"The Best Chopin Ever"
Tokyo Piano Competition Youngest Winner!
Kayano Yume-san
Dad, I bought some.
Dad?
Dad...
Dad!
Wake up, Dad!
Dad!
Wake up, Dad!
Dad!
Are you all right?
Are you hurt?
I'm sorry.
I didn't see you there.
No, I'm fine.
Um...
If it's all right with you...
Thank you for giving me a ride.
Not at all.
I was just on my way to Shinjuku anyway.
What are you doing in Shinjuku?
I have to go to a café called Cat's Eye.
Cat's Eye.
She's finally back.
Dammit, Xiang Ying, how many times do I have to tell you not to go out by yourself?
What's wrong?
X Y Z.
I want to know about my murdered father.
Angel Heart
So your request is to help find the person who killed your dad, and to take revenge?
Revenge?
I'd like to, if I could.
But there's something that's bothering me more.
I want you to find out what kind of person my dad was.
We haven't had Dad's funeral.
Dad was gone while I was looking for the police.
He's still deemed missing.
I hired a detective to find out, and the company he worked at didn't exist.
He'd never let us into his room before, but suddenly it was burned down.
There's no trace of your dad having lived.
Worse, there's someone trying to erase him.
Dad smiled before he died.
Dad!
I can...
finally die.
Please.
Who was my dad?
Why did he smile?
I want you to find out.
I got your situation.
But I don't know if I can take your request yet.
I'll let you know once I decide.
Thank you.
Want a ride?
It's fine, I have a car.
It was me.
I was the one who killed her father.
I can turn her down.
You're okay with this?
I won't run.
I think Kaori's telling me not to run, too.
I'm surprised.
You are City Hunter, too?
My name is Takanami Haruka.
I used to teach Yume-chan piano.
Now, at Yume-chan's father's request, I'm her guardian.
We're in good hands, huh, Sensei?
We had a detective look into it, but we didn't learn much.
I hope you can help us out.
Haruka-sensei's pretty, huh?
You live with her?
Yes, she's like my mom now.
Your dad chose her as your guardian?
Dad asked her to.
In case something were to happen to him.
Glass Heart's last victim...
Yume-chan's dad was an assassin.
Commonly called Mad Dog.
Mad Dog? The bomber?
He's more of a terrorist than an assassin.
Several of the organization's people were killed by him back in the day.
There was an hit put on him.
So Xiang Ying got him.
It'd be cruel to tell such a little girl all that.
But if we don't, she'll be in mortal danger.
What do you mean?
Mad Dog had an accomplice named Dog Walker.
Walker would take assassination requests, and Mad would make the hit.
They were an assassination duo.
That's everything I know.
After Mad died, Walker realized he'd be next.
He erased every trace of his own existence and vanished like smoke.
So it was Walker that took the father's body away and burned down his room.
Yes, most likely.
To conduct research on Yume-chan's father is to conduct research on Walker.
I'd say it's dangerous to go any further.
I'll let you know if we learn anything.
Hey...
I ran into you on the same day that I wanted to make a request to City Hunter.
It's kind of like this was fate.
You're right.
If it's all right with you, would you please be my friend?
Sure.
Please don't come here anymore.
Please forget about the request.
He got away.
Quick-footed bastard.
Are you all right?
I'm going to
get killed.
Like that detective.
I just found today's surprise mokkori-chan!
I'm Ryo-chan.
Nice to—
Ow, ow.
Mad Dog.
I haven't told Yume-chan yet,
but the detective we hired before dug up everything.
Kayano-san was an assassin.
And...
The detective you hired also ended up killed.
Looks like you've already stepped on the tiger's tail.
You two are already being targeted by Walker.
Knowing that...
Wanna come over to Ryo-chan's place now?
What?
I mean, it's not safe here.
Let's go.
Hurry.
Ow, ow.
He shot them?
Dog Walker, huh?
I had Yume-chan and Haruka-sensei taken in at Doc's office for now.
They're in most danger around you, in some ways.
Rude!
Xiang Ying-san.
Were you crying?
Yume, you've been forcing yourself to put on a smile all this time, haven't you?
So that you wouldn't worry the people around you.
Between Yume-chan, who's trying too hard to look happy,
and Xiang Ying, who's trying to give her company...
Tragic.
Xiang Ying is the one who's going to be hurt, the more she tries to help Yume-chan.
Yet, knowing that, she...
City Hunter and Glass Heart are in contact with Mad Dog's daughter.
Mad Dog, you say?
Glass Heart's last assassination target.
If we continue observing them, we may be able to smoke out his partner, Dog Walker.
I suppose this, too,
is fate.
A piano concert?
Wow, you can play piano?
I want you to come watch.
Me?
Yeah.
A concert?
Oh, dear!
You have to dress up if you're going to a concert.
I know.
You can lend her the dress you bought today.
No way.
I have to wear it first.
Oh, come on.
You said you couldn't wear it
until after you go on a diet, because you put on so much weight.
You're awful!
You didn't have to say that in front of Xin-Hong-kun.
Oh, all right.
I'll lend you my dress.
This brings back memories.
Of when I was trying to make it into the International Chopin Piano Competition.
I got in trouble for playing Beethoven.
Screw this dress!
Wait, what—
What did you do that for?!
I ripped up the sleeve before you could wear it.
Wild, isn't it?
Now I'm angry!
Hit me.
I've never hit a person.
Quit it.
That's enough.
We have to get ready for opening time.
Let's go.
You better give it back.
Umi-chan, put it on my tab, please.
Put it on our tab?
But we already have it on.
Oh, my.
Get out of here!
Bye-bye.
Dammit, those losers.
I've sent the monsters away.
Fear not, Haruka-san.
I know we're in danger, but she doesn't know she's being targeted.
I can't talk her out of it.
I guess we'll have to do something about it ourselves.
Please.
Arf!
May I go as a guard, too?
Yeah.
Tokyo Student Piano Concert
Looking pretty good, Xiang Ying.
Right, Xin-Hong?
Xin-Hong!
Don't drag us down, gawking at Xiang Ying's stylishness.
I know!
Masaomi-san.
No way.
The Kazama Masaomi-san?
I'll introduce you.
He's the world-class pianist...
I'm Kazama Masaomi, Haruka-san's boyfriend.
Boyfriend?
Yume-chan, I'm looking forward to your performance today.
Okay.
I can't.
My heart's about to explode, knowing the Kazama-san is listening.
Please, give me a hug.
The sound of your heart is relaxing.
It's not my heart.
What do you mean?
I fell off a building and died once.
This heart is a transplant, from Kaori.
Kaori is Ryo's wife.
He takes great care of me,
as I have her heart.
Your heart, Kaori-san's heart,
sounds so kind
and happy.
Next, Kayano Yume-san will play Chopin's Étude Op. 10, No 3 in E Major, "Farewell."
Xiang Ying.
Xiang Ying!
Hey, Xiang Ying!
Are you all right?
Xiang Ying!
Is Xiang Ying all right?
The bullet only scraped her, but she hit her head hard.
She's crazy.
Xiang Ying wouldn't mind losing her life for Yume-chan right now.
Chief, we checked the security cameras in the hall.
And?
We didn't see anyone except for staff and participants.
I see.
Then go ahead and question them.
Right.
Chief, I—
Aye aye, sir.
I learned something strange about Mad Dog.
What?
There's an unsolved murder case from eleven years ago,
where a whole family was killed in Yokohama City.
Are you telling me Mad Dog did it?
Most likely.
But one among the family,
a baby that was just one year old at the time, went missing.
A baby?
If she were alive now, she'd be twelve years old, like Yume-chan.
Dad!
Wake up, Dad!
I can finally be free.
Why?
How did this happen?
Yume.
I'm sorry.
Yume-chan just won't leave her side.
She's a smart kid.
She probably has an idea of what she's up against.
Masaomi-san.
Sorry I'm late.
I got caught up with witness questioning and cleanup and all that.
She told me what's going on.
Why didn't you ask the police for help?
Huh?
Calm down.
Sorry.
Is there anything I can do to help?
Nope.
By being here, you're just adding to the list of people we need to protect.
It's all right.
Just leave it to them.
But—
I don't want to get you mixed up into this.
Haruka.
Just be careful.
Private Caller
Too bad about last night's concert.
Why are you being targeted?
Does it have something to do with your murdered father?
I'm sure your head's spinning with ideas.
Very well.
I'll tell you why.
Yume-chan.
I'm going to the bathroom.
Xin-Hong.
Go to the hospital washroom. Don't let anyone notice you.
Nice to meet you.
My name is Dog Walker.
To be honest, it pains me to have to tell you the truth.
Seeing how your dad was a murderer.
Your dad was a great partner to me.
But he was murdered by an organization's assassin.
I'm shocked.
To think that you would be with the assassin that killed your dad.
Huh?
The assassin's name is Glass Heart.
The woman you call Xiang Ying.
That woman is our true adversary.
Well?
Don't you want to exact revenge?
With your own hands?
I hid a weapon in the toilet tank.
Use it to kill her.
I want to be alone with Xiang Ying-san.
Do you think she only went to use the washroom?
Did you really kill Dad, Xiang Ying-san?
Answer me.
Please.
Answer me.
Yume-chan.
May I have that?
She killed Dad.
Who told you that?
I don't know.
I don't know anyone anymore.
Yume-chan.
I found it, a DVD.
It's just like you said.
Yume-chan, open up.
Please.
Xiang Ying.
I know who Dog Walker is.
Saeba-san has an idea, too.
You should get some rest.
Let Saeba-san take care of the rest.
Wait.
Yume-chan found out who killed her father.
As well as who her father was.
She tried to kill you.
Are you still going?
I am.
I can't run away.
Here comes the white knight, huh?
I'll protect Haruka and Yume-chan.
How mighty.
But what can an amateur like you do?
Or is there something other than the piano that you're good at?
With this hand?
Get out of the way, please.
Hello.
Xiang Ying is headed your way.
I'm sorry.
I couldn't stop her.
Oh, no, no.
That's totally fine, Xin-Hong-chan.
What? Now?
What's Ryo-chan supposed to do?
But I think I'll go.
Nah, no worries.
Yume-chan, I'm coming in.
Masaomi-san.
This wouldn't have happened if you'd done as I said and killed Glass Heart.
What?
We're out of time, Xiang Ying.
Are you...
Are you Dog Walker?
I am.
I dated you to observe you, so that you two wouldn't get in the way.
Mad Dog left me with some annoying clean-up to do, though.
I knew he should have killed you that day eleven years ago.
I'll tell you one last thing: Mad—no,
Kayano Eisuke—
wasn't your father.
He's the one who killed your true family.
He couldn't kill you when you were a baby eleven years ago.
He took you with him.
By giving you love, he tried to forget,
for a moment, the fact that he was a murderer.
Do you understand?
You were being fooled for a long time.
No.
I knew.
I knew he wasn't my real dad.
Happy 11th Birthday!
We're not related, Dad?
Someday, you'll find out.
Your true family, I—
I killed them
by my own error in a car accident.
I'm sorry.
I've been deceiving you this whole time.
If you don't want to live with a murderer...
If that's not what you want...
I only have one dad in the whole world.
I'm sorry, Yume.
Dad is my dad.
That's enough talk.
I'll have you pay for not heeding my warning.
Stop!
Don't move!
Move, and I'll kill them.
Xiang Ying-san.
I've taken care of Dog Walker.
Yume-chan?
Why are you here?
Why did you take my request?
You knew the whole time.
Why?
Why did you become my friend?
Stay away!
Yume.
I've
been taking orders to kill people.
But that day I saw you crying,
and I decided, "No more."
So I decided to die
and threw myself off a building.
But I was given a transplant heart, and I survived.
I was given Kaori's heart.
I met Ryo.
And now I don't have to kill anyone.
Thanks to those two,
I learned what warmth—what happiness—is.
But
I don't deserve to have
happiness while you're suffering.
So
take your revenge.
Now.
She's not the one you want to shoot, Yume-chan.
Make the person experience the same pain that you did.
Isn't that what real revenge is?
In which case, the one you want to shoot
is me.
What are you talking about?
I'm kind of like Xiang Ying's dad.
This is my problem.
Xiang Ying,
you're going to live life to the fullest, aren't you?
For Kaori's part, too.
The sound of your heart is relaxing.
You're the same
as my dad, Xiang Ying-san.
You didn't kill my dad because you wanted to.
You were told to.
Right?
But
I was the one who did it.
It's okay.
It's okay now.
Xiang Ying-san.
About Dog Walker, we found a casing from a nearby building.
It looks like everyone in the area is off the hook.
I guess we owe Legion just this once.
Oh, yeah! Isn't today the day Yume-chan and Haruka are leaving?
Yeah.
Yume-chan's amazing.
Studying abroad.
Is Xiang Ying going to see them off?
I don't know.
I heard the two haven't met ever since.
I'm hoping that studying abroad will be a good opportunity for the girl.
I'm impressed that you decided to take Yume-chan under your wing, though.
You couldn't abandon her, huh?
I didn't want to be alone, either.
Two people who can't go on alone, sticking together.
That's not bad, either.
Say, where's Xiang Ying-san?
I'm sure she's nearby, but it's not easy.
It seems Yume-chan's tried to get in contact with Yume-chan several times.
She understands in her head, but her heart can't process it that easily, I guess.
Xiang Ying-san.
Yume-chan.
Let's go.
I want to say goodbye.
Don't you want to go?
What Yume said to you doesn't change what I did in my past.
I...
If Yume-chan told you she wanted you to go away, what would you do?
I'd disappear immediately.
Then what if she said she wanted to see you and say goodbye?
Are you all right?
Are you hurt?
If it's all right with you, would you please be my friend?
The sound of your heart is relaxing.
Yume.
Thanks.
I'll see you, Xiang Ying-san.
Off you go.
Good on you for facing her.
She cried on you and fell asleep?
Our Xiang Ying?
Yeah.
I can't believe the Glass Heart would fall asleep outside.
It's a good thing.
It means she feels safe.
She's changed, I guess.
But it's a good change.
Oh, speaking of which, why do you think Mad Dog—
I mean, Yume-chan's dad— smiled as he was dying?
Yume-chan's dad must have felt it was a good time for him to disappear.
To take responsibility for his life as an assassin.
He had faith in Haruka-san's ability to
let Yume-chan find happiness in life going forward.
I think that's why he smiled in his passing.
Hey, Ryo,
Were you serious when you told her to shoot you instead of Xiang Ying?
Yeah.
I didn't want to lose the one I loved
for a second time.
Me, neither.
"Glass Heart's father"?
Are you sure Saeba Ryo said that?
Yes.
I see.
Then I suppose he would suffer dearly if he were to lose her.
Hurry up and bring me Glass Heart.
Sir.
What do you want?
This drama is a work of fiction.
Xiang Ying was abducted by Legion?
What do they want to achieve by abducting her?
What should I do?
Are you saying we should leave Xiang Ying for dead?
Thank you for everything.
I promise to bring Xiang Ying back safely.