I'm not having the operation. Because I cannot stay with Dad anymore.
You have already told Monami-san that you like her or love her right?
What's most important to her is her daughter Kotone-chan.
It seems that your mother went to Yamagata.
I can't be by your side any more, but from somewhere, I will always be watching over you.
Mom? Mom?
[TEL] This is Onuma Hospital in Yonezawa...
I...
What can I
possibly do for Mom?
Umm...
What's the matter? Monami's in Yamagata.
Yamagata? You're going there?
You don't know where to stop do you? Why not give her up already?
Because I'm the one who understands you the most.
You understand me?
I've never had any intention to make you my lover to begin with!
"Pop!" like that. I was so shocked. Such a mayhem.
What's wrong?
Somehow, I have a feeling that.. the Director is going to do something outrageous.
Mom!
Koto-chan...
There's nothing to worry about.
Hey, Mom. I've been thinking this...
Hmm? Why don't you get hospitalized here?
What?
You want to watch the sakura blossoms right?
If you come here from Tokyo again, it will be difficult right?
I will come to see you every week.
Even if I'm alone, I can still come.
But...
If it's okay, why don't we decide on that?
Won't you remain here until spring?
Dad...
I beg of you!
Please come home.
I was in the wrong to have forced the surgery on you.
Forgive me...
I just wanted to save your life.
Let the three of us be together as one family. For Kotone's sake too.
Please..!
If I come here to look at those sakura blossoms one more time,
I have a feeling that I will get better.
Mom is going to get hospitalized here.
There's a sakura tree that is important to her.
It's fine, isn't it?
I'm not
going home.
I see.
It can't be helped then.
Kotone...
Let's go home for today.
Mom, I'll come again.
Here.
Thank you.
For her to say something like that to me...
Kotone-chan has been thinking all this while
about what she can possibly do for Monami-san.
Before I know it, she has become an adult, hasn't she?
In a hospital in Yamagata?
Yeah. That's why, I, too
am going to stay here. I see.
Sorry for making you go through
all these troubles. You don't need to say that.
[TEL] Then I'll send you your belongings. Thank you.
I have been getting hand numbness quite frequently.
Do you feel numbness in your legs? There is such a thing too?
I can't say that it will definitely happen, but from now onwards,
there is a possibility that many various symptoms will appear.
Let's keep watching your conditions and go ahead with the treatment.
Sensei. Yes?
How much time
do I have left..?
That I can't tell.
If there are things you want to do,
I think it's good that you get them done at once.
I was beginning to feel that the light of life
was fading away little by little.
If only Onii-san could be with Monami-san.
I still can't get why he hasn't told her about his feelings yet.
I can never do that. Then, say it, say it!
Huh?
That "I love you".
If you want, kiss me too.
Ouch!
As if I would say it. Dummy!
Stingy!
Is it really okay to not convey to her, I wonder..
Yeah.
As Monami-san's condition gets worse like this...
As I thought, I should go have a talk with Nii-chan huh..?
You hit Rie-san
at the lobby of the hospital, didn't you?
So that's the relationship between the two of you..
Causing such mayhem at the hospital.. Shame on you!
If your father hears about this, he will cry.
Telling lies or shaming yourself in public..
Do not disappoint me any further.
Even Mother denies me too?
I... I...
Up until now, I have always lived according to your expectations.
I became a doctor according to your wish.
I also succeeded the hospital. Even so,...
Even so, you are... you are still denying me now?
That's not what I...
So you have a daughter, haven't you?
How old is she?
How old is your daughter?
Sensei.
Yes?
I feel a bit strange.
I don't understand what..
you have just said.
Good afternoon. This is home delivery!
Hajime! Yo!
You can stay for a little while right? That's' what I thought at first.
But tonight, I have to meet up with doctors at the university to discuss my re-employment.
My bad. You could just have sent me the belongings.
No problem. Just killing time, killing time.
Then, how is Monami-san's condition?
Hmm...
Yesterday, I overheard what Sensei told Monami-san.
What?
That if she had something she wanted to do,
she should do it at once.
I see.
It's something I knew already though.
Nii-chan. Hmm?
There's something I want to tell you.
There is a condition called loss of speech. Loss of speech?
When one becomes unable to understand the subject someone else is talking about.
Eh..?
Of course, it doesn't mean she'll definitely become like that.
However,
if Nii-chan has feelings you want to convey to Monami-san,
I think you'd better tell her as early as possible.
There's not much time left.
When she becomes like that, it will be too late.
I believe at that time, both of us must have though of the same thing.
That during this short remaining period of time,
what can we do for the sake of the people
important to us.
Subs by yuizaki_libra Special thanks to furransu and ggenglish
I'm not going back home.
Mom is going to get hospitalized here.
Do not disappoint me any further.
Obaa-chan didn't get mad at you? [TEL] Yeah. It was fine.
That's great.
How is Dad doing? He went to work as usual.
I see.
I..
I want Dad and Mom to make up though.
That person is..
Hm?
The person in Yamagata
is a kind person, isn't he?
When Mom is with that person,
somehow you looked really beautiful.
Eh~?
[TEL] I think it's fine that way. See you.
Ah. Koto-chan..
It's fine, isn't it?
Do you feel numbness in your legs?
From now onwards, there is a possibility that many various symptoms will appear.
Thank you. Later.
Hey, is that really the case? Hmm?
Is it really okay to convey one's feelings in words?
Of course it is.
If not, you won't know whether those feelings will reach the other person will you?
Nii-chan.
Hmm?
I..
actually have one thing that I deeply regret.
Why, while Mom was still alive,
didn't I come to see her even for just once.
Do you really understand? How we feel to have this worst kind of mother?
Do you know how painful it was for us as her children? Everyone, it's all her fault!
I didn't tell her even just a single word "Thank you".
I don't want Nii-chan to have the same regret that I do.
Then, see you again.
Thank you.
Take care.
If there are things you want to do,
I think it's good that you get them done at once.
If Nii-chan has feelings you want to convey to Monami-san,
I think you'd better tell her as early as possible.
Tomorrow right? I understood.
Thank you very much.
For your information, I will tell you this.
Ishikawa-san has already shown signs of an initial loss of speech.
As this symptom worsens,
conversing will become difficult for her too.
Right now, please let her do all the things as she wishes to her heart's content.
Tasuku-san.
How's your condition? I'm fine.
That's great.
Umm... if your state of health is good,
why don't we go out tomorrow? Eh?
You can think of it as a change of atmosphere.
I would like for you to see the place that I grew up.
Actually I got the permission to go out just now.
I want to go.
Thank you, Tasuku-san.
I hope the sky is clear tomorrow.
You have any business to do with that house?
If there are things you want to do,
I think it's good that you get them done at once.
As this symptom worsens, conversing will become difficult for her too.
[TEL] Hey Tasuku. Can you come to the police station for a while?
What for?
Someone who claims
to be your father has come here.
Eh? No matter what, he wants to
offer incense to your mother.
What on earth is that?
Come on.
He's never shown his face before. Now all of a sudden, he came here claiming to be my father.
What kind of nerve is that? That is.. quite right.
I don't know that sort of person. Chase him out for me!
Got it, got it. I'll tell him that.
See you.
You're Yuichi-san right?
Well, he's gone through quite a lot of hardships.
Please sympathize with him for that.
Thank you for your help.
Tasuku!
Um...
Yes?
Would you let me know your name?
I'm Kataoka.
Kataoka Yuichi.
I have never talked to you before.
However,
I think Mom definitely wants to see you.
You even have a slight fever. We'd better discuss with Sensei again about your going out tomorrow..
No, I'm all right. But you see, Ishikawa-san..
There's something I want to do no matter what.
That's why, I want to go.
Even just a little,
while my body can still move.
I understood.
Thank you very much.
It was during my job transfer
that I met Yuri-san in Yamagata.
Since I worked for a construction company, I transfered around quite a lot.
When it was decided that I had go back to Tokyo, we broke up.
But at that time,
I didn't know that she was pregnant.
Then a long time passed by, and she only came to Tokyo once.
She let me know that she had given birth to you.
That police officer told me already.
You have a younger brother whom you have been separated from for years, right?
Yes.
I regret to say that
I'm not his father.
I'm sorry
for having caused you
so many hardships.
How could I have the nerve to do this..
But when it came to my ears that she had passed away,
I wanted to offer incense to her no matter what.
Even though I'm not qualified to say this, but...
to me, Yuri-san was..
an irreplaceable person.
Just that...
I was never able to convey that though to her.
Because you had your family right?
Yeah.
But..
You can also say that because I loved her from the bottom of my heart..
that there are things I couldn't tell her at all...
Because the moment I opened my mouth,
I felt as if those words would become all shallow.
Your name
was the only name that Mom always remembered.
I see.
Thank you.
I'm going to sleep.
Good night.
What?
Take care of yourself.
Mother.
There's not much time left. When she becomes like that, it will be too late.
You can also say because I loved her from the bottom of my heart that there are things I couldn't tell her at all...
I would like to see that sakura tree in full blossoms one day
together with you, Tasuku-san.
Nii-chan? What's wrong?
There is something I have to tell you.
What?
As I thought, I...
am not going to convey my feelings to Monami-san.
Why?
Because if I tell her that, she will definitely suffer.
I don't want to do anything that will burden Monami-san.
Nii-chan... More importantly, perhaps
I should focus on doing other things for her sake.
It's really fine that way, isn't it?
Yeah.
With all my strength, I want to let her enjoy herself.
This might be the last time for her.
Yeah.
I got it.
Thank you for worrying for me.
What a cute baby.
Thank you very much.
It has been in the hospital all this while. Now it's finally been discharged.
Is that right?
But I will definitely make up for that part with its happiness.
From now on, making this child smile is my basis for living.
You're right.
Well, then.
Sorry for making you wait.
Not at all. Then, let's set off. Yes.
I am terribly sorry. It's already time. We have to postpone the operation.
At any rate, please try to contact Koichi for me.
The Director seems to have gone missing.
It must be tough for you right, Chairman?
The relationship between the Director and Monami-san wasn't going well,
so he has always been consulting me.
Despite all that, he still used such treatment to me.
I would like you to stop working for my hospital.
Why must it come to that? I am the victim here.
You see, cunning people are people I hate the most
Don't ever set foot into this hospital anymore!
What is there?
Something that Monami-san has probably never seen before.
Please look at that side over there.
A squirrel.
Every year, they build nests around here.
It's so cute.
Is it okay to enter as we please?
Please look at this.
Orijirou. Hikochihiro.
What is this?
Jirou-chan, you know, that police officer?
A long time ago, he said he was going to confess to the girl he liked during the Star Festival.
He wrote this as a prayer. The girl is Chihiro, his childhood friend.
She is now a keiouzakura grower. Oh..
But when you think carefully about this, the man and the woman are opposite each other.
Vega.. Orijirou.. Oh!
It's true!
So of course he would be rejected right?
Monami-san. Yes?
Actually this place has a secret.
A secret?
That's odd. It's supposed to be fall on Monami-san's side.
Spring hasn't come yet right?
But it will definitely be coming.
It will definitely come when this bears flowers.
You're right.
Monami-san.
We made a promise right?
That we will watch this sakura tree again together.
I would like to see that sakura tree in full blossoms one day
together with you, Tasuku-san.
Let's watch it.
Together.
It's a promise ok?
When it turns spring,
let's come here again.
Let's watch
the full blooms together.
Yes.
We can't let you be outside when it's getting cold. Shall we go back?
Tasuku-san.
Yes?
I...
I have something I want to do today no matter what.
Something you want to do?
Yes.
I'm the husband of Ishikawa Monami. Where is my wife?
She was granted the permission to go out today, so she went out.
Monami-san. As I thought, you shouldn't force yourself...
I'm fine.
Tasuku-san, you musn't come over this side.
What is your favorite side dish?
Meat potato stew, I guess.
Sorry. It took quite some time.
So you remember this?
Yes. Because I couldn't make it at that time.
I'm digging in.
How is it?
It's delicious.
That's great.
I have been thinking..
about what I can do for Tasuku-san.
I have thought about all sorts of things.
I couldn't think of anything else apart from this.
That is really what my life is about.
So I thought.
Even though it's just something humble,
it wasn't bad at all.
Until the very last moment,
I was able to
meet Tasuku-san.
This is
my own
utmost feelings
for you, Tasuku-san.
Thank you.
I will not forget this.
Here. Thank you.
I'm thinking of decorating the hospital room with this.
She's a really important person, isn't she?
Later.
Welcome back.
Monami.
I've come to pick you up.
Monami.
I've come to pick you up.
I said I'm not returning to your place.
That's impossible.
You stay by my side.
I myself will decide the place I'll stay in my last moments. Why this place?
Why that sort of man?
I no longer wish to seek your understanding.
You said that I didn't face you properly right?
But didn't I provide you with a life without any discomfort?
Didn't I love you properly? Tell me what else you want me to do!
I wanted you to love me too.
I wanted you to live solely for my sake.
What is wrong about that?
We are husband and wife. It is natural, is it not?
Until that man appears, there wasn't any problem, was there?
You're wrong!
That is wrong!
I..
put a lid
on my true feelings.
I didn't have the courage to break free.
That courage..
I received it from Tasuku-san.
Not matter what I do, you're not going back to my place, are you?
Yes.
I'm definitely not handing you over to that man.
Monami-san!
Stop it!
Don't get in the way!
Get a hold of yourself!
Monami-san is trying with all her might
to live her limited remaining life.
Why can't you understand for her?
What do you understand?
I..
I love Monami!
If so,
in her last moments,
please let Monami-san live according to her own will!
If you truly love Monami-san.
Can you still drive?
Your worries are needless.
I will never think that my love for Monami loses to yours.
Monami-san!
Are you alright, Monami-san?
Monami-san!
We're entering the emergency room.
Sensei. She has a cardiac arrest.
Prepare the incubator! Yes!
Laryngoscope.
Get the tube. 7.5 mm.
We'll start the intubation.
She's having VF. Prepare DC! (note: VF = ventricular fibrillation, DC = direct current)
It's done charging. Move away!
Please wait in the waiting room.
I was beginning to feel that
the light of life
was fading away little by little.
This is my own
utmost feelings for you, Tasuku-san.
Monami-san...
Nii-chan!
Hajime.
I...
What should I do..?
She hasn't regained consciousness yet? Yeah.
I...
As I thought, I can't do it. What?
For Monami-san
to soon disappear
from my sight,
I can't bear it.
I want her to live on.
Nii-chan..
I...
will try asking the Director. Eh?
Monami-san's life
If it's the Director, he can save her right? What are you talking about, Nii-chan?
The moment I have to part with people important to me
was drawing close.
Subs by yuizaki_libra Special thanks to furransu and ggenglish