You are Masato's niece.
That person said that Masa-niichan and her would be happy.
She said I should forget about this now.
Don't involve Naoko in our issues.
Don't you think we have enough difficulties?
You believe her more than you do me?
To America?
There can be no tomorrow for a forbidden affair.
I think I'll go to the University of Pittsburgh.
Yes?
I have something to discuss with you. What time will you be done?
Are you done already, Masato?
Yeah.
I'll meet you at home.
There's no one around, so come here.
I'll be waiting at home.
"Why did I..."
"...have to be born as Masa-niichan's niece?"
I'm a fifth year ronin now. Maybe there's something wrong with me?
My parents told me that that has nothing to do with becoming a doctor.
My Dad said the same thing.
But, Takinohara, your Papa is wrestling with Kirashima of Pathology over the top spot, isn't he?
They seem to be competing over who becomes the next Medical Faculty dean.
Mino-san. You can't start saying that you're exhausted right after the first term exams.
If you're not that smart, you have no choice but to cover for it by putting in your fullest effort.
I want to have yakitori. (grilled chicken)
- Two yakitori, please. - Yes.
I'll have your harumaki, too. (spring rolls)
- Doesn't one plate of harumaki serve two? - Probably.
Then, three plates.
- Harumaki, three plates. - Sure.
I'll have to do my best during the middle section until the finals, too.
That's right. Let's all of us take the state exams together.
I'll leave you behind, so let's eat.
All of you have time to spare.
This'll do it for me today.
It's because you said something you shouldn't have.
We have to do our utmost so we can grow ourselves.
Worrying about others is arrogant.
Ow.
It's my mother.
Excuse me.
Why did you kick her just now?
It's best if you don't pursue it too deeply, Norisugi-kun.
"From Masa-niichan: Can we meet tomorrow?"
The way you spoke to him, didn't that just hurt Mino-san's feelings?
Now, now, now, let's eat.
I'm home.
I'm starved. Let's eat.
I'm fine.
Then, let's have a beer.
Thanks for your hard work.
What did you want to talk about?
I've decided to go to Pittsburgh University.
Pittsburgh?
Professor Takinohara recommended me and I've decided to accept it.
I'll be a Research Fellow on transplant immunity.
That's incredible.
You can do the highest levels of research over there.
I'll be going next month.
Next month?
I want a divorce.
I'll agree to you studying abroad...
...but not to a divorce.
I don't want to go to America feeling things are unfinished.
By keeping our distance and living apart, we can both calmly consider things.
I am calm.
Masato, you'll improve in Pittsburgh and become a top-tier surgeon.
We'll jointly rise as doctors...
...and come closer to being better matched in esteem.
This isn't working anymore.
You will certainly come back to me as you were before.
That's the one wish...
...I want to come true.
You will...
...strongly desire me once again.
I'm certain of it.
My feelings won't change.
For an ideal couple like you and I...
...we can't throw that away so easily.
We're people who follow our dreams.
You and I.
Let's have dinner.
I'll come back one more time to do my packing...
...but I won't be returning here anymore.
"From: Masa-niichan Can we meet tomorrow?"
"I can meet you now..."
"...but where are you? At the hospital?"
"Let's do it tomorrow."
"I'll make my mother's recipe for fried curry and rice tomorrow evening, so come eat it."
"All right."
Great, aren't you? Already prepping for the Surgery Department?
Heiwa Fansubs Presents "Mitsu no Aji"
Episode 5: "Farewell... You will strongly desire me once again. I'm certain of it."
It's a cancer stem cell...
...but I'd like to check for any manifestations of tyrosine kinase using our laboratory's techniques.
Cancer stem cell, huh?
You can budget for it out of your research funds, can't you?
You're not in a position where you can ask about my budget.
You should know that.
That's why I'm asking you.
If this study succeeds...
...and our laboratory's the world's first to understand the trigger needed for cancer stem cell treatment...
...that will be big news.
It shouldn't be wrong to talk about that.
Well, it's good that you're motivated about this.
At least for my sake, put your heart and soul into this research.
Not about money. Put your life on the line for this research!
Sensei, as you know...
...in addition, it will be necessary to budget for a micro array in order to compare the cancer cells...
That's far enough, far enough.
You're wearing my ears out. Listening to your voice tires out my ears.
Yes!
Thanks for your hard work.
Ah, smells good.
I thought you might not come due to an emergency case, so I wondered what I would do...
So thank goodness.
Here, some chocolate.
A gift?
I bought them from the convenience store in front of the station, so I wonder.
Thank you.
We'll eat it later.
Don't watch too closely. It'll mess me up.
Sorry.
Ah.
Please take the salads out of the refrigerator.
Ok.
Ah!
You've got beer in here, too.
Go ahead and have one.
Thanks for waiting.
Ala? Didn't you get a beer?
I gave up drinking. I don't know when I might be called, after all.
Like I thought, you might be called away.
It's my job, after all.
Then I'll have a ginger ale.
Me, too.
When I came to Tokyo...
...and had ginger ale for the first time, I thought it was the most delicious drink ever.
- It has the taste of Tokyo in it. - Yes.
Thank you.
That's why I buy some from time to time.
Then, Kanpai.
Yeah. What'll we make a toast to?
I don't know. Kanpai.
Kanpai.
Okay, itadakimasu.
Itadakimasu.
Um, it's good.
- Really? - Yeah.
Yeah, it's good.
Ala?
What's the matter?
It's all gooey somehow.
It's delicious.
It was fine earlier.
Yeah.
The one I made earlier was definitely better.
Eh? You made this earlier as well?
Yeah.
For practice.
Last time it clumped better and was really delicious.
This one's good enough, but I wish I could have eaten the one you made before.
It's good.
I'm off first.
Thanks for your hard work.
Next month...
...I'm going to Pittsburgh University in America.
Eh?
You're studying abroad?
Yeah.
Unless a surgeon can get a lot of cases under his belt, he can't grow.
At first I'll be a Research Fellow...
...but I want to start learning liver transplantation from scratch...
...and then take my medical license.
I think, given my age, that now's my chance.
Is that right.
If I'm gone...
...Aya won't be thinking about you anymore.
I think that's for the best.
It'll be for at least four years.
It might even go longer.
Naoko, you'll be busy with your studies from here on as well...
...and I think you'll be just fine without me around.
Yeah.
I'll be fine, so don't worry.
That's true.
Did you think I'd ask you not to go?
I'm not that big a fool.
Sorry.
Don't apologize.
I don't like it when Masa-niichan apologizes.
When you came out to Tokyo...
...I felt it must be difficult...
...but I couldn't do anything for you.
No.
It wasn't long...
...but I'm glad I had a chance to be at your side, Masa-niichan.
When you're gone...
...I'll fall in love.
And when you return to Japan...
...I hope I'll have found...
...a boyfriend I can introduce to you.
I see.
Then Masa-niichan, you'd be at ease when you return to Japan, wouldn't you?
I'm sure you would.
So don't worry.
My grades will have gotten better...
My rice-curry will have gotten better...
And I'll have a boyfriend, too.
I'm sure that'll feel good.
Thanks for the food.
Please tell me the day you're leaving.
Yeah.
Though it was a bit bungled...
...your rice-curry was delicious.
Yes?
Sato-san in Room 501 is having convulsions.
His family wanted us to call you, Ikezawa-sensei.
Understood.
I'll come right away.
Take care.
Do your best.
"Two weeks later..."
"...Masa-niichan left for America."
"Ikezawa Masato, Aya"
"Harada Aya-sama"
"Petition for Divorce"
"Merry Christmas, Naoko!"
"Have you been well?"
"I spend every day at research, studying for my medical license."
"I'm wishing for Naoko's growth as well."
"Masato."
"On the postcards I received from Masa-niichan..."
"...he didn't put down his address."
Kawasaki-sensei of the Dept. of Otolaryngology wants to have a consultation with you...
...before the conference, Ikezawa-sensei.
Shall I contact him for you?
- Can I ask you to? - Yes. Goodbye.
"While Masa-niichan wasn't there..."
"...that person really didn't show any interest in me anymore."
"My goal had been to live at Masa-niichan's side..."
"...but, with the support of my friends, I continued walking down the path of becoming a doctor."
"October, 2011"
"Surgical Medical Office"
"Eight years have passed since then..."
"...and this year, after finishing my two year medical training period..."
"...I've started working at Towa University's Gastrointestinal Surgical Medical Office."
"Those of us chosen by the Surgical Department were Junior, Kazu and myself."
The challenge is where the location of the graft should be.
"Mino-san went into Anesthesiology."
Let's work together.
From here, we will begin the hepatectomy of the hepatocytic carcinoma.
- If you would please. - Let's work together.
- Morimoto-kun. - Yes.
Make the incision.
Making the incision.
Scalpel.
Electric scalpel.
It's growing steadily larger.
Do you want to know if it's a boy or girl?
"Norisugi-kun entered Gynecology."
"Rai-rai graduated Summa Cum Laude from Medical School and proceeded to Pathology."
The cellular binding is low, isn't it?
It's certainly dispersed.
That's a characteristic of a lobular.
Dye it with E-cadherin.
Yes.
Understood.
Rai-san.
Yes?
Have you categorized the cases like I asked?
"And that person..."
"...was admitted into the study of molecular targeting medicines..."
"...and had become an Associate Professor in the Pathology Laboratory."
"Furthermore..."
"...as the result of her research into cancer stem cells..."
"...it wasn't a dream for Towa Medical University..."
"...to give her a post as its first woman Professor there."
His liver functions have also become quite stable.
That's great.
Thank you very much.
"Morimoto"
I'm home.
I'm home!
Ah, welcome back.
Sorry. I couldn't find your usual shampoo.
Anything's fine. Thank you.
How did the radical go?
It went fine.
Weren't our downstairs neighbors complaining about running the vacuum at night?
- Yeah. But it's okay. - Really?
What day should we go to Ushimado?
We don't have to be in a rush, do we? We're both busy, after all.
Don't say that.
I want to do these things properly.
But do you think we'll be lucky enough to get the same days off?
We've decided to go, but you keep coming up with various reasons not to.
What? Are you angry?
I'm taking a bath.
Long ago, I went to Ushimado by myself.
My pants weren't washed, so I don't have any more.
Naoko, do you have someone that you loved from that time?
- Eh? - Don't play dumb.
The first man that I've loved is you, Yasushi.
Ala? Where's Morimoto-sensei?
She's taking Norisugi back to her parent's home in Ushimado today.
Those two have been seeing each other for three years now.
We should start going out together.
What should I do?
Shirai-san...
...a moment.
You were flirting with Kazu earlier, weren't you?
Even when he isn't her favorite, a woman has to put on a good face.
"Morimoto"
You must be tired. Let's start off with a glass.
Itadakimasu.
Now, now, go ahead, go ahead.
This is Anago from the Inland Sea. (conger eel)
Kakifurai. (Fried oysters) Tai sashimi. (red snapper)
And this is Olive Caponata, with olives picked from our own groves.
Thank you very much.
To have such great food...
Go ahead, go ahead.
Excuse me.
Before I get drunk.
Will you allow Naoko-san and I...
...to see each other with the intention of getting married?
Impatient, aren't you?
Because this is what we came out here for.
When it's between two doctors, it seems that can be quite difficult...
So will this work out?
Masato-san and Aya-san...
...both seemed really happy at the start, but...
We're different from Masa-niichan.
In the future I intend to take over my parent's hospital.
At that time, I think we'll have the flexibility we need.
You're saying Naoko and you will be working at your parent's home?
We haven't thought that far out yet.
I need to study a little longer at the University and I'm not confident I can be independent.
That's something the two of us should consider together.
This girl...
...was a braggart back in her Ushimado days...
...but, while we worried about her when she came out to Tokyo...
...since then she's become a much more cheerful girl.
I'm really thankful for that.
Please...
...protect her for forever.
If you would please.
Thank goodness.
We're already having fun.
Hello.
Yeah.
Ala, ala, oh...
Thank you for your hard work.
You haven't made any progress on that infiltration?
- Switch with me. - Yes.
Better be careful with Professor Kirishima.
Eh?
Professor Kirishima still harbors a deep jealousy towards you.
If he finds out about how you've published your research...
...he'll make a fuss about you being made first woman Professor here at Towa Medical University.
Kirishima-sensei senses his existence here is fading and he doesn't know what to do.
That post is irrelevant to me.
Eh?
I hadn't realized it before...
...but I prefer research far more than becoming eminent.
Long ago, Masato told me that research was...
...far more important to me than our married life was.
I think he was right.
How many years has it been since Ikezawa went to America?
Eight years.
You haven't been taken off his family register?
No.
- Keep me company awhile. - Yes.
- I don't need you. - Yes.
This is where you grew up, huh?
It's mostly just a storeroom now, though.
"Masa-niichan"
"Masa-niichan."
Ikezawa-sensei, huh?
You loved him, I guess.
What's the city of Brest like?
They're big in organ singularity. I just went there not long ago.
You'll have to work your hardest.
Because the results of this research could decide the results of the medical faculty's election.
Yes.
Takinohara of the Surgery Department is making arrangements among his clique...
...but I want this match to be decided by the results of your research.
I also hope that Professor Kirishima becomes dean of the Medical School.
Is that true?
It's true.
Somehow I've gotten the feeling you were standing windward of me these days.
That's definitely not the case.
All right, that's fine then.
As long as you know your social position...
...I won't mind you using more of my research funds.
Let's work together, please.
Just a little longer.
- If you would please. - Going in.
Well then, we'll move you to the bed.
Please stand up slowly...
Oh, what's going on?
I'm asking you.
Having men for friends is useless.
Huh?
What's up?
Eh?
Why would that guy do such a thing?
Rai-Rai?
What's the matter?
Were you waiting for us?
That guy's wife is pregnant.
"That guy?"
Hosokawa of Pathology.
He told me to wait for him because he was getting divorced.
Then today he rushed his wife in due to an urgent miscarriage.
He's the worst!
Rai-Rai, aren't you the one in the wrong for trying to take his wife's place?
Norisugi-kun, I didn't ask for your opinion!
Sorry.
I'm gonna kill that man!
It's him.
Ah, sorry. Where are you?
- Come right now. - Where?!
Eh? He's coming here?
Maeno-san was hospitalized yesterday with cholecystitis. (sudden inflammation of the gallbladder)
Maeno-san, huh?
Wire at 12,000, CPR at 3.5
You've narrowed it down to the Professor's Junior?
Do you think Professor Takinohara will say I'd be okay as his son's wife?
It's very risky.
Inside the medical office staff, the split says it will be very risky.
I can't live a normal, boring life.
When it comes to love, I have to try all sorts of things.
Geh!
Please have the attending doctor give you a complete explanation of your condition.
Thank you very much.
Excuse me.
You've worked hard.
Ahh...
I still haven't prepared the presentation for tomorrow's conference.
I was thinking I'd go on home myself.
Ok.
I wonder why Rai-Rai would involve herself in a pointless affair like that?
You can't do anything about it even if you did know, can you?
Why are you understanding of it?
I like Rai-Rai for risking everything like that.
You're kidding, right? That's a dangerous way to think.
- Naoko. - Huh?
We should hurry and put you on my family's register.
Are you okay with my dangerous way of thinking?
Don't dodge this.
"Masato-sama..."
"...how are things with you?"
"At times like these, when I'm alone in the laboratory..."
"...I feel I can be who I really am."
"Shall we meet once more..."
"...and discuss the divorce?"
"Because I think the best path for us..."
"Petition for Divorce" "...is to come together as respected doctors..."
"...who collaborate with one another."
"Aya."
"Ikezawa Masato"
Yes? This is Morimoto.
Yes...
Right away.
Professor Takinohara was looking for you earlier.
He was.
He just called. Why, I wonder?
I wonder if I've done something?
I'm sorry.
Which floor?
Fifteen, please.
Thank you.
On the matter of Omori-san's tumor.
Yes?
The marker mostly didn't dye it. Could you wait a little longer?
Yes.
I'll be counting on you.
"I'm glad I got to be at Masa-niichan's side"
"I'm certain you will strongly desire me once again"
"Farewell, I won't be coming back here again"
"I have a lover"
"I was strange eight years ago"
"Let's work together as doctors from here on"