It was you who furnished what's in "Weekly Truth," wasn't it?
Norisugi-kun bears a grudge against you two for taking her away from him.
How would you know all this?
I heard it from Norisugi-kun.
I'll hand this over to the reporters again and have both you and that guy wiped out.
No! Don't!
Shut up!
Kyaa!
What are you doing?!
I...
...love her.
You will never become happy.
We won't seek either happiness nor blessings.
All we want is to live together.
Ah, Sister.
It's been a long time.
It won't end with just this.
Once the rumors get on the Internet, you won't get work from any hospital in Japan.
There won't be any place where you can live.
I said you could do what you want, didn't I?
If you truly believe that, then let me just help Naoko.
Give me a call once you've broken up with this guy.
Get out!
I'll be waiting, Naoko.
You could come meet me here in about an hour.
Ah, no thank you.
If possible, we'd like to call on you somewhere other than the hospital.
Well then, would my home do?
I'm very sorry about all this, but let's please do that.
Well then, I'll see you later.
Because we put them on both top and bottom, they're quite good for crime prevention.
- It's a big help. - Then, here you go.
That'll be 29,400 yen.
- Here you are. - Thanks.
If anything happens again, give us a call.
Thanks a bunch.
Thank you very much.
I have to return to the hospital no matter what.
Since I'll return as soon as possible, just wait here.
Don't leave this apartment until I return.
Sensei.
Huh?
Sensei, is what you said earlier...
...true?
It's true.
If it means the two of us can love one another...
...and live together...
...I'll deal with any kind of difficulty.
However, I think that guy...
...will probably make a mess of things again in the future.
If he does, you won't be able to stay at Towa Medical University anymore...
...and your career...
...and your future there...
...will be over.
Even so, are you really sure about this?
Yeah.
I'm sure.
Whatever he does...
...my feelings won't change.
Besides...
...my way of life doesn't have to be...
...just at a cutting-edge medical university.
There are other regions...
...suffering from a lack of trained doctors where I can be of use.
It doesn't necessarily even need to be in Japan.
There is certainly...
...somewhere on this earth where we can live.
I...
...want you to hold that resolve as well.
Okay?
Yes.
We'll...
...continue this discussion later.
So long; I'll go.
Leaving?
Just meeting someone for a while.
Sorry about this morning.
For the insulting things I said to you in front of the other Senseis...
...I'm very sorry.
I was just very surprised is all.
I felt sorry for you.
I think I'll resign from the University.
If you resign, what will you do?
Will you and Morimoto Naoko...
...find some village without a doctor and live quietly there?
That does seem like a Masato romanticism.
Good luck with your research.
Sorry for detaining you.
So long.
I can do today's diagnostic checks.
That's okay.
Once I'm done, I'll hurry right back.
Busy, aren't you?
Morimoto Naoko's parents have come out from Okayama.
That'll mean trouble.
Have they come to apologize to you, Hara?
I'll try one final gamble.
So long.
"The Reality of Towa Medical University" Ikezawa-sensei has a man's resolve.
None of you guys has such a resolve, now do you?
In the first place, he shouldn't have fallen in love with his niece.
And, what about Norisugi?
It's Norisugi-kun's own fault.
Huh?
I can't forgive Norisugi-kun.
What did Norisugi do wrong?
He...
...didn't trust the person he loved.
- Eh?! - Eh?!
Isn't it that Norisugi was betrayed by the one he loved?
"Since we'll be together for the next six years, let's become best of friends."
"And help each other out."
"I'll never, ever forgive her."
"Even after I die, I won't forgive her."
From: Ikezawa Masato "Dealing with an emergency case, so I'll be a little longer. Masato"
Heiwa Fansubs Presents "Mitsu no Aji"
Episode 10: "I'm Meeting Her Parents Now. I'm Off To the Final Gamble"
You had something to talk about, didn't you?
Is it about the thing in "Weekly Truth?"
We found out about it this morning when we got a call from relatives in Osaka.
We wanted to tell Aya-san that we know full well just how ridiculous this is.
However, it's hard for us as parents to talk about it.
It's all nonsense, right?
Everything in those weekly magazines are all huge lies, right?
Dear.
She and him grew up like an older brother and his little sister.
The pillar in Naoko's room has these cuts in it.
A record of Naoko's heights that Masato measured every year.
That those two would do such a thing...
We...
...have no recollection of raising Naoko to be such a loose girl like that.
Besides, Naoko has been going out with Norisugi-san with the intention of getting married.
If by chance Masato-san and her were doing such a thing...
...I don't think Norisugi-san and her would even have come out to Ushimado.
I just can't believe that would be possible.
I fully understand your feelings.
It is said that the Tokyo press is terrible. Right?
This story is true.
It's...
...a regrettable thing for me, too.
"In Surgery"
During these last eight years when Masato had determined to study in Pittsburgh...
...I thought he had cut off his relationship with Naoko-san.
I thought many times...
...of discussing this with Brother and Sister...
...but I felt you wouldn't believe it at all.
And as well...
...since I thought it would hurt you both...
...I gave up trying to find the courage...
...to tell you.
I also thought that after living for so many years in Pittsburgh...
...Masato's feelings would calmly return to me.
Those eight years...
...were a long...
...and painful...
...time for me as well.
"Dealing with an emergency case, so I'll be a little longer. Masato"
"From: Norisugi Yasushi"
"About that photo earlier, this is what they came up with at the meeting."
"Weekly Truth Download.pdf"
For the sake of Naoko-san forgetting Masato...
...I felt that Norisugi-sensei was essential for her, too.
I am very sorry!
I'll apologize as Naoko's parent...
...and as Masato's older brother.
I'm sorry.
Please stop. Um...
It isn't either of your fault.
Truly, please sit back down again.
No.
This is our responsibility.
We will definitely make...
...Masato and Naoko part.
That is our duty as her parents.
There's...
...nothing more that can be done.
I have no religion I believe in.
Because I'm a doctor...
...I didn't think I could believe in what wasn't scientific.
But when I look at Masato and Naoko-san...
...I can feel a power beyond human intelligence.
It's as if...
...they were tied by a strong bond...
...from a previous life.
For a person who is ordinary such as myself...
...whatever I might say to them, those two would still have...
...their strong wills connecting them.
It's simply that they have no principles!
We can't forgive such a thing!
Please...
...forgive them already.
Eh?
"Inside the white gowns. Towa Medical University Shaken by the Forbidden Two"
"Home Where the Forbidden Lovers were Raised"
Sorry to have kept you waiting. I'm finished now, so I'll be there right away.
Yeah.
No one came?
Yeah.
I should buy us some food to eat.
Curry?
If it's curry, I have some here. Packaged.
I think...
...it's most likely both Masato and Naoko-san...
...won't continue going to Towa Medical University.
Though there is no possibility...
...for either Masato's career...
...nor Naoko-san's future there...
...yet even so...
...those two love one another.
Such an outrageous thing.
It is outrageous...
...but I do feel it's noble.
You'll think it strange that I would say this...
...after being abandoned...
...but I think...
...that what lies ahead for those two...
...will be a very painful life.
Even if it's just myself alone...
...I feel I should understand them.
Aya-san.
What kind of person are you?
This is...
...my love for Masato.
Please approve of them.
Please.
Naoko. Are you in?
Naoko.
Open up!
Dear.
I'm back.
Ah.
How'd it go?
I just did what I had to do.
You talked about...
...a "final gamble" earlier.
What was that about?
I asked that they be forgiven.
Eh?
When asked by a crying, pitiful, deserted me...
...to forgive those two...
...don't you think that a pair...
...of simple, country parents won't pull them apart?
Such is the power of family...
...that even Masato and Morimoto Naoko...
...should feel its crushing weight.
Right now those parents...
...will be desperately trying to separate those two.
This is...
...your final gamble?
I know that Masato will not return to me.
But even saying so...
...that doesn't mean I'm saying those two can go on doing whatever they please.
Let's see... Let's see.
Ah, found it, found it.
Hey, Hosegawa-kun. Make a copy of this article about us.
What's wrong with you? Your face is pale.
I'll make you a copy.
No, no. I'll just borrow him for a little.
- It's okay. - Ah, really?
Sorry about this.
Oh, thanks.
Okay then, I'll go annoy Takinohara with this.
Okay!
Naoko.
Naoko was taken out by Hisako.
There are times when life will surprise you, aren't there?
I'm sorry.
You feel you should apologize, huh?
I apologize...
...for worrying you and Dad.
If it were for something like this...
...I would never have allowed you to come to Tokyo.
Even as your mother, it's not like I don't understand how you feel.
I too, had a love that couldn't be forgiven.
Eh?
Was it when you had entered kindergarten?
I was exhausted from working in the olive garden and from child rearing.
At that time, a handsome olive oil buyer...
...had come up from Tokyo.
He told me...
...to abandon Ushimado and come with him to Tokyo.
Your father was no comparison to this man...
...in how urbane he was and how attractive he was.
Seems unbelievable, doesn't it?
Yeah.
What can happen between a man and a woman...
...can be unbelievable.
I understand that.
So when it came to this time around...
...truth is, I wasn't as surprised by it as your father was.
But...
...what will happen to the lives of those around you...
...when you have such feelings of love?
Not a soul would believe a word I said...
...if I told them that my own younger brother...
...was in a relationship with my own daughter.
Tell me that I'm wrong.
Tell me that everything written in here is a lie!
If you deny it...
...me and Hisako will believe it.
The truth is quite different...
...from what is written in that magazine...
...but it is true that Naoko and I are in love.
At first...
...I thought she was just a cute kid niece.
So when I came to know about Naoko's feelings, I became confused.
But after that...
I began turning toward Naoko myself.
By studying abroad...
...I hoped to put some distance between us...
...but when I returned...
...Naoko had grown so much she was beyond recognition.
She had improved her skills as a doctor...
...and had become charming as a woman, too.
This time around...
...I became attracted to Naoko.
I came to love Naoko.
Aya still hasn't been taken off my family registry yet and even if she is taken off...
...I can't marry Naoko. However!
We have decided to resolve ourselves to living together.
Whatever anyone says to us, this is the one thing we've resolved for ourselves!
Silence!
I will never allow that!
It's okay if...
...you don't allow it.
Don't turn defiant on me, you bastard!
If you want to hit me, then hit me.
Are you...
Are you still even human?! Huh?!
I will NEVER...
...allow this!
For who's sake...
...are you saying you won't allow it?
For yours and Naoko's sakes!
Who do you think...
...would allow their precious little brother...
...and their daughter to have fingers of derision pointed at them...
...by the world?!
I gave up on the person I liked.
For you...
...your father and for the olive garden.
And you haven't regretted that?
I haven't regretted it.
After all, a love that consists only of bringing unhappiness to all those around you isn't love.
Liar.
If you and Masato go through with this feeling...
...then someday this love will bring you unhappiness.
Mom, you're just making excuses in your heart.
That the path you chose was the right one...
...you're just forcing yourself to believe that.
I'm not.
When told your wrong love is wrong, that can stir up your feelings.
And that can keep you from seeing what's truly important.
That's exactly how you are right now.
Back then...
...I felt happy I had come to my senses.
What've you said...
...may be right.
But...
...rather than doing the "right" thing and regretting it...
...I'd rather do the "wrong" thing and not regret it.
Even if it brings me unhappiness someday, I'm okay with that.
I won't give up on it now.
Naoko.
People can't live just by themselves.
That's why your feelings can run away with you like this.
I understand...
...why you chose to give up on your love.
But I...
...think I'll chose the love I have stuck with.
Both loves require resolve...
...but I'll...
...take the path I've chosen.
I fully understood that after talking with you.
Thank you very much...
...for raising me until today.
I'm sorry.
I think you know this too...
...but once word about this gets around in the countryside...
...we'll have to leave the olive gardens.
As well as that hill where you guys...
...loved looking out at the sea, too.
I think...
...just how sorry I am to you.
But if I wavered now...
...what would happen to Naoko?
I will never waver again.
That's...
...my responsibility to Naoko.
I don't understand.
What "responsibility?"
It may be something you don't understand...
...but about Naoko...
I think I will...
...love Naoko to my utmost.
She's precious to me, so I'll protect her.
I don't understand it!
I'll call Naoko.
For my entire life...
...I will not forget...
...my feelings of gratitude towards you and Sister.
Masato!
"We're sorry, the phone you are trying to reach either has no signal or has been turned off."
This time around, they'll be writing about Sensei.
"Inside the white gowns. Towa Medical University is Shaken by The Forbidden Two"
You're actually thinking this is great, aren't you?
"Why did I have to be born as Masa-niichan's niece?"
"I love her."
"To: Ikezawa Masato Where are you?"
While we were thinking of her...
...she had already been grown up this entire time.
Let's go home to Ushimado tomorrow.
"Irredeemable The Reality of Towa Medical University"
- Kirishima. - Huh?
Were you the mastermind behind this?
Who knows.
His explanation for that dosage error will keep this from becoming a trial case somehow.
More importantly, this scandal of an uncle and niece is disgusting.
I don't want to have to scrap Ikezawa because of this.
I want to see him made an Associate Professor next year...
...and, for the sake of Towa University, I'd like to leave it to Ikezawa.
Ah, Aya-chan. Oi!
Kyaa! What a wonderful two-shot you make.
Mind if I join you?
Of course, of course. Sit, sit.
- Excuse me. - Can we get a glass?
He's in top condition at times like these.
You're nearly divorced. Right?
You can get into a far better condition than this once you're divorced. Wonderful, wonderful.
I...
...lost my final gamble.
That's why I want to drink today. To the fullest.
Final gamble?
Drink up, drink up! Oi!
- Itadakimasu. - Kanpai.
Ah! I'm happy you Senseis were here.
Right?
Ikezawa-sensei and Miss Gusto said they were quitting?
Yeah.
Seems the Professor tried to detain Ikezawa-sensei alone, but he said no.
My Dad's really upset.
Another one's come out.
Eh?
"Towa Medical University is Shaken by The Forbidden Two - Exclusive Scoop"
They even went out to her parent's home.
I wonder where those two will go?
It's strange Norisugi-kun would do this without hesitation.
Thanks for waiting.
Yeah.
"Weekly Truth"
Sensei?
- Ikezawa-sensei?! - Ikezawa-sensei?!
Sensei?
Sensei!
Sensei?!
Ikezawa-sensei?!