Episode 6 Synopsis - Principal and Practice of a Disproportionate Romance
click to show/hide spoilersSatoko and Keitaro rapidly grow closer. They attend a live comedy show together and visit each other's apartments. Satoko gradually begins to feel conscious of her relationship with Keitaro but finds herself brooding over Nao's words, "A man's pride will be hurt if his annual income is lower." Aware of the differences in the social status and earning power of a doctor and psychologist, Satoko finds herself mentally fatigued and her relationship with Keitaro starts to get strained.
One day, an influential man, Kanbayashi Shozo, comes to the Psychiatric department to discuss his son, Hiroyoshi's condition. Hiroyoshi has shut himself up at home since a year ago. Worried about public attention, Kanbayashi is reluctant to have his son hospitalised. Furthermore, he is unwilling to let Keitaro counsel his son because Keitaro isn't a doctor but Satoko asks him to allow it because Keitaro has the training and skills needed for psychological therapy and tests.
One of the department's nurses sees Satoko and Keitaro eating together in the hospital cafeteria and later asks Satoko if she's dating Keitaro. Satoko dismisses the speculation and agrees that a female doctor wouldn't date a psychologist but is overheard by Keitaro, who feels hurt.
From his sessions with Hiroyoshi, Keitaro learns that Hiroyoshi is suffering from psychological stress because his father has never praised him and has always called what he did useless since he was child. He recommends hospitalisation for Hiroyoshi in his review with Satoko. Then Satoko suggests having dinner together but Keitaro repeats what he had heard her say earlier and Satoko finds herself telling him that even if they dated, they can't be open about it because it wouldn't be good for their working relationship. Keitaro wants to know if work is the only reason but before Satoko can say more, she is interrupted by the hospital's assistant director who asks her out for dinner.
Meanwhile, Mizue returns to the working world as a temp but she is unable to handle photocopying and ends up getting fired. Feeling upset, Mizue looks Keitaro up at the counseling room to pour out her woes. They adjourn to a cafe and coincidentally see Nao and Satoko entering an expensive restaurant across the street. Keitaro asks Satoko out to dinner at a fine dining restaurant even as she worries if he can afford the meal. The initial delightful mood soon turns sour when both of them realise that they've been so caught up by how people around them will perceive their relationship that they've forced themselves to try to accommodate each other's different lifestyles.
At the same time, Nao is about to undergo fertility treatment and wants to spend a night with her husband Takafumi in an attempt to conceive a child. However, he doesn't come back until morning. When she presses her case, he gets irked and tells her that there's no need to go to such an extent to have children. Not knowing what to do, Nao looks Sadao up at his restaurant ...
Taking Keitaro's assessment into consideration, Satoko strongly endorses his recommendation when they meet with Kanbayashi but he declines to hospitalisation for his son. Keitaro brashly questions why Kanbayashi is so concerned about public perception. Satoko speaks up in support of Keitaro and asks if Kanbayashi has ever listened to Hiroyoshi's feelings. With Keitaro's prompting, Hiroyoshi finally voices his feelings to his father and Kanbayashi, who heard what his son had to say, acknowledges his shortcoming.
The hospital's assistant director again asks Satoko out for a meal just as Satoko and Keitaro are about to talk to each other. This time, she rejects him because she intends to invite someone important to her to dinner. That person is a psychologist. Keitaro smiles when he hears that but the assistant director is flabbergasted. As they're walking together after dinner, Satoko confesses to Keitaro that she no longer feels hesitant because she is happy and can be herself when she's with him. "Will you go out with me?" she asks ...
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