Original subtitles

Eat.

You've got to eat if you want to see your precious woman alive.

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 3

That's nothing but a lie!

♫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

That night...

Mom. Mom.

Fukuko fancies herself the heroine of a novel.

She's under the mistaken notion that she's in love with Tachibana-san.

Mistaken notion?

I'm saying that she's confusing sympathy for love.

Yes, that's what I'm saying!

I'm on your side, Mom.

Saki...

Saki Nee-chan said that?

Last night she stood beside me in my dream. Although to be accurate, she was sitting down.

She told me "I'm on your side, Mom."

There's no way Saki Nee-chan would say something like that.

- But it's true! - I don't believe it. I'll see you later.

I tell you, it's true!

In her sleep?

I just know Saki Nee-chan would understand how I feel!

Wait a minute. That's the dream your mother had, right?

That's your mother's wish, isn't it?

Her wish appeared in her dream.

That's it! I should have known better than to think Saki Nee-chan said that!

Imai-san, you pull yourself together too.

I'm sorry. I'm just so confused.

I have no idea what I'm supposed to do anymore.

Like what's going to happen to Tachibana-san if another day goes by with no progress.

You'll have to get someone more powerful to cooperate.

I don't know anyone like that...

Hoshina-kun, Imai-kun.

- I'm counting on your help today. - Today?

The Chamber of Commerce is having a meeting.

- Oh... - That's right.

Chairman Mitamura will be there as well, so make sure you treat them well.

Certainly.

Chairman Mitamura?

The meeting's from 5:00, so...

- Chairman Mitamura! - Huh?

Finally broke down, huh?

It's all over if I stop eating.

I won't give in.

Admit it, Tachibana. That you're guilty of embezzlement.

There's no evidence...

Tachibana's the one who did it!

He easily started eating the food that he had been stubbornly refusing to eat.

He has no principles. Further interrogation is unnecessary.

That cannot be. Isn't setting the record straight

even more important that handing out punishment?

You are absolutely right, sir!

Please write your name here.

Has Chairman Mitamura arrived yet?

Yes. He's in the waiting room

Waiting room...

Have some tea, Chairman Mitamura.

Oh, thank you.

Chairman, excuse me for a moment. Your hair...

Huh? Ah... thanks.

It's my pleasure.

Are there any interesting articles?

Articles that the Japanese Army is continuing to march forward appear every day, but

can the United States and England be beaten that easily?

You must not say such things.

I didn't say we'll lose.

But we, businessmen, are different from soldiers.

We need to take a careful look at reality.

So that you'll be ready whichever way the world falls?

Yes. What is your name?

- My name is Imai Fukuko. - Imai-kun, huh?

You're pretty sharp.

Thank you.

Um...Chairman.

Do you know a man by the name of Tachibana Manpei-san?

Tachibana?

He's with Riso Engineering. The man who developed the root crop cutting machine.

Ah, that root crop. I remember him.

In a job such as mine, I hear about a lot of people.

Like how the economy of Osaka has turned for the better since Mitamura-sama became chairman,

or like how we all owe a lot to Chairman Mitamura.

- The person I hear a lot about next to you is Tachibana-san. - Oh?

That Tachibana Manpei is a person of exceptional talent who will someday carry Osaka's economy on his shoulders.

Oh? That good, eh? Sounds like someone we can count on.

That Tachibana-san is currently being held by the military police.

Under suspicion of embezzling an item meant for delivery to the Army.

- Embezzling? - But Tachibana-san

isn't the kind of person who would commit such a crime.

Chairman Mitamura, won't you please use your power

to help Tachibana-san out of this situation?

This is so sudden, I don't know what to say... In the first place,

getting arrested by the military police is a serious matter.

Please, Chairman.

But you know... why are you asking me for a favor like that?

Huh? Uh~ Um~ That's because...

Come in.

How have you been, Chairman Mitamura? I'm Sera with Sera Trading Company.

Ah, it's you. How's business?

Ah~ Well, thanks to you, Chairman Mitamura...

That would be for the sake of Osaka!

Like I said before, Tachibana-san is someone who will carry Osaka on his shoulders some day.

We'll have to help him no matter what.

- Are you still trying to... - Chairman, earlier you said,

"Oh? Sounds like someone we can count on."

But helping someone who's being held by the military police...

- Is impossible. - Chairman Mitamura!

You're the only one who can help Tachibana-san!

When the leader of Osaka's business world speaks, even the military police

- cannot pretend not to hear! - Okay, okay.

- Let's see what I can do. - What?!

Maybe we can get someone who's good at negotiating to do it.

What about Bando-san from Nanbaya?

He's extremely capable, as well as caring with a strong sense of justice.

- Oh, Bando-kun, huh? - One moment please, Chairman Mitamura!

Bando- san is too well-bred. He's a naive rich boy.

He'll get cold feet when he actually has to face the military police.

- Do you think so? - Please let me handle that task.

I, Sera Katsuo, will live up to your expectations!

What~!

Didn't you say you didn't care about Tachibana-san?

- I was actually worried all this time. - Liar!

Tachibana-kun's a buddy who ate ramen with me, you know.

You just want to suck up to Chairman Mitamura, don't you?

You just want Tachibana-kun out, right?

We will take a 15-minute break now.

Kajitani-san. Hello. I'm Sera.

What do you want?

You don't have to look so displeased.

Is the company doing all right? Now that Tachibana-kun's gone.

You don't need to worry about it.

I find it strange, though.

Why aren't you trying to defend Tachibana-kun?

- Isn't he a valuable asset of yours? - Stop it already.

That's over and done with.

It's not over yet.

You saw Saki Nee?

She appeared in my dream and said to me

that Fukuko's confusing sympathy for love.

That's not it, Mom.

Saki felt the same way as me.

Fukuko has to forget about Tachibana-san.

That was a dream, right? It was just a dream you had.

I can't take it anymore. To think that my daughter's worrying about someone who's in jail.

- That's why I told you... - Mother.

We're on Fuku-chan's side.

- Excuse me? - Shinichi-san was saying

that there's no way Fuku-chan would fall in love with a bad man.

Shinichi-san? Wait a minute.

Yes. We decided to believe in Fukuko.

Fuku-chan's friends as well as people from the hotel are all worried about her.

- No! - Mother...

- I am the daughter of... - Being a samurai's daughter is irrelevant!

It has nothing to do with this, Mother.

Someone else will be taking over my job, so

I ask for your cooperation.

Hello again. It's Sera.

- The president's at the Chamber of Commerce meeting... - I know.

Because I snuck out of that meeting.

You're Takenohara-kun, right?

Yes.

The other day, you told me that

Tachibana-san never committed any crime.

How can you say that with absolute certainty?

Is there a reason?

They said no punishment.

For me, that is.

Looks like I'm getting released tomorrow.

Is that right?

I'm so happy for you... Inamura-san.

I'm truly happy for you...

I've never met a guy like you.

You're...

innocent.

I believe you.

Thank you.

You have to come out too.

You have to!

I will...!

Fuku-chan and Manpei-san were simply earnestly hoping

that they would be able to meet again alive.