First, please introduce yourself who you really are.
My real name is
Yamabe Koroku.
Grandma, Ken-san is on radio.
Ken-san?
I thought Tsugumi might respond to Ken-san's voice.
I've been working since young age.
Wait a minute. What are you saying?
What I'm about to tell you,
is the story of myself before becoming a monster.
He regain his memories in the past.
The memories before he became Ken?
For what purpose was I reborn?
Why Professor gave me a new life?
I always wanted to know the answers.
Once I’ve resented Professor
and the scientific knowledge that Professor has discovered.
But I finally realized
for the purpose was I reborn.
I want to tell
to the important person who is trying to survive
in this world.
It's a 120 years old love story.
120 years ago, I had a big dream.
Oh, I found it!
I came to find this particular person to pursue my dream.
[ Frankenstein's Love ]
[ Episode 9 ]
Excuse me?
Someone... is someone there?
- Excuse me? - Yes, yes.
What can I do for you?
I'm Yamabe Koroku from Tokyo.
From Tokyo?
Yes! I am a doctor.
I'm Shimizu, who is in-charge of the office administration.
You're the chief administrator?
What can I do for you?
Yes, I'd like to meet Professor Fukashi Kentaro.
This is a recommendation
from Director Ohgaki of the hospital I was working.
I've heard that Director Ohgaki and Professor Fukashi were schoolmates.
Please accept this.
Please wait for a moment.
Sure.
Professor Fukashi is staying in thie lab.
But he won't stop his research to meet a mere applicant like you.
That's admirable of him.
That's not something for you to admire.
You're so right.
Excuse me.
Sorry to bother you, I'm Yamabe Koroku.
I came here to meet you, Professor Fukashi Kentaro.
You too, value royalty to your school?
Yes?
Working under Ohgaki means you graduated from the Imperial University.
Working under me will gain you additional prestige?
I only have a high school degree.
But I desperately want to learn under your guidance.
After begging many times,
Director Ohgaki finally agreed to write the recommendation.
How did you become a doctor?
Yes, I was born to a farmer's family in Toyama.
I was able to go to high school
with the help of my family, teachers and many people.
To repay the kindness,
I thought of becoming a doctor.
So I became an intern of a local doctor.
I learned there till 20, then I moved to Tokyo.
I've received favors from many doctors there.
Finally I was able to pass the medical licensing exam.
So you learned medicine by yourself?
Yes, It's the best way to understand people's kindness.
You worked so hard to become a doctor,
why did you come to a research institute?
Yes.
After becoming a doctor, I've learned
there are too many illness in this world that can't be cured.
When I was young,
I lost my grandfather and sibilings to cholera.
There is a limit to a doctor which disease can be cured.
That's when I learned about your achievement.
You've achieved satisfactory results in Germany, UK and US.
After returning to Japan, you established the infectious disease research institute.
When I heard that, I couldn't sit still.
Under your guidance, I want to learn bacteriology
to eliminate a cause of illnesses.
You must be
good at relying on others.
It's embarrassing when you put it that way.
I want to be good at repaying other's kindness quickly.
I look forward to work under your guidance.
Professor allowed me to stay
to make me a liaison officer for his patients.
A liaison officer?
Yes. He really hates interacting with people.
He left me to deal with patients,
so he can focus on his research.
- Your pulse has stabilized a lot. - Really? That's great.
As for me, I love interacting with people.
I didn't mind at all.
Here is your meal.
This again?
After that,
I wanted to help those patients as much as I could.
You want to grow vegetables?
There are many untended farms around the institute.
Why don't we use that. If we can grow fresh vegetables,
- we can feed our patients everyday. - Who is going to grow?
I will since I'm good at farming.
Listen,
everyone here graduated from the Imperial University.
They're not fond of unnecessary kindness.
You're only an apprentice doctor.
If you act as a servant,
people might look down on you.
That would be uncomfortable for you to stay here.
- Chief Administrator Shimizu! - What?
Who do you think more important
me or patients?
I visited the landlord
to borrow a field.
That's when I met a lady named Saki.
She is an ancestor of a precious person who I'm in love with.
Tsugaru?
Ancestor means a grandma?
Her grandma should be younger.
Then, grandma of grandma?
It's 120 years ago, so that sounds about right.
I saw the photo of her, but she looked exactly like Tsugaru-san.
- Show me the photo. - I don't have it.
- Why don't you? - You don't?
Of course not.
Saki-san was a daughter of the landlord.
How could it be... Saki-san and Ken-san
were in a relationship?
Grandma, do you follow what he's saying?
Of course.
Excuse me?
Yes?
- Good afternoon. - Good afternoon.
Is this a residence of the landlord?
Yes. May I ask who is asking?
I'm an apprentice at the Infectious Disease Research Institute.
I'm Yamabe Koroku, a doctor. And you are?
I'm Saki, his daughter.
You're his daughter. Would you please let me see your father?
What business do you have with him?
Actually, I want to borrow
- the unused farm near the institute. - Farm?
Yes. I want to cultivate the field
and feed fresh vegetables for my patients.
Aren't you a doctor?
I am, but I can work on a field too.
You won't be able to borrow.
My father opposed to build the research institute there.
Opposed?
Don't you know he gathered
all the villagers to protest against the institute?
Is that right?
The properties near the institute are unused
because my father doesn't allow it.
People are afraid of the institute and wouldn't dare to go near it.
Who know that kind of influence causes on soil.
You don't need to worry.
Soil and vegetables will not have any effect from diseases.
I grow vegetables to feed patients.
I'm sure your father will agree to that.
I don't think so. He is still opposing to the institute.
If he agrees,
it's like he's acknowledging an institute's existence.
Even if he doesn't, there are patients
who suffer from the illnesses but striving to live.
We need fresh vegetables to live.
I only want to save my patients' lives.
Please forgive me.
I didn't mean to scold at you.
I'm sorry.
- I think my father is wrong. - What?
My family was introduced
to a Westernized lifestyle faster than anyone.
It's contradiction that we ignore an advanced medical science.
Don't you agree?
I understand your intention. I'll ask my father.
But keep in mind
he has shot the institute with his hunting rifle.
- Let's go. - But, wait...
You should be fine as long as I'm with you.
Where are we going?
My father is at my uncle's house.
Bicycle?
Yes.
I always wanted to ride this.
May I?
- Yes, please. - Excuse me.
Please wait. Place your foot on the pedal.
Yes. Excuse me.
After placing your feet on the pedals, press forward slowly.
Okay.
You're doing well.
What are you doing?
Please let go of your hands.
Are you sure?
If you help me, I'm not riding by my own.
Okay.
You're doing well.
Great!!
Are you alright?
- I'm sorry. - Not at all.
Are you hurt anywhere?
When I think of it now, at the moment
I think I fell in love with her.
Koroku-san!
Saki-san, what's the matter?
It must be hard to work alone, let me help you.
- You can't do this. - Of course, I can.
I mean...
Please let me help you.
This is too dangerous for you.
I always wanted to try since I was a child.
Not again, Saki-san.
Please teach me.
Okay. Here.
Oh no! Saki-san, please be careful.
Do it slowly. Slow.
Pull!
Saki-san, we won't finish before the night fall.
Watch out!
- This is good. - Saki!
What are you doing there?
Older Sister!
Stop embarrassing yourself.
If Father finds out, he'll kill you.
Why don't you join me, Sister?
- This is fun. - Let's go home.
Saki-san came everyday
and continued to help me.
Saki-san, are you alright?
Your face is a mess.
Grow big and strong.
Thanks to you, Saki-san,
I was able to plant seeds quickly.
Thank you very much.
I can't wait to harvest.
Are you alright?
I'm fine. You see?
I see. Okay.
I want to escort you home, but
my patients are waiting so I have to go back to the institute.
- I envy you. - What?
I can't live my life as I please.
Why not?
I can only think of getting married someday
with a person my parents decide.
I'm no different from you.
No matter how I wish for
I can'r marry a certain person.
Right.
Is there anything I can do?
Together with you.
Are you referring to marriage?
To help you at the institute.
Right. I know that.
But that's...
- Nothing. - Nothing I can help you with.
If you'd like, can you pray with me
that my patients' illness would be cured
and all the infectious disease would disappear from the world?
Yes. I'll pray with you.
Good.
Saki-san built a Jizo statue
near the institute after that.
Professor!
This is Professor Fukashi Kentaro.
This is the professor.
She is Saki-san, a daughter of the landlord.
Saki-san built the Jizo statue
for our patients.
- Praying to God? - Huh?
- Koroku. - Yes?
Tale care the patients.
Okay.
Back then, he had another research lab.
In the deep forest where nobody knows.
I found it.
I found out later
Professor was studying
a different type of bacteria.
He collected all the bacteria from all over the world
and brought them back to Japan.
He was trying to create a brand new bacteria at the lab.
Professor was absorb himself
in a research for immortality.
Immortality?
- Yes. - Stays young forever
and never dies?
Right.
He believed there is a bateria
that keeps the human cells alive for eternity.
Who knows
his research would
create a monster.
Now, we can feed fresh vegetables to our patients.
It's all thanks to you, Saki-san.
I'm happy too.
I hope let me help you again.
Oh? What type of mushroom this is?
Mushroom?
Professor thinks a mushroom has an unlimited ability.
Unlimited ability?
The ability to cure ilnesses.
For the reason, he goes to a forest often.
When I see a mushroom,
I can only think of eating it
or wondering if it's poisoned.
Professor is amazing.
I am nowhere as good as him.
You may not be a leader,
but a doctor who support from behind.
I...
like you a lot
for who you are.
You're covered with mud,
and still willing to help your patients.
I hope to continue supporting you.
I'm sorry.
♫ Before I close my eyes, I realized ♫
♫ the last thing I saw was the ordinary ceiling ♫
Saki-san and I
begun to yearn for each other.
- Good work. Let me help you. - Chief Administrator Shimizu!
Saki-san started to help around the institute.
Chief Administrator started to show his gratitude towards her.
- Are you ready? - Yes.
Don't move.
Don't move yet.
- Okay! Thank you.. - Thank you very much.
- Here you go. - Thank you.
- Doctor, this is really good. - I'm glad.
Excuse me.
Professor Fukashi, I made a vegetable stew,
so brought you here.
We made this with fresh vegetables.
Please eat while it's hot.
I heard you like mushrooms, so
I added mushrooms.
Please inform Koroku, not to let anyone enter this room.
Why do you avoid people?
I'm sorry.
I was just curious.
I'm sorry to have bothered you. I will be leaving now.
Feelings will only get in the way.
Feelings get in the way?
No matter which country I go to if I achieve good results,
there is no shortage of sensitive people who criticize me.
There are many people who respect you, Professor.
When people become closer,
They will expect more in return than mutual knowledge transfer.
And that will be the beginning of misfortune.
It's the same with male-female relationships.
The same?
When feelings involved in a conversation,
it will become a disturbance to my research.
In order to prevent that, it's imperative for us to sever our human relationship.
Am I despicable to you?
No. I still respect you.
Professor, you are amazing.
The power that supports you must be an energy that cannot be seen with the naked eye.
This power is likely to give you freedom.
Professor, I think you are fine the way you are.
I'm sorry to bother you. I am really leaving this time.
I was able to gain back my memory from those days.
And I went to my home in the forest where I lived for 120 years.
I remembered that Professor had been writing something,
till his dying day.
However, that was
an ordinary experiment log.
I searched to see if I can find anything else.
Then I found it.
If your dark memories from the past returns,
I will confess.
I began developing feelings
for Saki-san who was your girlfriend.
In a world where envy and ambition are swirling,
I felt as if I had finally gained respect from someone for the first time.
This one too!
Professor, I brought you some stew.
I started to develop a greed
for wanting Saki-san's attention all to myself.
Would you like to dine with me?
What?
We'll invite Koroku too.
Sure I'd be happy to.
This is delicious.
Are you two,
gettting married?
Professor are you not getting married?
Professor likes mushrooms more than women, right?
In mushrooms...
there are those that absorb nutrition by rotting trees.
Or those that share nutrition with trees and grow alongside.
Both are a necessity in nature.
Isn't that the same with humans?
Marriage in not a natural occurrence.
Then professor, how about falling in love?
You've fallen in love before, haven't you?
I can't say that I haven't.
What kind of person was she?
I bet she was an amazing person.
I would really like to meet her.
My father is trying to rush my marriage.
Professor, should I choose marraige?
Or should I choose love?
Unfortunately,
There are very few that find happiness from falling in love.
Therefore, a strong commitment is required.
You two will be fine.
It's all thanks to you, doctor.
That's why when you contracted a new infectious disease.
I thought for a moment,
That maybe I can steal Saki-san from you.
Doctor! Some...please someone help!
I conjured up
The most vile thoughts that a human can have.
Professor...
Saki-san!
You must not come here!
I'm fine.
Professor has promised to cure you.
With a new medication.
I will forever stay by your side.
I promise.
Professor worked hard to cure me.
However,
A new cure wasn't developed in time.
Koroku-san...
Koroku-san!
I did not understand humans.
I didn't know anything about Saki-san either.
It was my mistake to leave Saki-san by your side till the end.
Saki-san! Saki-san!
Saki-san stole medication.
And tried to follow you to the after life.
Luckily she survived.
But there was no guarantee that Saki-san will continue to live on.
From my desire to save her from the darkness,
I had no choice but to act on the last resort.
That's all that I could think of.
I wanted you to see her once again.
And so I took that bacteria
And injected it into your body.
Eternal life...I found it!
The person I was at that time
Had no sense of jealousy towards you.
Suddenly, it wasn't for Saki-san's sake any longer.
I simply had a strong desire to save you.
Resurrecting you was my happiest moment of all.
And you know already what had happened after that.
After I resurrected you, I made you meet Saki-san.
But I didn't expect your transformation.
And I made do horrible things.
I transformed you into the terrifying monster.
Koroku, I'm so sorry.
So that's what happened.
Now, I finally realized.
About what?
I was created from Professor's love.
From his heart to love someone.
Not resentment, anger, greed or desire.
I was born from human's love.
So I was able to love human.
This is how I fell in love with you.
My body possess a bacteria that harmful to humans.
But I don't want to hurt anyone.
Nor kill anyone.
If I could,
I want to help someone.
I want to help humans in behalf of Professor.
That's what I hope for.
That's
my truth.
Amakusa-san, what are you doing?
Aren't you going to deny him?
Tell him, he made up the story.
Amakusa-san, tell him you don't believe the story.
This is for you and the show.
Amakusa-san, deny him!
Amakusa!
Amakusa, continue. This is my show.
Thank you for telling us the truth.
You lived 120 years without knowing anything.
You've suffered from anxiety and loneliness
as a monster that can't die.
Yes.
Do you still want to live with humans
although you carry the harmful bacteria?
Because I have the bacteria, because I'm a monster,
I fell in love with human
and learned how amazing humans are.
Also...
the radio show
gave me 120 years worth of happiness.
I too, was happy to meet you.
Amakusa-san.
I'm glad that I trusted your words.
I'm glad that I trusted you, Amakusa-san.
What are you going to do now?
Only the thing I can do
is to pray for her
to recover quickly.
Franken,
thank you so much.
Amakusa-san, thank you very much.
Then,
see you again someday.
If you have a concern at the snack time,
♫ Let's ask Amakusa. ♫
Thank you for your story.
Sure.
Tsugaru-san, she will recover for sure.
Your words
and your thoughts will reach to her.
Yes.
I'll be going.
Tokachi-san, I'm sorry.
Good work today. See you.
Yes.
Thank you very much.
[ The eternal life ]
Welcome back!
Ken-san.
Inaniwa-senpai.
I heard your radio. And so as Tsugaru-san.
Then, did she...?
No, she is still unconscious.
Let's go see her.
Yes.
- Welcome back. - Thank you.
Tsugumi has been wanting to see you.
Ken-san, please meet with her.
Thank you.
Ken-san.
I went to the forest.
To find the house that you lived in, Ken-san.
Why did you do that?
I wanted to know.
The identity of the Eternal Life bacteria that Professor Fukashi had discovered.
I was hoping to find some leads.
Then I found it!
Samples from 120 years ago.
I discovered something unusual when I analyzed this bacteria.
- Unusual? - This bacteria resembled your red mushrooms.
Whenever you were with Tsugaru-san, you'd always produced.
If this mushroom represents your heart.
I believe you are entitled to fall in love with a human.
I'm guessing that the mushrooms you produce, are an evolved form of this one.
That's why Ken-san. Your bacteria stimulates human genes.
It may have an ability to regenerate human's cells.
Only you can produce this bacteria.
It's amazing!
And I discovered something else. There is no toxicity.
It's not toxic?
I can certain that your red mushrooms are harmless to people.
So when you're feeling as if you're wanting to emit your red mushrooms,
it's safe to touch people.
Ken-san, you can touch Tsugaru-san.
Tsugaru-san!
♫ I'm not human, I'm terribly sorry ♫
♫ Since I was made to look like one, often I've been mistaken ♫
♫ I'm not human. If you ask me what I am ♫
♫ That's a good question, I seriously have no idea ♫
♫ I wonder if I can be a real human someday ♫
♫ I dreamt such a dream. That is my dream ♫
♫ I'm living my life carefree ♫
♫ I'm working relatively hard ♫
♫ I’m pretending that nothing is wrong ♫
♫ But, I weep every now and then ♫
♫ If I knew this would happen, ♫
♫ I've never wanted to look like human ♫
♫ I rather look something completely different from human ♫
♫ I'm not human, I'm terribly sorry ♫
♫ Since I was made to look like one, often I've been mistaken ♫
♫ Is it okay for me to become human? ♫
♫ Someone, please tell me ♫
♫ Will you forgive me living by imitating? ♫
♫ I've tried to give up many times, but I still want to be human ♫
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Ken-san, you should live however way you want.
I want to protect Tsugaru-san happiness.
Good bye...