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Episode 218
Tei?
Father!
I'm so glad. Now I can go home.
What are you doing here?
I was hoping one of you would come to get me.
Tei...
The war is over, isn't it? No more bombings.
They said I could go home now.
Yes...
You can go home to your mother.
She'll come to take you home.
I'll go home with you!
I just came to see how you were...
I'm glad to see you're well.
You did well. You persevered.
You're not here to take me home?
Japan lost the war... The Americans will be here soon.
If they harm you now,
surviving the bombings would've been for nothing.
So just stay here for now.
You understand, don't you?
You were able to bear it this long. Just a little longer.
Are you sure she'll come for me?
Yes.
Once you come home, take good care of your mother.
You're our only daughter.
You need to be a good friend to your mother.
Do that for me.
Your hair is just like your mother's...
Such nice hair...
I wish...
I wish I could have seen you get married...
I'll bet you'll be as pretty as when your mother came to me...
Tei...
Be a good, sweet girl.
Be like your mother, and be good to everyone.
Live a happy life for me...
That night, Ryuzo did not come home.
He failed to return the following night, too.
Welcome home!
Ryuzo?
- Mother? - Is Father home?
That's strange... I heard his voice.
And he was pounding on the door.
- I heard him! - Maybe you were dreaming.
- I was awake. - I didn't hear anything.
It's because you've been worrying about him.
Oh, it's you.
Did you find out anything?
I went to the regiment, but no one would talk to me.
They're all too busy burning documents.
I guess they're too busy to worry about Father.
This letter from him was in the mail box.
See, he sent word! We were worrying for nothing.
I know you'll be shocked to read this,
but I'd been thinking about this for a long time.
I always believed that Japan would win.
I did my best to realize a victory.
You all know that to be true.
But my convictions have caused us to lose Yuu and Hitoshi.
I caused our neighborhood boys to join the fighting,
and one was killed in action.
I must've caused everyone so much pain.
I feel responsible.
I know my death won't resolve anything.
But as the one who caused one's own children to die,
and as a human being,
I'm guilty of the crime of cooperating in the war effort.
That's why I must die.
I firmly believe that I should die.
It would be harder to live a life of guilt.
I'm not that strong.
And I couldn't live under foreign domination.
I lived through a generation. I have no regrets.
I'll go where I can be with Yuu and Hitoshi.
Thank you, Oshin.
Thank you for everything. - Ryuzo
Mother...
He is... dead...
Mother...
That night, the night the war ended...
We talked about a lot of things...
I guess he'd already decided then...
And I had no idea...
We were together for more than 20 years...
Yet, I still had no idea...
I can't believe Father killed himself!
How could he leave you and Tei behind?!
Ryuzo...
I'd better find him...
Mother!
Excuse me.
- Is this the Tanokura house? - Yes.
- Does a Ryuzo live here? - That's my father.
- And you are? - She's my mother.
Good. I've been searching for you. Please follow me.
I work at the village office near here.
The phone lines are down,
and the police force has been disbanded.
So I came here myself.
My father...
I found his name and blood type listed on the papers in his wallet.
That's why I'm here.
I may have the wrong family...
So could you come to identify the body?
Yes, that's my husband.
I see...
I hear many have died by their own hands,
after the news of our defeat.
I suppose your husband felt the same way...
The villagers found him in a sitting position in the forest.
He showed great composure.
They took him to a doctor,
but he'd already been dead for a day.
He had stabbed himself in the heart.
Translation: UTB Channel
Thanks to Avallac'h and XrayMind at D-Addicts.