I've already thrown everything away. To take revenge on every single person
who drove my father to his death.
15 years ago, the person who passed on false information about Osanai Sensei to me
was Hyuga.
Hyuga got it this time.
I wanted to return the favor as a reporter.
Another person with a deep connection to the Gastroenterological Surgery Dept. is gone, huh?
It's for the sake of cleansing this hospital.
Certainly.
I ask you to continue your observation.
So, Sensei. How did the test result turn out?
Well...
- Tani-kun. - Yes.
Sensei?
You have liver cancer.
What?
You have liver cancer.
It's spread to the lungs.
Then...please operate on him immediately.
Surgery is meaningless at this point.
Don't cry.
It's okay.
What would you like to do now?
You can go home and rest, or
get transferred to a hospice.
Just a minute.
Palliative care is outside our area of specialty.
Are you going to abandon me?
This is a place to treat patients who can be cured.
Professor Bandai's quite a guy.
For a while, bad rumors almost spread because of the uproar caused by Hyuga.
The opinion leader of the Gastroenterological Surgery Department is immovable, huh?
Come in.
Excuse me.
Congratulations on your appointment as Chairman of the Guideline Committee.
Are you satisfied now that you sold out Hyuga?
That's because I was betrayed by Hyuga Sensei.
I couldn't believe he'd say something like that at the press conference.
I was able to prove that the hospital's decision had no basis in fact.
Thanks to him, I was clobbered for writing a false report.
For something that happened 15 years ago.
So, what's the real reason you're here?
The thing is,
before all that happened,
Hyuga Sensei told me something disturbing.
In regards to Osanai Sensei.
That his death
was caused by a medical error. Is that true?
You know something, right?
So what if I do?
Do you have proof?
If you don't have proof,
truth doesn't exist either.
I'm positive.
Bandai knows everything.
15 years ago, that guy
had his subordinates try out the latest technology, knowing the danger.
In order to succeed in the surgery everyone was talking about
and make it his own achievement.
The surgeons Bandai chose were Date and Chihara.
But they ran into difficulties with the new procedure and failed.
Bandai ordered them to cover up the mistake.
What's more, in order to
elude you and the public,
he framed Osanai Sensei for the crime.
Bandai's the mastermind behind the plot that drove your father to his death.
Finally, the last and biggest foe.
Here you go.
- Try it, if you like. - Ah, thanks.
I'll go check out the people who are likely to know what happened 15 years ago.
- What about you? - I'll draw out information from Bandai's son.
When did those two become friends?
It's great to be young, huh?
Professor Bandai, I'm with Okita Pharmaceutical.
Please give me a little of your time. Just 5 minutes will do.
Professor, can you give me some time in regards to the schedule for the clinical trial?
Sure.
Sorry, but we have a long-standing relationship.
- Tezuka Pharmaceutical... - How much money are they heaping on him?
Thank you.
We are truly honored that you agreed to take part in the clinical trial.
Besides, if this clinical trial is successful,
it can contribute to the progress of your research.
It's a great honor for our company if it can serve as a stepping stone for the Hospital Director's election.
By the way, I heard.
That you were undertaking the treatment of that mountaineer, Hagiwara Koichi.
You sure keep your ear to the ground.
Please have him participate in the clinical trial by all means.
It would be a big advertising opportunity for us as well.
That goes without saying.
Professor, the usual yokan (azuki bean jelly) for you.
I brought you three today.
Clinical Trial Kickoff Meeting
I'm Yoshida from Tezuka Pharmaceutical R&D Department.
Please take a look at the handout in front of you.
This new investigational new drug (IND) RX-1
is a new drug that reduces recurrence risk after surgery for progressive gastric cancer.
From among the patients who had surgery for gastric cancer,
please enlist as many patients as you can who meet the requirements of the clinical trial.
Carry on.
This time, at the discretion of Professor Bandai,
we will be conducting a clinical trial.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation.
I'll continue.
Please direct your attention to page 7.
I'm having my patient, Hagiwara Koichi-san, participate too.
But Professor, Hagiwara-san has
Lewis antigens Le a- and Le b-.
We don't have sufficient data to administer the new drug to him.
Before we administer it to Hagiwara-san, try it out first on this patient.
Yamane Masaru
You mean we're testing it on this patient so see if
it's compatible with Hagiwara-san?
The hospital has two types of patients.
Patients who need to be saved no matter what, and
all other patients.
But if, by any chance, there's a side effect...
He's a patient with progressive gastric cancer who just had surgery.
Even if something does happen to him,
it's not unnatural.
That's terrible.
I can't believe he's experimenting with another patient.
I suppose that's how special this patient Hagiwara is to him.
What does he think human lives are?
You father took advantage of his position as a doctor
and lined his own pocket.
- You're wrong. - He's the scum of the earth.
I'm going to drag him down.
Hagiwara-san, you're not supposed to overexert yourself.
I can go to the bathroom already. Don't underestimate a mountain man.
- Good morning. - Good morning, Dad.
How many days since you had your surgery?
This is my fifth day.
Then, you're one day ahead of me.
- Hey, say you're greeting. - Hello.
Hi there. Did you come to visit your papa?
- Yes. - How old are you?
- 7 years old. - Second grade?
- Oh, Asumi Sensei. - Yes?
Say, did you know
- they're having this thing soon? - No.
It's a get-together for the younger doctors and nurses.
But I'm not sure if we fit in the "younger" category.
- So you wanna go together? - I'm sorry.
I have something planned for that day.
It's like there's a wall there, huh?
Mizuno Sensei. I wonder if she can't get acclimated.
I thought we finally got a doctor with a backbone, but
it appears there's also something suspicious about this Mizuno Asumi-san, huh?
Yes.
She's currently on Bandai Sensei's Clinical Trial Team, right?
Yes.
Keep your eye on her as much as you can.
Will do.
I hope I'm just worrying about nothing.
Hagiwara Koichi.
Asumi Sensei.
- Good evening. - Say...
aren't you hungry? We made too much curry yesterday.
- No, I... - It would be a waste to throw it away.
Wanna come over? Or rather, please come. Okay?
What type of curry do you like?
We don't have any potatoes in ours.
- Here you go. - Mm~ Smells good.
- Good evening. - Hey.
Daiki, how many hours of TV a day?
Cut that out!
Help yourself to all the food and all the drinks you want.
But there actually is a pretty doctor like you.
Daiki, have her teach you how you can get smarter.
That's a waste of time. I'm your son after all.
Daiki doesn't have to study too much since he's carrying on with the shop, right?
Daiki, are you planning to carry on the shop?
You just don't want to study.
That's not the reason.
Dad's crying again.
Aw come on. That reaction's from the Showa era.
You idiot. Who's crying?
You're crying. Come on.
Dad, let's eat.
I'll pour you the curry.
You laugh too much.
Here, a present for you.
Cute, huh?
Even when you're busy, it's soothing when you look at flowers.
Thank you.
- Sorry, we're such a silly family. - Not at all.
They're warm and cheerful.
I'm envious.
Actually, I am grateful to my parents for raising us by running this tiny shop.
That's why I want to get married and let them live comfortably.
Someone who has a stable life,
takes good care of my family,
someone with a kind heart.
Is there someone you like?
Sort of. By the way, can you drop the formal talk?
Let's just talk casually between us.
We're friends, right?
Since you just got here, things may not always go well, but
you can gripe to me or whatever.
Okay? Asumi.
The relationship between my father and Hagiwara-san?
Yeah. Do they have some kind of a special relationship?
I believe he's been his primary doctor for a long time.
Why do you want to know that?
You know I didn't graduate from this university, right?
So there are too many things I don't know.
I feel a little out of place in the medical staff's office too.
But nothing will change if I remain passive, so
I thought I'd at least
try to learn as much as I can about Professor Bandai.
You're strong, aren't you?
Mizuno Sensei.
Hagiwara-san is the patient my father values the most.
This time too, he adjusted his schedule so that he could personally perform the surgery.
I see.
By the way,
what are you doing this weekend?
The thing is...
looks like there's going to be a barbecue party.
I'll think about it.
Please do.
So the Hagiwara you were talking about was Hagiwara Koichi?
- Do you know him? - Of course I know him.
The media's keeping their eye on his hospitalization this time around too.
Pick one.
Bandai's probably trying to use Hagiwara as a walking advertisement.
If he succeeds in treating a celebrity, he can make his name known in a big way.
That's something Bandai would do.
- I'm going to take advantage of that. - Take advantage?
If I can make his treatment of Hagiwara fail,
it could trigger Bandai's downfall.
You can't get a patient involved.
Let's think of some other way.
Like what?
This.
Bandai and this Tazaki from Tezuka Pharmaceutical are working hand in glove.
For more than 15 years now.
This woman may know something about Osanai Sensei's incident.
Ah~ I'm getting hungry.
You wanna go eat at your dad's restaurant?
I'm going back to the hospital.
Oh, okay. But you still have to eat, don't you?
If you don't want to eat alone, I'll come join you. Some place around here.
That's okay. I always eat alone.
What do you mean always. You must have some friends.
I don't have any.
Not even one?
We're friends, right?
There isn't a single person I can talk to without lying.
Here you go, lamb pie.
I know for sure I didn't order this.
It's okay, help yourself.
- Behind you. - Go ahead.
Master, does Asumi-chan
ever bring anyone here?
- Seems like she's always alone. - Ah, well, yeah.
She went through a lot after her father passed away.
Come to think of it, Osanai used to talk a lot
about the day he buried his wife.
Osanai and Asumi were
walking home together, overwhelmed by a feeling of
insecurity about the future.
Just then, when he happened to look up at the sky,
a huge~ rainbow
was clearly visible.
Asumi. Look, a rainbow.
He told me that's when he said to Asumi.
I'm sure that's Mom cheering us up.
If, in the future, we get sad,
let's remember that rainbow.
That sounds like something Osanai Sensei would say.
Asumi. Look, a rainbow.
I'm sure that's Mom
cheering us up.
Asumi.
I want you to be smiling all the time.
A smiling face suits you the best.
New drug.
Clinical trial.
Lewis antigen.
Bandai.
- Clinical trial of a new drug? - It's a new drug that reduces the risk of recurrence.
It's not sold on the market yet, right?
But all the drugs on the market now started out like this. That's what clinical trial is all about.
Will I lose my hair or lose a lot of weight?
I can't guarantee there won't be any risk, but
so far, we haven't heard of any strong side effects.
Incidentally, the cost of the treatment will be covered by the pharmaceutical company.
Does that mean it's free?
Yes. But the most important thing is that
by administering this drug, recurrence risk of the gastric cancer
will be reduced by 10 to 15 percent.
It's going to be reduced by that much?
We can now recommend the treatment to Hagiwara-san too, right?
Yeah.
By administering this drug, recurrence risk of the gastric cancer
will be reduced by 10 to 15 percent.
Are you sure there won't be any side effects?
Of course, we can't say there won't be any for sure.
But just in case anything should happen, we are fully prepared to treat it.
I see.
Perhaps you can think of it this way.
Just as a mountain has many climbing routes,
there are many ways to treat a disease.
But Professor Bandai here is an authority on gastric cancer.
A specialist who has climbed numerous mountains, so to speak.
If I was the patient,
I think I'd take my chances with the route chosen by the Professor.
You take part in the treatment of Hagiwara-san too.
Certainly.
Asumi.
Can I see you for a bit later?
What did you want to talk about?
Well...Asumi,
how do you feel about Yuma Sensei?
Huh?
Yesterday, when I saw you two talking,
it kinda looked like you two had something going, so I was just wondering.
What do you mean?
To tell you the truth,
I'm kinda interested in him.
Since you and I got to be friends,
I don't want our relationship to get complicated.
How do you feel about him, Asumi?
Nothing especially.
Really?
Really.
What a relief~.
Then will you root for me?
Of course.
I'm so glad~.
I guess I was worried about nothing.
Tezuka Pharmaceutical Main Office
Hello, Tazaki-san.
I'm Nishikado with Maicho Shimbun.
Do you have some business with me?
There's something I'd like to ask you.
In regards to the laparoscopic surgery that was performed 15 years ago.
You're knowledgeable about lots of things, aren't you?
Do you think I'd go blabbering about my good customers?
That's true.
But...
how about this?
52,000 yen on this day.
And 110,000 here.
Looks like it far exceeds the limit for entertainment expenses set forth by
the Fair Trade Council of the Ethical Pharmaceutical Drugs Marketing Industry.
If I submit this to the Council,
I imagine you would be placed in a difficult situation.
Do you feel like talking now?
Looks like you're ready to get started on the clinical trial.
Then maybe it's about time I start body conditioning.
That will have to wait for a while.
That's too bad.
I had already decided on the next mountain to tackle.
The Himalayas again?
There's a mountain called Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
It's my dream to climb that mountain with my daughter.
Your daughter?
I haven't seen her since my wife and I divorced.
I've been climbing mountains all over the world until now.
But now that I got sick,
all I have are regrets for not having done anything fatherly for my daughter.
I once saw
a rainbow over this mountain.
I want to show my daughter that sight.
Although I don't even know if she'll see me.
Asumi. Look, a rainbow.
I want you to be smiling all the time.
A smiling face suits you the best.
You're late.
Did something happen?
Nothing in particular.
That aside, were you able to get anything out of the pharmaceutical company?
Well, she's one tough cookie too.
She wouldn't tell me anything crucial.
I guess it's not that easy, huh?
I have no choice but to use Hagiwara after all.
Make his clinical trial fail and...
I'm telling you, you can't do that. Don't drag in people who have nothing to do with it.
Buzz off.
Are you really okay with that?
Once you avenge your father,
aren't you going back to the regular lifestyle?
Make friends, and laugh over silly things.
You should find ordinary happiness like any normal 29-year old.
But now, if you hurt someone who has nothing to do with it
and end up shouldering the blame,
you'll end up giving up everything.
Are you really okay with that?
Come with me.
Come upstairs.
With shoes on?
Do you see now?
This is who I am.
For 15 years, I only thought about revenge.
Think about the future?
Don't get strangers involved?
That's just superficial talk.
They mean nothing to me.
I don't care about the future.
I'm not hoping for any ordinary happiness.
If you're going to get in my way,
don't appear before me any more.
Are you going now? Do you have your umbrella?
I'm Nagata with Tezuka Pharmaceutical. Thank you for your cooperation.
26 through 50.
Please take them.
Now then, Yamane-san, we'll get you going on the new drug.
I entrust my care to you.
Doesn't it hurt?
No, it doesn't hurt.
We started administering the new drug to the patient who has the same Lewis antigen,
- Le a- and Le b-, as Hagiwara-san. - Okay.
Don't drag in people who has nothing to do with it.
Mizuno Sensei, it's Yamane-san...
- Dad! - Excuse me.
Yamane-san?
Can you hear me? Yamane-san.
Take him to ICU immediately.
Yamane-san, we're moving the bed.
Yamane-san, are you all right?
Dad!
Yamane-san? Yamane-san, are you all right?
- There's accumulation of fluid in the lungs. - Prepare for intubation and get the ventilator.
Bring me morphine.
Professor, he's in an extremely critical condition.
- What about the other test participants? - Nothing out of the ordinary for now.
That means the cause must lie in the Lewis antigen.
That's fine then. It wasn't totally unexpected.
Don't upset the patient.
We'll carry on with the clinical trial.
Any questions?
That's all.
How should I explain this to Yamane-san's family?
Explanation is not necessary.
With his condition, there's a good possibility of complications like pulmonary embolism.
In other words, we're covering up the fact that
the new drug was what caused his condition to worsen?
Cover up isn't an appropriate use of the word here.
Even if the new drug caused his condition to worsen,
can you prove that?
If you can't prove it,
the truth doesn't exist.
We're starting Hagiwara-san on the drug tomorrow, right?
Yes. I'll have his medication switched with vitamins or something.
Of course, we'll tell him he's being administered the investigational new drug as planned.
That goes without saying. If he finds out now that we changed the drug,
other test participants will be affected as well.
Your father's the scum of the earth.
If you can't prove it, the truth doesn't exist.
So it's finally come.
For 15 years, I only thought about revenge.
It's me.
I've been thinking all this time.
But I still think
you're wrong.
You should make them stop the clinical trial before the drug causes side effects.
It's too late now.
- Yamane had side effects. - What?
He probably won't make it through the night.
Although that makes it convenient for me.
I can finally take revenge on Bandai now.
- What are you talking about? - I'm giving the drug to Hagiwara.
If there are two victims,
and one of them is a celebrity,
the public won't leave him alone.
Don't do anything foolish...
Seirin University Hospital, please.
I'll be administering the drug.
Wasn't I supposed to start tomorrow?
No, it's as scheduled.
I see. I entrust my care to you.
Thank you.
All I have are regrets for not having done anything fatherly for my daughter.
It's sure been raining a lot.
There's a mountain called Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
It's my dream to climb that mountain with my daughter.
Your father's
the scum of the earth.
Sensei, is something wrong?
No.
I will begin now.
Excuse me. Which room is Hagiwara-san's....
- He's in room 603. - Where's that?
Oh...
Yes?
Look.
Asumi, I want you to be smiling all the time.
A smiling face
suits you the best.
I don't know what's worrying you, but
young people should look to the future
and keep a smile on their face.
Once the rain lets up, a rainbow can even appear.
I wonder what happened to Sensei.
Pardon me?
She stopped administering the drug suddenly.
He told me that's when he said to Asumi.
If, in the future, we get sad,
let's remember that rainbow.
Excuse me.
Mizuno Sensei?
Is something wrong?
So this is where you were.
I'm glad you held back.
I was so close.
Even Hagiwara
won't be deceived twice.
That was my only chance.
Don't try to shoulder everything by yourself.
Let me take half of your load.
So
don't get reckless.
I'm not being reckless.
I'll never waver again.
I'll do anything to avenge my father.
Do you
really think you're doing this for your father?
Isn't what you're trying to do
nothing more than self-satisfaction?
You know, today...wasn't the rainbow just amazing?
I don't know. I didn't see it.
I shouldn't have come after all.
May I have some yakisoba?
Sure.
Did Mizuno Sensei tell you something?
Something as in?
Like there's something she's worried about.
I'll try asking her next time, okay?
- Here you go. - Thank you.
This is great.
I really admire people who can cook.
Really, this isn't that big of a deal.
Tazaki-san~!
I heard one of your investigational new drugs caused a casualty.
Let me warn you first that you can't write about that.
There's no proof.
I know.
All I want to know is what happened 15 years ago.
The only thing I know is that
Bandai Sensei and Osanai Sensei were at each other's throat.
That can't be true.
Osanai Sensei wasn't the kind of person to quarrel with someone.
I'm not lying.
Just a few days before he died,
they were arguing loudly about what does he think human lives are or something like that.
- Let's think about this one more time. - What do you know!
What do you think human lives are!