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This is the Tokyo Finance Bureau.

President Tachibana was recently declared guilty of tax evasion by the American Military Police Court, wasn't he?

We are collecting back taxes on the amount of that tax evasion.

Back taxes?

The taxation amount is 100,000 yen.

- 100,000 yen?! - What's going on, Fukuko!

Manpuku

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

Things Will Work Out Somehow!

Week 12

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

♫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

Back taxes?

We just finally paid off 70,000 yen, and now they want 100,000 yen.

- What is going on? - This is absurd.

It probably means the fine was 70,000 yen and the tax is 100,000.

We can't make that kind of money anymore.

What should we do, Azuma Sensei?

I see. Please wait until I contact you again.

- I'm going to Tokyo. - Tokyo?

Don't be silly. You just got back.

But I have to let Manpei-san know.

Let's leave this to Azuma Sensei for now. You shouldn't overexert yourself, Fuku-chan.

That's right. You have to take care of yourself especially now.

Fukuko...

I don't get it!

How can I?!

I feel the same way too. No matter how you look at it, this is unfair taxation.

- There's no need to pay it. - What?

But if we don't do anything, a notice will come by tomorrow

and in 10 days, they'll probably come to seize your property.

Perhaps the office and factory in Izumiotsu may be seized too.

Seized?!

Tachibana-san, I have an idea.

But...

But what?

I can't do anything if you don't agree to it.

I'll agree to it. What do I need to do, Azuma Sensei?

You're going to dissolve Tachibana Nutritious Food.

You're going to shut down the company after selling the trademark and production method of Daneihon.

If the company's gone, there's nothing the Finance Bureau can do.

I realize this is a difficult decision to make.

But the fine product of Daneihon will remain, and

you'll get a considerable amount of money.

If you can start something new with that money...

Please don't say that so easily.

Don't say it so easily!

What will happen to the employees if the company shuts down?

I'll do what I can to find new jobs for them.

To you, this is someone else's problem after all.

No, it isn't!

I have one younger sister.

When I came back from war, she was on the verge of death.

She had malnutrition.

She was pregnant at the time, and we didn't think she'd make it...

The thing that saved my sister was Daneihon.

If you hadn't made that,

my sister or my niece wouldn't be in this world.

I am grateful to you.

When Fukuko-san came to ask me to help the company...help Manpei-san,

I thought I'd accept it, no matter what. That's why

it makes me mad too!

It's so maddening, I'm about to go crazy.

Azuma Sensei...

But I'm a lawyer.

I have to think of the best option for you guys.

The Finance Bureau should know that there's nothing to seize at Tachibana Nutritious Food Sales Company.

If we don't do anything, the company in Izumiotsu

and the fine product of Daneihon

may disappear from the face of this earth.

I beg you, Tachibana-san.

Please trust me.

There's no other way.

I believe this is the best option.

All right.

I'll trust you.

I'll trust you.

Tachibana-kun? You're gonna get in trouble if you don't stop daydreaming.

Don't worry. Things will work out even if you lose your company.

How did you know?

What do you mean?

- You just said I'd lose my company. - I didn't know.

But that's what you said, Goda-san.

Oh... I read facial features.

Read facial features?

I'm a fortune teller. I read palms too, but I can tell a lot about that person's fate by reading his face.

- What? - I knew from the first time we met that

you weren't the kind of guy to do anything bad.

And today, I could tell that you were about to let go of something precious.

That's amazing.

Please tell me. What's going to happen to me?

You'll get out of here. If you serve your time diligently.

- I can't wait 4 years. - You're a late bloomer.

- You're going to succeed later in life. - Later in life?

What you're going through now will be the nourishment for that time.

- So don't be so pessimistic. - Does that mean nothing will work now?

Didn't I just tell you not to be so pessimistic?

- Goda-san... - Huh?

What did you do to get imprisoned?

Me? Damn... I got done in by my apprentice.

- Apprentice? - Fortune teller apprentice.

The guy took my money and ran. I had no money to eat

and when I tried to burglarize a warehouse of the Occupation Forces, I got caught.

Who knew this would happen.

Who knew?

I can't read my own fortune. Sad, isn't it?

Damn. Damn!

The company is in trouble, isn't it? At times like this,

- isn't labor cost the first thing that will be reduced? - Calm down.

- We can't be calm. - We're feeling anxious too.

But we can't ask Madam or Great Madam something like this.

What's going to happen?

Dissolve?

That's the only way we can fight the Tokyo Finance Bureau.

This place serves as our home too.

Will we have to move out of here?

I'm afraid so.

- Fukuko-san... - Did Manpei-san agree to it?

Yes. He said he'll trust me.

I see.

Then I will trust you as well.

Manpei-san and I are one in body and mind.

Thank you very much.

So...what should we do?

Tachibana-san would like the transferee of the trademark and production method of Daneihon

to be a company from Osaka.

I'll leave Tokyo tomorrow and head out that way,

so if you can, I'd like for you to come up with some transferee candidates.

All right.

Then let us know when you find out what time you'll arrive in Osaka.

I will. Good bye.

Good bye.

Sensei.

This is the most painful case I've ever taken.

But this is the best option to help Tachibana-san, right?

Yes.

This brings back memories of the time I first came here.

It's the ocean~!

- Manpei-san! - Water's still cold.

Back then, Gen-chan wasn't born yet,

and we didn't have any money or company or anything...

But I was thrilled.

I was excited with the thought of what was going to happen.

We can't go back to those days anymore.

We can't go back.

But...but it's going to be all right, Gen-chan.

Somehow... Somehow things will work out.

Manpei-san, your dream's starting to come true.

Your dream to do work that would be useful to the world.

It's not my dream.

It's our dream.

Somehow...