"it seems it's just been moved to the Department of child services." "that really is the worst." "Putting it in a cardboard box." "But leaving it right." "that's not a mother." "It was a very immature thing to do." "I've brought you oden." "You cold?" "right?" "I'll go find one." "somehow I'll get it." "where have you been?" "What are you doing?" "Whats with that face?" "Don't mess with me!" "How can you look at your parent with that look?" "You know it is me that has raised you till now?" "say something! if we talk..." "if we talk... we can make." "we can make. yes." "but" "OK." "What?" "Yukiya kun's day care bill." "they haven't paid anything for 3 months." "his mother...." "It's Asahi Yuriko san." "that person..." "I know! is diligently raising Yukiya kun." "Therefore... just barely making it." "Doesn't have any extra. you said everything I wanted to say." "I do well understand her situation." "this Smiling Garden is just barely making it!" "we can't go on!" "can we buy a new plush toy?" "impossible." "please have a look. surely it would be this." "can't you do it?" "is the management." "what?" "the loan from that scary Yamauchi?" "Thats not what we were talking about." "alright." "I just want to be there for the day-care." "Where you going?" "School.... right. OK." "He might become your father." "Is that for real!" "?" "what's with that look!" "?" "No..." "Good morning." "Good morning." "morning." "Asahi san." "minute." "Can we talk for just a moment about a matter." "however." "I know." "I'm sorry." "for sure." "Excuse me." "Sayoko san. leaving it to Sayoko san to say." "Is Asahi san using any assistance program?" "right?" "or applied for social security insurance?" "what about child support?" "What is her ex-husband doing?" "He ran off." "The jerk." "your the question queen." "Bug off please." "just barely managing like that?" "Shut up!" "It's just that Minami chan said as much." "What's going on when we can't even buy plush toys?" "I'll go buy a plush toy myself?" "I'll buy it." "Don't involve yourself unnecessarily." "Jojima." "A job?" "Find a person?" "be right there." "A detective job?" "I'll help too." "Fine without you!" "Stay out!" "nice." "Therefore I gave him a loan he suddenly disappeared." "that's marriage fraud." "I'm sure he has cheated other women too." "but." "But to deceive such a beautiful woman... you know!" "What?" "Hana chan." "There's not many jobs this easy." "Because we know the guy." "age 40." "is 150 thousand." "you will take it on!" "and then belt him." "OK." "OK." "Hey..." "like some Tai or...." "Oh she's gone." "and so?" "And so?" what about it?" "I have work I have to do." "But this is not just any ordinary job is it?" "That's why your having me do it. is a member of Momoi group." "The Momoi group..." "Of course he's connected to the mob." "Can't help it." "It's fate..." "Fate is written karma." "OK." "I don't know that guy." "now... look carefully!" "I did." "OK." "Good!" "Great!" "hey... how much for that?" "One play is 100 yen." "100 Yen?" "I'll try it with 300 yen." "Come on!" "Come on !" "Doggy!" "now." "Isn't this impossible~!" "Come on! Hey this is my last try." "Good!" "Hey move." "You want this plush toy?" "That's right." "Hey what're doing?" "you're doing it?" "however!" "No way.... you're first try? Great !" "Great !" "Here!" "Oh thank you!" "2000 yen." "What?" "but." "Please discount it to one thousand... seven hundred yen please." "Pitiful adult." "Alright." "But thank you!" "The children will be happy." "In elementary school?" "I am Yoko." "So you're Yoko." "What about school today?" "We got out early today." "And so my mother is waiting. mother is a musician." "Now I'm just waiting for my mother's performance to be over." "That's great." "we'll be at our villa in Hawaii! you know it's fine but." "loitering around here isn't OK." "Don't want to hear it from a guy who can't afford a plush toy." "What do you do?" "I'm the director of a preschool." "Do you know the preschool called Smiling Garden behind the supermarket?" "The director there." "What's wrong?" "Oh nothing." "Well then." "What about your mother?" "It's OK! Hanasaki san." "hello." "Hello." "An elementary student?" "You know her?" "I just met her for the first time there." "Is that right? What's happening?" "It's being transferred to a hospital nursery." "Identified anyone?" "The mother? we been even asking around with High school and Junior high students." "And now they're even talking about expanding to elementary students too." "Elementary students?" "Well only where there's a possibility of pregnancy." "But it would be best if we found the mother? are they someone that can live together with it or not?" "This is the first restaurant papa brought me to." "Is that right?" "It was delicious." "It was seriously good." "And it's only 500 yen." "Such a good deal." "I'll come everday." "it's not 500..." "Oh nothing." "you're becoming a child care worker?" "Right now I'm trying to get my qualifications." "have you been studying?" "I am." "right?" "you don't need to investigate." "you stay out of this!" "Why?" "It's tangled up with the Momoi group." "Do you want to be captured again?" "I'll just have to be careful." "Have you heard anything I've said?" "It was delicious." "I'm back to the preschool." "I'll give this plush toy to Minami chan." "Thank you so much." "Thanks." "really..." "Doesn't he like you Hana chan?" "He's hungry for love." "What's wrong?" "just thinking." "Doing that a lot lately." "right?" "Yea." "I wonder." "That's not true." "is likely the mother. they will violently regret it. right?" "the prospects she'll become a good mother are really good maybe. what if the mother is still just a child or something?" "Everything depends on the circumstances." "Think positive." "right?" "for romance." "what?" "It's so slow!" "Between you and Hanasaki san." "It's so slow!" "Hana chan." "the seafood bowl?" "I used some Korean seasonings." "it was delicious." "Making it made me laugh." "What?" "raw fish is called "fue"." "you say "fue." "My "fe"?" "Nothing related to that." "will you get some sleep?" "if I don't look for someone." "It was delicious." "Thank you." "500 yen." "1000 yen." "That bastard Hitoshi... hey." "you just can't be helping yourself!" "my mother?" "probably still at the snack bar." "Oh that's right." "what you smiling about?" "Now let me warn you." "understand? Hello." "Hey hurry." "I need to leave Tokyo." "I can't leave that money hidden forever. then you can use that money to set up shop." "What?" "you're the only one I serious about." "she's nothing." "I'm just with her for a place to hide." "When's good to come back for you guys?" "An hour...." "I'll call for you in two or three hours." "Yes." "Yes." "Hey. you absolutely keep this from Keiko!" "I'm hungry." "Let's get an omelet rice or some spaghetti." "what about a hamburger?" "The boss is popular." "Will it be OK?" "Us and Yamauchi of Kasuga group's in a dispute? Hello." "What!" "?" "Alright." "What is it?" "That bastard Motoki disappeared with the group's money. it's me." "there's a woman he's seeing?" "You know where she is?" "I brought tangerines." "One for each of us." "Thank you. use it for rent." "OK." "What are you saying?" "I'll figure something out. you'd be able to live with your baby right?" "right." "Because it's just you Kyouka san that's always been kind to me." "I just heard something good." "So I can probably get some money." "If it's dangerous... don't do it." "It's OK." "Look eat a tangerine." "Director." "What is it?" "Can I use this towel to dust?" "no." "The baby left in front of the preschool." "Cause this was spread out in the box the baby was left in." "is it OK we keep such a thing here?" "can we?" "do." "still more?" "because I can't wait for Shigenori." "Wait a moment." "Alright." "you wake up." "You in here!" "Get back to sleep." "So slow." "Well wait." "That tickles." "we'll take her." "Yes." "your shoes." "Yukiya kun hasn't come." "Because I pressed her for the day care fees." "But it was the usual when they came yesterday." "Sayako san." "right? Yo..." "Yoko chan!" "What's wrong?" "I came to play a little." "I'm off school today." "go. where's Hitoshi? however." "What is he doing." "Don't tell me..." "OK." "with Yoko chan here..." "Because we are all here." "The children are all overjoyed to have a big sister here." "where are the babies?" "Isn't there a baby girl?" "Oh you mean that abandoned girl?" "I saw it on the TV news." "You remember such a thing?" "That's great." "Where are they?" "That baby is in a hospital nursery." "Not here?" "She's not here." "so she was sent far away." "What's wrong?" "I have to go." "Yoko chan!" "wa.." "Yoko chan?" "What's that?" "Yoko chan!" "Just Yoko is fine." "I have cram school." "It's OK for you to come play again." "you can tell us anything." "Well I..." "What is it?" "see ya! There's some trouble of some sort." "then suddenly." "She was asking earnestly about the abandoned baby." "About the baby?" "Yes." "Said she heard on the news." "Was it on the news? she was staring up at this place...." "It can't be.... what are you doing?" "just doing some work for you." "I learned the place of the woman he's seeing." "Socrates." "Well it was hard." "I was eavesdropping on some Momoi gangsters." "that's dangerous!" "And didn't I tell you to stop that!" "What are you doing!" "?" "I'm being careful." "You need to come too." "I'll come." "but I can't right now." "Then leave it to me." "this Yoko." "Asahi san!" "Encho Sensei.... wait!" "OK." "That's not it." "We just happened to be in the area." "That's not it is it now? OK. and health insurance exemptions." "I know all that!" "Even so I can't do it." "There's also unemployment assistance." "Are you saying I should quit apprenticing at the beauty salon?" "That not what I mean." "I want to become a fully qualified beautician." "But..." "But I suppose I'm not qualified am I?" "I've thought about it." "Thank you so much." "Excuse me." "Asahi san!" "Shall a teach her a good way to make money?" "what?" "I am watching all your movements." "don't bother me now." "I'm in a hurry." "is it?" "Yamauchi is serious." "Why is it that you try so hard?" "Because I have to protect the day-care." "it's trouble for many parents." "Smiling Garden is their last refuge. that refuge will not go on." "Same with that person too?" "I know." "Yasuko san." "who are you?" "Where's Motoki?" "Don't know such a person." "Isn't he in your apartment?" "Come on now." "I really don't know." "You do know!" "?" "look!" "Shigenori!" "Crap." "Motoki yea!" "Motoki? Hey!" "Motoki! then you can use that money to set up shop." "Kyouka san!" "OK!" "I'm going to get money!" "Crap... where'd he go? if I could get your cooperation please." "she was about this tall?" "have you?" "Yoko?" "So you do know her." "You seen her today?" "Yea." "she lives with her mother in some apartments in Yakumo block." "together with a scary looking man." "Scary looking man?" "A rumored member of Momoi's gang." "You're kidding.... isn't it this guy?" "that's him." "What's this!" "Before you said you didn't know him!" "Oh is that right?" "You sure you showed it to me?" "about that!" "What's with this... fine! can you please give me clear directions?" "Crap!" "Hey!" "You know where this brat is?" "Yoko !" "Yoko!" "Excuse me." "Yoko!" "I'm studying for the bar exam." "I can't study!" "It's that room there!" "That's Yoko's there." "Not there at the moment." "but." "That girl's always going in and out of there." "Sorry." "Sorry." "she's dead! She's alive." "An ambulance." "ambulance... ambul...." "Calm down and call!" "didn't I tell you to be quiet!" "Are you OK?" "Are you OK?" "however." "Oh the address..." "Shinjuku ward..." "Hey the address?" "just a minute!" "Can I use this towel to dust?" "no." "The baby left in front of the preschool." "Cause this was spread out in the box the baby was left in." "This towel... is it your baby? she said she surely left it in a safe place." "That girl is a really kind girl." "And for me too... mother is a musician. right." "The ambulance will be here soon. what about Yoko chan... went out looking for her too just recently." "Tell us that sooner!" "Leave this to you." "I've got to go find Yoko. OK." "What?" "you take that stuff too?" "This time I won't be so easy! What?" "you take that stuff too?" "This time I won't be so easy!" "give it here." "Kyouka san will be able to live with her baby again!" "What did you say!" "?" "You want me to kill you." "No!" "Director!" "I saw them at the park." "Look." "Don't mess with me." "What are you doing!" "?" "Hitoshi." "Yoko!" "Yoko!" "Encho sensei." "Yoko!" "What have you done!" "? it's a duty to protect children!" "Someone like you..." "Someone like you! This bastard!" "Director!" "Director." "Enough OK." "hang in there." "You'll be OK." "Kyouka san is so kind. and since hasn't been able to get up from her futon." "I didn't know what I should do." "I thought you would look after it." "I had hoped to go back for it." "she's called Asuka." "I called her that." "Cause she looks like Kyouka san. she has tomorrows right? but I called her tomorrow." "and so..." "Yes." "cause I know." "OK. right?" "of course!" "Good. right." "OK." "..." "I could live in a place like Smiling Garden." "but." "Yoko..." "It'll be OK." "This person discovered her and called the ambulance." "Thank you." "what more!" "?" "Who is this?" "Yoko san's mother." "Tobacco here...." "Alright. and Motoki was arrested." "Was that man really going to trick me?" "most likely." "There's others too that have filed complaints for fraud." "Crap. aren't you worried about your daughter's condition?" "I heard that her life's not in danger." "right?" "Of course she's get hit." "That girl really is no good." "No good?" "that is no good?" "Don't you make light of children!" "do you have any idea what she feels!" "? why can't you understand that!" "? she worried for Kyouka san and the baby. she has an awfully large heart!" "you won't even reach out your hand!" "calm down." "Why!" "?" "What are you doing?" "leave now." "it's fine now." "Her mother came?" "Don't think so." "This is no mother!" "Ma'am." "I need a smoke." "Great job." "right?" "Feels great." "right?" "Hitoshi kun is quite excellent. and he went back to the preschool." "don't worry." "Things with the Momoi group are OK." "Really." "My heart is relieved." "Great job." "Thank you so much." "OK. 150 thousand." "It seems that the police are investigating the mother Yasuko for child abuse." "There were many bruises on the girls body." "Will Yoko be placed in protective custody?" "isn't it." "now things will be better." "At least we can hope so." "can we." "Hey!" "Hana chan." "You'll get your money." "What is it?" "You look concerned about him." "No." "are you OK?" "I've heard rumors there's trouble with Momoi's gang." "that's not for" "OK." "Sorry." "the sooner he sinks in the ocean." "Hanasaki Shinichiro." "But." "What is it?" "Nothing." "see you later." "Yes." "Hana chan." "Hey." "Want something to drink? No thank you." "I watched a fellow officer die." "I didn't rescue her. so powerless." "I don't know there are tons of people you have saved." "it's alright." "Cry." "What's wrong?" "You're here so early." "Here. day care fees." "come in for a minute." "I c..." "It's fine." "We'll be sure to take care of Yukiya kun." "Then let's think it out together." "but because I'll think about it too."