- Sensei, I think I should leave the hotel first. And I'll go to the clinic first too. - Let's go.
- But ... - We're going together.
I understand what you're thinking. Our future together won't be easy.
But even so, this is what we chose to do, right?
That's right.
Then let's go together.
- OK. - Here.
I must be insensitive. ... I just don't believe we're doing anything wrong. ... That's how I feel.
Sensei.
Take your son ... and come live with me.
- Are you sure? - Yes.
You'll live with me and my son?
You must bring him with you.
Thank you.
I pray that everything goes well.
- We have just enough time to eat. Let's go. ... Oh! Mine-sensei. - Yes?
I love you.
- What a nice breeze. - Yeah.
When you first came to BSC, I never imagined that this kind of thing would happen.
You were pretty frightening, sensei.
- Really? - Yeah.
Hey, isn't that ...
- Oh, Mine sensei's walking? - That's unusual.
Hey, Ichii sensei's wearing the same clothes as yesterday. Mine sensei's wearing the same suit. But he always wears the same suit!
Wait ... We can tell if we check his dress shirt.
His bicycle's here too.
- I knew it! Mine sensei hasn't changed either! - Oh my god! This is crazy!
- I got a get-well card for Inchou. Everybody write something for her. - You first, Hoshida sensei.
- You go first, Ao-chan. - Oh, OK.
Did anyone use the kitchen yesterday?
- No. - Something's odd about it. And this wine bottle was in the trash too.
- Guess what we saw! - What?
- Ichii sensei and Mine sensei were ... - Are you still going on about that? - What Moe-chan said was true!
- Those two are sleeping together. - What?
- Sleeping together? - Mine sensei's bicycle has been here since last night.
- They're still wearing the same clothes and came to work together! - That's no reason to come to that conclusion.
Lately they've both been here late every night prepping, haven't they?
Last night they used this kitchen to make dinner.
- Now I see. - Ichii sensei cooked for Mine sensei?
I don't know who cooked for who, but they ate ... and drank that bottle of wine.
Then, feeling a little drunk, they went somewhere ... and made love to each other.
Then came to work together without trying to hide it.
That means they're having an affair.
- I hate to say it, but yes, that's right. - But we still don't know for sure. It could be pure chance they're wearing the same clothes.
Impossible. I've never seen Ichii sensei come to work in the same clothes two days in a row.
But how could Mine sensei, who doesn't like women, get into a relationship with a married woman and mother.
How could he come to such a bold decision? That's the big question.
- I'm gonna go ask! - What!?
- Hey! Come here! - Wha?
- Mu-chan, where did you stay last night? - Huh?
Just tell me it wasn't with Mine-chan.
Don't tell me ...
You're having an affair, are you?
- The patient I just consulted with wants an operation as soon as possible. When can we fit her in? - This month is all booked up.
- But someone canceled just yesterday. - I wouldn't know.
What?
I know you've had your eye on Mine-chan for a while, Mu-chan.
I thought that it was great you two were prepping for surgeries every night.
But drinking wine, having dinner, and other ... im... improper things ... I never imagined that.
I don't think it's appropriate to call that improper.
You mean you actually did it?
Haru-san ... I'm going to get a divorce and start over with Mine sensei.
What!?
It's not just a matter of getting divorced!
When Ichou is gone, you should be the leader here! But you go and commit adultery! Nobody will stand for it!
- But ... - I won't stand for it!
Nobody on staff will stand for it.
It's not too late. ... Turn back right now!
I can't!
I'll do my job properly. Please forgive me of this.
No matter what happens, don't let it get you down.
Keep working but listen to me.
This is the only time we'll be alone.
Everybody knows about you and Ichii sensei.
Everyone's upset about your having an affair.
But I'm on your side.
I know you're a serious person ... so I know you wouldn't have an affair without being serious about it.
I'll support you all the way.
Why are you on our side?
Because you and Kurosaki-san saved my life.
I'll never ever forget what you did to save me.
Her BP is stable, Mine sensei!
You've got to keep your chin up.
- If you two show any doubts, their attacks will just get worse. - Alright.
Thanks.
Prosthesis.
- Can I ask you one thing? - OK.
Does Kurosaki-san know about this?
I'm sure he does. He's got good intuition.
- Good afternoon. - Good afternoon.
Since you don't know much about the world, I'm gonna ask you this. Do you know what an affair is?
- If you don't, then have Ichii sensei tell you how horrible a thing it is! - Stop that!
- Why are you trying to protect him? - I don't think this needs to be announced to everyone but ...
Mine sensei and I have made love.
- Oh, yuck! - And we won't stop no matter what anyone says.
- I'm not asking you to accept it ... but for the patients' sake ... - What gives you the right to act so righteous!?
I can't stick around here. ... Thanks.
Dammit, Inchou! Why'd you hire a man?
I can't believe them! What conservative ideas for people working in such an advanced clinic as ours!
I'm sorry for failing as a leader while you were away.
You go ahead and get that divorce.
Since I got breast cancer, I've been thinking. Once you get to a certain point in life, you've got to decide what to keep and what to abandon.
Decide what things you absolutely must keep. Is it your child? Is it Mine sensei?
I broke up with my boyfriend.
You need to decide what to keep and what to get rid of.
- Welcome home. - Hi ...
I'm going to the supermarket now. Do you wanna come?
Yeah.
Meat? Fish?
- I'm sorry I didn't call you last night. - It's alright.
You weren't in any position to, were you?
You're such a proper guy, there's no way you'd text me after you slept with a woman.
Chicken wings!
We'll have yuzu kosho chicken wings.
I won't get in the way.
Don't look so blue.
You should have told me sooner. Right?
- I don't remember treating you like you were in the way. - It's not your fault, Mom.
It's because of this arrangement that people were able to look up to you as a good doctor, good wife and good mother.
I ... I don't want to live that sham any longer.
Then how about if we decide on a day or two a week where you prepare dinner, Mutsumi-san.
- How's that sound? - If you leave, then my boy won't become the department head.
Sorry.
But ... I believe there's no future for us.
Please allow me to ... take Tatsuya ... and leave this house.
Why do you have to go this far? If you leave we won't be able to pay the mortgage.
And poor Tatsuya. ... It's our responsibility to raise him until he's an adult.
- I'll raise him myself. - But, like I said ...
Mutsumi-san, could it be that ...
You've found someone else?
What?
It's just so strange that you come out with this all of a sudden.
Is that what's up?
Yes.
I thought so! You should have explained that first. Making it seem like we had done something wrong. That's so unkind.
I don't care if you've got a man.
That makes things a lot simpler.
He can make up for the things that I lack. If that makes you happy and keeps our family together, then I can live with it.
There's just one thing you have to do.
You're still Tatsuya's mother. So you must come here at least once every day ... and see Tatsuya.
If you can promise to do that ... then do what you like with that man.
That's not what this is about.
I want to start over again from scratch.
I want to re-do it all.
I'll speak frankly with Tatsuya.
Mommy, I ... I hate you, Mommy!
Get out, Mommy!
Get out!
Ta... Ta-chan!
Ta-chan!
- It was a little strong, I think. - No, it was delicious.
- OK, shoot. - Huh?
Tell me what it is you want to say.
I ...
I don't think I can stay here any more.
I'd never loved a woman before ...
And never thought I ever would ...
So I took advantage of your feelings for me ...
And decided to stay here. It was selfish of me.
- Are you gonna leave here and live with that doctor? - I'm not sure yet.
But ... the way I feel now, I can't live here any longer.
That's really heavy stuff.
And you've still got that debt.
But that doctor must have pretty strong feelings for you. She's leaving her boy and husband, and chosen you over them.
- She'll bring her child with her. - Do you really think that'll happen? - If she can't bring her child ...
- I'll turn her down. - Do you think you can? - I will.
- But that would be cruel to that doctor. - Adults can recover ...
- But a child's heart ... - If you were going to leave her because of her child, then you never should have gotten involved with her in the first place.
Mineta ...
It isn't easy to love, is it?
Who could that be?
It's probably my dad again.
Sensei.
This is my friend, Kurosaki-kun.
This is Ichii sensei.
- Here you are. - Thank you.
Did you tell them?
My son ... told me to ... get out.
I wanted to speak to him privately ...
But I don't know what to do now.
That house ... and my husband ... and his mother ... I can't stand them!
Sensei.
I'm alright.
I'm OK.
I wonder why ...
Your son said that.
He must have wanted you to say ... "I won't go. .... I'll be with you no matter what."
- So he said that on purpose. - Oh, cut it out!
She didn't come here to be preached to like that.
She's saying, "Take me, no matter what happens."
"Even if I abandon my son, forgive me."
"If I have you, Mineta, I don't need anything else." Can't you understand that?
You love her too, right?
- Then quit worrying about the kid, and worry about her! - Shut up for a minute! - Mineta!
I'm telling you this because I want to help you.
To love completely ...
Means you'll hurt someone else ...
Bend your own ideals ...
Even throw away your future ...
You've got to make so many sacrifices.
I'm sorry for bursting in like that. I'm going down to the convenience store, so make yourself at home.
Tell me you love me.
I love you.
Tell me you'll love me ... tomorrow, the day after ...
And forever.
I'll love you tomorrow, the day after ... and forever.
- Say we'll be together forever. - We will. We'll be together forever.
- But ... - My son ... is precious to me, but ...
You're also precious to me.
There's just no way I can give you up ...
- For my son's sake. - I can't give you up either, sensei.
But ...
I can't let another child ... grow up feeling lonely like me ... because of something I did.
Even if it means losing me?
I know ... you felt lonely as a child.
But you and Tatsuya are different.
- He has his grandmother. - A grandmother isn't the same.
- A child has only one mother in the world. - Then what should we do!?
I'll wait.
What?
I'll wait for you.
You'll wait?
Yes.
If you said ... that you would leave your son ... then I thought I would leave you.
But now that I'm with you, I know I can't do that. I don't want to lose you, sensei.
So ...
I'll wait for you ... until your son can live on his own.
- What if he ... wants to be a doctor. It'll be 17 years before he's on his own! - I'll wait for you.
I'll wait ... forever.
No!
I can't wait.
I want to be with you.
Always ... I always want to be with you. From now and forever ...
Once your son can live on his own ...
Then come to me ...
Alone.
- That's so far away. I don't even know if I'll be alive. - Then live! - No!
Do you know ... how old I'll be in 17 years?
- Fifty-seven. At 57, I ... - I'll still love you at 57!
No ...
It has to be now.
Now ...
I can't love you if you abandon your son.
That's my mother.
The baby is me.
Two years after this photo ... she left me and my father and went to live with a man she loved.
Don't you do the same thing, sensei.
Don't do what she did.
The Mutsumi sensei that I love ... would never do such a thing.
Your son's still seven, right?
Stay with him.
This is ...
The only favor I'll ever ask you.
Let's go home.
I'll take you to your place.
I don't want to go.
Please believe me.
I'll wait forever for you.
- Believe me. - No ...
Let's go home.
- Sensei. - No!
Sensei.
We're going home, sensei!
I wish we could go back to when we first met.
Then I'd make sure ...
That I'd never fallen in love with you.
I'll be waiting for you.
Stop that.
I don't want to hear it any more.
I'll be waiting for you.
Welcome back.
Thanks.
- Say ... - Yeah?
- Will you go with me to a factory? - Huh?
Make some memories with me too.
You're gonna be leaving anyway, right?
Even if you're not going to live with that doctor, you can't live here any more, right?
Yeah.
Sorry.
- Wha? - What're you apologizing for? Want a beer?
Sure.
- Here. - Thanks.
I never tire of it.
I don't tire of you either, Mineta. And I don't tire of factories.
Awesome!
- Pretty, isn't it? - Yeah!
- Now I see why you like it. - Yep.
This sure is beautiful.
It's getting cold.
- Maybe we should get going. - Hey, Mineta.
I've got a favor to ask you.
What is it?
Hug me.
Just once ... hug me.
Thanks.
- What? Are you crying? - Why would I be crying!?
Oh, you're no fun!
Life just won't go the way you want it ... will it?
It's awful late to be realizing that now.
- What? Are you crying? - Of course not!
- Congratulations on your successful operation! - Congratulations!
I'm so glad you're back! It's been so long!
Seeing you, Inchou, I was so relieved that I almost fainted.
Don't be fainting on me.
- Oh! You're here too, Tomi-chan. - Of course I'm here. It's a special day.
Thank you. I know you were all worried about me, but I'm just fine.
- I'm glad you can work without a bandage now, Ao-chan. - Mine sensei will give me a skin transplant.
He'll also be doing my breast reconstruction surgery.
Oh, that's right! What happened to you and Ichii sensei?
We're through. He dumped me.
I know we made a show of saying we wouldn't change our minds, but I'm not going to hide this.
- I can't believe it! - I didn't dump her. - Yes you did!
That's great news! I'm so glad! I feel much better now!
Uhm, I know this may not be as stunning as what happened between Mine sensei and Ichii sensei ...
- Hoshida sensei and I are getting married. - Really!?
- You're OK that he's not a doctor? - He's won me over to his way of thinking, so now I have a completely different outlook.
It makes me wonder what all those other match makings were all about.
I thought today would be a good time to show you, so ...
- Amazing! - It's huge!
You're so rich, Tomi-chan!
How many carats?
Will you buy me one like that in 17 years?
If that's what you want.
Then you'd better save your money after you pay off your debt.
I will.
Live on with me!
Together! Together! Together! Together!
Until the end!
Even with Sanami making her debut, I'll still run this bar. Come visit whenever you like.
- You ought to be her manager. - No, I won't do that.
You see, if Sanami happens not to not be a success, then she can rely on me.
Ojisan, Mineta got a lover.
- Really!? - But they already broke up.
What!?
- It was that pretty and proud doctor, wasn't it? I didn't like her. I'm glad they broke up. - I see ...
- He finally made the plunge. - But they broke up.
That's fine.
Falling in love ... breaking up ... Now he's a complete person.
- Now I can die without any regrets. - You keep on living until I'm on Kohaku.
Oh, that's right. I'd forgotten about that one!
Hello?
- It's your father. - I know that! I'm eating ramen now!
Hello? How's it going?
- Are you eating your vegetables? - Oh! This is so moving! - Shut up, would you!
- I'm drinking vegetable juice. - Good.
If it's not a bother, I can come and make you tonjiru or something.
OK.
- You should go on the attack when you visit. - Shut up! You wanna talk to him? - Yeah.
- Hello! It's Aoi! - I guessed that.
- I decided to try to get into Towa Medical University next year. - Really?
- Kurosaki-san's going to help me study. - I see. Yu was in liberal arts, but he's good at math too.
Wish me the best. I'm making my work my life.
You bet. Do your best.
I will! I will! Here's your dad.
- It's your father. - He knows that!
When I was sleeping, Mommy was crying all alone. I thought I would get up and try to make Mommy feel better.
But I didn't get up. I don't know why I didn't. I just didn't. That's it.
- That's surreal. Like a novel. - Was it good?
- It was great, Ta-chan. - Did you like it, Mommy?
I was thinking about something else while you were reading.
- Didn't you like it? - Of course she did!
- OK! Tonight we're having Ta-chan's favorite, menchi-katsu. - I think I'll help her out.
- Read it to me again. - OK.
In my room there's a sky. The sky in my room is really, really big. It's so big that ...
Six Months Later
Mine sensei, you'll eventually be returning to the medical school, right?
Yes.
I don't know how many years away that will be, but I want you to teach them the skills you learned here.
Certainly. I intend to do that.
Even when artificial breast implants are covered by insurance, and proper expanders are being used ...
Unless the proper skills and mindset are implemented, you cannot make beautiful breasts. You should be at the forefront of those changes.
Certainly. I will make the most of the skills and doctrine that you and Ichii sensei have taught me.
- This sounds like my last will and testament. I'm not about to die yet! - Of course not.
Excuse me. The operating room is ready.
OK. Let's go.
Scalpel.
Expander coming out.
MX445.
Affix it with the stapler.
Raise the bed.
I think the submammary sulcus needs to be lowered 2mm.
You're right.
Let's go to the side.
- Keeping the top high looks good. - That was the right choice.
Lower the bed.
[Towa Medical University Medical School Applicant Number]
- I'm 531. - OK, 531. Here are the 500s.
510, 525, 530, 5...
- It's not there! - Oh darnit!
- Was the last one better? - No.
- I think this one's fine. - Really?
Hello?
What?
We couldn't pay a bill!?
What!?
Huh?
My wallet ...
Wha!?
Today was so long!
- Oops! - What is it?
Oh my god!
- I got these in Paris! Whatta shock! - That's nothing compared to me failing the entrance exam!
- My kid failed the cram school test too. - How about we have a bad-times party? The place above mine sprung a water leak, so I don't have a place to stay.
Let me join the party. Juliet fired me as an amateur model.
- The only happy ones are Hoshida sensei and Ayaka. - I've gained weight lately. It's awful.
How dare you gain weight from my lunches!
Everyone's got trouble.
Good evening.
Mine sensei, do you have any bad news?
- I lost my wallet. - Really?
But you don't have any money.
- Let's party and forget about these things! - Let's!
- My husband's having an affair. - No way!
- How did you find out? - I read his cell phone messages.
- You shouldn't have looked in the first place. - I agree.
- You mean I'm in the wrong? - I'd never look at my fiance's phone.
But ...
Uhm ...
Actually ...
- We've decided to put off the wedding. - What!?
- Hello everyone! - Great timing, Tomi-chan!
- What's the president doing here? - One of our subsidiaries folded, so we've got to start over.
- Really? - Is that why you've postponed the wedding?
Yes. Sorry about that.
- No matter how hard you try, you can't always make things go right. - That's deep, Ichii sensei.
At times like that, you've just got to move ahead. Isn't that right, Mine sensei.
Yes.
Let's drink! Let's forget those things that won't go our way!
Yes! Let's drink!
- Go buy us some stuff, Mine sensei! Get yakitori! - It's OK, sensei. I'll get it. Oh, yeah. I'm broke.
Here's to our unbearable life. Cheers.
Clink!
Here's to our stupid lives!
Cheers!
That's delicious!
Even so, I've still got a hundred times less money than you.
How long you gonna be love struck by this woman!?
Look this way. OK. 1, 2, 3!
Say cheese!
I'm gonna shoot! 1, 2, 3!
Hurry up! Hurry!
Damn this postponed wedding!
Show us your best face.
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