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Episode 211
Draft exemptions for students in humanities
were done away with, and Yuu returned home,
having moved out of his dormitory in Kyoto.
This all came as a shock to Oshin,
who had believed that all students were exempt from service.
Why? Yuu hasn't even graduated from college yet!
The war is getting more serious...
The battlefields have spread throughout the continent and out to the Pacific.
They need more men.
They don't have to draft college students!
There are kids who enlist at age 14 and 15.
Think about that...
Yuu goes in on December 1st. That's more than a month away.
Let's just have him relax here until then.
What will happen after that?
Usually, there's a three- month basic training period,
and college graduates go on to officers' training.
Either way, one can't get out of the service.
Maybe he'll be sent abroad.
He'll only be free until he joins his unit...
Nobody is saying that he's going to die!
He'll be free once this war is over.
He only has to bear it until then.
We can't let our own worries harm him.
Let us all send him off with a smile.
Hatsuko.
It's finally come to this. But I'm ready. As a man!
I'm glad you're here.
My family will be safe, with you here.
Please help Mother always.
You'll be here for a while yet.
While you're here, I'll make you all your favorite foods.
Tell me what you want to eat.
- May I come in? - Yes.
Your father brought home yokan sweets for you.
You can still get yokan?
I feel badly for all the others,
but we don't suffer from food shortage yet.
What will happen to Japan? We must win this war.
Otherwise, half of our people may starve.
The food in the Army isn't good lately.
You get very little to eat, and you have to train hard.
I can take it.
But I realize what you went through to raise me.
So I'm not going off just to die.
I'm ready for death, as well as life.
But I still feel badly for you.
Unlike some patriotic mothers,
I'll never tell you to die for your country.
I want you to live your life as you choose.
Yuu.
All people think differently.
I don't think like your father, and he doesn't think like me.
You and I don't think alike.
So if you think something is right...
Even if it's going to war, I won't stop you.
But if you don't believe in the war...
I wouldn't mind if you ran away from it.
Mother...
I'm telling you to live a life without any regrets.
I don't want you to feel badly for me.
That's just makes me feel worse.
Your life is yours alone.
Thank you.
Maybe I won't be a filial son.
But I want you to forgive me if I'm
because it's the path I chose for myself.
Let me give you a massage.
- I'm fine. - I want to do it.
Those shoulders carried me... I went everywhere on your back.
I'm coming home.
I'll come home to give you a massage again.
I promise!
For a month, nobody in the family mentioned the Army,
and Yuu was quietly preparing himself.
The day came for him to join his regiment.
Drape this over your shoulder.
I don't want it!
I refuse to be sent off like that.
The people of the neighbor- hood want to send you off!
You can't refuse them.
I want to go quietly on my own! Please let me do it my way.
All departing soldiers get a send-off!
You can't just do things your way!
If that's Yuu wish, let's ask to cancel the send-off.
I don't think such rituals have any significance.
What do you mean?!
Can't you appreciate other people's kindness?!
Let's not fight over this...
- I'm sorry if I sound selfish. - It can't be helped...
I'll ask them to cancel the send-off.
Never mind.
People just feel an obligation, that's all.
I've had to send off people, too.
I don't even want you or Father to see me off.
I want to go alone.
I just want to slip away unnoticed.
The time has come to give you this.
I've been putting it off.
I've sewn a lot of these 1,000-stitch belts,
but I never dreamed I'd have to make one for you.
Thanks.
Please take care of yourself, and be sure to come back.
I had to do a lot of soul searching...
I couldn't decide if I should tell you this or not.
But I want you to wait for me.
I want you to be my wife.
I realized that when I was going off to Kyoto to go to high school.
I love you.
I don't know when we'll be able to get married.
I may never get to see you again.
But I still want you to wait for me.
Will you wait for?
I'll wait for you.
So please come home...
I'll come home.
I will... I'll come home to you.
Goodbye.
Never mind.
Yuu left the Tanokura house alone.
Oshin could hardly keep her composure...
Translation: UTB Channel
Thanks to Avallac'h and XrayMind at D-Addicts.