You have "scirrhous stomach cancer". Regular stomach cancer
will make an ulcer at the part of the stomach that is dented.
But "scirrhous stomach cancer" is when small cancer cells will start spreading.
This is the bill for your stomach cancer treatment. It is 500 thousand yen that is your own expense.
Prepare this money if you want to be saved.
Sensei...
You should also lower your head.
Isn't this easy? You get 500 thousand yen just by doing this.
What are you doing Tsuruta-sensei?
Nice to meet you. I am Tenryu Ichiro, the vice head of the hospital of Shirane general hospital.
I know about the relationship between you and the chairman.
Please don't worry about your son.
I will take responsibility in taking complete care of him.
Please also don't worry about the medical costs.
When the medical costs that you have to pay yourself becomes too high
The money that is more than a prefixed amount will be payed back.
- There is a expensive medical charge system in place for that. - What, really!?
Thank you very much! Please take care of him!
Um... Tetsuo-san will be treated at the Baba clinic.
What can you do at a town clinic?
The family also wish that he gets treated at our hospital.
- Yes but... - That is alright, isn't it Tsuruta-sensei?
So you will be admitted right away so
please make the preparations.
Alright! Let's prepare to do so.
- Please help them Misawa-kun. - Alright.
It seems that you have finally understood it.
That it is not just the will of the patient that is important but also that of the family.
If you understood that
then you wouldn't have made that mistake.
- 12 years ago. - 12 years ago?
Sensei!?
It was the fist time that I saw Jumbo-sensei like that.
I was also surprised that he did a dogeza...
But he also didn't say anything when a patient was taken from him...
He was completely different from previous times...
He looked... sad.
So? What are you trying to say?
12 years ago... what happened to Jumbo-sensei?
Tenryu-sensei also mentioned it!
This happened because your acted on your own accord...
You murderer!
12 years ago Jumbo acted on his own belief.
But the result of that was that it became a big problem. That is all!
- Do I have to explain it even more? - I won't understand it with just that.
Are you saying that I don't need to know?
You are so annoying. It doesn't matter.
I can't be bothered to listen to your childish worries!
I am sorry the examination times are already over...
- My name is Shirane Hideo. - Shirane!?
Could it be that you are from Shirane general hospital?
I am the chairman.
I would like to talk to Tsuruta-sensei.
Alright.
I heard about Momota Tetsuo from Tenryu-sensei.
Why did you do a dogeza?
That make me even more confused... about you.
Do you remember this painting?
It is the last painting that Misako left behind 12 years ago.
I stored this painting while I didn't know why Misako went to this place and left me this painting at that time.
That is because it pained me to look at it.
I had a look at it after a long time because of the 12 year anniversary of my wife passing away.
But... I still don't know the answer.
Tsuruta-sensei, what does this painting mean?
Why did Misako keep painting this painting
until the last second that she passed away?
I am sure that you would know as the person that was with her until the end.
All that I can do is apologize... for the thing that happened 12 years ago.
I don't want to hear apologies from you!
I want to know the truth. What my wife... Misako
was thinking before she passed away. What I was supposed to do,
what I should do from now on... That is all that I want to know!
I am sorry.
Do you want something?
Please let me be there when you operate on Momota Tetsuo...
You? Are you saying that you want to be my assistant?
Yes. Please!
You can't sit there and do nothing for a patient of yours.
Are you saying that you want to take care of him until the end?
That is an amazing attitude to have.
But did you forget that 12 years ago...
You are the guy that refused to be my assistant!
You are the guy that went against me!
Don't tell me that you forgot what you did!
What did you do to Misako-san 12 years ago!?
2 years before that, Misako-san
had a subtotal gastrectomy but it came back again and she got admitted again.
The cancer spread all over her body and there was nothing to do about it anymore.
She was told that she had only 1 month to live.
But I wanted to grant the wish of the chairman that he wanted to
stay with his wife as long as possible so I made her go into treatment.
But... There was a young doctor that went against my direction and had different ideas.
That was you, who just came back from the Baba clinic after you were sent there on loan.
You were against the treatment
said that the priority is to take away the pain.
On top of that you took her out of the hospital without the permission of me or the chairman.
And you brought her to a cottage in the suburbs where she died 3 days later.
So that means that you refused to be my assistant
and went against me... and then you caused the death of an important patient.
Do you think that I can let such a person be at the operation?
And all the doctors at this hospital are more talented than you, so please don't worry.
Is that so... It would help even if you could lend us 1000 or 2000 yen.
That is alright... I am sorry that I called you this late.
It's already this time of the day, it's probably not possible anymore.
We don't have enough for 500 thousand!
Oh.
Long time no see.
Good evening. What are you doing here?
You smell good. In such a big hospital
is there a bathroom in the head surgeon's office?
I don't know.
You know what I came here to say, right?
No.
It seems that you told our Asuka about what happened 12 years ago.
I just want to tell the truth as a journalist.
A journalist huh...
You are such a great journalist for writing these kind of lantern articles.
I know your intentions. If you are going to fight
then we will defend.
Is this really the time for you to be involved with me?
Your precious Jumbo-sensei
was begging Tenryu-sensei to be allowed to be at the operation.
Needless to say he got turned down.
The wound from 12 years ago will get worse and he will collapse. I feel sorry for him.
I won't forgive you... I will never forgive you.
I... am here for you.
Are you drunk?
I feel like drinking now if I could.
Good night.
Why are you spacing out?
Oh... Good morning.
You... Don't have to be here.
What? What do you mean by that!?
Are you telling me to get out? Are you telling me that I am fired?
- Why does everybody keep telling me these kind of things? - Calm down.
I am just saying that you don't need to be here today.
Excuse me... What do you mean?
- I have something I want you to do. - What is it?
I want some pictures to be taken.
Pictures?
I wonder if I will make the 10 o'clock train if I take the 9 o'clock bus.
Oh... I need to hurry up.
I am sorry that it is in small change.
I will take this precious money.
Please help Tetsuo! Please!
- Where is Momota? - He said...
that he can't close the factory today...
We are about to start the surgery to remove part of the stomach that is affected by scirrhous stomach cancer.
Let's do this.
Scalpel.
Tenryu-sensei... this is!?
There is no point in continuing... We are going to stop here.
How did it go with Tetsuo?
Do you have something you want?
- Please get out of here! - Misawa-kun!
- Please don't do that in front of the patient. - Alright.
Did you understand it?
- That you have a 1% chance that you will survive. - Yes.
With 1% you mean that I am going to die, right?
If you don't get any cancer treatment then you won't even have that 1% chance.
Is going through cancer treatment hard?
There will be side effects.
How long will I live if I won't get any treatment?
Half a year at most.
Don't want to die... I... Don't want to die.
Then let's fight this together.
P... Please.
Is there something else?
Please allow me to take care of Tetsuo.
What do you think you are saying?
Are you planning to do the same thing as 12 years ago?
I will not allow you to do that!?
I will have that patient have the treatment that I recommend.
- Is that because he is the son of the friend of the chairman? - What!?
The most important thing is... the will of the patient and the family.
I also explained the family the treatment procedure.
There is nothing for you to do as someone... that made a mistake 12 years ago!
Not good news with Tetsuo.... The operations was stopped...
They said that he has at most half a year to live.
It seems that they are telling him that he still has a change of living but...
- So the surgery was stopped. - Yes that is right.
But this will not be Tenryu-sensei's responsibility.
There was nothing to do about it anymore, no matter how good of a doctor it would have been.
That might be so. But... What decides a good doctor or not
will depend on what he will do from here on.
What?
It seems that this was too difficult for a little boy like you. Thank you for the phone call.
I just don't want things to become more complicated as...
Oh... Thank you for your efforts today!
- I'm sorry for letting you take care of the place today. - Don't mention it.
She... Went to Yatsugadake today.
I told her... what happened 12 years ago.
But I also don't know the whole story.
What was that painting that the chairman had?
Why did his wife paint that painting at the end...
You know those reasons, right?
Why are you hiding them?
You don't want to talk about it...
Well, I don't need to know it
but I think the chairman needs to know about it.
When I told Asuke these things.
She said "I will investigate it! Leave it up to me!"
She got all excited. She is so cute.
Jumbo. Leave your wounds up to us.
The thing that you need to take care of is
the wounds of the patients, right?
You murderer! Don't show yourself in front of me ever again!
I won't forgive you... I will never forgive you.
I want to die happy as his wife.
You can't sleep, can't you?
I have too many things that still want to do...
I don't know what is going on anymore.
Would you mind listening to me for a bit?
I don't mind...
12 years ago I made a big mistake.
A mistake that I can't take back anymore.
There was a patient that was told that she only had 1 month to live.
She was a brave woman.
She said that she wanted to be a loving wife to her husband until the end and die happy.
That is what she told me.
Sensei... Am I not able to go to this place anymore?
To this cottage?
It's in Yatsugadake... We went there on our 3rd wedding anniversary.
That was 30 years ago.
My husband most likely forgot about it anyway.
I don't think he forgot about the trip you made on your wedding anniversary.
Oh no... My husband is that kind of a person.
Sensei, can I not go to this place one more time?
Just one more time before I die...
There
lies the testimony of my husband and me being husband and wife...
Please! I...
want to stay his wife until the end.
I want to die happy...
As his wife...
When I heard her request, I brought her to Yatsugadake without consulting my superiors.
Please enter.
Please excuse me.
Oh it's you.
I have something that I would like you to look at.
Please have a look at this.
There is a 100% chance that humans die.
No matter if you use the latest medical techniques
or how much the patient does his best, death will come at one point.
What we as doctors can do if death is that close
is not to let the patient stay lying down on a bed.
Those were my thoughts.
That is why I wanted to fulfill her wishes.
But she...
I made some tea.
To me she had a happy and peaceful face...
But the thing that I did was wrong.
I made a mistake...
This happened because you did things on your own accord.
You murderer!
I won't forgive you...
I will never forgive you!
At that time I put the will of the patient first.
I didn't think of considering the will of the family.
Such a person that I am, I don't really know what to say to you.
But I don't want you and your family to have any regrets.
Misako at least didn't have any regrets.
I am sure that she died being grateful towards you.
I finally understood it.
Why Misako chose that place to be her last.
I remembered.
Sensei... This is a place that is very memorable to us as husband and wife.
The 2 of us sat there and while looking at this view we made a vow.
"Let's stay as husband and wife until the day we die..."
We made a vow here.
"Let's stay as husband and wife until the day we die."
Tsuruta-sensei... You knew this.
You knew what feelings my wife had.
Why didn't you tell me?
If I would have known then I wouldn't have...
- Could it be... That you made an promise to my wife? - A promise?
Tsuruta-sensei, please don't tell my husband what I just said.
Please don't tell him because I will tell him...
So that is what was going on...
While you got severe criticism from me and were thrown out of the hospital...
You kept your promise for 12 years?
How were you able to do this.
Because this sensei is that kind of person, right?
He even did a dogeza for a person like me.
And he even came here to see me.
Because he is a strange doctor.
I am sure that that woman was able to live her life to the fullest until the end thanks to this sensei.
What will happen to me...
I will die soon, right?
What should I do?
This is the money that your parents scraped together.
For me? Why did they do that?
To be able to gather 500 thousand yen...
They begs people everywhere...
I looked down...
On a father like that the whole time...
Day after day I was looking down on my father for just making screws and living a simple life.
I kept saying to myself... that I didn't want to become like that.
So I am going to die by being a burden to such a father until the end...
What was I doing for 30 years?
I kept making trouble for my parents.
I have to repay then for everything still.
When I was a child
I... really loved my father!
I... said that I wanted to become like him.
I was thinking that I wanted to make the factory big together with him!
But... at some point I started to feel embarrassed at such a father.
Even though he is poor... He would life a serious live day after day.
I started to think that it was so pathetic...
That is when I said that I was different.
I started to aim to be a musician, something that I was unable to become anyway.
And I started to live day by day.
I lived a life off of my parents.
Isn't it something to laugh about? I kept saying that I would become big
but I am still living off of my parents.
A dieing person like me... As someone that will die before my parents...
I am still living off of my parents while they are all broke already!
He would work day after day...
And raised a person like me.
And I am going to die without doing anything back... Crap.
Tetsuo-kun... What is it that you want to do?
Tsuruta-sensei...
Please listen to what he wants to do... Like you did 12 years ago.
- Sensei... I... I...! - You don't want to die, right?
- You don't want to die like this, living off of your parents, right? - I cant die like this!
- There is no way that I can die like this! - I also don't want to let you die!
You still have half a year... Try it.
Just discuss this with your family first.
First you need to let your family know how you feel.
Take your own life back... into your own hands.
I will explain to you now how the treatment will go from now on.
- I... - What is it?
I... Will go back home.
I will go back home... and work in the factory together with my father!
Tetsuo!
Dad, I don't have much time left but...
I want to work together with you...
I beg you. Let me work together with you.
Tetsuo!
What did you just say?
Please leave the care of Momota Tetsuo up to Tsuruta-sensei of the Baba clinic.
That is the will of the patient and the family.
And if it is allowed...
I would like Tsuruta-sensei to once more work at this Shirane general hospital.
- Chiarman... That is not funny anymore. - I am being serious.
I don't know what he told you about what happened 12 years ago.
But the actions that he took
are unforgivable for a hospital.
That guy doesn't have anything that he needs to protect.
He has nothing on his shoulders.
He is different from you and me.
If we take the wrong path then the many employees of this hospital
- and their families will be out in the cold. - That is right.
That is why we need someone like him that can do things that we can't do.
Jumbo-sensei. Please have some coffee.
Thank you.
- Please have your coffee before it gets cold. - What?
- I made it just now so please have it. - I didn't ask you to.
- Why would you say such a thing. I made it for you. - Alright, I got it.
- It's not that good, isn't it? - Yeah.
I thought so. Those beans are not that good.
- Then why did you make this for... - I am sorry, I have some things that I have to do.
How is the coffee that is made with "consideration" and "gratitude"?
She has consideration for you and is grateful for you in her own way.
We got ourselves a cute little companion now.
In any case, this is horrible.
This has become a strange situation now.
Please leave it up to me. I will do my best for you...
You don't have to worry about this.
One moment.
I am sorry that I came unannounced.
I am sorry for what happened the other day.
It became clear to me because you were so hard on me.
Thanks to you I was able to face Jumbo-sensei head on.
And I was able to clear up the misunderstanding.
Brother.
Please give me Asuka-san.
Play around with that girl and dump her so that she can't recover from it anymore.
You are 6 weeks pregnant.
Congratulation.
It's difficult to cure. Your life will be at risk.
We can't do the operation here.
If only Jumbo-sensei was at Shirane.