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Actually, when I said that...

when I said that...I meant it.

Please date me, with marriage in mind.

Yes. All right.

MANPUKU

♫Marumatteru senakani ni morai naki ♫I get infectious weeping looking at your stooped shoulders

♫Haji datte issho ni ♫We'll share the humiliation too

Week 2

. . . I won't see you, for now

♫Hikoukigumo bonyari nagamu ♫Gazing absentmindedly at contrails

♫Kokoro kokoni arazu ♫Here in body, but not in spirit

♫Nenkan totaru moshi shitara ♫If I was to calculate an annual total

♫Tsukiau watashi sugoi? ♫Aren't I amazing for keeping you company?

♫Toboketeru mayuge ni morai warai ♫ I get infectious laughter looking at your comical eyebrows

♫Tere datta nandatte ♫Be it embarrassment or whatever

♫Morai naki morai warai morai ikari ♫Infectious weeping, infectious laughter, infectious anger

♫Moraippaji don to koi! ♫Infectious embarrassment. Bring them on!

♫Seiten mo donten mo hekireki mo ♫Sunny days, cloudy days, thunderous days too

Look at the carps.

This is Manpei-san and Fuku-chan's first date.

Watch your step.

The camelias are beautiful.

- Thank you. - You're welcome. Have a seat.

My father passed away shortly before I graduated grade school.

At that time, my second older sister was already married, so

it was my oldest sister, my mother, and me that ended up living together.

We didn't have much money, and my oldest sister supported the household for a long time.

Ah... Saki-san, as I recall.

Yes. But now it's just my mother and me, so

we're living on my income.

It must be tough for you.

Not really, since I'm easygoing.

- It's my mother that's hard to take. - Your mother?

She's always nagging, and she's constantly saying...

I'm the daughter of a samurai.

She must come from a distinguished family.

- Well~, I'm not sure about that. - You're not?

I've never seen a family tree that shows it, and

even if it was true, our ancestors may have just been foot soldiers.

I don't think so...

For saying she's the daughter of a samurai all the time, she doesn't have a dignified bearing.

My mother's a worrywart.

I remember your mother at Saki-san's wedding.

She looked truly happy.

Saki Nee-chan went through a lot of hardship for us,

so my mother wanted her to be happy.

Katsuko Nee-chan's husband is a painter,

but he only paints what he wants.

He's a true artist.

But his family is helping them out with the living expense.

That doesn't bother that couple at all.

KODA TADAHIKO

They have four children, and they seem very happy.

My father died before I was old enough to remember,

and my mother passed away shortly thereafter.

Please eat. It's not that serious of a story.

I don't have any siblings so I moved around from one relative's house to another.

What do you mean it's not a serious story.

It's not like I was treated badly and sent around from one relative to another.

Each household had their own problem.

I didn't want to be an inconvenience, so

I started working when I was 18. At a repair shop.

- This ramen is good too. - At a repair shop?

- Yes. Please eat. - Oh, okay.

Eventually, I got to a point where I could fix cameras and watches, and almost anything.

When I was 25, I went out on my own and came to Osaka.

When you were 25?

Soon, I wasn't satisfied with just repairing things, and

started tinkering with things like American made sewing machine and magic lantern.

- That magic lantern! - Yes.

But I'm not a good salesman.

I wanted to show people the things I made,

so I'd call businessmen from Tokyo who were staying at hotels in Osaka.

But that didn't work out.

But you were working hard all that time.

Now, I have a business partner who handles sales.

But I admire you, Tachibana-san.

Would you like to look at my company after we eat?

I'd love to!

We manufacture a lot of things here.

Right now, that root crop cutting machine is our main product, but...

Root crop?

You put this here...

When you put vegetables in here, and turn the handle,

chopped vegetables come out of here.

- Really? Just by turning the handle? - Yes.

Carrots, burdock, potatoes, or whatever. They can all be thrown in together

so, for example, it would be convenient for soldiers when cooking on the battlefield.

Really~?

I'm not well educated, nor do I have a way with words,

so all I can do for now is toil away to make things by myself.

But I actually want to try my hand at various things.

Various things?

I don't know what I can do yet, but

I just want to do work that would be useful to the world.

I want to do work that would make people happy.

Tachibana. Who's this?

I wanted my friend to see my workplace.

This is my business partner, Kajitani-san.

I'm Imai Fukuko. I work at Osaka Toyo Hotel.

- Osaka Toyo Hotel? - Yes.

I didn't know you had a girlfriend.

- She's not a girlfriend. - But remember what I told you the other day?

Don't arbitrarily allow outsiders into the facility.

I'm sorry.

Don't worry. He doesn't think that you're a spy.

Spy?

This is fine here.

Thank you for taking me out today.

Thank you too. I had a great time.

Me too.

But I want you to know that was a lie.

Earlier, when I told Kajitani-san that you're not a girlfriend...

I'm serious about wanting to date you with marriage in mind.

It's not like I'm pretty,

nor do I have anything special to offer...

That's not true at all!

Fukuko-san, you're...

a charming lady.

On top of that, you're kindhearted and gracious

and smart. And you eat ramen like you really enjoy it.

Please go out with me again!

That goes for me too.

Then... goodbye.

Goodbye.

You scared me~!

Who was that?

Tachibana-san is a perfectly respectable man.

- What and how is he respectable? - He runs a company with his friend.

- A company?! - You actually met him 3 years ago.

I will not allow it! You are going to marry someone who works for a big company.

Someone who manages a company is like a gambler.

I will not allow it!

You don't even know Tachibana-san that well...

Ouch!

Saki...

I heard from my co-worker in the kitchen, but is it true that a man asked Imai-san out?

That he asked her to date him in front of the staff entrance.

- He said you were watching too. - I was.

Then it's true after all?

Is that the same guy who asked Imai-san out before?

- Yes. Tachibana-san. - What happened then?

- How did Imai-san reply? - She said all right.

What does that mean... What's all right!

I don't know.

Please show him to his room.

- Please follow me. - Enjoy your stay.

Imai-san?

What's wrong? It's not like you to be making a face like that.

What kind of a face was I making?

Is it about Tachibana-san?

Did something happen?

My mother doesn't approve of him.

Why?

She insists on choosing my marriage partner. I don't know what to do anymore.

- Hoshina-san, please tell me what to do. - Wait...wait a minute!

- You would know... - That's not true.

Huh?

You may think that men like me and that I have a lot of experience with them,

but I don't at all.

Oh, come on~.

In fact, I'm the one who would like to ask. What am I supposed to do?

Huh?

"Huh?" isn't an answer.

- I beg your pardon. - Welcome.

Can you please let your guest, Koyama Shigeyuki Sensei, know that

Maki Zennosuke is here to see him?

MAKI ZENNOSUKE

- Maki-san! - You're...

He's a dentist my sister knows.

What is her sister doing here?

I've been working at this hotel for a while now.

That's not what I meant.

Your sister was transported to a hospital by an ambulance. Why aren't you with her?

- Ambulance? - Did something happen to my sister?

She underwent urgent hospitalization last night.

Urgent hospitalization?

She's at Sanadayama Hospital in Uehonmachi. I heard about it from a friend at a pharmaceutical company.

I'm sorry, but I'd like to leave early today.

- Go on. - Thank you!

Fuku-chan...

Saki Nee-chan...

She vomited blood last night.

Saki! Saki!

Are you all right?

Didn't Saki Nee-chan just have a cold?

It's tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis?