I have finally found you a subordinate. An excellent customer assistant.
You mean a cashier?
- Is that bad? - No,
...I had worked with an extraordinary cashier previously.
Miss Hanasaki!
Mr.Souma!
You two know each other?
Yes, we worked together in Nakano.
Good to see you.
So we go to branches that caused problems and assist them?
Don't say anything uncalled for.
Huh?
It's the same bank, but think that it isn't.
For you to come out here over some lost accounts....
He is so irritating!
You went too far.
It's only a cashier job.
Sorry to disagree, but~
Shut up!
No!
Thank you.
Mika! So pretty~
Thanks girls!
Thank you.
- How nice~ - Mika is so cute and happy!
What a good catch! He is in the bank's loan department.
Going to the New York branch he is sure to climb high.
I attended the party they met at, right?
- So why.... - Next number is 48!
Bingo! I got it!
Nothing for me~
- Mai, - Hm?
Truth is I,
...I have made it there too!
Huh? Why, when?
Tell me!
Of course she is here too.
That's why I hate attending a colleague's wedding.
Today is their peak of happiness.
- I guess... - Hm?
Before our wedding I was "so cool and tall" but now I'm more like "bother, get lost!".
I know! When I go home early they moan at me!
Souma, I envy your bachelor life.
It's not even funny. I've already been punished.
Once at work, once at marriage.
Next one is number 7! The lucky seven!
- Seven, seven... - Got it!
- I don't~ - Haha!
What? Matchmaker?
It was hard to say so I didn't but I couldn't give up on marriage hunting.
I see. And?
At first I just couldn't hit it off with people I was introduced to,
...so eventually it became a bother and I thought of stopping,
...but then I met the Right One!
- Hm... - Next number is 15!
Yes, I got it! Later, Mai!
I'm totally delayed...
I hear you are working with a young lady now?
- Really? - Well she is young but a lady is not the right description.
Good for you, it's only men in our office!
I'd prefer a man over her~
Next is 31!
- 31? - My turn!
Bingo, bingo!
- We have a match! - Huh?
- Coming! - Souma, you have it too!
- No, I don't. - A bingo here too!
- Stop it! - Bingo!
Mr.Souma!
Cut it out!
Congratulations! Your win is,
- ...this! - Hahaha....
Huge!
- So heavy! - Excuse me,
- ...can you take me to Monzen-Nakachō? - Yes, get in.
Monnaka...?!
I'm off, speak later!
Mr.Souma! Take me too please!
- Would be hard to ride a bicycle with this. - Hey! Wait!
What a coincidence to live at the same area!
No way!
Driver, please take us to Monnaka then!
Thank you!
Is this your place?
Yes.
- Is this your place?! - It says "Hanasaki".
No way...
Your place?
- Right there. - Huh?
I had no idea you lived so close.
If I did, I wouldn't have moved here.
- Dad, I am home. - Mai!
- Welcome ho~ - Good evening, I'm Souma.
Good evening, I'm Mai's father.
- Mai, why didn't you tell me? - Huh?
I have to prepare myself for something like this.
Dad you are wrong, he is the bank's~
Bank? How nice, you are one step closer to your dream!
- Huh? - To be a banker's wife!
I don't have such a dream!
- Dad, stop it! - Don's be shy,
...there seems to be an age-gap but,
- ...it makes no difference to love. - Dad, stop it!
Carrying matching plush toys, how lovey-dovey!
- Lovey-dovey? No, father, you are wrong~
Father? Did you just call me father?
- Um, - How happy I am!
I always wanted a son!!
- No, nothing like~ - I wanted a son,
...but hand on we aren't that far away in age...
- ...what year were you born in? - Um, 1971.
- No, no I mean in Showa year. - In Showa?
You misunderstand!
What?
Mr.Souma is my boss.
Boss?
- Haha... - Sorry about this!
- No worries. - Hurry up and say it then!
You didn't let me!
Ah!
Tokyo Daiichi Bank Head Office
Pineapple-shaped cake and pancake batter?
Don't worry about buying presents!
Just enjoy your honeymoon!
And be lovey-dovey~
Anyways, have fun, bye!
Good day to you Mr.Shindo and Mr.Kodama!
You are?
- Hanasaki. - Hanasaki?
Assistance Department.
Ah!
Looks like Yajima caused some trouble the other day in the Kayabacho branch.
"Harassing female staff just to cut costs is ridiculous."
- Shut up! - No!
"It's wrong to wreck the life of your staff as a boss."
No, it was not trouble.
Excuse my leave.
- Wait! - yes?
Isn't this yours?
You seem to have dropped it.
Sorry I was given it this morning at the station, I didn't mean to~
Good work.
Excuse me.
Why did I drop this?
Was she the one to deal with the Kayabacho matter?
She and her boss, Souma.
Hanasaki, I'll remember this.
150,000 Yen joining fee? Pricey~
Isn't it!
But aren't you easy to read?!
Huh?
After having attended a wedding you are desperate now.
No, I was just having a look at it.
- Mhm... - What is it?
Is it fine not to become a banker's wife?
Did you hear what my dad said?
Naturally, he was talking rather loud.
He is wrong, let it go.
He came up with that himself, I have no dreams like that.
- Hm... - I have some problems here.
- Can you go to Aoyama? - Ah,
- ...what happened? - We have received a written protest.
Written protest regarding an unfair loan to "Grand Marriage" A protest?
Hm? Hang on,
-...this many of them? - Yes, all are members
...of the Grand Marriage matchmaker company.
No one is being introduced to them it seems.
Huh? Why is a claim like that coming to us?
That company was given a loan by our Aoyama branch.
Suggesting that it might be bad for our bank to be involved with such a company?
Right you are, Souma!
Still, would something like that come to us?
No, it seldom does.
This is just an outburst of anger, but we should make sure the loan and transaction had no issues.
- Please look into it. - Alright.
Oh, right!
The manager in Aoyama is under Mr.Shindo's wings.
Be extra careful with your manners. Got it?
- Yes.
Busy day, busy day~
2 million Yen joining fee?
The male members' annual income is above 30 million Yen?!
Are they for real?!
- Looks dodgy. - It is~
But lots of women would pay up 2 million just to marry a celebrity.
Even though it should rise alarms straight away.
Yes, from an objective point of view.
But some desperate women cannot think clearly.
Hm?
What is it?
No worries Hanasaki.
I'm sure you'll meet a fine man.
I'm talking about these women!
But to file a complaint to the bank because they haven't found a partner,
...is kind of overboard~
Hm?
- Hanasaki, - Yes?
...at a matchmaker you should meet potential partners for marriage, right?
- Yes. - Not here, it seems.
"In half a year of membership, no one has been introduced"?
Which applies to all 313 members who signed the list.
Awful!
This is a fraud!
Manager - Nitta / Loan Department
Mr.Souma!
What are you doing? Hurry up!
Aoyama Branch
Souma and Hanasaki from Head Office.
- We are to see Manager Nitta. - Yes.
How kind of you to come all the way here.
Don't mention it.
Manager - Nitta But it's a surprise.
That you are now doing this kind of work.
I was transferred to Head Office three months ago.
You, the Loan Department's Ace now in assisting...
And to even work with a woman!
We are to look into the details of your loan to Grand Marriage.
For a claim against a matchmaker to arrive to the bank is like calling on the wrong house.
To take up on this you must have absolutely nothing to do.
Um, er~
A protest with so many people in it cannot be just ignored.
They are just venting their frustration.
There is no problem with our loan.
I'm sorry but~
Sorry but you'll have to finish this with Mr.Sugishita.
I have things to do.
Please wait!
Um,
...we are not done talking yet.
Loan Dep. - Sugishita I apologise.
No need.
But I do think there is nothing wrong with our loan.
The business plan is properly done too.
May I see?
Grand marriage was only established a little more than half a year ago.
I don't think it's strange that no marriages have been arranged yet.
- That's not it. - Huh?
They are not complaining about not having found a match.
The fact that no one has been introduced to them at all,
-...is their problem. - Huh?
What do you mean?
They have paid the membership fee, yet no one was introduced to them at all.
No way!
If this is true, then the company is a fraud.
Which means,
...our bank participated in a fraud.
I apologise. I'll question Grand Marriage straight away!
- We should tag along. - Yeah.
Mr.Sugishita!
- We are coming too. - Yes, by all means!
Grand Marriage was established by Mr.Munakata Eiji, who used to work for Oote Consulting.
He helped many companies from going bankrupt,
...and also helped new businesses to become successful.
- We had high hopes for him. - Amount borrowed?
- 50 million Yen. - I see.
It's here.
Huh?
- This can't be.
Where is the office?
Behind it.
What's this?
What are you doing?
And you are?
We are from the Tokyo Daiichi Bank.
We need to speak to Manager Munakata.
There is no one here anymore.
I'm Shimamura from the police.
The police?
A complaint was filed for this company being a fraud.
- Fraud? - Looks like,
...the manager went missing with the 60 million Yen taken from members.
Huh?
What is this about?
I apologise.
Grand Marriage registered not one male member whilst registering 300 females.
From the start they were corrupt, their intention was only to cash in the membership fee.
Sugishita, how?
Were you not in contact with the manager?
The other day he said nothing like ~
Did you assess the loan request?
Of course!
We based our judgment on the Business Plan.
It was all lawful!
The current situation shows that Business Plan to have been rubbish.
Sugishita!
How could you miss this?!
I apologise.
An irrecoverable loan of 50 million!
This would ruin our branch!
Do you get that, Sugishita?
I was wrong to entrust you with this.
- But manager! - What?
No~
Listen!
We retrieve the 50 million no matter what.
If that's not happening, you take the blame!
What?!
The outcome is everything.
For banks, it is!!
Yes.
There was no need to say that.
What's with him and "for banks, it is"?
Isn't this strange?
He's that kind of a man.
Do you know him?
He was the chief 6 years ago when I was in Marunouchi branch's loan department.
I see.
He hasn't changed a thing since.
Ah, Mr.Sugishita!
Where are you going?
I'll go to Munakata's house.
Someone who has legged it with 60 million wouldn't really be there~
But doing nothing won't get the 50 million back.
- I'm going too. - Hanasaki,
...it's not your place to go. Our job here~
Was to investigate whether the loan was assessed correctly.
Right now, we can't tell for sure.
See you later.
Hey,
...bother.
Mr.Sugishita!
- Ah! - I'm coming too!
Thank you!
Manager Munakata
[TEL] The number dialled cannot be reached.
[TEL] Leave your message. - Damn!
What's going on?!
This is it.
Is there nothing to hint where is he heading to?
No, nothing.
It's real trouble if he escapes abroad.
I guess he really isn't here.
No...
If he does run away...
..I am doomed.
Hm?
That man....
Look!
That man! Isn't he Mr.Munakata?
- Huh? - Him!
Ah!
Mr.Munakata!!
Mr.Munakata!! Please explain what's going on?!
Mr.Munakata!
Ouch!
Stop right there!
Huh?
Stop!
Stop! You!!
Hey!
Ouch!
Are you OK? - Yeah..
Take this.
Thank you very much.
Frustrating, isn't it.
He was right in front of us...
Yes.
We can't just give up now.
Don't you have any guess as to where he could be heading to?
No~
Anyone who would know?
No~
Ah!
- Is there someone? -Um~
- Is there?
Mr.Sugishita! - Ouch!
Um,
...maybe Manager Nitta.
Were they close?
Yes, they often ate out and played golf.
I see.
Um,
...in all honesty, the loan to Grand Marriage was ordered by the Manager.
Huh?
Manager,
...this loan is for a new company,
...shouldn't we carry out further inspections before approving?
What are you saying?
You must be aware of Munakata's previous achievements.
The new company is his, it's all good.
But it's our first transaction with this new company,
-...an unsecured loan is~ - Worry not.
We're lending this to his ability and future prospects.
Hurry up and write the permission.
But Manager!
Are you trying to disobey me?
One little word from me can change your position you know.
Worry not.
If anything happens, I'll take the blame.
Understood.
He said he would take the blame?
But he just said you had to take blame!
That's completely different!
Why didn't you say anything?
Can't be helped.
Managers can easily ship out unsuitable subordinates.
But~
My child will be born soon.
I can't go against him.
Thank you.
How will it end?
Yo!
Mr.Souma!
Why are you here?
Here's your "ultimate turnip".
Whoa, I wanted to eat this.
I saw this on the board the other day and couldn't let it go.
Looks great.
Yummy!
How glad I am!
Come every day.
I think I can hit it off with a solitary gourmet.
I'll pop in often.
Didn't take long for you to become close.
I heard you were dumped in the New Year?
- Dad? - It slipped my tongue.
How can it slip?
Besides I wasn't dumped.
- I said we broke up. - The outcome's the same.
It's not at all!
You must be happy having a father like that.
Like what?
Speaks too much and says the wrong things.
Must have been hard.
For him to bring up a daughter like you.
A daughter like me?
- That's right. - Thanks.
When she was just 10 my wife passed way.
She took care of the house so I had to start from zero.
You started cooking then?
Yes, I used to work in an office.
So I decided to go into food and took up on this restaurant.
How admirable.
Indeed I get on well with you!
- Eat up! - Yes!
Ah, that's bad.
At this rate our 50 million will not be retrieved.
The manager said earlier that the loan will be all Sugishita's fault.
- He did. - But that's wrong.
He pushed Sugishita into lending the money putting him in charge,
...whilst saying he himself would take the blame.
So that's how it was.
Are you not surprised?
Sounds like Nitta.
But it's not right.
The manager is the one at fault, but he will get away unscratched.
He just ships Sugishita out, blaming him.
- "The win is the boss', the loss is the subordinate's". - What's with this nonsense slogan?
That's the way banks think.
What's with that? Rubbish!
Hey!
Ah I'm sorry.
Apologies.
Besides that man is just irritating.
- Hm? - Speaking like he looks down on everyone.
Plus standing out with a flashy watch despite being a bank employee.
Did he?
Yes!
How can someone like that make that branch a success?
- What are you doing? - I'm sorry.
- No worries. - Oh well,
...sorry but as soon as her switch is on her surroundings disappear.
I see.
She is like that, but please treat her kindly.
Matchmaker Company's Fraud Charge - Manager Disappears
Sugishita won't really have to take the blame right?
The approval was signed by other people too, no?
Yes, I hope.
Huh?
Manager Nitta from Aoyama?
I see.
That's quite a trouble Nitta.
I am terribly sorry.
Lending money to a fraudulent company makes us its accomplice.
It does.
Besides a loss of 50 million will call for harsh consequences.
Grand Marriage was a new company, so I feared we were going too easy on the inspection,
...but my subordinate, Sugishita was convinced about Munakata's ability.
I believed in his enthusiasm and put him in charge.
I will make him take responsibility.
He is a nice lad so it's hard for me, but we must set the right example for other employees.
I see.
That's fine.
Yes.
Nitta,
..I have high hopes for you.
Don't disappoint me.
Thank you very much. I shall see to it.
Is that true?
Mr.Nitta said that the Grand Marriage case will be blamed on Sugishita?
Yes, he said "make him take responsibility".
Can't be helped.
It's turned rather ugly after all.
But it's not easy for Nitta either, having such a problematic subordinate.
Time for the meeting!
Keep this between us!
- Okay. - Busy me, busy me~
This is so horrible! It's all lies!!
The manager pushed Sugishita into lending the money.
I'm going to talk to Nitta.
Pointless.
Nothing you say will ever reach him.
Why do you give up so easily?
You and Sugishita too.
That "The win is the boss's, the loss is the subordinate's" thing is ridiculous!
- Can banks not admit having made a mistake? - Isn't that obvious?
You have it right. We all know that.
But,
...no matter how right it sounds,
...banks need to stick to certain things.
You might not know that, having been a cashier all along.
Sorry to nitpick,
...but is letting someone suffer unjustly a normal thing for banks?
When things flop everyone goes "Banks are banks".
Are banks that special?
What are you doing?
You are in Assisting Department?
I heard Mr.Nitta was here.
He has left by now.
I see.
What's your business with him?
Nothing, thanks.
Hanasaki, what's wrong?
Mr.Karashima.
So Souma said that.
Yes.
Maybe he sees his old self in Sugishita?
"If that's not happening, you take the blame."
What happened to him in the past?
I guess it's alright for you to know.
You know he used to be in the loan department in Marunouchi, right?
Yes, he was Nitta's subordinate.
This happened back then.
The company he lent to went bankrupt with a loss of a 100 million Yen.
Hundred million?
Taking the blame, he was moved into sales in the countryside.
In short he was marked and fell off the success ladder.
But there was a rumour back then.
That he was made to take responsibility instead of Nitta.
And that perhaps it was Nitta who was promoting that loan.
- notice of demotion -
Hang on a minute!
You were the one to hand out that loan to begin with!
I suggested reconsideration but you didn't listen, did you?
- So why me? - The one in charge,
...was you.
Nothing more, nothing less.
The outcome is everything.
For banks, it is.
So you take all of the blame.
Only those two know the real truth.
But there is no mistake that his life as a banker changed for good.
I see.
"But it's a surprise."
"That you are now doing this kind of work."
"You, the Loan Department's Ace now in assisting..."
Sorry about earlier.
I went too far.
From you, that was average.
Um,
-...um, - What?
Mr.Souma,
...shall we take revenge?
What are you saying?
I have realised something about Nitta.
- Hm? - Sugishita told me,
...that Nitta bought a house in the city centre.
Replaced his car with a foreign one as well.
And?
Isn't he taking money from Grand Marriage?
That's why he pushed for the loan to be accepted.
There's nothing to testify that.
Testify?
Ah! Here, here.
"I'd definitely like to aid such a promising company".
Isn't this Nitta's comment?
Can't this prove his pushiness?
With this alone it's impossible.
Something else~
- Sorry... - Look what you've done!
Don't tell me this is~
What's that, Hanasaki?
I thought so.
What's up?
Have a look at this.
- What is it? - One member of Grand Marriage,
...used to be one of my customers in Akasaka.
And you remember their names?
It's my duty as a cashier to remember my customers.
But just one of them~
No, just on this page there are 10 in total.
Is this a coincidence?
Hanasaki,
... we are looking into all of these 313 people.
Okay.
- Give me half of the list. - Here.
For the 50 million to be deemed as loss is just a matter of time now.
Yes.
Sugishita,
...are you prepared?
Sugishita!
Good day.
Why are you here?
We have something to tell you.
I don't have so much time as you do.
This is an important time assessing the future of the 50 million. Right, Sugishita?
Our talk is important too.
About the crime you committed, Manager Nitta.
Huh?
Crime?
What on earth are you saying?
You have recommended this loan to Grand Marriage for a certain reason, right?
Huh?
Hence you didn't take notice of Sugishita's warning who wanted to observe the situation first.
What is this rubbish you are saying?
I don't have time for this nonsense.
Get out.
What a shame.
I was hoping you'd admit to it.
I told you to get out!
This,
...is the signatures of all 313 female members of Grand Marriage.
When I compared their names to our bank's database,
...205 members, about two thirds, had a common feature.
That is, an account with our bank.
Hah,
...we are a mega-bank. This is only normal.
Indeed.
But this is not all.
All of their annual income is above 8 million,
...their account balance is over 5 million,
...and all are single women aged between 30 and 45.
Grand Marriage is a celebrity matchmaker.
Their target were women who had the right income and status, hence the high membership fee!
There was another common feature.
All these accounts are in Aoyama, Akasaka, Shibuya.
Just in these three branches.
Just in the metropolitan area we have 160 branches,
Is it really a coincidence that all of them fall into these three branches that are near Grand Marriage?
What's your point?
I suspect their personal data was leaked.
I've looked at the following search results in our database -
Single women between 30 and 45.
...having at least 5 million Yen in any of the following branches - Aoyama, Akasaka, Shibuya.
Only one person accessed the database and searched for such women.
Employee number 9806451.
Manager Nitta, that's you.
This is mistake, it's not me.
You sold data to Mr.Munakata, right?
Grand Marriage used that data to direct persistent and persuasive mails and phones to secure members.
You assisted in a a crime that put a lot of women through distress!
I had no idea it was a fraud!
How did it turn into this?
Mr.Nitta,
You have survived so far by pushing the blame on your subordinate when there were problems.
But you cannot push this blame on anyone now.
"The win is the boss' , the loss is the subordinate's".
If that's how banks think,
...then such thinking...
...sucks!
...Yes.
- Thank you. - No probs.
But,
...I must not give up either an work hard.
That's right, you are soon to be a dad.
Indeed.
It sucks, huh?
Sorry about saying something like that.
I'm not always like this, right?
- Hey! Hey!
No, really I don't talk like that ~
I'm always full of smiles like this ~
[TV] Regarding the data leak case,
...our customers and people involved,
...have been greatly inconvenienced,
...for which I deeply apologise.
Munakata confessed and looks like there is a hope for getting the 50 million back!
I see. And the victims?
The full amount is not possible, but they will be repaid to some extent.
- That's something at least. - It is.
But it's curious how incidents occur wherever the Assisting Department goes.
Yes, I guess.
But given the outcome, those two seem to be a good combination.
It's shocking how they damage our bank's reputation.
That Nitta, too.
His dismissal was appropriate.
Truly.
And that he took money...
Despite him being under your wings...
Say what?
Huh?
He was just a man with limited ability.
Yes.
So, this was again stirred up by the same department.
Yes.
At this rate,
...we won't be able to leave things alone.
Yes!
It's good that Sugishita wasn't shipped out.
Yeah.
His wife must be relieved too.
Probably.
Family is a nice thing after all ~
First you should get married.
True.
What should we have for lunch today?
Today we are off to Odawara, so how about fish paste?
That's for souvenir normally, you novice.
Oden,
...rice with seafood,
Fried mackerel!
- That sounds good! - Right?
- We think alike. - When it comes to food.
The train is due soon! Hurry!
Hey! Wait!
Fried mackerel!
Wait!