You want that retaken too?
It needs to make the food look more delicious.
You can't see the clear, thick sauce of our mapo tofu.
Oh? Chuukyou Commercial High won the Koshien this year.
The Taiwanese school put up a good fight too.
Listen properly!
Okay?
Give me a break!
We're not a charity.
With only baozi as a reward...
I didn't say I wouldn't pay you.
Well, what's the occasion?
This is a dollar.
Business is booming.
We're getting more Western customers.
Pictures make ordering easy.
They're the fruits of my ingenuity.
You should be complementing our photos.
You're late, Kazura!
Never keep women and noodles waiting.
Like you know anything.
What is it?
Don't tell me you want me to retake something, too.
Where did you take this photo?
A meeting of white people?
It's a party.
Let's see...
Something Stein...
Not Franken...
Oh, yeah!
Horst Stein!
It was at the mansion of a German man who runs the Shanghai settlement.
Is there something wrong with the photo?
No.
You shouldn't read the newspaper while you eat.
Our food should be eaten with the utmost attention.
Kazura, you have a big scar.
Yeah.
It's an old wound.
I stepped on a broken bamboo stalk when I was a child.
I was playing... with a friend.
I called in earlier.
I'm from the photography studio.
Please follow me to the back entrance.
This man asked us to take some photos,
but unfortunately, I've misplaced the memo with his name and address.
Okay, give me a minute.
I remember him.
He was the only Japanese man I didn't know that day.
This is great news.
We were just looking for an acquaintance of Mr. Nishio.
What do you mean?
Well, he's been absent without notice for the past week.
When I had someone try to find him, we found that he wasn't home.
So you're saying... that he has disappeared?
This is embarrassing to admit, but no one in our company really knows him well.
Mr. Nishio had a monthly contract with us.
I asked him if he would like to become a full-time employee, but...
Why did he turn down the offer?
Well, I'd like to ask him that myself.
Why are you following me?
Help me!
Shut up!
Are you her friend?
I don't know her.
Please help me! Kikuchi!
So you do know her!
Ow...
Bastard!
Don't move.
Oh no! This is terrible.
It's not exactly fun to be in pain, is it?
This will end if you just talk.
Even if I wanted to...
I can't say what I don't know.
I'm just a photographer.
If you don't know anything, then why were you looking for this spy?
A spy?
Nishio's a spy?
I'm getting tired of the heat in here.
It's time you stop acting dumb!
We already know that the woman has a connection with this spy.
You're also from the CPC, aren't you?
I see. I'm starting to understand the situation...
From the looks of it, you guys are KMT...
Now spill it! Where is he hiding?
Where's the money he's hid?
Are you... okay?
You're one to ask.
You're kind.
You're absolutely right.
How do you know him?
Nishio, I mean.
You didn't think twice before calling me a random name to get help.
You're too used to this.
Answer my question.
Are you on my side or not?
All I know is...
I have nothing to do with the CPC.
Are you here to end their dangerous way of thinking?
I don't even know if it is dangerous.
Communism is a necessity to this country.
So that we can unite all citizens as one.
Is that Nishio's influence?
How did you...
It's something he would say.
Let me... rest a bit.
It looks like... we have plenty of time to talk.
If we both don't die, that is.
Get out! You have a ride.
You got beat pretty badly.
It's rare to see you make such a mistake.
What happened?
Sorry.
You're unusually meek today.
Is that all?
Don't you have an excuse or two?
I don't have anything to explain.
But you're not going to tell me the truth, either, right?
Well, whatever.
I'm not a fan of prying.
But I can't say the same for that cunning old man.
Well?
How are your wounds?
I'm sorry for causing you trouble.
You don't get many chances to see the KMT's Secretary of State.
Just think of it as a gained experience.
There's an old harbor over there near the river in Pudong.
There'll be a weapons-exchange there in two days.
The Soviet Union has handed the weapons to Comintern for the trade with the CPC.
It's information we acquired before the KMT.
Interesting.
We can sell it for a high price.
That was the intention, but...
I see.
That's how you got Kazura out.
I'm terribly sorry.
Don't worry.
I didn't say we were going to just sit around.
It's more than enough to know that we'll have a lead to the aiding third party.
I will go.
That's unnecessary.
The only thing we need in this exchange is the ability to observe the midnight exchange.
I'll have Natsume go.
I forgot to mention it, but there was another condition for your release.
Do you know of someone named Nishio from the CPC?
He supposedly infiltrated the KMT as a spy and took off with their funds.
He sounds quite capable.
Do you know him?
He's an old friend.
That's all.
I see.
The agreement was that you stayed out of it.
They seem to be desperate to settle the business on their own.
Some rain would be nice right now.
Nishio?
Why are you...?
You're not very cautious.
Are you talking about how I let you in my room?
About how you didn't change your room.
If someone tried, they could have easily gotten a hold of this address.
True.
I've lived here for four or five years now.
Since the time you started living with Nishio?
Don't think they let you go for nothing.
This room is a very easy target for surveillance.
Everyone seems to be waiting for Nishio.
Both the KMT, and you.
Everyone.
Perhaps we're only being toyed with.
I'm sure he's happy right now.
He always liked attracting attention of any kind.
He's the type of man who'd do anything to capture a person's heart.
This scar here...
Back when I had just met Nishio, I got in a car accident, and I got cut by some glass.
He also has one.
He saw me in pain as we waited for help,
and he hurt his own arm to encourage me.
He's so stupid.
But that's what made him so...
You don't think it was a calculated action?
Maybe it was.
But I don't care.
I don't care if someone's peeking.
I'm not afraid anymore.
I'm sorry to tell you, but Nishio won't come.
Not in a million years.
Say.
Want to go grab something cold?
It didn't rain enough to cool down the air.
It's only added steam.
I like this road.
And the city around here.
But Nishio didn't like them.
He said this was the home of the exploited class.
Nishio said that we need a world where everyone's equally a blue-collar worker.
And you believe him?
Would I be wrong... if I did?
If I didn't, I couldn't stay at his side.
That man... is like summer.
Summer?
He's intense, dangerous, and simply being near him makes you exhausted.
But you also miss him when he's gone.
Isn't that what you feel somewhere inside you?
How silly...
Summer never lasts forever.
Don't you understand?
The order was to stay out of it.
Do you need to go as far as tracking down his lover in order to find him?
What's Nishio to you anyway?
Negotiation complete.
Don't move!
Move and you die!
He jumped into the river!
Who's there?
Remember me?
Are you after me?
I just wanted to see you once.
I was wondering how you were doing.
I'm in a hurry.
Of course.
You always were.
There's a person waiting for you.
Are you talking about Airin?
That's in the past.
I'm sorry, but I still have a few things to take care of.
Episode 05
A Negative Summer
As dark clouds bring darkness to the era,
the words seeking freedom are exchanged quietly.
A crowd gathers around the man who speaks of the ideal.
Will their conversation be the thing that blows away the clouds,
or will they simply call for a heavier storm?
Next Episode
"Ominous Night"
Next time: Ominous Night.