Thank you for waiting.
Your hot coffee.
Thanks.
Relax and enjoy.
Natsuki-chan.
Um...
Coming!
Excuse me.
Yes.
Thank you for waiting.
Proprietor.
Could I move to my usual table when it opens?
Oh, sure.
I appreciate it.
Life is a continuous series of turning points.
People encounter all kinds of turning points from day to day,
and have to make choices...
Proprietor. It's available.
Just a second.
Sorry to rush you.
Kanna-chan. Please ready that table.
Yes.
Some choices don't affect a person's life all that much.
And some are critical, a matter of life and dea—
Congratulations!
What a surprise.
Let's take a picture.
Can you take a photo?
Sure thing.
Okay...
Here goes. Cheese.
One more, just in case. Here goes.
Okay, cheese.
Okay.
Thank you very much.
Relax and enjoy.
Kanna-chan, everything okay there?
Yes.
Everything's okay.
Okay.
Your table's ready.
Proprietor, just a second.
About that cake thing.
Couldn't you have waited till I had moved tables?
Huh?
It's no big deal, but I'm sitting right behind them.
Now I'm in their photographs.
Had you waited just a little, I could've moved over there first.
You're right, sorry.
It's no big deal.
It's cleared now. Please.
I am the protagonist of this story.
I can freely go back to turning points in people's lives.
Congratulations!
Thank you.
Can you take our picture?
Sure.
Okay. Cheese.
One more.
Okay. Cheese.
Here.
Thank you very much.
Congratulations.
Episode 3 Choices of Love
Katagawa Obstetrics
Kozai Marina-san.
Yes.
And now, to award the trophy.
The trophy for the husband, Nonoyama Takehiko-san.
Beautiful Married Couple Award 2014 Award Ceremony
Thank you.
Nonoyama Takehiko-san, Akiho-san, congratulations.
Thank you very much for this award. I am Nonoyama of Going Next.
I am honored to have won this beautiful award.
But it's all due to my wife Akiho, who is busy in the modeling industry,
and who is my moral support.
I am very honored to receive this valuable award.
I will always endeavor for our beautiful marriage.
Thank you very much.
Any future plans for a beautiful family for the beautiful husband and wife?
I like kids, and we want them, but the blessing remains to be seen.
And you, Akiho-san?
I'm not sure. It would be difficult to maintain my physique.
I'd have to wait for my work to slow down.
She's in high demand, you know.
It'll happen eventually.
It's a dinner meeting after this at the Chinese restaurant, right?
With the young company president Wakabayashi of "Naked Pillows"?
Yes, that is the schedule.
I'll get dressed first.
Yes, sir.
I'll see you later.
Yeah. I'll call you.
Yeah.
Kozai-san, we're counting on you.
Please take care, madam.
Goodbye.
Slow down, slow down. Too forceful.
You don't like it?
I don't not like it, but...
Wait. Time, time.
Why?
I need to talk to you first.
We can talk after.
No, we have to talk first.
What?
Well...
I want you to leave your wife and marry me.
Choice - A
What?
I'm leaving.
Wait a second. You can't run from this. That's not fair.
Not fair? That's my line.
How is that?
You knew I was married when we started seeing each other.
And now you're making that kind of demand?
But I love you, of course I would.
I'm tired of marriage.
I'm disillusioned.
Then you should get a divorce.
It's not that easy. Don't you get it?
Wait.
Wait a second.
I'm seeing you because I want to escape reality.
Why would you want to drag me back into it?
I'm happy that you depend on me for that.
But I'm a woman who has thoughts about wanting to marry the man she loves.
It's perfectly normal. Maybe not now, but someday.
Women change after they're married.
I won't change.
You will change.
She said the same thing, too.
But I'm different. I won't change after I'm married.
You will change!
No woman won't change after change of status and wealth.
But I'm not like that.
Nope, you'll change.
I want you to listen to me.
What?
Well...
Um... I'm...
I'm pregnant.
Pregnant?
Seriously?
I'm serious.
I wouldn't lie about something like that.
All women tell lies.
Huh?
Every single woman I've gone out with was the same.
They've lied through their teeth to get to my money.
I don't want your money. Why won't you understand?
Sorry.
How'd it end up like this?
Need a ride?
Yes.
Where to?
Please just drive.
Oh. Yes.
Vacant
En Route
Did it get washed with my others trousers?
I'm sorry, I don't have a handkerchief.
No, I'm fine.
Found it.
I'm fine. Don't worry about me.
What the...
I guess I won't worry.
Yes. Thank you very much.
I see...
Maybe I shouldn't have brought up marriage to him.
There's the baby, too...
Maybe my timing was off.
What do you plan to do?
What should I do?
If it were just an illicit affair, I would advise you
to simply dump the guy and look for love in the right places.
However, there's a baby in your tummy.
It's a whole other story.
I don't know anymore.
Shall we go to the beach?
I'd rather not.
I see.
Um...
Yes.
Just to let you know, I didn't ask if you wanted to go to the beach
because I wanted to pose to show you what a nice guy I am,
just because you're in emotional pain.
Huh?
I just thought maybe it might be a good idea to take a jaunt to the beach.
It's because I somehow lost my composure.
I didn't think that.
You sure?
Yes.
In that case, I'm fine with it.
My idea of going to the beach was something worth considering,
because you haven't told me where you want to go.
You're right.
That's why I thought going to the beach might be relaxing.
It was just an innocent suggestion, you know.
I wasn't trying to circumspectly take you to the beach
to strike romantic poses to you there.
I know that.
And that instance with my socks. I didn't do that on purpose
to make myself look goofy, to make you lower your guard around me.
I know that, too.
That's fine, then.
It's just that I got embarrassed when you turned down the beach idea.
I don't mind going, but...
I started feeling better after I told you my problems.
Thank you for being thoughtful, though.
Please take me back to where I started.
Where you started? The hotel, you mean?
I couldn't bring myself to go back to that hotel anymore.
Then do you want to go back to the hotel you could go back to?
What?
This taxi...
Oh, wait.
I don't mean this in a weird way.
Because it sounded like I was luring you to a hotel.
I don't mean it in that way at all.
I didn't think that.
I'm glad.
Then let me explain.
You have a general idea that life has many turning points, right?
Yes.
What kind of job will you land?
What kind of house will you live in?
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What will you have for dinner?
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When should you ask your illicit partner to marry you?
At so many turning points, what choices are you going to make?
Because they're the choices that will shape your life.
Yes.
This taxi can take you back to the turning point you'd want to do over.
Go back?
What do you mean?
It's possible to make a different choice,
so that you could get him to marry you.
What?
I'm not good at detailed explanations. Please read this.
Right here. This pamphlet.
Ouch, ouch, cramp, cramp.
This one here?
"Time Taxi"?
Dear Time Taxi customer We will return to the past of your choice
The further back in time you go, the more expensive it will be.
Anyway, what would you like to do?
You can really go back?
I can.
However, just because you go back doesn't guarantee things will go well.
Because the rest is contingent on the choice you will make.
You mean, I could go back, and change what I said to him?
Of course you can.
Then please go back.
What time do you want to go to?
Present
Past
En Route
To the time we arrived at the hotel.
Returning
How long ago was it?
About 3 hours ago.
3 hours will be enough time?
Maybe a little longer, just in case.
Let's make it 3 hours 10 minutes.
Yes, that would be fine.
Um... what are the sounds for?
To evoke a time-slip sensation.
A time-slip sensation...
I just thought it would be more convincing.
You're sure you can go back, right?
I can.
Then you don't need those sounds.
Oh. Yes.
We're here.
Huh?
The fare is 60,120 Yen.
But 60,000 Yen will be fine.
60,000 Yen?
Yes.
After all, I took you back in time. It's a fair price.
I'm really back, right?
Of course.
Doesn't it feel like it?
It doesn't feel any different...
I know, right? There's no time-slip sensation at all.
Look at yourself in the mirror.
Can you see?
I can't see.
See?
What?
You mean, I could go back, and change what I said to him?
Of course you can.
About an hour more till start time.
Thanks for all your hard work.
She's cheating on him, too?
Some nerve, at a place like this.
...the trophy for the husband, Nonoyama Takehiko-san.
Nonoyama Takehiko-san, Akiho-san, congratulations.
I am honored to have won this beautiful award.
But it's all due to my wife Akiho, who is busy in the modeling industry,
and who is my moral support.
I am very honored to receive this valuable award.
I will always endeavor for our beautiful marriage.
Thank you very much.
It's a dinner meeting after this at the Chinese restaurant, right?
Uh, yes.
With the young company president Wakabayashi of Naked Pillows?
Yes, that is the schedule.
Right.
I'll get dressed first.
Yes, sir.
I'll see you later.
Yeah. I'll call you.
Yeah.
Kozai-san, we're counting on you.
Please take care, madam.
Slow down, slow down. Too forceful.
You don't like it?
I don't not like it, but...
Wait. Time, time.
Why?
I need to talk to you first.
We can talk after.
Then let's talk later.
Choice - B
You promise we'll talk?
I promise.
On the news already?
News / Entertainment / Sports
Nonoyama Takehiko & Akiho win the Beautiful Married Couple Award 2014 Award
Criminal Detective
Whoops.
"Criminal Detective"?
Not that one.
No, not that.
No.
Nonoyama Takehiko & Akiho win the Beautiful Married Couple Award 2014
And you, Akiho-san?
I'm not sure. It would be difficult to maintain my physique,
Model / Nonoyama Akiho-san
I'd have to wait for my work to slow down.
She's in high demand, you know.
It'll happen eventually.
Would you mind if I complained?
About what?
I've always wanted a child.
I've always been alone.
So I want a family.
I understand.
Before we got married, I asked her to halt her job to have a baby.
She agreed, but...
once we got married, she didn't halt her job; on the contrary,
she took on more and more work.
All she wanted was status and wealth.
Hmm, I wonder.
Sorry about all that. I know it's our time together.
No, don't worry about it.
You can tell me anything.
Thank you.
Sorry I'm always like this.
Don't be. You're always under all kinds of pressure.
You can be at ease when you are with me.
What did you want to talk about, by the way?
Oh...
I don't know if the timing is right to tell you this.
What?
I think your wife is cheating on you.
How do you mean?
I saw your wife talking intimately with a strange man.
A strange man... who could it be?
I don't know. I think he's in his mid-thirties.
They seemed to be having a fun conversation.
I see.
I had a feeling she was cheating.
You did?
Yeah. She seems secretive lately.
She pretends to go to work, but is going somewhere else.
She probably goes to see him.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to tattle on her.
But I didn't think it was right to not tell you.
No. Thank you for telling me.
One more thing...
What?
No, nothing.
I'll tell you eventually.
I see.
Well, when things settle down, let's talk about our future.
What?
Of course it won't be soon.
Sure. I'll wait.
I'm so glad.
Marina.
Shogo.
An acquaintance?
He's an acquaintance.
What are you doing here?
I am Shibata of the weekly publication Route.
Nonoyama-san.
You're having an illicit relationship with her, aren't you?
Huh?
Wait a second here...
Begging your pardon.
Nonoyama-san. I speak not as a journalist,
but personally as her ex-boyfriend.
I want you to break up with her.
What is this, all of a sudden?
And what about what you did?
What?
You broke up with me because you loved another man, which is fine.
But it's to have an illicit relationship, which isn't fine.
What do you care?
I do care.
What are you talking about? This is inappropriate.
Let's go.
Last Saturday, I got pictures of you two coming out of the hotel.
What is this, you creep?
I wasn't stalking you or anything.
I just happened to be there for something else, and zoomed in.
Nonoyama-san. I don't want to go public with this.
If she stops her illicit affair and walks the straight and narrow,
I'll be glad to destroy the evidence.
But if she continues, I will go public with this, though I'd rather not.
Now calm down.
I am calm.
Give me those.
Then leave her.
Give them to me.
Give them!
Watch out!
Takehiko-san.
Why?
Why did this happen?
Sir? Sir!
Go back, hurry! Hurry!
Go back to when?
I don't know, but back in time again.
What happened?
He's going to die!
Let's relax for a minute.
I can't relax. Take me back.
I will take you back, I will. You have to decide when to.
Right?
So the ex-boyfriend enters the scene...
Everything's ruined because of that guy.
By the way, why did you break up with him?
Because I fell in love with another man.
Your illicit partner?
Yes.
That must make it far more unpleasant for him.
But his wife is having an illicit affair, too.
I mean, if they're both cheating on each other,
shouldn't they just get a divorce?
Sure, but... there must be circumstances preventing that.
Driver.
Yes.
Please go back to that same time.
What are you going to do?
I'm going to tell the wife.
Huh? Tell her what?
Tell her I know she's cheating.
You sure about that?
I am sure. It'll go fine.
And if she confesses, it would be to his advantage.
You're not getting your money back.
I'm fine with that.
All right, then.
Here we are.
Okay.
Please be careful.
I know.
Make your choices with your baby in mind.
And if you can, also by having consideration for his wife.
Please be careful.
I know.
Oh, by the way, I think there's a life-sized panel at the original location,
so please stand there.
A life-sized panel?
You'll know once you get there.
It's a dinner meeting after this at the Chinese restaurant, right?
Ah, yes.
With the young company president Wakabayashi of Naked Pillows?
Yes, that is the schedule.
Right.
I'll get dressed first.
Yes, sir.
I'll see you later.
Yeah. I'll call you.
Yeah.
Kozai-san, we're counting on you.
Please take care, madam.
Goodbye.
Madam.
Choice - C
May I speak with you a minute?
I'll wait for you there.
What is it?
This is very impertinent of me, but...
are you keeping something secret from the company president?
Huh?
I happened to see it a short while ago.
I see.
I know I should mind my own business, but...
It's okay. I was going to talk to him after my work settled down.
I see. Maybe it's not my place to say this, but
I think it would be best for you and the company president to
have a discussion about it as soon as possible.
You're right. Thank you.
I am sorry to have overstepped my bounds.
It's okay. You're like family to me, Kozai-san.
Say, will you come with me?
Huh?
Come on, while we're at it.
Excuse me. May we have some privacy?
Yes.
Takehiko-san.
Yeah.
Have you got a minute?
What?
I've been waiting to tell you this, but...
We did it.
We have
a baby.
Huh?
A baby? Seriously?
I've been taking fertility treatments.
Fertility treatments?
Yeah. I didn't tell you because I didn't want you to worry.
I wanted you to focus on your work.
That's where you were going instead, when you said you were working?
You knew? I was going to the hospital.
You didn't think I was cheating on you, did you?
Oh... no.
I've got no time for that.
I was waiting to tell you till I was sure, but I got the result just today.
I was so surprised.
So... that man was...?
He's my doctor I've been seeing.
I left something at the office. He brought it along for me.
Oh.
I'm sorry I've been keeping this from you.
I'm going to ease off my work schedule, so don't worry.
Because my body isn't mine alone anymore.
Yes. Thank you.
Let's talk later.
Kozai-san, I'm counting on you.
Thank you.
Um... Marina.
I don't know what to say...
I know it's selfish of me, but...
I'd understand if you hated me for the rest of your life.
Hey...
Before you say any more, I want to talk to you.
You know, I'm kind of sick and tired of everything.
I know it's selfish of me, but can we break up?
Marina.
Sorry I'm being selfish.
See you.
Bye bye.
Where do you want to go back to?
Driver.
Yes.
Take me to the beach.
Huh?
I can relax at the beach, right?
Oh,
yes.
One more thing, driver.
Yes.
Those socks.
Oh, here.
You could buy tissues at a convenient store.
It's too much trouble. This'll work.
Okay.
So you took the initiative to break up.
Yeah. Because it would have been too miserable if he said it first.
So I dumped him first.
I think that was awesome of you.
Really?
Of course, illicit affairs aren't very praiseworthy.
Well, yeah.
You shouldn't have broken up with your previous boyfriend.
I fell in love. What could I do?
Oh. I have to call him later.
The ex-boyfriend?
Yeah. Or else he'll expose the pictures.
Oh, that's true.
I'll tell him I've broken up, to lay the matter to rest.
I wonder if I could get back together with him.
Who knows?
Maybe not. Not a woman like me.
So are you going to raise the baby yourself?
Um, you won't judge me, will you?
Huh?
About what?
It was a lie. My pregnancy.
What? What?
What?!
I'm sorry.
But you—
It's true I did go see the obstetrician.
I've been late, so I thought just maybe...
However, I wasn't pregnant.
Why did you lie about that?
Because I wanted him to divorce his wife.
Women are scary.
Scary.
Driver. What do you think of a woman like me?
The worst.
You said I was awesome.
I take it back.
Take me back to my ex-boyfriend.
Impossible, impossible.
Yes, you can!
You're terrible.
Terrible?
Terrible.
Hey, don't run away.
What a scary woman.
Anyway, after that, his wife took leave for pregnancy,
and company president Nonoyama became a good husband.
Marina-san did try to quit her job,
Resignation Notice
but the company president found her a position at a different department.
It appears that's where she's working now.
Well, it was a complicated story, but...
Eda-san.
Why are you muttering to yourself?
Nothing in particular.
What day is today, Eda-san?
Hm? What day is it?
Eda-san, happy birthday!
Eda-san
Awesome.
By the way, my birthday was last month.
But I'm going with the flow, because I don't have the guts to tell them.
Preview of the next episode
A 100-million Yen lottery ticket is found!
I got a winning ticket! A hundred million yen!
A big chance for an unlucky guy
Really?
But he's hounded by the obstacles of time!
Hey, you! You're a molester.
Will fortune ever smile on this man?
What did you do now?
They're filming a TV show about my place.
A TV show of Cafe Choice!
Please come and enjoy our cheesecakes.
The staff is tense; what will Edawakare do?
This drama is a work of fiction.