Originally Posted by Kaoru Chujo
In these single-episode threads, spoilers aren't necessary for events in the episode. I have made a fool of myself before. I'm used to it. So here is my probably slightly inaccurate summary:
Diana (the blue-haired bombshell) wakes up in her luxurious penthouse, shuffles off her king-size bed (great animation of her body; you can feel the flesh) and realizes there is a bloody fat man tied to a chair across the room. She phones Juiz and says "it seems I've done it again." Juiz arranges for clean-up.
Akira is confused and fed up. He almost throws his Noblesse phone into the ruins, but stops himself in time. A NEET recognizes him and calls him by name (we know for sure now that he is actually Akira, and picked his own passport from the pile) and gets angry at what he did to them, imprisoning them and sending them to Dubai, but ends up saying it was okay, that he was to be married, and what Akira did actually helped him get used to society and gave him a way forward.
Saki is at home, helping at the bakery just before going to her interview. Ryousuke emphasizes again that they will look after her until she finds something she really wants to do. She still wants to escape being a burden on them.
Saki meets Oosugi on the train and agrees very diffidently to go to dinner with him. Oosugi is thrilled.
Akira finally reads Saki's message and realizes she might be worried, so he texts her. But she is on her way to the interview and can't reply. He gets Juiz to help him find where she is.
In her interview, what Saki says about Careless Monday (or something else; I didn't understand all of that, either) turns the interviewer off and she is rejected. And devastated. In the cafeteria, she gets a bowl of beef rice spilled on her and in the washroom hears the secretaries laughing about her interview and the spill.
We see the guy from the car in ep1 again, at a military airport, checking #9's accounts and on the phone with Juiz. He is wearing a ruby ring and is Selecao #1. And we see Diana eating steak and interviewing prospective models for her agency. She thinks she will probably do it again tonight, and smiles. She notices Akira's new expense for finding Saki and wonders with a smile what #1 will do.
Coming out of the building from her interview, with Oosugi approaching (she doesn't see him), Saki sees Akira there with his yellow bike, and off they go, to Oosugi's horror.
Standing by the water that evening, Saki explains what happened and says she can't go home, since they have done so much for her, and she loves Ryousuke. Akira listens quietly to everything she says, then bends down and kisses her. He walks toward the water and says she can stay with him, that he will look after everything, and then says something about making Japan better. I think he's beginning to want to get with the program. She asks him who he really is. He answers that he doesn't know, but he will probably find out.
Meanwhile, Oosugi has called Kasuga (the plump member of the Eden of the East club) to share the high-class dinner he planned to have with Saki. He gets drunk and falls as he is stumbling home through the streets. We see Diana approaching -- but she is headed, with a secret smile, toward another man standing waiting for her on the other side of the street (I think)....
Hayami Saori scores again, with a brilliant sequence where she is explaining to Akira what happened and her feelings about things. Tremendous voice-control and expressiveness, on the edge of breaking down. Akira's calm and gentle, but masculine, presentation is good, too (by Kimura Ryouhei).
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