Episode 5: Let's Leave

-Following the ceremony, the household goes back to its regular routine, except Ellie is still an issue. In another meeting with his mother, she points out yet again that Ellie is far from ideal, and with a smile on her face, she implores her son to make Ellie a concubine

-Masaharu is so furious with this, perhaps even more so because Ellie does not have a full grasp of the language so she is grinning, think she may finally be accepted, and Masaharu angrily leaves, dragging her with him. He yells he is leaving for Osaka and his mother says she will disinherit him and he says I don't care

-Upstairs, as he packs, Ellie tells him to explain to her what is happening, and he yells at her to pack, and she yells at him to not yell at her and tells him to calm down and reminds him that he loves his family and he shouldn't leave

-In the next scene Masaharu is talking to his father at the rice paddies and tells his father he has no desire to inherit the sake distillery and will make good whiskey. in the next scene they are in the sake room and he gives his father whiskey, who grimaces, and his son explains its because of peat. he tells his father his dream again but his father just sits there and frowns and Masaharu begs him to say something, then gets up to go.

-Ellie watches from the shadows...

-his father challenges him to a judo match, and as he pushes him he tells him to win, to make whiskey, but he wins the judo match and Masaharu cries on the floor and says I don't know why I am like this or what's wrong with me and his father keeps pushing him to fight him and then finally he wins, and this is like his fathers way of saying I approve, I support you, just do your best

-Ellie is in tears but won't let her presence be known; she borrows chopsticks from Sumire and plans to learn to use them

-while practicing, his mother demonstrates how to use them, surprising her (and me) and THEN she starts to beg her in tears and says if you care about my son please go home (that is such a low shot; it will make Ellie feel like she is stealing her son and she's not)

what will Ellie do?

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