a good imitation of Mom,

you won't like that either?

That's understandable.

There's only one mom, right?

I can't believe I missed the blind spot.

I don't like that either!
Stop it. I mean it.

Akiko-san, please sit down.

Akiko-san. Seriously, let's not do that anymore.

Family isn't a client.

They're not...a client?

That aside, that thing you wrote on your resume.

"Making use of my business experience,
I'd like to create a cheerful and fun environment for my family."

Please put that into actual practice.

As far as I'm concerned, dogeza was a part of that too.

Then anything but that.

Anything but that...

Then with what little I can do,

I'd like to make use of my experience in business.

For Miyuki-chan who is thought to dislike carrots.

I wanna see, yes, I wanna see

I wanna see Miyuki-chan do it.
Let's do it!

I wanna see,
I wanna see.

- I wanna see you eating carrots.
- No way.

I wanna see, I wanna see.

I wanna see you eating carrots.

- One big bite.
- One little bite.

Let's go!
Gulp it down, gulp it down, gulp it down...

- Gulp it down, gulp it down...
- No way. I'm not doing it.

Gulp it down, gulp it down, gulp it down...

That was amazing, Miyuki-chan.
The way you ate it was like that of an MVP.

- What's an MVP?
- MVP is an abbreviation for

Most Valuable People.

It's a title given to the individual who did the most important work.

MVP, huh?

If you don't mind, please commit it to your memory.

Then Miyuki,

shall we give this to Akiko-san?

She got you to eat the carrots you couldn't eat before.

That's a mom already, don't you think?

Akiko-san's a mom too, isn't she?

Miyuki-chan, you don't have to force yourself.

May I have it?

Since it's not the same color.

Thank you.

That's prohibited.

That's prohibited anymore.

- Prohibited.
- Prohibited.

I got that at the mistaken miracle florist.

Mistaken miracle?

But that may have been a real miraculous florist.

Miyuki ate her carrots, and

we got the incredibly good timing to give you the flower.

Uh, about the proposal

I promised you the other day in regards to sharing the household chores.

Oh, you can forget about that.

I'll be the househusband.

I turned in my resignation at work today.

Wow~. This is a miracle.

You quit your job?

Yes. I turned in my resignation on my way out today.

- How did that come about so suddenly?
- That's because

you're more competent than me, and

your annual salary is three times mine.

I'm not that attached to my job, and

I like doing housework.
No matter how we think about it,

it makes the most sense for me to quit.

I don't mean to offend you, but

that seems to be a meaningless act to me.

By doing that, it's true that the household may run smoothly on the surface.

However, the reason that the household needs to run smoothly

is so that Miyuki-chan and I can build a good parent and child relationship.

Would Miyuki-chan really feel an affinity for me

if all I'm doing is bringing home a paycheck?

But with the amount of work you have now,
you can't balance it with housework, can you?

I don't want you to overextend yourself.

No. So

what do you think about me quitting my job?

No, you can't do that. After all,

to you, work is

everything, isn't it?

You gave it your all and worked hard all this time.
For you to sacrifice all that,

I...I don't want you to do that.

And our income will decrease too.

Saito Dosan was a merchant who sold oil.

Shiba Sensei has written that Hideyoshi was a needle seller as a boy too.

In other words, experience gained from living in a different world can become a huge weapon later on.

Therefore, I consider getting to know the world of housewife

to be an achievement of a new weapon.

Is that...right?

If you want to quit your job to spend more time with Miyuki-chan,

I won't stop you.
However, if nothing had happened

you didn't have any plans to quit, did you?

But that goes for you too, doesn't it?

Yes.

If today never happened,

I think I would have somehow
looked for a way to balance both.

Today?

In one day today,

"I probably won't regret quitting my job in the future,"

I was convinced of that.

It's a miracle, isn't it?

In just one day,
your 33 years changed.

Yes.

Perhaps Miyuki-chan

is my miracle.

Resignation

Those who run after two hares
will catch neither.

I would like to bow out in good grace.

The company will do what we can.

That's right.
For you, we can raise your annual salary.

That's right.

Why don't you hire a housekeeper with that?

I see.

Then how does 1 billion yen sound to you?

No wonder you're called Sengoku Buchou.
Your bluff is something else too.

So what's your true feeling?

- I'd like 1 billion yen, please.
- Wait a minute, Iwaki-kun.

You can expect me to earn that much in the future.

Wait a minute. Are you getting hired away?

My daughter is incredibly cute!

That smile has a value of at least 10 million yen.

If I make her smile 100 times,
that would add up to 1 billion yen.

If you're telling me to throw that away,

please give me 1 billion yen.

Then you decided not to drive her away?

She's a strange person, but she tries so hard.

I can tell that she really wants to be my mom.

Oh, yeah?

Miracle Florist
(spelled correctly)

Is that right?
Are you going to confess after this?

- Huh? What d'ya say?
- I said

are you going to confess after this?

Excuse me, but have we met before?

Don't be silly.
If we had met,

you'd definitely remember a handsome guy like me. Right?

- That was a surprise.
- Did something happen?

Yeah. Iwaki Buchou's resigning to get married.

B-Buchou.

Buchou!

Congratulations on your marriage.

Thank you, Taguchi-kun.

No, I'm the one who should thank you for....

everything until now...

Taguchi-kun, I just saw the president of Dainittetsu.

I believe it's his birthday today.
Please surprise him with that bouquet.

Taguchi is on his way~!

The official resignation

was to go into effect after exhausting the incredible amount of leave that had accumulated.

Tadaima.

Thus, my stepmother came to be the person who was always by my side.

What are you doing?

I inadvertently washed it with a piece of tissue.

Oh, Akiko-san. This!

I bought it since it was cheap today.

Akiko-san, you got it right!

In the meantime, my father...

- Our savior.
- Please stop using that nickname.

Your wife's resigning to get married, huh?

That's a terrible blow to Mitsutomo, isn't it?

But it has a great economic effect for us.

Anyway, Miyamo-chan,
good job.

It's the best work you've done so far.
A hug for your reward.

Oh, well...

That my father was getting closer to that time
with every passing moment,

- Miyamo-chan?
- Miyamoto-san?

I had no way of knowing at that time.

Miyamo-chan!