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Asa!

Sis...

I'm sorry. I know you're busy.

Never mind me.

Why did this happen?

Please... Don't scold me, too.

Ever since she regained consciousness, everyone's

been scolding her, so she's depressed.

That's right... As if I'm not hurting enough, now my

heart feels like it's being crushed.

It serves you right.

You seem just fine.

I'm sorry for all the trouble.

No... I haven't done anything.

By any chance, is this your...

I'm glad you're okay.

Thank you, Sobei.

Where did he stab you?

Here... Right here.

It's going to be a while before I can even walk,

and I can't even get up out of bed.

You move too much anyway, so this might not be so bad

for you once in a while.

That's what everyone's been telling me, too.

Really?

They finally caught Mr. Yorozuya.

They did?

Yorozuya...?

Sobei!

Asa ga Kita

Week 21 "People Who Dream" Episode 124

Original Story: Chieko FURUKAWA

Screenwriter: Mika OMORI

Music by: Yuuki HAYASHI

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

Narrator: Keiko SUGIURA

Asa Shirooka: HARU

Shinjiro Shirooka: Hiroshi TAMAKI

Sobei Mayuyama: Tasuku EMOTO

Tomoatsu Godai: Dean FUJIOKA

Kisuke: Hiroki MIYAKE

Ume: TOMOCHIKA

Chiyo: Fuuka KOSHIBA

Izumi Narusawa: Koji SETO

Heijuro Yamazaki: Shigeo TSUJIMOTO

Hatsu Mayuyama: Aoi MIYAZAKI

So they caught Mr. Yorozuya?

He had run away to Nagamachi area...

My husband...

Will you talk to the police so Mr. Yorozuya isn't punished too severely?

It's my fault for backing Mr. Yorozuya into a corner like that.

Mr. Yorozuya was doing his best just to survive.

Even if I couldn't have done anything for him, I should

have taken more time, and listened to him.

Please! Please do it.

All right. I'll tell them.

Take your time.

Thank you, and thank you for sending the telegram.

I heard from Ume that you're not just working

in the bank, but also helping to establish a university for women, too.

I'll bet you're appalled, aren't you?

I guess I am...

After struggling for so long, and your business is

finally stable... Why can't you stop there?

Asa... I'm not scolding you.

But I want you to listen to me.

Is something like that really necessary?

We've refused visitors for a while now,

but Ms. Shirooka herself wishes to start having

visitors from next week.

That's great.

Let's come back again.

Thank you.

Sobei... How's your field?

We just finished harvesting, so we rushed to finish

things up, and we left the rest to Yonosuke...

Thank you. You've been away from Osaka so long, and

you both had to come back here...

About Mr. Yorozuya... isn't he the one who had a fairly big store in Tenma?

After the Restoration, he's tried different types of

businesses, but none of them worked out.

I felt sorry for him.

Considering how much Osaka has changed...

It hasn't changed as much as Sanouji-ya.

In these times, I think it's good that women can

be educated as much as they want...

But because of that, if it's at the cost of your life...

I think so, too.

The teacher at school often tells us in class that men

were born wanting women to be a little bit below them.

Really?

That's right. In the upper classes, there's a trend for men to take

wives who are intelligent, but a woman mustn't be as pushy as men.

The teacher said that no matter how well-informed you are,

you should smile and act as though you're slightly below the man.

What a surprise!

It sure is... They teach you things like that at girls' school?

It's important in order to become a good wife

and wise mother.

So if there are ten men, nine out often will dislike you.

You're lying.

No, I'm not. Someone like Dad is unusual.

Nine out of ten will like Aunt Hatsu.

Because that's how I feel, too.

How can you always say such awful things?

No... Nine out of ten is being too kind...

It's more like 9.9 out of ten.

It looks like Chiyo's the most upset of all.

She is... Besides what she says is probably right.

She's hardly ever wrong... That's the problem.

That's right. She's a smart girl.

And she's not wrong about you being a good wife

and wise mother either.

I'm not educated at all.

You're teaching koto to the people in the village now, aren't you?

And they ask you to do mending, too.

That's nothing...

Housework and sewing aren't just training

to become a bride.

It's part of what you learn in home economics...

Really?

That's right. What Mr. Narusawa, the teacher I'm helping now

is most worried about a woman being bound by her family

and her husband ending up all alone.

Not knowing anything about the outside world...

If she can't be a part of it, she'll be cut off from

the rest of the world.

Education can change women like that.

Even if they get married, they can interact with

the people around them, and become a part of

the world around them.

I see... Now that you mention it, the women

in the village are really happy when I read letters from

their sons who are far away and write letters for them.

That's right. All Mr. Narusawa is saying is that a woman

is a human being.

He said there's nothing wrong if there's just

one woman like me who's forceful and works out in the world.

I'm beginning to realize that your way of life and my

way of life both make sense.

Even if people think that higher education for women is

scandalous and keep trying to repress it, I can't give in.

It's you!

I'm glad. You're looking much better today.

Actually, instead of peeling an apple nicely, a man

should just bite into an apple like this...

But my teacher doesn't like to eat it like this,

so he asked me to peel it nicely...

Is that right? If you don't mind, shall I do it for you?

To apologize for surprising you the last time...

I'm sorry about the other day.

My parent was stabbed with a knife, and is in

the hospital, so I was just surprised...

Could it be that important person from some bank?

There were a lot of people out in the waiting room.

That's right. She finally regained consciousness.

And they caught the person who did it.

Aren't you glad?

I'm from Tokyo... A teacher I was indebted to in the

past is hospitalized here...

I came with a friend to try and cheer him up.

Is that right?

But...

What a beauty...

I'm talking about the apple.

Excuse me.

But to be stabbed...

It's not like she's an imperial loyalist from the ending of the Tokugawa era.

That's right. I never expected that to

happen to my own wife.

Asa won't end here...

She's someone who can change Osaka and Japan someday.

That's what Tomo-chan said.

But give me a break.

Asa doesn't have to become someone like that.

It's okay for a man to live like that, but for a woman...

That's right. No matter how much Asa wants to be like

a man, I can't allow her to go around getting stabbed.

But the way she's recovering is more like a man...

How lucky for you.

I wonder how Mr. Narusawa is doing now.

Come to think of it, he hasn't come to see you at all...

Shinjiro and my husband went out to take a look around town.

They're going to put together some things

for betrothal gifts.

Betrothal gifts?

Actually, Yonosuke says he's getting married.

He fell in love with one of his childhood friends

from the neighborhood.

When he turns 20, he's going to get married.

He sure is precocious.

I think it's much better than saying he'll

become a soldier when he turns twenty.

Isn't Chiyo getting married after she graduates?

Meanwhile, Narusawa was...

To begin with, it's all your fault, isn't it?

Excuse us...!

What could have happened?