"Are you alive?" "Hang in there!" "What am I doing at this place?" "Don't you remember anything?" "Then why don't you stay together with us?" "Good morning!" "Thank you!" "Shall I participate in Nodo Jiman?" "Eh?" "What happened with the sunglasses?" "I ruined it..." "It was supposed to be for Taro-chan's birthday..." "Shall we fight through singing?" "Fine!" "Let's do it!" "Let's fight through singing!" "Taro-chan..." "Kora!" "Don't cry!" "You mountain monkey!" "Heh-heh!" "Something happened!" "Taro-chan is going to sing!" "Huh?" "Why is Taro-chan going to sing?" "What's going on?" "He seems unable to forgive that Akutagawa guy." "The next participant, please come up the stage!" "I'm number 19, Akutagawa Tadashi." "Akasia No Ame Ga Yamu Toki (note: it's a woman's song)" "Hey, you!" "Go away!" "Go away!" "Akasia no ame ni utarete" "Kono mama de shinde shimaitai" "Yo ga akeru hi ga noboru" "Asa no hikari no sono naka de" "Tsumetaku natta watashi wo mitsukete ano hito wa" "Namida wo nagashite kureru deshouka" "Akasia no ame..." "He's a professional" "Eh?" "There's no mistake he must be a professional singer." "He sings really well!" "It's like we're listening to a record player!" "With this, no doubt he'll be the winner." "Ehhh?" "The auto-3-wheels car is his!" "Samishiku kyou mo attatameteru no ni" "Ano hito wa...." "(That person....)" "Tsumetai me wo shite (looking at me with cold eyes)" "Suzu!" "dokoka e kieta...." "(and disappeared somewhere....)" "Darn!" "What should I do?" "Rikidouzan!" "Rikidouzan!" "(name of a legendary pro-wrestler)" "Huh?" "Rikidouzan........ when he launched a karate choppppp...." "Empty your mind!" "Empty your mind!" "aiming straight at Lou Thesz' chest...." "(also a pro-wrestler) and send out a choppppppp!" "So what, with that?" "!" "Sagashite haruka ni tobidatsu kage yo...." "The next participant is Matsushima Sabako-san!" "Please get ready!" "ALRIGHT!" "I go first, Taro!" "Good bye!" "It's "Good luck"!" "Well then... the fun entertainment will be from now on!" "Alright, I'm going to put my hope in Sabako-san!" "What could you possibly expect out of Sabako?" "At a time like this, if there is anyone possibly going to make a miracle, it is only Sabako-san, on the contrary!" "Okay!" "Sabako!" "Sabako!" "Sabako!" "Sabako!" "Sabako!" "Sabako!" "Sabako!" "Sabako!" "Number 20, Matsushima Sabako is going to sing!" "Tosa Shimizu!" "If you're going to stay there, stay at my inn!" "Its sashimi is also delicious, giving you good feeling!" "?" "!" "The next verse!" "?" "!" "The inn's high-grade salted and skinless sea mackerel (Her name "Saba" means mackerel fish)" "You won't regret it if you stay at my inn." "That's one extra syllable." "?" "What the heck is she saying?" "The next verse!" "Using salted mackerel to make vinegared mackerel...." "It has "ka" (song) character alright, but still that's tanka!" "(japanese short poem)" "I was stupid to put my hope on Sabako-san." "The last participant, Shimanto Taro-san.... please get ready!" "If you're going to quit, the time is now, onisan!" "Don't joke!" "I'll be in the audience seat watching you singing your wonderfuuuuul song, OK?" "Do your best!" "Haha!" "Taro-chan!" "O!" "Watch me from the audience seat!" "Ah, don't mistake me...." "I just want to have that auto-3-wheels car by all means." "Ouch!" "What are you doing!" "?" "Have some fighting spirit!" "Huh?" "If you do it, struck all the guests' spirits dumb, OK!" "You're really not gentle, are you?" "!" "Can't you say such things like "Do your best?"" "Strong-willed girl!" "Arggh!" "So the winner will be from the Yamanouchis?" "I'm really pissed off!" "I feel upset, let's go home." "It will be the last entry now." "There's a sudden submittance for participation." "Here he is!" "Huh?" "Taro!" "?" "What's going on?" "Taro's going to sing?" "Shimanto Taro is going to sing." "What song did you choose?" "Taro..." "Oi, Taro!" "The song's title!" "The song's title is....?" "Taro, did you hear him?" "Taro-chan..." "Oi!" "Taro!" "This is embarassing." "EMPTY YOUR MIND!" "~~~~~~~" "Why?" "The warden threw a party in the county jail." "The prison band was there and they began to wail." "The band was jumpin' and the joint began to swing." "You should've heard those knocked out jailbirds sing." "Let's rock, everybody, let's rock." "Everybody in the whole cell block was dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock." "Spider Murphy played the tenor saxophone," "Little Joe was blowin' on the slide trombone" "The drummer boy from Illinois went crash, boom, bang, the whole rhythm section was the Purple Gang." "Let's rock, everybody, let's rock." "Everybody in the whole cell block was dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock." "Number forty-seven said to number three:" ""You're the cutest jailbird I ever did see." "I sure would be delighted with your company, come on and do the Jailhouse Rock with me."" "Let's rock, everybody, let's rock." "Everybody in the whole cell block was dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock." "(Note: this was in the 1960's, to sing Elvis Presley in English to rural folks is VERY impressive already)" "(and his English is not that bad for a Japanese, he did make an effort memorizing these foreign words)" "The warden threw a party in the county jail." "The prison band was there and they began to wail." "The band was jumpin' and the joint began to swing." "You should've heard those knocked out jailbirds sing." "Let's rock, everybody, let's rock." "Everybody in the whole cell block was dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock." "was dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock." "dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock." "dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock." "dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock." "dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock." "dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock." "dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock." "Now it is time to announce the result!" "The Chief of Juries, please!" "And the winner is....." "DAMN!" "I'm really upset!" "It can't be helped." "They must have been bribed." "I wish I had been stronger...." "But Taro has revenged on Suzu's enemy, hasn't he?" "Yes!" "He was very cool!" "Anyway I lost!" "To that onna-otoko!" "I can't accept it." "HAAAH I CAN'T ACCEPT IT!" "You lost in the fight but won in the match!" "Right?" " Eh?" "That's the other way round!" " Ha?" "Yeah!" "It should be: he lost in the match but won in the fight!" "Why?" "But he lost in the fight, didn't he, that stupid Taro!" "No!" "He lost in the match, that stupid Taro!" "To win or to lose, he had a fight and he had lost, that stupid Taro!" "YOU GUYS!" "KORA!" "Why did you always attach "stupid" on my name?" "!" "But you're really stupid, aren't you?" "I don't want that said by YOU, Geruman!" "Cut it out!" "Don't choke my neck!" "Geruman, why of all people you said that?" "Shut up!" "Shut up!" "What's with you, Suzu!" "Are you feeling down because you fail to be an utahime?" "No, not that." "It's because I've never seen Taro-chan like that." ""Taro-chan like that"?" "I fulfilled my task completely by winning in the Contest." "You didn't fulfil your task completely!" "The general rumor said that you've lost in the fight of real ability!" "You have smeared Yamanouchi's banner with mud!" "We've become the laughing stock in Tosa Shimizu!" "You must kill that insolent guy.... if you want your dream of professional debut ... to come true perfectly." "Taro-chan!" "What is it?" "Please have your lunch now" "I'll take your place." "Oh!" "Hm?" "Suzu, there's a speck of rice on you." "Aa!" "Eh?" "Eh-eh?" "Hm?" "What's the matter?" "Your face is red!" "Ehh?" "You must be truly a mountain monkey!" "Right right right right!" "Sometimes I do this, OK?" "And this, OK?" "Eating your lice, OK?" " Now let's do "Nande Ya Nen!"" " Hai!" "Taro and Suzu taro-taro-taro rin rin rin!" "Utahime (The Diva)" "Episode 2" "Shimanto Taro (Nagase Tomoya)" "Kishida Suzu (Aibu Saki)" "Croissant No Matsu (Sato Ryuta)" "Jinguji-kun (Ohkura Tadayoshi)" "Naku mo warau mo douse saigo wa jibun nan da" "Wakatchairu kedo dareka ni sugaritai" "Hyoushiki wo ushinainagara samayoukanishikiseishun" "Kotoba ga tsutanai dake desu" "Douka wakatte kureyo to" "Machigaidarake no sora ni" "Shi ni kakete seishun ga ippiki tonde yukou" "Wohoho sore demo jyuujiro ni tsuttachi" "Ikinuku hyoushiki wo sagashiate" "Maketamonotachi no nakigoto wa" "Hitohira no kareha sa" "Shinjiru no sa towa to mirai to ashita wo" "Shinjiru no sa towa to mirai to ashita wo" "Copyright TBS Terebi" "You can use the site to send Tomoya a birthday message on his coming birthday Nov 7." "Thank you." "1 month after Nodojiman Contest ¡¡" "Student-san, so you're a student from Kochi University?" "So you're an intelligentsia!" "No, not really..." "Then, what are you studying there?" "Literature" "Ah, may I have this pamphlet?" "Mm, you really love movies, don't you?" "Not as much as Taro-san." "Mm, right!" "In movies there are... love and hope and dream and touched feeling and sorrow and pain and joy and loneliness and suffering and... and...umm... various other things, hehe..." "Wouldn't it be better to say those words in a more compact way?" "But summer holiday will end soon, right?" "Is it OK for you not to go home yet?" "I learned much more things by living here in this town!" "That Student-san from Sabako-san's place... since Nodojiman Contest, he really gets attached to Taro." "Serious?" "!" "The unexpected appearance of a rival, eh?" "Huh?" "Let's prepare dinner now." "Wait a minute..." "Really.." "but why are you doing the pilgrimage?" " That is..." " Eh?" "What is it?" "Wh...what's wrong?" "What is it?" "Nothing.." "I just suddenly remember my girlfriend who dumped me..." "Sorry for crying...." "You're doing a pilgrimage because you're rejected by a girl?" "Eh?" "How do you know it?" "You must be stupid!" "Are you really an intelligentsia?" "!" "Ah, Taro!" "Could you come here a moment?" "Oh, what is it?" "What's the matter?" "Since Nodojiman Contest, the Yamanouchis' movement completely disappeared." "So what's with that?" "I'm wondering if they'll carry out some hindrance to us again." "What?" "Ahh?" "!" "What was that?" "Are you really the man called "Tosa Dynamite" in the past?" "What!" "Do you think I was lying?" "Why do you have to be bothered with that?" "Why don't you just think about it only when it comes?" "You're really...." "It's alright if you don't know scary things.... but please take good care of the life which has been picked up again for you, OK?" "Hai, hai, hai, I know, I know!" "The two of you..." "Ah, you're here alright..." "Dinner is ready!" "Wo!" "Dinner, dinner!" "What's for dinner today?" "!" "Rice curry!" "Itadakimasu!" "Mm!" "As expected, Okusan's rice curry is superb!" "True ~" "But today it was mostly Suzu who made it." "Eh?" "Suzu... since when did you manage to cook such a delicious rice curry as this?" "I grow up day by day!" "From the you who cooked that legendary hambag?" "(=minced meat loaf)" "There's no need to mention that again!" "But that really tasted terrible!" "Yes, so terrible!" "Even straw won't taste as bad!" "Yes, the shape and color also looked like cow's "fun"!" "(= dung)" "Kora!" "I'll be angry if you talk about "fun" (dung) when we are having rice curry!" ""Fun!" (this is usually said by girls or small kids, meaning "I am ignoring you!")" "Huh?" "Eh?" "What was that earlier?" "Why were you acting a little cute just now?" "Huuuu, that was creepy!" "That was a pun!" "That made you the same level as Brother-in-law!" "Don't make it as if I were the same as that frivolous guy!" "Ah, it's tomorrow, isn't it, that Izumi will return home?" "Yes, there's a telegram informing us that she'll arrive in the afternoon." "Mm." "But I really wonder why Izumi married such a guy?" "Tadaima ~" "Izumi, I'm tired waiting for you!" "Ano....where is Taro-kun?" "He's in the projector room" "Really?" "!" "Yaaa....it is really good, isn't it, a rural town like this!" "Yaaa....the air is fresh, and the scenery is beautiful too!" "The sea breeze also feels so good!" "Seagull-saaaaaan!" "Yahhoooooo!" "That's for shouting in the mountains!" "That husband never changes, does he?" "This is omiyage." "(= gift from some trip)" "Welcome home, Elder Sis!" "Suzu!" "Wow, you look much more like an adult now!" "Could you be in love, eh?" "No, I'm not in love!" "Suzu-chan!" "Onisan is here!" "Are you still a tomboy, huh?" "Eh?" "Eh?" "It's Merry-san!" "Long time no seeeee, ahaha..." "Each time I sing this song with my students in the primary school..." "Merry-san no hitsuji...." "(Mary had a little lamb....)" "I always end up laughing because I remember Merry-san..." "Why did you laugh remembering me?" "Because each time I recall those curly permed-hair of yours, hahaha!" "This is wool, this is wool!" "Ignore him!" "As expected, one becomes modern when one goes to live in Tokyo!" "Merry-chan was waiting for you while enduring her hangover, you know!" "Why?" "What's up, Merry?" "I am thinking of going for a trip to Tokyo in the near future." "A trip?" "I'll take you around then!" "When?" "When will you be coming?" "If it's early October, that'll be the anniversary of my school and we'll have 3-days holiday, 3x3=9!" "(sanrenkyuu = 3 days holiday. sazangakyuu= 3x3=9)" "I don't understand what he means!" "He's really getting on my nerves!" "Oh, Izumi!" "How are you?" "Oh, Taro!" "How are you?" "Yes!" "Everything's perfect with me except my brain!" "Oh!" "It's a black joke, huh?" "You're good at it!" "Sensei, be quiet, be quiet, be quiet!" "As usual, only Taro is his weak spot!" "That's true." "OK everyone, let's enjoy here at home." "You too, Merry, come here if you have something to talk about." "Mm!" "Huh?" "Taro-chan, what's the matter?" "I got a feeling that someone's taking a peek in here?" "Ah!" "Isn't it time to change the reels?" "Is it alright?" "Oh!" "Right, right, right!" "There is no news at all for me, huh?" "A month has passed since then, right?" "I am sorry!" "Then let's put aside this Tosa Shimizu take-over for the next opportunity." "But, Oyabun..." "Oi, Matsu!" "When speaking to me, there is NO such word as "but"!" "Look!" "This one-piece dress is in fashion now in Tokyo!" "Thank you, Elder Sis!" "This is a most wonderful gift!" "Wear this and go for a date with Taro" "Eh?" "Why do I have to go for a date with Taro-chan?" "As usual, can't Taro recall anything?" "Mm." "What's wrong with you?" "Is there anything you're worrying about?" "Have you ever seen Taro-chan playing a guitar?" "Guitar?" "Mm!" "Last month... there was this Nodojiman Contest .... and he suddenly took a guitar and started to sing!" "That is..." "It seems that his body moved by itself naturally...." "Is his memory before going to war returning bit by bit?" "I don't know... and I'm too scared to ask him..." "Is there anything else?" "At the moment, no... but....is memory something that can return suddenly?" "Or is it something that will return gradually?" "I don't know .." "But he has the memory of everything that happened since he came here, right?" " Taro-chan.." " Mm?" "Where did Taro-chan come from?" "I have no idea about that..." "(he is using standard japanese)" "It is "I don't know"!" "(she is using Tosa dialect)" "OK, so it is "I don't know"!" "Hmm...how difficult, this dialect!" "The way Taro-chan speaks... is like a woman's!" "It gives me the creep!" "What did you say?" "Suzu!" "You insolent girl!" "That's my nature!" "Ouch!" "What are you doing, Suzu!" "Wait!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Here!" "If you make them dirty, Shachou will scold you!" "Huh?" "Eh?" "What was that?" "Oi!" "Are you alright?" "Oi!" "Oi!" "Hang in there!" " What's going on?" " Oh, Taro!" " What is it?" "Haha, Sensei!" "What stunt are you doing this time?" "Are you serious?" "Why didn't you say it early?" "What's wrong?" "Are you injured?" "Shinkichi-san!" "What's wrong, Sensei!" "?" "Shinkichi-san!" "Doctor!" "Doctor!" "I'll call Kamayazu Sensei to come here!" "I'll go with you!" "The doctor will come soon, hang in there!" "Shinkichi-san!" "Are you alright?" "Shinkichi-san!" "It's alright!" "It's just a very slight wound." "You've experienced accidentally getting cut by a piece of paper on your fingertip, haven't you?" "Yes!" "It's no difference from that." "Ahhh, I see..." "You always exaggerate it!" " Oi, Sensei!" "Kora!" " Cha..." "Charo-kun, you're choking meee!" "(he's talking baby-talk)" "We look stupid calling Kamayazu Sensei just for this!" "We are really sorry!" "It's OK, it's OK." "More important is that although the wound is slight, it's a fact that he was assaulted, isn't it?" "Yes, right!" "At that time, suddenly I sensed someone was approaching from behind" "When I turned around, there was this sound of piercing..." "But you were not pierced!" "Err, I was grazed...." "How could a slight grazing emit a piercing sound?" "No, no....but it is a fact that I was attacked." "Look!" "This wound is speaking fluently for itself!" "Fluently?" "Where?" "Eh?" "!" "But why was Onisan attacked?" "It must be because he's on people's nerves!" "All people in Tosa Shimizu feel you're on their nerves!" "Please limit your jokes only about my face, Father!" "What were you saying, with a face that looks like a katsuo (bonito) hauled out of water?" "Now let me be the real attacker!" "Father, stop it!" "Shachou!" "Shachou's childish, haha!" "Ahhhhh...could it be that the attacker mistook him for Taro?" "Son-in-law, you borrowed Taro's japanese shirt for your pajama, right?" "Yes, it was in the middle of the night too." "So he mistook their backs from behind." "Yes, that must be it!" "Considering Taro-kun's horrible character, there must be a lot of people having a grudge on him!" "OK now I'll be the real attacker!" " Hora!" "HORA!" " Taro-chan!" "Taro's really childish!" " But Taro...." " Eh?" "Are you sure you don't know who could have done this?" "Eh?" "Well, there are a lot of dangerous people... therefore everyone, please be careful." "Thank you very much." "Thank you very much." "Someone from the Yamanouchis?" "Yes!" "Please inform me when you find him!" "Stupid!" "If I find him I'll mince him up!" "Hoho!" "You're reliable, Geruman!" "Anybody trying to do as he pleases in this Tosa Shimizu harbor town .... means that he wants to start a quarell with me this fisherman chief!" "The black part of my eyes...." "(it should be "as long as my eyes are black", meaning "over my dead body")" "The black part of your eyes....?" "Huh?" "Umm..." "The black part of your eyes...." "The black part of my eyes......" "The black part of your eyes....what?" ".....are round." "?" "Elder Sis, are you happy after getting married?" "Well, yes... because I married out of love." "Really....then what it is about Onisan that made you love him?" "Because he always puts all his efforts, does not lie, cheerful.... and also because he really cares for me.... gentle, and...." "That's enough, hahaha..." "But.." "to be able to marry the one you love is really a wonderful thing, isn't it?" "Don't you tell Taro that you like him?" "No, really, with Taro-chan there's no such thing!" "If you don't tell him of your feeling," "Taro will forever think of you as his very cute sister!" "Are you OK with that?" "But...." "But what?" "If...if I tell him I like him...." "If you tell him you like him, I think he will acknowledge it." "Heh?" "Why?" "What made you think that way?" "What do you mean by him acknowleding it?" "Do you mean we'll become lovers?" "Or do you mean he'll listen to me properly?" "Suzu!" "Elder Sis will always stand by you." "I'll be supporting you." "Do your best!" "Ahhh....how embarrassing!" "The wind's strong, isn't it?" "I'm sleepy..." "Taro-chan!" "What?" "Are you going to Merry-san's bar?" "Yes." "Are you going to be late again tonight?" "Yes." "Ah, you don't have to pick us up." "It's dangerous for you to walk alone by yourself." "I have a little something to talk with you." "A little something?" "Forget it!" "Go home early, OK?" "What was that?" "That mountain monkey..." "Let's go, Taro!" "That's a good song, but when sung by Shachou, it's ruined." "But Taro.... perhaps we should drink at home tonight." "Yes perhaps Merry is gathering some information about it." "TARO!" "Stop overdoing it!" "Die, please!" "I ask you!" "Die for me!" "Are you stupid?" "Why do I have to die for you?" "It was a chance I managed to catch..." "It's a dream I finally managed to catch!" "I beg you, I beg you...." "Do you really want... to pro-debut to the point you don't mind killing a person?" "Of course!" "Do you know how hard... how very hard were those things I've been going through to reach this point?" "selling my soul, feeling empty," "I had to always smile even if they did the most heartless things to me... and finally I arrived here!" "If I kill you, my dream will come true!" "Then go ahead stab me!" "Taro!" "If with my death a wonderful singer can pro-debut, and can give a lot of people in this world dreams and hopes, that is cheap!" "What the heck are you saying?" "Hohh!" "This is my heart here!" "Stab it properly with your knife, OK?" "In return for that... please make a lot of people happy, OK!" "Alright, come here!" "Watch out, watch out, watch out!" "What are you doing?" "But you told me to stab you!" "Normally one will stop doing it!" "You watched too many movies, Taro!" "It won't work like in those Nikatsu action movies!" "You're really rotten!" "No, I can't...." "I mustn't..." "I'm really sorry..." "I'm really sorry!" "It's too late to say it now!" "Anyway I...." "I don't have the courage to kill people..." "I'm really sorry....please forgive me." "As you see it, please!" "Then quietly go home!" "I forgive you." "But ...." "let me say this to you." "Did you lose your father and mother in the war?" "No.... then don't do such unfilial things!" "Even if you managed to pro-debut by selling your soul to such bad people, your father and mother won't be glad either!" "As for myself..." "I don't know how my father and mother look like." "That you're alive... and that they can see your face, they would be happy already!" "Don't do things that will make your mother cry!" "If you really have real ability, certainly you can pro-debut someday, can't you?" "!" "Think that you have died once here.... and turn over a new leaf!" "The way you sang your song... has impressed me so much, honestly!" "Shachou, let's go home." "Yeah.." "That Croissant..." "Watch out for that Croissant!" "Croissant?" "Did he say that?" "That onna-otoko?" "What, so you know about him?" "He's a gangster who has a big influence in Nakamura City, and is called "Croissant no Matsu"!" "Croissant no Matsu?" "He's quite a vicious man, one day he got into Yamanouchi Oyabun's place who's running Nakamura City, and made a big rampage all by himself." "He's a mad dog!" "Valuing that disposition of his, now Oyabun-san seems to favor him a lot." "That man.." "seems to be plotting to take hold of Tosa Shimizu." "Sabako-san!" "Sabako, where did you hear that from?" "I heard that when those people stayed at my inn." "But...what does "Croissant" mean?" "Ano.." "Oi, do you know?" "Undoubtedly it is a kind of French bread, and it seems to have the shape of "unko" (feces)" " Feces?" " Yes." "I don't know why, but maybe he has the nick because he likes French fashion?" "Even so, why using "feces" as his name?" "Of course it's because he likes feces!" "Well, in any case, we must always be on our guard... towards that man called "The mad dog of Nakamura City"!" "IT'S NO JOKE!" "He disappeared?" "Why?" "!" "Then all our efforts so far has been in vain!" "The Yamanouchis is put to ultimate shame!" "Oi!" "What's the matter, Matsu!" "No.." "In the end, the man you sent to kill couldn't do anything, huh?" "Oyabun, about this matter, I will settle it by myself properly!" "Could you please reconsider.." "giving me another chance to take hold of Tosa Shimizu?" "Even if I say no, you'll just run a rampage by yourself, right?" "Thank you very much." "Taro!" "Mm?" "Please don't meddle into that matter." "Even if I withdraw myself, they will surely come to pick up a quarell with me." "I don't know what you think about it, but..." "What is it, Shachou?" "!" "That day, both I and Hamako had made up our minds... that we would always take care of you." "If something bad happens to you... there are people who would shed tears for you." "Don't forget that." "What's that, so suddenly..." "I'm touched..." "Okusan, let me do that for you later." "Oh, what's with you?" "You never did accounting before." "Have some relaxation for yourself sometimes too, Okusan." "What a weird kid you are." "It's OK, it's OK, listen to me too sometimes." "If there's someting you don't understand, ask Suzu, OK?" "Sure." "Alright!" "Umm....1, 2, 3..." "If you don't tell him of your feeling," "Taro will forever think of you as his very cute sister!" "Taro-chan!" "What is it, mountain monkey?" "What is it?" "No..." "Ano..." "You're going to work here forever, right?" "What do you mean?" "I mean it exactly as the words." "Well, yes that's what I intend to do." "Really." "That's a promise, right?" "Yes..." "Yes!" "Promise me." "What is it?" "Tonight you sound creepy!" "Haahh!" "It's not my problem but it's a problem with Taro-chan!" "Then what is it you want to talk about?" "Forget it!" "Yaaah!" "Unintentionally I ended up overstaying here!" "Is it alright with your school?" "It's alright." "I have explained it well to the Headmaster about my circumstances." "I'll go now." "Please take good care of Izumi." " Have a safe trip back." " Hai." "I'll try to frequently come and take a look at Izumi's condition as often as I could." "No, no, you don't have to take the trouble coming here from Tokyo that often." "Again?" "Father..." " You're too noisy!" " Ouch!" "I'll see him off till the bus stop!" "Good bye!" "He seems to be going to return here quite often, doesn't he?" "Yeah!" "Well, he's naturally like that, he's not a bad person." "Big trouble!" "Big trouble!" "What is it, Merry?" "What's wrong?" "Geruman..." "Geruman is abducted at Nakamura!" "It seems to be the handiwork of the Yamanouchis!" "Could it be..." "Croissant?" "Taro, where are you going?" "Where else?" "!" "How could I possibly abandon Geruman?" "You'll be like a summer insect which flies directly right into the fire!" "Are you saying that I should just bite my fingers and wait?" "Yes, but... even THAT Geruman is terrified of Croissant!" "Yes, and besides, I think Geruman will manage to escape later!" "What if he can't escape?" "What will happen if Geruman can't escape?" "But.." "Go!" "Taro-chan!" "Suzu!" "What are you saying?" "I don't want Taro-chan to be someone who'll abandon his own best friend!" "The only person who can help Geruman-san escape now is only Taro-chan, right?" "But the opponent is...." "It's for a time like this.... that you're always acting wildly around, right?" "It is for a time like this... that you always study fighting by watching Nikatsu action movies, right?" "Show the best of yourself that you're a man among men!" "Suzu..." "In return... please keep your promise... that you will surely return." "After helping Geruman-san escape, you'll surely return safely here." "I have trust in Taro-chan." "See you later!" "His birthday is coming on Nov 7" "You can also send him a birthday message NO registration is needed" "Thank you!" "I am touched!"