That abandoned baby, they still haven't found the mother,
it seems it's just been moved to the Department of child services.
...abandoning a child, that really is the worst.
Putting it in a cardboard box. But leaving it
in front of our place, they at least wanted it to be cared for, right.
But either way, that's not a mother.
It was a very immature thing to do.
Hey, I've brought you oden. You cold?
You want another blanket, right?
I'll go find one.
Sixty thousand yen. It's OK, somehow I'll get it.
Yoko, where have you been?
What are you doing?
Whats with that face?
Don't mess with me!
How can you look at your parent with that look?
You know it is me that has raised you till now?
Now, say something!
With a smiling face, With a smiling face,
if we talk... if we talk...
our friends, our friends,
we can make. we can make.
Director, while you are singing, I am really sorry but,
have you got a minute? Oh, yes.
You can wait until he gets dropped off, but
please talk with her today, OK.
What? Yukiya kun's day care bill.
they haven't paid anything for 3 months.
I know, but however, his mother....
It's Asahi Yuriko san.
Right, that person... I know!
Her husband split, she works morning till night,
is diligently raising Yukiya kun. Therefore...
A beautician's apprentice, just barely making it.
Doesn't have any extra.
Therefore, what is it? Well Sayako san,
you said everything I wanted to say.
I do well understand her situation.
But you know, this Smiling Garden is just barely making it!
If we don't collect the child care fees, we can't go on!
Hey Director, can we buy a new plush toy?
No, right now, impossible, impossible.
Well but, please have a look.
If there were ever a word in this world for something being worn out,
surely it would be this.
Mending that with a needle and thread, Minami chan, can't you do it?
What's worn out here, is the management.
Huh, what? the loan from that scary Yamauchi?
Thats not what we were talking about.
Don't think everything is Yamauchi, alright.
You're wrong, I just want to be there for the day-care.
Where you going?
School....
You can't. I told you to do cleaning and laundry, right.
If Motoki san comes back after I go out,
you make sure you ask him, OK.
He might become your father. Is that for real!?
What, what's with that look!?
No...
Good morning. Good morning.
Morning, Yukiya. Yu kun, morning.
Well, we've got him. Oh, oh, Asahi san.
Yes, A minute, minute.
Can we talk for just a moment about a matter.
Well... you now owe for 3 months of day care, however.
Oh, yes, I know. I'm sorry.
Tomorrow, for sure. Excuse me.
You said that bluntly, Sayoko san.
I can't help it. I'm sorry,
leaving it to Sayoko san to say.
Is Asahi san using any assistance program?
Like getting a child care allowance, or receiving food stamps, right?
No, like section 8 housing assistance, or applied for social security insurance?
In the first place, what about child support? What is her ex-husband doing?
He ran off. The jerk.
Suzuna san, your the question queen. Bug off please.
Well is this daycare, just barely managing like that?
Shut up! It's just that Minami chan said as much.
"What's going on when we can't even buy plush toys?"
Good!, I'll go buy a plush toy myself?
If that's the case, I'll buy it. Don't involve yourself unnecessarily.
Hey, Jojima.
A job? Find a person?
Alright, be right there.
A detective job? I'll help too. Fine without you!
Stay out!
Oh, nice. Therefore I gave him a loan
of a million yen, when I tried to collect, he suddenly disappeared.
He's a really annoying man. You know, that's marriage fraud.
I'm sure he has cheated other women too.
Well, we don't know about others, but.
But to deceive such a beautiful woman... you know!
What? Hana chan.
There's not many jobs this easy. Because we know the guy.
Motoki Shigenori, age 40.
And your reward, is 150 thousand.
So yes, you will take it on!
Then please. Really 1 million, and then belt him.
For sure, OK.
When this goes well, let's celebrate, OK.
Hey... like some Tai or.... Oh she's gone.
Well, and so?
"And so?" what about it?
I have work I have to do.
But this is not just any ordinary job is it? That's why your having me do it.
You're sharp! That man Motoki,
is a member of Momoi group.
The Momoi group... Of course he's connected to the mob.
Can't help it. It's fate...
Fate is written karma.
I'll keep investigating too, move on it today, OK.
What, I don't know that guy.
Hey, now, now...
look carefully! I did.
I'm working right now, OK.
Good! Great!
Hey, hey... how much for that?
One play is 100 yen. 100 Yen?
I'll try it with 300 yen.
Come on! Come on ! Doggy!
Oh what is this, now. Isn't this impossible~!
Come on!
Hey this is my last try.
Good! Hey move.
You want this plush toy? That's right.
Hey what're doing?
Huh, you're doing it?
It's my last 100 yen, however!
No way....
Oh, you're first try?
Great ! Great !
Here!
Oh thank you!
2000 yen. What?
It's much cheaper than buying it at a store, but.
Please discount it to one thousand... seven hundred yen please.
Pitiful adult. Alright.
But thank you! The children will be happy.
In elementary school? I am Yoko.
So you're Yoko.
What about school today? We got out early today.
And so my mother is waiting.
You know,
My father is the president of a big company,
mother is a musician.
Now I'm just waiting for my mother's performance to be over.
That's great.
This year for new years, we'll be at our villa in Hawaii!
Hey, if your mother's coming to get you, you know it's fine but.
if your alone, loitering around here isn't OK.
Don't want to hear it from a guy who can't afford a plush toy.
What do you do?
I'm the director of a preschool.
Do you know the preschool called Smiling Garden behind the supermarket?
The director there.
What's wrong? Oh nothing.
Well then.
What about your mother? It's OK!
Hanasaki san.
Oh, hello. Hello.
An elementary student? You know her?
No, I just met her for the first time there.
Is that right?
Hey you know, the infant that was left in front of the preschool the other day,
What's happening? It's being transferred to a hospital nursery.
Identified anyone? The mother?
We don't know anything. Lately,
we been even asking around with High school and Junior high students.
And now they're even talking about
expanding to elementary students too.
Elementary students? Well only where there's a possibility of pregnancy.
But it would be best if we found the mother?
Even if we find them, are they someone that can live together with it or not?
This is the first restaurant papa brought me to. Is that right?
It was delicious.
It was seriously good.
And it's only 500 yen.
Such a good deal. I'll come everday.
Huh, it's not 500... Oh nothing.
Hitoshi kun, you're becoming a child care worker? Right now I'm trying to get my qualifications.
That's right, have you been studying?
I am.
And, this man Motoki, you want to find him, right?
Hitoshi, you don't need to investigate.
Further, you stay out of this! Why?
It's tangled up with the Momoi group. Do you want to be captured again?
Oh, I'll just have to be careful.
Have you heard anything I've said? It was delicious.
I'm back to the preschool. I'll give this plush toy to Minami chan.
Thank you so much. Thanks.
That guy, really...
Doesn't he like you Hana chan?
He's hungry for love.
What's wrong?
Oh, just thinking.
Doing that a lot lately.
About that abandoned baby, right? Yea.
Is it better if the mother isn't found, I wonder.
That's not true.
That parent, is likely the mother.
Maybe it was a huge mistake but, perhaps,
they will violently regret it.
That people can change,
no one knows better than Hana chan, right?
If found, the prospects
she'll become a good mother are really good maybe.
But, what if,
what if the mother is still just a child or something?
Everything depends on the circumstances.
Think positive.
If you don't, nothing will progress, right?
That's right. You have to progress, for romance.
Izumi chan, what?
It's so slow! Between you and Hanasaki san.
It's so slow!! Hana chan.
How was it, the seafood bowl? I used some Korean seasonings.
Oh, it was delicious.
Making it made me laugh. What?
In Korean, raw fish is called "fue".
I remembered that whenever you are flustered, you say "fue."
My "fe"? Nothing related to that.
Today, will you get some sleep?
No, if I don't look for someone.
It was delicious. Thank you.
Yes, 500 yen. 1000 yen.
That bastard Hitoshi...
Hey, hey.
Hey, you just can't be helping yourself!
Yes, well, my mother?
Yasuko, probably still at the snack bar. Oh that's right.
Hey, hey, what you smiling about?
Now let me warn you.
I bought these tangerines. Therefore hands off, understand?
Hello. Hey hurry.
What're doing, I need to leave Tokyo.
I said, I can't leave that money hidden forever.
If I go to Kansai,
then you can use that money to set up shop.
What?
No, you're the only one I serious about.
What, the woman now, she's nothing.
She's got a dirty brat, and is knocked up,
I'm just with her for a place to hide.
When's good to come back for you guys? An hour....
No, I'll call for you in two or three hours.
Yes. Yes.
Hey.
That I'm meeting with a new chick,
you absolutely keep this from Keiko!
Man, I'm hungry. Let's get an omelet rice or some spaghetti.
You just ate, right! Shut up, what about a hamburger?
The boss is popular. Will it be OK?
Us and Yamauchi of Kasuga group's in a dispute?
Hello.
What!? Alright.
What is it?
That bastard Motoki disappeared with the group's money.
Hello, it's me.
You know about the whereabouts of Motoki? Huh, there's a woman he's seeing?
You know where she is?
Kyouka san, I brought tangerines. One for each of us.
Thank you.
And it's not much but, I'm putting 1700 yen here,
use it for rent.
Yoko chan. Don't worry about me, OK.
What are you saying? I'll figure something out.
If you have money, Kyouka san,
you'd be able to live with your baby right?
You'd be able to properly take care of the baby, right.
Because it's just you Kyouka san that's always been kind to me.
You know, I just heard something good.
So I can probably get some money.
If it's dangerous... don't do it.
It's OK. Look eat a tangerine.
Director.
What is it?
Can I use this towel to dust?
This, no, no. The baby left in front of the preschool.
Cause this was spread out in the box the baby was left in.
Huh, is it OK we keep such a thing here?
Well, I don't know, but we can't throw it out, can we?
Then, we'll keep it. Yes, do.
Hey, still more?
Really, because I can't wait for Shigenori.
Wait a moment. Alright.
Yes, yes, you wake up.
You in here! Get back to sleep.
So slow. Well wait.
That tickles.
Well, we'll take her. Yes.
Hey, Aya chan's here. Yes, your shoes.
Of course, Yukiya kun hasn't come.
Because I pressed her for the day care fees.
But it was the usual when they came yesterday.
It's not your fault, Sayako san.
Oh I'm going to buy juice. Sayako san, you like soda, right?
Yo... Yoko chan! What's wrong?
I came to play a little. I'm off school today.
Oh, then, go on in, go.
Sayako san, where's Hitoshi?
Well, had some chore to finish,
said he won't be in for a bit, however.
What is he doing.
Don't tell me...
Please go sleep in your room, OK.
Well, with Yoko chan here...
Because we are all here.
The children are all overjoyed to have a big sister here.
Hey, where are the babies? Isn't there a baby girl?
Oh you mean that abandoned girl?
Right, I saw it on the TV news.
You remember such a thing? That's great.
Where are they?
That baby is in a hospital nursery.
Not here?
She's not here.
The mother has not come forth, so she was sent far away.
What's wrong?
I have to go.
Wait, Yoko chan!
What, wa.. Yoko chan?
What's that?
Yoko chan!
Just Yoko is fine.
Leaving? Yes, I have cram school.
It's OK for you to come play again.
And if you have any troubles, you can tell us anything.
Well I...
What is it?
It's nothing, see ya!
There's some trouble of some sort.
She started talking about the baby, then suddenly.
She was asking earnestly about the abandoned baby.
About the baby? Yes.
Said she heard on the news.
Was it on the news?
Well, that girl,
she was staring up at this place....
It can't be....
Hitoshi, what are you doing?
just doing some work for you.
Look the situation with the guy Motoki,
I learned the place of the woman he's seeing.
She works at a snack place, Socrates.
Well it was hard.
I was eavesdropping on some Momoi gangsters.
You, that's dangerous!
And didn't I tell you to stop that!
What are you doing!? I'm being careful.
Anyway, I'm staking out the snack bar where Motoki's girl is working,
You need to come too. I'll come.
I will, but I can't right now.
Then leave it to me.
Crap, right now, this Yoko.
Asahi san!
Encho Sensei....
No, no, wait. Asahi san, wait!
We'll watch Yukiya kun, OK.
That's not it. We just happened to be in the area.
That's not it is it now?
Ma'am, I don't have time right now,
let's have a talk another time, OK.
When you're a single parent, there's housing assistance,
and social security, and health insurance exemptions.
I know all that! Even so I can't do it.
There's also unemployment assistance.
Are you saying I should quit apprenticing at the beauty salon?
That not what I mean.
I want to become a fully qualified beautician.
But...
But I suppose I'm not qualified am I?
I've thought about it.
Thank you so much. Excuse me.
Asahi san!
Shall a teach her a good way to make money?
What! huh, what?
I am watching all your movements.
Well then, don't bother me now. I'm in a hurry.
This is not time to watch out for others, is it?
If your payment is late, Yamauchi is serious.
Why is it that you try so hard?
Because I have to protect the day-care.
If we lose this preschool, it's trouble for many parents.
Smiling Garden is their last refuge.
However, without money,
that refuge will not go on.
Same with that person too?
I know.
Hey, Yasuko san.
What, who are you?
Where's Motoki? Don't know such a person.
Isn't he in your apartment? Come on now.
I really don't know. You do know!?
Leave !! Don't lie to us, look!
Shigenori! Crap.
Motoki yea!
Motoki?
Hey! Motoki!
"If I go to Kansai,
then you can use that money to set up shop."
Kyouka san!
Kyouka san, wait just a bit, OK!
I'm going to get money!
Crap... where'd he go?
I know you're busy, so I apologize but,
I'm looking for someone. Hey, if I could get your cooperation please.
Hey you remember that elementary girl, she was about this tall?
You haven't seen her, have you? Yoko?
So you do know her.
You seen her today? Yea.
However, she lives with her mother in some apartments in Yakumo block.
I happened to see them once, together with a scary looking man.
Scary looking man?
A rumored member of Momoi's gang. You're kidding....
Hey look... That scary man,
isn't it this guy?
Oh, that's him. What's this!
Before you said you didn't know him!
Oh is that right? You sure you showed it to me?
You wouldn't listen to me, about that!
What's with this... fine!
Hey now, that apartment's location,
can you please give me clear directions?
Crap!!
Hey! You know where this brat is?
Yoko ! Yoko!
Excuse me. Yoko!
Could you shut up! Look, I'm studying for the bar exam.
With all this noise, I can't study!
It's that room there! That's Yoko's there.
Not there at the moment.
The person in that room, might know something, but.
That girl's always going in and out of there.
Sorry.
Wow, she's dead!
She's alive. An ambulance.
Oh, ambulance, ambulance... ambul.... Calm down and call!
Hey, didn't I tell you to be quiet!
Are you OK? Are you OK?
Oh hello, we need an ambulance, however.
Oh the address... Shinjuku ward...
Hey the address?
Come on, just a minute!
"Can I use this towel to dust?
This, no, no. The baby left in front of the preschool.
Cause this was spread out in the box the baby was left in."
This towel...
Perhaps, the baby left at our pre-school,
is it your baby?
Yoko chan did,
she said she surely left it in a safe place.
That girl is a really kind girl.
And for me too...
"My father is the president of a big company,
mother is a musician."
What Yoko said,
was about your family, right.
The ambulance will be here soon.
I am fine with things,
what about Yoko chan...
Hey, I think I should probably tell you something,
it seems the man that lives with Yoko chan, went out
looking for her too just recently.
Tell us that sooner!
Leave this to you. I've got to go find Yoko.
I'll go too. Hey when the ambulance gets here,
Go with her to the hospital, OK.
What?
You don't just take tangerines, you take that stuff too?
This time I won't be so easy!
What?
You don't just take tangerines, you take that stuff too?
This time I won't be so easy!
That bag, give it here.
No way! With this, Kyouka san will be able to
live with her baby again!
What did you say!?
You want me to kill you.
No!
Oh, Director! I saw them at the park.
Look.
Don't mess with me.
What are you doing!?
Hey, Hitoshi.
Yoko! Yoko!
Encho sensei.
Yoko!
What have you done!?
Listen here, being an adult,
it's a duty to protect children!
Someone like you... Someone like you!
This bastard! Director!
Director.
Enough OK.
Yoko, hang in there.
You'll be OK.
Kyouka san is so kind.
But a bad person tricked her,
the baby was born,
and since hasn't been able to get up from her futon.
I didn't know what I should do.
So I took it to the pre-school,
I thought you would look after it.
But you know,
I had hoped to go back for it.
That girl, she's called Asuka.
I called her that.
Cause she looks like Kyouka san.
But cause she's a baby,
she has tomorrows right?
So not today,
but I called her tomorrow.
And so, and so... Yes.
I know, cause I know.
Just be quiet for now, OK.
If Kyouka san gets better,
she can live with the baby again, right?
Oh, of course!
Good.
If the baby can have a mother like Kyouka san,
she'll be happy, right.
Yoko. Now you don't have to worry about anyone, OK.
I wish,...
I could live in a place like Smiling Garden.
I know that I can't, but.
Yoko...
It'll be OK.
This person discovered her and called the ambulance.
Thank you.
I mean, what more!?
Who is this?
Yoko san's mother.
Ma'am, Tobacco here....
Alright.
It's a disaster, what Momoi's gang did to the shop,
and Motoki was arrested.
Was that man really going to trick me?
Yea, most likely.
There's others too that have filed complaints for fraud.
Crap.
Well aside from that,
aren't you worried about your daughter's condition?
Well, I heard that her life's not in danger.
And she had got her hands on that guy's money, right?
Of course she's get hit.
That girl really is no good.
No good?
Who is it, that is no good?
Don't you make light of children!
That girl Yoko, do you have any idea what she feels!?
That girl nearly lost her life,
why can't you understand that!?
Even when she was suffering,
she worried for Kyouka san and the baby.
Yoko you know, even though her body is small,
she has an awfully large heart!
Even so, you... even so, you
won't even reach out your hand!
Hanasaki san, calm down. Why!?
What are you doing?
Hanasaki san, leave now.
Cause her mother's come, it's fine now.
Her mother came?
Don't think so.
This is no mother!
Ma'am.
I need a smoke.
Great job.
He was arrested, right? Feels great.
And you did bust him up good too, right?
Well, Hitoshi kun is quite excellent.
The money was gathered up and returned,
and he went back to the preschool.
What? No, don't worry.
Things with the Momoi group are OK.
Really.
My heart is relieved.
Great job.
Thank you so much.
Let's go get some Tai food, OK.
Yes, here's the reward, 150 thousand.
I just got a call,
It seems that the police
are investigating the mother Yasuko for child abuse.
There were many bruises on the girls body.
Will Yoko be placed in protective custody?
Well, that is likely, isn't it.
Well, now things will be better.
At least we can hope so.
We can't do any more, can we.
Hey! Hana chan.
You'll get your money.
What is it?
You look concerned about him.
No.
Yamauchi san, are you OK?
I've heard rumors there's trouble with Momoi's gang.
Now, now, that's not for
you to have to worry about, OK.
Sorry.
More importantly, the sooner he sinks in the ocean.
Hanasaki Shinichiro.
But.
What is it?
Nothing.
Well, see you later. Yes.
Hana chan.
Hey.
Want something to drink?
No thank you.
When I was a detective,
I watched a fellow officer die.
And with Yoko, I didn't rescue her.
I am,
so powerless.
I don't know
about your past Hana chan, but,
there are tons of people you have saved.
Therefore, it's alright.
Cry.
What's wrong? You're here so early.
Here.
This isn't all, but,
day care fees.
Anyway, come in for a minute.
Encho Sensei, I c...
It's fine.
We'll be sure to take care of Yukiya kun.
Then let's think it out together.
That's all we can do, but
because I'll think about it too.