Fuse-san?
Let's see... I'm sorry, but who would you be?
Ah... I'm Rie, Yashiro's former wife.
It's been a long time, Dai-chan.
Ah...
Lost weight?
No.
Then... you're exhausted?
That reminds me; you were always tired long ago, too.
At home you'd only say things like, "I'm pooped. Going to bed."
What sort of business brings you to my company today?
Don't talk that way.
Why have you come?
I wanted... to discuss something with you, Dai-chan.
Murota, take some tea to the Section Chief's guest... Huh?
Murota-san's in the restroom right now.
Shirasu Mika.
I've already been out today passing around flyers.
Take some tea to the Section Chief's guest.
Um... Serving tea isn't my job...
What is your job, Shirasu Mika?
Selling houses.
What are your results from selling houses?
I'll go bring them some tea.
Hurry!
Yes.
Shirasu Mika, GO!
She said it... She just told herself, "GO!"...
Fuse-san.
Yes, yes.
What are you doing about this 5 LDK house in Komae?
Well, it's tough selling a house from the bubble era.
Property Description Statement
It's pointless trying to sell a 5 LDK with so many rooms in it. It's a 5 LDK, after all.
If all you have are excuses, then I will sell it.
You think it can be sold?
There is no house that I cannot sell.
Yes, yes, that's true, isn't it?
Let's see... Still, don't worry about it.
Since I'll give it a try for a little longer.
Back in April I got divorced from my second husband.
You think I'm an idiot for getting divorced twice, don't you?
No, not really.
My second husband was rich...
...but whenever I'd say something to him, he'd raise his hand to me.
And then, instead of alimony, I'm getting the house as consolation money.
But, while it won't have any nice memories to it...
...I thought I should move into a new condo.
Well, you're free to do that...
But... why come to me with this?
Even though there are plenty of other real estate agents out there in the world...
What are your intentions?
Don't know.
You don't know...
Because... your face just sort of popped up in me, Dai-chan.
"Dai-chan"?
I felt I wanted to see you.
Say... Though our time as husband and wife was short...
...couldn't you help me out with this?
Kyaa! Wait...
Shirasu!
I'm sorry.
Um, I'll bring you some tea right away.
No, you don't have to.
Please don't worry about me since I'll be leaving right away.
But, but...
That's enough; please go back.
"Please go back," I said!
Is that girl one of your subordinates, Dai-chan?
And, where were we?
Ah, you want to sell the house you're living in now...
...and then you want to buy a new condo.
When I was working for Teiko Real Estate...
...we didn't have such clunky female employees, did we?
The level around here has dropped.
It's the era we're living in.
Say, say, Dai-chan. You're still living in the same place as ten years ago?
That's no business of yours.
What is this... Though I went to the trouble of seeing you...
His guest is the Section Chief's ex-wife!
Eh?!
She calls him "Dai-chan," and is a mature woman with an erotic feel to her.
Now, now, now...
Ah! Fuse-san, did you know about her?
Ah, well... I suppose...
Ah, that's right! Fuse-san, didn't you tell me once...
...that you had been the Moderator at their wedding?
Eh? I said such a thing?
And then the Section Chief, wanting to be with her...
...forcibly drove me away!
"That's enough; hurry and go back!" he said.
Eh? He wants to get back with his ex?
Eh?!
It couldn't be that simple, could it?
If they're both single, there wouldn't be a problem with that.
Rie-chan is single, huh...
The Section Chief got married to someone in the company, huh?
I have to do my best, too...
...and marry someone within our company.
How'd it go?
She wishes to change residences...
...but since that would just complicate things, I told her to ask another office for help.
You turned away a client?
Because there's circumstances about that client.
I will sell that house.
Please send the information about that client to my PC immediately.
Chief Sangen'ya, let it go.
If you are just going to cede it to another office, I can take charge of it.
It's not that. I won't be ceding it.
Eh?
I will sell that client's house.
Not Chief Sangen-ya; I will sell that house.
There is no house the me right now can't sell!
Heiwa Fansubs Presents
Ie Uru Onna (House-selling Woman)
Don't repeat your mistakes from twenty years ago.
I know.
What twenty-years-ago mistakes?
This guy, twenty years ago...
...was called, "Mr Teiko Real Estate"...
...and was already really popular.
Eh? If he was shining at work and was popular...
...why didn't you tell me this about Yashiro-chan before now, Fuse-bu?
Yeah. I had a pretty good popularity myself...
...but Yashiro's popularity smashed right through that.
He could pick and choose from among all the girls at our company.
And yet strangely, he let one of them get ahold of him...
...and though she didn't love him, he married her anyway.
I wonder just what that marriage was?
Women back then were searching for happiness in marriage...
...and because the competition was fierce, things would get terrible.
Women twenty years ago believed their happiness would come from being married, didn't they?
Nowadays, none of them want to get married.
Rie said she was in a hurry to get married...
...and back then, women employees were resigning left and right once they got married.
It didn't mean that she loved me...
...just that she didn't want to miss out on her happiness.
So your ex-wife's name is "Rie," huh?
Stop it, Kokoro-chan.
At Yashiro and Rie-chan's wedding ceremony...
...do you remember who the other Moderator was along with me?
That was, let's see... Ah, Takada Nozomi.
Ah... Takada Nozomi. She was a cutie.
We should've bought a house.
What are you saying, Fuse-san?
Ah... twenty years ago, huh?
Twenty years ago, even I believed that "love" and "yearning"...
...were just ambiguous things...
...so I poured all my hopes into my work.
Wonder if it really was a good era?
Or else were if we just immature?
So hot out...
Isn't it at least 104 out here?
Hot, isn't it?
Good morning!
What's with that mood?
Ah! Today's the day Maehara Akane comes, right?
Right.
Maehara Akane, Japan's cutest weather forecaster, right?
That's right.
The "6:58 Lover"?
That's right.
Adachi got an appointment with her, huh...
Yes. My appointment is at 11:00.
You have got it.
Thank you very much!
He's in good spirits, isn't he?
Ah, I've got an 11:00 appointment somewhere else.
Well, me too. And it's been so long since I've seen an entertainer!
This'll be my first client who's an entertainer!
Down boy, down.
Sorry about getting yesterday's forecast wrong!
I'll definitely get it right today!
This is this morning's "MoniMoni Morning."
I saw it... But I'll watch it again!
Please be careful about ultraviolet rays.
And men, don't forget to put on sunscreen, too!
Maehara Akane's Today's Weather Forecast
What are you looking at?
Maehara Akane.
Geh... I really hate her.
I hate her, too. She's always wearing that bon-bon microphone.
That's the lowest, isn't it?
She's coming here today, though.
Couldn't care less. Niwano-san, you can serve her tea instead of me.
Really? This'll be the first time I've met an entertainer.
You're so lucky.
Good morning.
Chief Sangen-ya, do you know of Maehara Akane?
You wouldn't know her, would you?
She is... a woman weather forecaster.
Eh? You do know her.
Do you watch TV too, Chief Sangen-ya?
She's coming today to Teiko Real Estate.
Chief Sangen-ya, you hate Maehara Akane, don't you?
All women hate her though, right?
There are no likes or dislikes for clients.
Okay!
I'm going on standby.
Oh, do your best.
Yes!
I'll bring them tea.
In good spirits, aren't they?
Have a seat.
No ashtrays?
Ah... um... This building is totally non-smoking.
Huh?
You think having affairs and smoking cigarettes...
...are crimes on the same level as killing a person, don't you?
Such Japanese are the worst.
We do have a smoking room...
Don't wanna go to a place where I'd be exposed to view!
I'm sorry.
And besides... you stink.
Eh?
That cologne of yours.
I'm very sorry.
I am Maehara Akane's manager...
I'm Tsuda.
Ah, um... I'm sorry.
I'm Adachi with Teiko Real Estate.
Look... This is my normal self.
When I say things like, "Do your best at work today" all the time...
...it makes both my face and my heart tired.
Don't go writing that on the internet, though.
If I can I trust you, I'll buy a house.
Yes, of course.
Welcome!
A cigarette...
Geh... For pete's sake, each and every one of you!
Um, as he will be in charge of you with me, Maehara-sama...
...this is Niwano.
Eh?
Hmm... Don't have the confidence to do it alone, huh?
You'd better not write anything on the internet about me, either.
Like "she smokes cigarettes," and such.
I won't.
And then about the house I want...
...a place close to TVN, would be best!
TV Nihon is here.
TV Nihon
Um, the region around here is what they call a high-class area.
You know how popular I am, right?
I'm sorry.
I want a 4 LDK though.
A 4 LDK?
Ah, will you be living with your parents or your family?
I'll need walk-in closests or there won't be enough room for my clothes and purses...
...and one room will be my dressing room while another'll be my rehearsal room...
...while another will be my bedroom and the last'll be this guy's bedroom.
It's fine if his room is tiny, though.
Um... You and your Manager will be living together?
Truth is... we're married.
Eh?
Yes, he's my husband.
Your... Your...
...husband?
Since I'm buying the house with my earnings...
...I'll sign all the various documents with my real name.
Keep this a secret.
Yes.
Find me the very best house!
Pretty please!
6:58 Lover Our Akane-chan
Wonder if this'll work out?
Eh?
Oh! How'd it go with the "6:58 Lover"?
Isn't she insanely cute?
Niwano-san, you didn't come back after serving them tea.
That's right.
That was because...
...she's totally different from what you see on TV.
She's more like a smoking spy, defending secrets...
Eh? Eh? This girl's a smoker?
That's right.
Seems Adachi-kun took a sharp blow from that.
Teiko Real Estate, Shinjuku Office, this is Sangen-ya.
Um... we were the ones in earlier...
Section Chief, Maehara Akane-san's Manager, Tsuda-san, is on Line 1.
Sorry for keeping you waiting. I'm the Section Chief, Yashiro.
Thank you so very much for coming to us today.
Earlier when we saw your young members named Adachi-san and Niwano-san...
...we felt some misgivings, somehow.
Could you put someone with a bit more experience in charge of us?
Is there something about them you don't care for?
I wouldn't say that, but could you replace them with someone else?
Buying a house is a serious thing...
...and we were becoming nervous about them.
Noted, with my thanks. Since that is the case...
...I will replace them with our Number One agent.
Please rest easy.
She is a bit unsociable... But since she is our Number One...
...I feel certain that you'll like her.
Her name is Sangen'ya Machi.
I will have her contact you later, Tsuda-sama.
Then, please do that.
With that, please take care of the Maehara Akane listing, Chief Sangen'ya.
Understood.
I will meet with them once more and start over.
Adachi-san, are you okay?
Why?
Because I've never seen you with such a drained look on your face.
Leave me alone.
Adachi-san's been hurt...
How wonderful!
I'll bring in some tea.
No thanks.
Since I have to hurry on to my next appointment.
Such a boring man!
I've been a boring man since long ago.
How much could I get from selling this place?
I think about 300 million yen or so.
Wow!
But, because it is such a fine house...
...shouldn't you just live in it as is?
No way!
It'd be too lonely living in such a huge house by myself.
And it's dangerous being alone at night.
Dai-chan, there are times when you feel lonely too, aren't there?
I've gotten used to it.
Liar!
Say... couldn't we lonely people...
...start over again in a new condo?
Eh?!
I don't think you have to be that surprised by it.
What are you saying?!
We'd probably just repeat the same mistakes from twenty years ago!
Who cares if history repeats itself?
Look at this.
Ah...
You've held onto that for all this time?
I left everything else behind in your apartment...
...but I did take just a few things to my family's home.
You stripped the house bare.
This is Fuse-san.
Oh... he looks young there.
And this is the other Moderator at out wedding, Nozomi.
Takada Nozomi.
That's right!
And this is Sano Mitsue, who sat at the Sales Section desk...
...and here's Kuniya Miho, who was a receptionist along with me.
All of them have gotten divorced, though.
Eh?! ALL of them are divorced?
They're all single now.
They're living lonely lives.
Is that so.
And besides, since I'm a double divorcee...
...I'm so embarrassed that I can't even go to my school reunions.
That's why...
...Takada Nozomi and Sano Mitsue and Kuniya Miho and I...
...will go on lunches or on trips together instead.
Here's a photo from a trip the four of us took the other day.
Say... Don't we look lonely?
You don't! You don't look at all lonely!
Geez... Dai-chan!
Even though you say you're fifty...
...you still don't understand a woman's feelings?
Ah... And so that you can sell this place, I'll search for your next house!
I'll arrange for that at once. Sorry for intruding on you!
Geez!
Ah... Sangen'ya-kun?
Yes.
Ah... Um...
I'd like to discuss selling a house...
Ah, welcome!
Ah, Kokoro-chan, let me introduce you...
Chief Sangen'ya, right? Or "Sanchi" for short.
You're as beautiful as I thought!
All the men ever talk about is Sanchi-san.
It's gotten old already.
I am Sangen'ya. It is nice to meet you.
I'm Tamaki Kokoro.
I think it best if you consider this as two separate problems.
Huh?
Section Chief, are you at a loss...
...about whether it would be best to get back together with your ex-wife?
Or else are you at a loss about how to go about selling the house?
Hmm...
Which of them is it?
Hmm... I can't say either.
Since the problem is that they're subtly intertwined with one another.
What do you want of me, Section Chief?
Even if you say, "what do I want of you"...
Section Chief!
Your ex-wife does not want a house...
...she wants you, Section Chief.
Tha... that's what you could say I'm troubled over.
You should sell the house; you should not get back together with her.
Be firm!
Be firm... Yeah.
I'll become firmer, too. Yeah.
Ah, welcome, Niwano-chan.
Yo.
Chief Sangen-ya, this is your first time here, isn't it?
It is my first time.
We had a little business to discuss.
I don't want to interrupt you, so I...
We've finished our talk already.
She was saying I should be sincere as a man...
...and since I don't want to reconcile with my wife, I should turn her down firmly.
Um...
What is it?
Section Chief, do you still have any love for your ex-wife?
I don't. That's why we broke up.
Isn't there someone else that you like?
There isn't.
Um... I saw it myself.
The Section Chief and Chief Sangen'ya...
...were kissing in a taxi.
Ah...
I see...
You saw that, huh?
Ah...
Certainly that might have been...
...some sort of irresponsibility on my part.
But Niwano... Ah...
Sangen'ya-kun is...
...a very special person for me.
I've lived a fairly long life...
...but up until now, I've never met anyone quite like Sangen'ya-kun.
This is the first time I've met her type of person.
Not just as a man or a woman...
...but she's a much larger presence for me; how do I put this...
She shines brilliantly in my heart.
I can understand that myself.
Oh.
You told that well; I was moved.
By the way, how do you feel, Sanchi-san?
About either Yashiro-chan or Niwano-chan.
It seems from what everyone has told me, you have hopes of getting married too, Sanchi-san.
I love...
...the Section Chief.
You clearly have no leadership skills...
...are weak against the strong, will go whichever way the wind blows...
...you care about people too much and so end up behind at everything.
Even so, I love you.
I love Niwano, too.
He speaks honestly and is a good listener yet is honest to a fault and inflexible...
...and though he works with all his might, he has no original strategies.
Even so, I love you.
However...
...as neither Niwano nor the Section Chief loves me as a woman...
...I cannot look on Niwano nor the Section Chief as men, either.
I am leaving.
Thank you for the meal.
Were we... just dumped?
What do you think, Kokoro-chan?
Dunno.
In three minutes the studio will finish and we'll go to weather.
There might be some showers around Shibuya-ku in the afternoon.
Don't just suddenly tell me such things!
I only have seconds left.
Well then, up next is our boiling-with-life "6:58 Lover"...
...Maehara Akane's Weather Corner!
Akane-chan!
Good morning! This is Maehara Akane.
It's hot starting first thing this morning, isn't it?
Please drink lots of water, 'kay?
Well then, today's weather.
A front has stalled over Tohoku and Niigata.
Passing showers will be mainly stronger in the morning.
Because a high-pressure dome will be trapped over the Kanto region to Kyushu...
...it will be sunny and ferociously hot.
Well then, please do your best at work again today!
Maehara Akane's Today's Weather Forecast
This has been Akane's pre-going out weather info!
Maehara Akane's Today's Weather Forecast
Have a nice day!
That was good, that was good. She's in top form.
Yes, we've gone to commercial!
Since Ishibashi-san has asked me out to lunch, you can head back alone.
What about meeting with the new person in charge of us from Teiko Real Estate?
You meet them.
I meet them again, huh?
I've been invited out by a top newscaster! Can't turn that down, now can I!?
Very well.
Thank you very much.
The pudding. I made it myself.
Whenever we have too many eggs, I make some pudding.
Maehara can eat three at a time.
Is everything in this house done by you, Tsuda-sama?
That's right.
While Maehara is outside earning money, I'm taking care of our house.
I also decorate the rooms with seasonal flowers.
On her first Weather Corner, the subject was seasonal flowers, like the Royal Road.
This is a bellflower.
It's a flower that blooms from June to September...
...and in the language of flowers, it's...
In the language of flowers, it's "Eternal Love."
For your new home, you are hoping for a 4 LDK...
...and within a ten minute walk to TV Nihon, right?
Yes.
Excuse me a moment.
I'm with a guest right now, so I'll call you back later.
Since I haven't seen the program schedule yet.
Yeah. So long.
Sorry.
Sorry about that.
Do you always keep the curtains closed like this?
We've had people peeping in from outside recently.
Is that right.
Before we used to always keep the windows open...
...so we could feel the condition of the moisture and the breezes in the atmosphere...
Was that so she could raise her sensitivity as a weather forecaster?
Yes.
Actually... I'm a weather forecaster, too.
At the time I met Maehara...
...I was in charge of the daily weather forecast segment for a local station.
At that time, she was my assistant.
We were always looking up at the sky...
...and just how to look at clouds and how to feel the wind...
...were things I taught her.
Before the production today...
...I told her there would be passing showers in the Shibuya-ku area in the afternoon.
But, because she doesn't trust me anymore...
...she didn't say that while on the air.
But I'm sure there will be passing showers today.
But earlier she said it would be sunny and with no clouds, right?
The passing showers will come suddenly.
After we got married...
...my contract with the local station ran out and I was fired from my job...
...and Maehara Akane started becoming popular.
She was selected as the weather woman for a morning program...
...and was picked up for some commercials as well...
...and so became popular and sought after.
While she was being popular, I was being a househusband all that time.
I've been making an effort so that she who's so busy could relax even just a little...
...but it might be that she just doesn't need me anymore.
And so you went and got someone that you liked?
Eh?
I think it would be best if you hid it a little better.
That's rude of you...
There's no way I'd do such a thing.
How wonderful!
Just what I'd expect from you, Dai-chan!
So bright and fashionable!
I thought since it's not too big, it wouldn't be tough to keep clean.
Ah... Thank you!
Now if I can only get Dai-chan to say he'll live here with me...
You should sell the house; you should not get back together with her.
Be firm!
Dai-chan?
What's the matter?
Ten years ago you abandoned me and left our house, leaving just a letter behind.
Have you forgotten that?
I've forgotten it.
Well, I haven't forgotten it.
After all... that was ten years ago, wasn't it?
Both of our ways of thinking have changed since then, right?
Well, my feelings haven't changed.
The day that you left me is one I will probably never forget my entire life.
Just forget about such things and it'll be much easier for you.
Eh?
Ah...
That look of shock on your face is so cute!
Yeah! I've decided on this house.
And then...
...if Dai-chan could decide on me...
...we could start over again.
Eh...
We'll become happy.
Shirasu, haven't you had five already?
Um, I just can't stop.
Don't take everyone else's share, too.
We have just returned.
Welcome back.
Oi, what are you eating?
These were brought in by a client.
We dug in first.
Adachi-san, open wide.
Sorry. I don't snack.
Then I'll eat it for you.
You're eating too much.
Hey...
Ah, it's raining.
That's something else.
A torrential rainstorm.
Chief Sangen'ya, are you okay?
I am only wet from the rain.
Hail is falling, too!
You are exaggerating things.
I'm sorry.
Ah... strange weather has been coming up lately.
Chief Sangen'ya, I posted 1,000 flyers today!
Do not make claims for each and every thing you do.
Yes...
What about the Maehara Akane property?
I became confused when I saw what she's really like and behaved foolishly.
If there is anything at all I can do to help, I will do it.
Please let me do it.
I'll help out, too!
I'll do it, too!
Shirasu Mika, I do not need your help.
You will go hand out another 1,000 flyers.
Eh...
Go and investigate the activities of Maehara Akane's husband and Manager.
Eh?
If he has a woman, be sure to determine that.
Understood.
Does this mean we're supposed to act like detectives?
I'm a real estate agent, so acting like a detective is...
It is for the sake of selling a house.
If you are willing to help, then hurry and GO!
Yes!
Welcome.
I'll take this for today.
A dahlia, right? Thank you very much.
Her, maybe?
Can't be, can it?
She's just a florist.
Well, I wonder.
I'm bothered by that look she has.
Her look?
I can't tell.
Nihon TV
Thanks for your hard work.
Um, where's your entry permit?
We don't have it...
The central part of the country will be sunny throughout the morning.
As the sunlight will be stronger, it will feel much hotter.
Please take measures against the heat.
If it's around 8 tonight.
The cafe near the Shibamori station.
So long.
Yes?
Tsuda will meet a woman at the cafe near the Shibmori station at 8 tonight.
Well done.
It's for the sake of selling a house.
I asked the flower seller to return home.
Eh?
If you are having an affair...
...you should have just said you did not want it to come out.
My work is to sell houses.
When a married couple is breaking apart, selling them a house is troubling.
I will not interfere if you are serious about being with this flower seller.
I will search for a house for you again at that time.
However...
I'm very sorry.
It was just a passing fancy...
I thought so. Just a passing fancy, right?
Yes.
Enjoy.
Since she has no use for me as a weather forecaster...
...no matter how perfectly I do the housework...
...my wife is only cruel to me.
What's more, if my wife buys a house using her earnings...
...I'll go beyond being just a housekeeper...
...to becoming a servant.
Thinking that, my heart wanted a place to go to...
As I'm always buying flowers from that girl florist...
...she incidentally became very friendly with me...
But after all, the most important thing to me is Maehara Akane.
It might be over between us as man and woman...
...but I do hope and pray she becomes a first-class weather forecaster...
...and have entrusted Maehara with my dream as well.
Like how a father thinks about his daughter...
I understand.
I will search for the perfect house for you two.
No, that's...
Ah...
"6:58 Lover" Maehara Akane has a husband!
What's more, her husband's having an affair right now!
Will Akane-chan be okay?
If it were me, I'd take a break...
Yes, to weather in five seconds, 4... 3...
Good morning! This is Maehara Akane!
Since yesterday was rather cool...
...did all of you sleep well?
Maehara Akane's Today's Weather Forecast
I, too...
Switch over to the weather map.
Yes.
Today, along the front for areas close to Hokuriku and Kitanihon along the Sea of Japan...
...strong rains will be falling.
On the Pacific Ocean side, from Kyushu to Kanto...
...there will be intense heat...
...and because moist air will be flowing in towards the front...
...it will cause the atmosphere to be in an unstable state...
...and so it is expected that rain will occur in many places.
"6:58 Lover" Maehara Akane has a husband!
What's more, her husband's having an affair right now!
Section Chief! That article is a mistake!
I can prove that. That Chief Sangen-ya isn't Tsuda-san's mistress.
That's... true, isn't it?
Yes.
Still, while I believe you...
...it's bad that the company's name appeared in this.
What if we sued them for libel?
We would definitely win.
Hello, this is Teiko Real Estate, Shinjuku office.
Yes.
Section Chief, it's Senior Managing Director Inoue.
Eh?!
Yes, this is Yashiro!
Director! Chief Sangen'ya is innocent!
Keep it down!
I'm very sorry. Yes.
Is this true?
It doesn't matter whether your husband is having an affair or not...
"6:58 Lover" Maehara Akane has a husband!
...but that Maehara Akane is married at all means your image will take a serious hit.
You're the star idol for our program.
Company employees will even leave their company just to see your face.
To those employees, Maehara Akane...
...is the Goddess of Hope.
Got that?
Yes...
Akane, don't need you anymore
Maehara Akane is the worst
Akane's Married
Why did you come?
I told you not to show your face, didn't I?!
The press are all over the entrance to the parking lot!
Look, I've told you this again and again, but there's nothing going on between Sangen-ya-san and me.
Sangen-ya-san was just trying to help me.
I let her know that you are the most important thing to me.
I don't care anything about her!
The problem is that they've found out I'm a married woman.
Idiot!
Who are you?
The woman in the photo...
I am Sangen-ya with Teiko Real Estate.
I will now guide you to the very best property for you two.
Don't be so nonchalant about this!
Because it's your fault that it's gotten this way for me!
You will regret not seeing this current property.
Are you threatening me?
It is more a suggestion.
Excuse me.
The press is out front!
We should go out majestically.
Don't go talkin' so high and mighty! You don't know nothin'!
Tsuda-sama, GO!
Yes, roger that.
It's Maehara Akane!
This way! This way! She's over here!
Niwano, you're fast!
I'm fine with looking at it, but if I'm fired from the program...
...I'll also be dropped from my commercials and won't be able to buy a house, right?
And this guy has no money.
Maehara-sama, I think it would be best...
...if you utilized Tsuda-sama's abilities, just as you once did in the past.
By doing so, you will be a front-line weather woman for all time.
What have you been telling her?
I just told her that I was a weather forecaster as well.
Please look here.
The sky.
When was the last time you looked up at the sky like this?
You two are no longer man and woman.
You do not need to return to being man and woman.
But... you do mutually need one another as people.
To depend upon and to lean on.
So you cannot break up.
Tsuda-sama, even if you are a housekeeper or a servant...
...do not be ashamed.
Because you cannot live if Maehara Akane is not there.
That might be so.
When we were getting to know one another, we would stare up into the sky and think all sorts of things...
I would hate it if you weren't there.
Just thinking that you might not be there scares me.
I'd hate not having you to push around in our house.
I'm okay with being pushed around.
It'd be a problem if I didn't have someone to say selfish things to.
I'm okay with being told selfish things.
If you two cooperate, you can surely buy this house.
Wonder if I should give up my cutsey-girl character?
As you please.
Maehara-sama, Tsuda-sama.
Will you purchase this house?
Yes.
They fell for it.
Yes. Yes... Ah, that's true, isn't it?
Yes, please excuse me. Yes.
It's no good. I just can't sell that Komae 5 LDK from the bubble years.
Ahh... Wish I had ceded it over to Sanchi that time...
Ah... Welcome back.
Thanks for your hard work.
I have sold a single-family house with skylight to Maehara Akane-sama and her husband.
Is that right.
Will that couple be okay?
Yes.
Even if they are no longer man and woman...
...as they go through the years living together, they will be a family.
It's been a long time since we haven't been man and woman in my home, either.
How many years did you spend like that when you lived together, Section Chief Yashiro?
Sangen-ya-kun! What did you just say?
As they go through the years living together, they will be a family.
Oh! That 5 LDK house you're finding so unmanageable right now, Fuse-san...
I just might be able to sell it.
Eh?
No way!
This house is way too big for me.
That previous place was better.
I want to live in that condo with you, Dai-chan.
I'm not going to start over with you again.
I think the same thing would happen again if you and I lived together.
Is there someone that you like?
There is.
But she's not... your ordinary person.
Just who is she?
That's none of your business.
Dai-chan... you're going to leave me alone and lonely again, aren't you?
You won't be alone or lonely.
Come in!
Rie!
We're gonna live here with you.
Eh?
Don't you think Yashiro-kun's suggestion is a good one?
How about you buy this house and then roomshare it?
By doing that, you won't be alone or lonely.
That's why you showed me this huge house, huh?
I've already finished giving these three a tour of it.
Right?
As it's a 5 LDK, each of you is guaranteed to have her own private room.
So it'll be okay even if you brought in a man.
Stop that, Yashiro-kun. We're too old for that anymore.
I don't know about that.
Since women nowadays come into their prime during their forties...
...all of you will be charming men for a long time yet.
Don't say that.
It's obvious.
If you think we're attractive, then help me out yourself.
That... I cannot do.
All right...
A house of divorced women, huh?
Might be nice.
All right!
Dai-chan!
I'll buy this house.
Thank you very much!
Say, just look at this kitchen! It's awesome!
We did it.
All's well that end's well.
Dem daytime weather jerks is sayin'...
...it's gonna pour cats and dogs tanight...
...but it'll be a clear night.
Dere'll be a beautiful full moon out.
"Why," ya ask?
'Cause my husband told me so, dat's why.
Akane-neechan's Let's Ask the Sun!
If it rains by morning...
...I'll slit ma belly!
Ah... this is good, too!
Rather, this might be better.
Akane-neechan's Let's Ask the Sun!
See ya!
This change in her character is also the work of Chief Sangen-ya, isn't it?
Ow, that hurts! Do it more gently!
Yes.
Life comes in all shapes.
Families come in all shapes, as well.
And, what kind of house they live in...
...that also becomes the life of that person.
The genius real estate agent, Sangen-ya Michi...
...takes her client's lives into her hands the way a doctor takes their patients...
...and produces the lives of a great many people.
This Drama is Fictional