If it means the two of us can love one another and live together...
...then I'll deal with any kind of difficulty.
We've decided to resolve ourselves to living together.
Thank you very much for raising me until today.
Ikezawa-sensei and Miss Gusto said they were quitting?
Thanks for waiting.
"Weekly Times"
"Nagano Prefecture"
Excuse us! Please make way!
Her rotational vertigo seems terrible. She's also vomited several times.
Set up an emergency MRI, please.
"Azumino General Hospital"
Having a cutting-edge surgeon like Ikezawa-sensei come here...
...will also raise the ranks of our hospital.
During times like these...
...I'm grateful for the employment.
Give us your singular skill as a surgeon for this match.
I'll do anything. If you would, please.
"Azusa Real Estate"
Missis, you're a doctor as well?
Yes.
Well then, you'll bear smart children.
Something to look forward to, isn't it?
Which hospital will you work at?
I haven't decided yet.
My husband will be at Azumino General Hospital.
You're just in time then.
There's a nice apartment to be had right near the Azumino General Hospital.
No brain hemorrhage and no evidence of an infarction.
Even after speaking to Radiology, their opinion was there was nothing to be seen.
An otolaryngologist disease? (ear, nose, throat)
While she wasn't examined for Meniere's disease... (inner ear disorder affecting balance and hearing)
...Kawano-sensei was saying that most certainly isn't the issue.
Then what on earth is it?!
How'd it go at the hospital?
They welcomed me.
That's great.
I also found a good apartment nearby Azumino General Hospital.
- Did you take it? - No.
I thought I should discuss it with Ikezawa-sensei first.
If it's okay for you, then it's okay for me.
Then let's go to the real estate agent now and decide on it.
Yeah.
I wonder if I'll always be "Ikezawa-sensei" to you?
I can't?
It's not that you can't.
We can't become a father or a mother...
...and we'll never be able to change our family names, either.
Then it'll be "Ikezawa-sensei."
"Ikezawa Aya-sama"
Come in.
How are you?
I brought your pajamas and underwear.
If you want to change clothes, I'll call for the nurse.
That's okay.
The dizziness becomes terrible when I move.
I'll put the key to your apartment here in this drawer.
Thank you.
Since I'll be in the laboratory all night on business, please call me at any time.
Take care.
"Good morning."
"Ikezawa-kun, go out with me."
"It's about time we got married."
"I promise to make being a doctor the highest priority of our marriage."
"You really do just live alone."
"A person should want to talk to the one they love."
"That wedding was one of your performances."
"It's that girl's fault."
"Why are you making Naoko the enemy?"
"Aya, you prefer your research to anything else."
"You will definitely return to me."
"I want a divorce."
"You're doing well. You're beautiful. Let's work together from now on as doctors."
"I won't allow you and that girl to be together."
"It's not the same as it was 8 years ago."
"I think I'll leave the University."
"Good luck with your research."
"Application for Rental Housing"
"Ikezawa Masato"
"Persons Living With You"
Please put down your wife's name there as well.
"Morimoto Naoko"
Before finalizing the agreement, I'll also need your citizen's ID card, please.
Understood.
Since they take your ID card, they'll find out about your marriage.
That doesn't matter to us.
That's true, but...
Since everyone has various circumstances about them...
...we should behave with dignity.
If someone asks you anything, I'll give you an explanation.
What is it?
"Leave us alone."
I wonder if this will go on for forever?
I wonder what Miss Gusto and Ikezawa-sensei are doing?
Are you worried about them?
They quit on their own.
After all...
...they won't be able to work for our University's regional affiliates...
...and the regional medical associations are strong.
This weekly magazine comes out there, too.
Maybe I should go back to Ibusuki, too.
Eh?
After watching the election for Medical Director, I haven't cared much for this University.
Don't just disappear one after another.
Norisugi would collapse from the stress, too.
Don't worry. I won't quit from this hospital.
Because I still have a lot more to do here.
How was that article?
Because of this scandal...
...Professor Takinohara would have to resign as Medical Director, won't he?
Professor Kirishima, you and I have matching interests.
Therefore, could you lend me your strength from here on?
Ikezawa and Morimoto have left this University.
Even if this article does appear, that wouldn't cause Takinohara to quit now.
If they think by quitting the University everything will be forgiven, they've made a huge mistake!
Are you out for revenge?
The 3rd installment of this article comes out next week.
Professor Takinohara won't be able to resuscitate from that this time around.
If you absolutely must do this...
...the next article needs to come from a first-class magazine.
Eh?
I'll tell you how to get in touch with the editor-in-chief of "Monthly Criticism"...
...so go see my secretary tomorrow.
Thank you very much.
Because Professor Kirishima needs to keep this quiet from him, don't you?
So you say.
However, by getting yourself involved, you won't be getting off easy.
Resolve yourself.
"Azumino General Hospital"
Eh?
The landlord's son has returned from Tokyo...
...and says he wants to use that apartment.
I'm sorry.
I'll also return your deposit.
Then, um...
...could you show me around to another property?
We don't have any properties at the moment.
You won't do this since my name isn't on his family registry, right?
That's not it at all.
We have many with us with common-law marriages.
"Weekly Times"
"Sympathy for the doctor's wife" You called for me?
Ah, have a seat.
The family member of one of our in-patients brought this in.
"Home Where Their Forbidden Love was Nurtured"
Our suggestion box has been overflowing with various letters...
...about you and your niece being together.
I know both your ability and your character, but...
It's being said that practicing medicine...
...can't be left to someone who violates such a taboo...
...and both the Purser and the Chief Nurse are in agreement about that.
I am very sorry.
"Inside the white gowns."
How long are you going to look at that?
It's a photo of my family's home in Ushimado.
I feel sorry for those in Ushimado.
However, the path we have chosen has broken us from Ushimado.
Don't we have the option of going to Pittsburgh?
I'd like to study at the University where you studied as well.
I was turned down by Professor Brown of Pittsburgh University.
Eh?
When you consider their relationship with Towa Medical University, it was inevitable.
Ikezawa-sensei's future...
...has been crushed once more.
You don't have to make such a gloomy assumption.
Eh?! Is that just an assumption?
Oi.
Pull yourself together.
Just at the moment those people appeared in front of me...
...my body let out a shriek.
You've been overstraining yourself.
I wonder what on earth it is...
...that I've been fighting against?
If I had made it easier on those two a little sooner...
...maybe it would have been easier on my heart, too.
You should...
...forget all about Ikezawa.
It's not possible for me to forget him.
However...
...I've thought...
"Does learning to forgive people bring sense to being alive?"
...the entire time I've been hospitalized.
As the ceiling was spinning around...
...and I felt dizzy and terrible...
...a stream of various memories...
...and feelings...
...passed through me.
For the time being, once you've left the hospital...
...why don't you go to Hawaii to give your body some rest?
Go to Hawaii alone?
What's this? You have a visitor ahead of me?
I was on my way back anyway.
It's okay, it's okay. I just came to see her face for a moment, is all.
I'm glad you're recovering smoothly.
I've caused you trouble.
Once you leave the hospital, why not divorce Ikezawa and marry me?
At long last, my divorce was formally enacted as well.
"Gunma Prefecture"
"Jomo Contact Center - Health Clinic" My dog Koro disappeared yesterday.
- Where could he have gone off to? - Eh?
He hasn't come back?
Yeah. What should I do?
Then after this, I'll contact the Health Center for you.
Ah, yes.
I'll go on my rounds.
Yes. Since it's cold, be careful.
Thank you very much.
You've been worried, haven't you?
- This is a big help. - Let's do that.
Yes, this is the Health Clinic.
Yes?
I just got a call from the City Hall.
Yeah.
They said the Health Clinic is to be closed.
"Ishikawa Prefecture"
"Itsuruko Medical Clinic"
Heiwa Fansubs Presents "Mitsu no Aji"
Finale: "I'll Wish For Nothing Anymore. Let's Go to a Country Where No One Knows Us"
Sensei!
I got cut by a fish hook.
Yes.
- Nao-chan. Bring the yellowtails next. - Yes.
The doctor we had before was unreliable...
...but this Sensei can do it.
Are you constantly getting such injuries?
I guess...
Thanks for your hard work.
Because they gave me some flounder at the market, I'm making sashimi.
People who fish with nets often get cuts into the veins in their upper forearms.
In the past it's said they used to sew themselves up.
What's the matter?
Nothing.
What is it?
Tell me.
A married couple should talk together like a married couple.
If we don't talk, then there's no meaning in us being together.
I was watching your fingers.
My fingers?
I was thinking...
...about how those fingers could be used to save so many patients.
Today I sutured a lacerated forearm.
The patient called me "Sensei" and praised me.
But any other Sensei and even I could suture a forearm laceration.
It's not that...
Not the things that other Senseis could do...
...but what Ikezawa-sensei alone could do.
Naoko.
Are you dissatisfied with who I am now?
It's not "dissatisfied..."
...but this feeling of how sorry I am...
...can be unendurable.
If Naoko isn't happy...
...then I can't be happy either.
When you waver...
...it makes me feel the heaviness of what we've thrown away.
Earlier...
...when I was watching you make this sashimi...
...I was thinking the same about you.
"I may have taken away..."
"...her future," I thought.
That's not true.
When you waver, I can feel that.
I've told you over and over...
...to stop wavering, haven't I?
Ow! That hurts.
What's this, Nao-chan? Were you a nurse before?
- She's a doctor, too. - Eh?!
Really?
- The pain should subside with this. - Yes.
You'll feel a little sting.
It might be best to have her checked out once at a major hospital.
Even if you say a major hospital...
I'll write you a letter of introduction to the Prefectural East Hospital tomorrow.
I wouldn't like going to a place such as that.
If you feel uncomfortable with it, I can go with you.
Let's look for a place where we can work together.
That's okay.
The people here have accepted us.
The people at the market are kind to me.
Come over here.
Does Kumasaka's wife have cholecystitis? (sudden inflammation of the gallbladder)
Probably a gallstone cholecystitis.
She needs an ultrasound check.
Would a Prefectural Hospital be able to perform a laparoscopic surgery?
I don't know...
...but it's best to have it checked as soon as possible.
I'll take her there tomorrow.
Ikezawa-sensei...
...you're a good doctor, aren't you?
I'm a good doctor.
A good doctor.
Well, sorry 'bout this Sensei. It really is a tiny car.
Please take good care of her.
We'll be going.
Be careful.
All right.
Have a good day.
Nao-chan.
What's the matter?
Nao-chan...
...you're from Okayama prefecture, right?
Well, there's this.
Yama-chan told me about this.
In here...
...they write that your mother in Okiyama collapsed and was sent to the hospital.
Eh?
I don't know, but I think it's something serious.
"Ushimado Mother"
"Collapsed Due To Brain Tumor"
"Weekly"
Congratulations on ending your hospitalization.
Quit from this hospital.
Eh?
Because then I'll keep quiet about what I know.
With an introduction by Professor Kirishima, I met the Chief Editor of "Monthly Criticism."
This time, it'll be in a top flight magazine. It can't be stopped anymore.
What I said I would be silent about...
...isn't just about that weekly magazine.
It'll be all about your tampering with medical records.
You don't have any evidence.
I do have evidence.
The Chief Editor of "Monthly Criticism"...
...is saying that he will testify to the Hospital Advisory Committee.
About how you brought him that story.
When that collapses in there...
...they'll follow the links to the prescription error.
Even in the absence of proof, you won't be able to escape from that.
Was Professor Kirishima...
...testing me?
If you work seriously at your parents' hospital...
...neither Professor Kirishima nor I will be interested in trying to destroy your future.
Isn't this...
...an opportunity?
Opportunity...
Up until now, there have been countless opportunities.
But both you and I...
...missed them.
If you miss taking this one now...
...your life as a doctor will be finished.
What are you doing, dragging other people's lives along like that?
Your own life is what's important, isn't it?
Become a good Obstetrician...
...and devote yourself to medical care in that area.
This is...
...my farewell gift to you.
"Municipal Ushimado Central Hospital"
How's Mom?
That has nothing to do with you.
Please let me see Mom.
No.
Does Mom really have a brain tumor?
This hospital doesn't have an MRI unit or an Angiography unit, either.
If she really does have that, then she needs to be moved to a major hospital.
It was you who pushed your mother's life to the brink.
You told your mother...
"Thank you for raising me until now," and lowered your head, didn't you?
With that...
...you broke off relations with us. Couldn't it even be said you deserted us?
- This is a different situation from that time. - It's not different!
Even until our dying days...
...we won't be indebted to either you or Masato!
Is it okay just to let Mom die?
Neither your mother nor I are going to forgive you guys.
You don't have to forgive us.
So please listen to me not as a daughter, but as a doctor.
In brain diseases, initial diagnosis and treatment are paramount.
That's why I need to meet Mom and find out what her symptoms are. It's time sensitive.
If you're truly worried about your mother...
...then break up with Masato.
Call him right away and break up!
If you do that, I'll let you see your mother.
You don't feel like breaking up with him, do you?
In that case...
...leave.
Leave the hospital.
Everyone will see you here.
Hurry and get out!
And don't come back anymore.
Naoko.
Because they're skilled at brain tumors...
...I asked around at Towa University and Hata Memorial and at the Japan Cancer Center...
...but they told me all their beds are filled.
You asked them?
Yeah.
But...
...because this hospital may move on it if I ask them earnestly enough...
...I'll speak with their family doctor again.
Okay?
Let's go back to the hospital.
"If you're truly worried about your mother, then break up with Masato."
What's the matter?
"Municipal Ushimado Central Hospital" Sensei, I think they've already gone home.
Could you verify they really have gone home?
They went home just earlier.
In that case, please contact their home.
Please let me speak to them directly. I am a doctor, after all!
I know that.
Please. Please hurry and contact them.
Please. Please!
Please tell me their phone number. I'll do the calling.
Isn't that what is called personal information?
In that case, hurry and contact them already!
What are you doing?!
I'll call Security.
This is ridiculous.
- Excuse me! - Say.
- Excuse me! Are there any Senseis around?! - Hey!
- Excuse me! - That's enough already!
What's "enough"?
What'll you do if you give up?
Raising your voice in a hospital like that doesn't seem like you.
I'll be bringing your sister to Towa Medical University for brain surgery.
With the Professor's understanding as well...
...she'll be taken to Towa tomorrow morning.
Why would you do this?
Because I'm a doctor.
Brother and Sister trust me.
Wouldn't it be best...
...if you two trusted in me as well and left this to me?
What's my mother's condition?
I believe the bleeding...
...was originally from a brain tumor in the right temporal lobe.
What's the extent of the bleeding? Is it possible to extract it?
You two have deserted your relatives, haven't you?
And since this is the victory you've received as a result...
...don't ask me any more than that.
Your singleness of purpose...
...is a cruel singleness of purpose.
That's why, since it means crossing over the boundaries of common sense and morals...
...no one would want to grasp the love you've grasped for, now would they?
I believed only those people who could control their feelings rationally...
...would be the ones who could be winners in life.
Because of that...
...I lost to you because the strength of my rationality...
...was exceeded by your pure singleness of purpose.
For the winner, a great many hearts will be broken in their wake.
That's why it's natural...
...that the winner will always be lonely.
Please prepare to live holding on to that resolve.
Both of you.
Let's leave my sister...
...to her.
Please take care of her.
I will undertake it.
I will do my best as a doctor.
Please take care of her.
Sister.
You don't have to worry.
I forgot this.
So long.
"Petition For Divorce"
"Ikezawa Aya"
It really is...
...just you and I.
Then let's return to Itsuruko.
Everyone there is waiting for Ikezawa-sensei.
I was fired from there again.
Eh?!
Where will we go this time?
It'll be tough trying to live.
As long as it's the two of us, we'll be fine.
Because to me...
...having Ikezawa-sensei is more important than anything else.
So I won't wish for anything else.
Let's go to a country where no one knows us.
A place where we can live openly...
...and in confidence of our love...
...and there we will surely find work.
In that case...
...any country that doesn't have curry in it won't work.
Eh?
Hey?
I've thought this for a long time now, but why am I curry?
Eh?
Wait!
I love you, Naoko.
What's that about?
"Half a Month Later"
Here. Take your time, take your time.
Good! Well now, one more time. Okay?
Take your time, take it easy. Yes, yes, yes.
There, there, there.
There.
Sensei.
I'm leaving the University today...
...and I think I'll be working at my parents' hospital.
I see.
When you...
...told me to stop...
...I was saved.
I think that given enough time...
...I'll forget about Naoko.
That talk has nothing to do with me anymore...
...but please work hard.
Norisugi.
Don't just leave without a word.
If you ever need an anesthesiologist, you can come to me anytime.
Eh. After Kuriyama-kun and Shirai-kun have gotten married...
...they say they'll open a practice in Kuriyama's home town of Ibusuki.
- Congratulations. - Congratulations!
Congratulations!
We were under your care.
We've had fun and we've even cheated on one another, but...
But Kuriyama-sensei and I will be happy!
That's what you need to say, isn't it?
Yeah...
Congratulations!
Won't you marry me?
I'll introduce you to my father and...
I've...
...been called to a good post at Beijing University.
Want to come with me?
Be... Beijing?
Getting cold feet right off the bat is unmanly, Junior.
Think it over carefully and then redo your proposal to me.
Yes.
Oi.
Where is Assistant Professor Ikezawa?
Over there.
Has she said anything about me and her getting married?
Eh?! Ah. Ala, you were serious when you said that?!
Ikezawa-kun!
Ah, I've gone back to being Harada.
Ah. Then this is good timing.
About my proposal of marriage I spoke to you about before.
For me...
...anyone with Helicobactori pylori in their stomach won't do.
I see.
Then I'll get some medicine.
The Professor may seriously get rid of his Helicobactori pylori. Then what'll you do?
Rai-san. Please calibrate the RNA sequencer.
(Speaking a foreign language)
"This Drama Is Fictional"