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Why is my husband with Satoshi?

That's Hatchan next to them.

Hatchan?

Take care of Chiyo...

I'm going to stay, and see what's going on.

All right.

So it was you, after all?

It's been a while, hasn't it, Young Master Shinjiro?

I have three questions I want to ask you.

How's your mother?

She died a long time ago.

As soon as we left Osaka.

I see...

When I finally found my dad, he was already dead.

Ever since then, I was always just one step ahead from poverty.

And lived the life of a vagabond.

Darn!

Is that you, Asa?

Asa!

I'm sorry!

Asa ga Kita

Week 12 "The Best Father in All of Osaka" Episode 70

Original Story: Chieko FURUKAWA

Screenwriter: Mika OMORI

Music by: Yuuki HAYASHI

Theme Song: "365 Nichi no Kamihikouki" Sung by: AKB48

Asa Shirooka: HARU

Shinjiro Shirooka: Hiroshi TAMAKI

Ume: TOMOCHIKA

Satoshi: Keishi NAGATSUKA

Yono Shirooka: Jun FUBUKI

Shokichi Shirooka: Masaomi KONDO

The udon soup here is better, after all.

Isn't it?

Hurry, and eat.

Shall I guess the other question you wanted to ask me?

I was the one who set the explosives in the mine.

Why would you do something like that?

It's obvious, isn't it?

It's because I wanted to force Kano-ya to let that mountain go.

The Osaka money hungry money changer had the

nerve to come all the way out to Kyushu, and get

into the coal mining business.

If I caused just one accident, it would scare Kano-ya off

right away, and you'd let the mine go.

To you people, coal mining was just something to do

on the side of the money changing business to begin with, wasn't it?

And you started spouting that trash about coal

supporting Japan's economy.

I wanted to puke.

How could you...? I really wanted...

Asa!

Can I ask you the last question?

What do you want to do from now?

You came to Osaka because you want

to do something, didn't you?

Did you think of setting fire to our store?

I did!

Once the chief clerk told the police about me,

no one will hire me to work in their mine.

I was going to do it out of desperation.

I thought I'd blow the whole Kano-ya up.

But...

I gave it up.

It looks like your dad's going to die soon.

I heard around town that once your dad

dies, Kano-ya will go under even

if I don't do that.

I see...

I'm sorry.

It's my fault that your way of thinking got so twisted.

It's because I couldn't save you that time.

Maybe now...

I may still be unreliable now, but I might be

able to do something for you now.

Do you have a place to stay?

How are you going to make a living from now?

Do you have money?

No... You mustn't do that.

If you resent our store, go ahead and resent us all you want.

You can say what you want about what we're doing or even curse us.

But no matter how much you may resent or hate something,

the one thing you shouldn't have done was to cause at accident...!

You should realize more than me how dangerous a cave-in accident is!

It just so happened that everyone was safe, but

it wouldn't have been strange for a lot of

people to have died!

The boss still hasn't gotten full use of his leg back.

All the miners aren't able to work in the mine yet.

They don't have any way to to feed themselves.

They don't know what's ahead and they're all at a loss.

Even if Kano-ya used all of the money it has,

there's no way we can help everyone.

That's how serious the accident you caused is.

It's irreparable.

If you wanted Kano-ya to get out of the mining

business, it would have been better if you

had stabbed me with a knife!

What are you saying?

And besides, you were a good group leader,

weren't you, Satoshi?

You have the boss who still believes in you,

and all the miners who look up to you, but

doing something like this, and running away!

Don't you feel bad toward all the

people who work on that mountain?

Asa!

Atone for your sins.

Asa... Stop it.

I'm sorry, but I'm supposed to protect the family

and everyone at that coal mine.

I can't be a hypocrite.

I can't always be nice.

You're a bastard, too, after all.

No. That's how it should be...

You're just like Kano-ya's master.

My dad told me when he opened the branch

store that the master told him that no

matter what happened, he can't lend him any money.

He told him that's the customary practice.

But I couldn't stand to see my dad and mom suffering like that.

That's why I said those things to you.

I knew you were kind- hearted and yet I said

those unreasonable things to you.

Even now, you want to help the man who

caused that accident? You idiot!

You're too softhearted! It makes me angry.

I hate this woman, but right now, I know

that she's right.

I'm sorry!

Matsuzo!

Raise your head.

No, I can't!

But I have one last thing I want to ask of you.

I'm glad you came.

I know I have no right to be here.

But... I...

Matsuzo...

I'm sorry I couldn't save your dad.

Even if it was a promise, there might have been

some way I could have helped him.

I wasn't strong enough.

Forgive me!

Your dad was a hard working and good head clerk...

This is the account book that your dad kept for us.

Look at this! He had such beautiful handwriting.

Look here... When I made a mistake, he quietly fixed it.

He really was a reliable man.

This bean-jam cake is your dad's favorite,

black sugar bean-jam cake from Funahashi-ya.

He really loved this.

Try it.

Meeting you again like this, I'm so grateful that I was

able to tell you this.

Maybe it was your dad's divine guidance that

brought us together again.