# E3 - Balut
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**[01:41] Min**
She's so annoying.
**[01:42] Min**
She's so loud,
even though she's tiny.
**[01:44] Min**
Who does she think she is,
telling me what to do?
**[01:47] Min**
Screw her. Die already.
**[01:51] Min**
Damn...
**[01:52] Guy**
What are you mumbling to yourself for?
**[01:56] Min**
I-It's nothing...
**[02:04] Nako**
The guest staying in the Wave Room
**[02:06] ---**
says he won't be needing breakfast.
**[02:08] Woman**
That damned novelist seriously
thinks it's our fault.
**[02:13] Woman**
Hey, I've got an idea.
Why don't we eat his fish?
**[02:16] Nako**
But I need to keep my stomach empty...
**[02:21] Woman**
What's wrong?
**[02:23] Nako**
I-I need to prepare myself mentally.
**[02:26] Woman**
What?
**[02:29] Minchi**
Morning.
**[02:30] Nako**
Oh, morning.
**[02:33] Minchi**
The revenge meal...
**[02:36] Nako**
What if she adds things like lizards
in addition to the taro?
**[02:42] Minchi**
I'll eat it.
**[02:43] Nako**
Even the lizard?!
**[02:45] Minchi**
Won't you?
**[02:47] Minchi**
After all,
you don't like her, right?
**[02:49] Nako**
No, it's not like I dislike her...
**[02:52] Nako**
It's just that she looks
you straight in the eye
**[02:53] ---**
when you're speaking to her.
**[02:56] Nako**
And her voice is really loud...
**[02:57] ---**
Episode 3: Balut
**[02:58] Nako**
I'm slightly afraid of her...
**[03:04] Minchi**
Let's go in.
**[03:16] Minchi**
She...
**[03:17] Minchi**
She betrayed me!
**[03:18] Nako**
What?
**[03:22] Minchi**
I didn't prepare any meals for today!
**[03:25] Minchi**
She'll pay for this...
**[03:26] Minchi**
I'm going to get yelled at ag-
**[03:32] Nako**
Th-This many taro?!
**[03:37] Minchi**
Spinach?!
**[03:40] Minchi**
So, *where* is she?
**[03:46] Ohana**
That's right.
**[03:47] Ohana**
At that very precise moment,
I was in the middle of an outrageous situation.
**[03:51] ---**
Wave Room
**[04:07] Guy**
Let's see...
**[04:09] Guy**
Ah.
**[04:10] Guy**
Okay...
**[04:12] Guy**
This goes in that hole.
**[04:14] Guy**
Dammit!
**[04:18] Guy**
I wanted to use the turtle shell bondage,
but it's so difficult!
**[04:23] Ohana**
Umm...
**[04:29] Ohana**
Here first.
**[04:32] Guy**
I-I see!
**[04:34] Guy**
Thanks.
**[04:38] Guy**
Why am I being taught
by the girl I confined?
**[04:45] Guy**
Hey-!
**[04:51] Ohana**
Don't worry.
I'm not going to scream or anything.
**[04:54] Guy**
Oh, you're not?
**[04:57] Ohana**
But first things first,
**[04:58] ---**
why did you tie me up and gag me?
**[05:06] Guy**
You saw my draft, didn't you?
**[05:09] Ohana**
"The Hot Spring Waitress
and Her Bubbly Training"?
**[05:13] Guy**
Yeah, to tell you the truth,
**[05:16] Guy**
I'm actually not a best-selling author.
**[05:19] Ohana**
I figured as much.
**[05:25] Guy**
I can't write...
**[05:27] Guy**
I just can't.
I can't put my heart into it.
**[05:30] Guy**
I figured that I could
come up with some great ideas
**[05:33] ---**
if I lived the cooped up
life I'd always dreamed of.
**[05:36] Guy**
I planned to win an award
**[05:39] ---**
and turn the table around, but...
**[05:42] Ohana**
So that explains the draft.
**[05:46] Guy**
I started writing an erotic novel
in order to pay for the bill here!
**[05:51] Ohana**
An erotic novel?
**[05:52] Guy**
But I can't even write that!
**[05:55] Guy**
I have no talent!
**[05:57] Guy**
My life is over!
**[05:59] Ohana**
Come on, don't be so depressed!
**[06:03] Ohana**
One cannot determine for themselves if they lack talent.
**[06:09] Guy**
Then...
**[06:11] Guy**
Can I ask you a favor?
**[06:14] Ohana**
What?
**[06:16] Ohana**
What...
**[06:41] Eni**
She wasn't in the hall either.
**[06:43] Girl**
Any luck, Beanman?
**[06:48] Woman**
Vanishing in
the middle of cooking...
**[06:51] Eni**
I have the feeling this is related
to that novelist's draft going missing.
**[06:56] Girl**
You mean, there's a
criminal living here?!
**[06:58] Nako**
Maybe she doesn't like us anymore.
**[07:03] Minchi**
What?
**[07:04] Nako**
I was horrible to her.
**[07:08] ---**
Maybe she went back to Tokyo...
**[07:14] Gra**
That's quite enough.
**[07:16] Girl**
What?
**[07:17] Gar**
We won't be getting
any more customers today.
**[07:20] Gar**
We'll be cleaning areas
we don't usually clean.
**[07:22] Eni**
But Madam Manager...
**[07:24] Gra**
Oh right, Nako...
**[07:26] Nako**
M-Ma'am?
**[07:31] Girl**
You don't need to hold back.
**[07:34] Girl**
I'll teach you everything;
not just things related to the inn.
**[07:44] Min**
It seems like you're loud
even in situations like this.
**[07:48] Ohana**
Please, don't say that!
**[07:51] Guy**
You still think I have talent?
**[07:56] Ohana**
Is my voice really that loud?
**[07:59] Guy**
W-Well, I wouldn't say it was quiet.
**[08:03] Ohana**
But how can you write about me?
**[08:08] Guy**
O-Obviously,
because I've been watching you.
**[08:13] Guy**
Don't get the wrong idea!
**[08:14] ---**
I've never peeked at you
in the bath or anything!
**[08:15] Guy**
I'm serious! I swear on the bible!
**[08:25] Guy**
It sucks, right?
**[08:27] Guy**
It's really boring, isn't it?
**[08:29] Ohana**
Well, it's too early to judge whether-
**[08:36] Ohana**
I-I want to sparkle!
**[08:40] Nako**
Don't worry.
**[08:42] Nako**
Why don't we scrub you?
You'll be sparkling in no time.
**[08:47] Ohana**
B-But that's...
**[08:49] Min**
Didn't you say you wanted to sparkle?
**[08:51] Ohana**
What?!
**[08:57] Guy**
I've been so out of shape lately!
**[09:00] Ohana**
Mr. Jiroumaru, isn't this...
**[09:06] Nako**
I'm here to do today's cleaning...
**[09:10] Guy**
I don't need it. Not today.
**[09:12] Nako**
Okay.
**[09:13] ---**
I was also asked to check
the light bulbs in this room...
**[09:17] Guy**
You're really persistent, aren't you?!
**[09:18] Guy**
The reason you all misplaced my draft
is because you're all too caught up
**[09:19] ---**
in stupid things like this!
**[09:22] Nako**
But...
**[09:23] Guy**
For crying out loud...
**[09:25] Nako**
I-I'm sorry!
**[09:27] Guy**
I guess it makes sense for there to
**[09:28] ---**
be low-class waitresses at
a low-class hot spring inn.
**[09:30] Ohana**
Back off already!
**[09:35] Guy**
Hey! Why did you show yourself?!
**[09:37] Ohana**
Because you're taking it too far!
**[09:39] Nako**
Ohana?
**[09:42] Guy**
I guess there's no choice!
**[09:43] Guy**
Now I'll have to confine you too!
**[09:48] Guy**
What?
**[09:49] Guy**
Guess I have no choice
but to tie this old man up-
**[09:55] Girl**
What?
**[09:55] Girl**
Why are you...
**[09:57] Girl**
Huh?
**[10:03] Guy**
It's impossible. Impossible. Impossible!
**[10:05] Guy**
There's no way
I can tie everyone up!
**[10:09] Ohana**
Hang on, Mr. Jiroumaru!
**[10:17] Grand**
I see.
**[10:20] Guy**
So it was all a farce.
**[10:22] Girl**
What a creep!
**[10:24] Girl**
I let him off the hook for the
**[10:26] ---**
sexual harassment
because he said he was famous!
**[10:28] Guy**
He was always
complaining about our food too!
**[10:32] Enishi**
Madam Manager,
just call the cops on him-
**[10:33] Jiro**
The cops?!
**[10:34] Madam**
Wait.
**[10:36] Madam**
We can't make a
decision until we hear what
**[10:39] ---**
the customer himself has to say.
**[10:40] Ohana**
Are you saying you don't believe me?
**[10:43] Madam**
Of course not.
**[10:45] Madam**
However, more importantly,
**[10:47] Madam**
I don't want to have to doubt a customer.
**[10:52] Enishi**
What are you talking about?
We all saw him!
**[10:56] Enishi**
Beanman was about to be restrained
in the style of turtle shell bondage.
**[11:00] Madam**
Either way, we'll...
**[11:04] Enishi**
Huh?
**[11:05] ---**
That's our truck.
**[11:07] Guy**
Wait, who's behind the wheel?
**[11:26] Guy**
Hey, stop the car!
**[11:42] Jirou**
I'm such a good-for-nothing.
**[11:43] ---**
Look at me,
I'm even following the rules in a situation like this.
**[11:46] Jirou**
I can't break out of my shell...
**[11:51] Guy**
Hey, you! Open up!
**[11:57] Guy**
Hey!
**[12:02] Guy**
Son of a...
**[12:03] Guy**
What? Wait-
**[12:05] Guy**
Mr. Ren!
**[12:09] Enishi**
Get him, Mr. Ren!
**[12:12] Ren**
Beancurd skin.
**[12:13] Enishi**
What?
**[12:14] Ren**
How about adding that
to next month's menu, Madam?
**[12:18] Gran**
Sounds good.
**[12:20] ---**
Try making it.
**[12:21] Enishi**
What?
**[12:23] ---**
Kaneko Tofu Shop
**[12:29] Ohana**
Somehow, this situation isn't as tense
as I'd imagined it would be.
**[12:33] Tomoe**
I know, right?
**[12:37] Tomoe**
What?
**[12:38] Tomoe**
What?
**[12:38] Nako**
Excuse me...
**[12:41] Tomoe**
Oww!
**[12:42] Nako**
No, it's nothing...
**[12:46] Enishi**
There he is.
**[12:52] Enishi**
Where did he go?
**[12:54] Tomoe**
You okay?
**[12:56] Tohru**
Ye-ah.
**[13:00] Tohru**
Isn't that-
**[13:02] Tomoe**
Over there?!
**[13:02] Enishi**
Where?!
**[13:04] ---**
Kissuiso
**[13:10] Enishi**
He isn't in here!
**[13:10] Enishi**
Dammit!
**[13:16] Tomoe**
He's up there!
**[13:26] Tohru**
Hey!
**[13:27] ---**
It's dangerous up-
**[13:28] Jiro**
Stay away!
**[13:30] Jiro**
Please, stay away!
**[13:34] Jiro**
I've...
**[13:38] Jiro**
I've been acting all high and mighty,
**[13:40] ---**
believing that I had you all fooled.
**[13:43] Jiro**
But all along, I'd already been seen through...
**[13:47] Jiro**
by the Madam Manager.
**[13:50] Jiro**
I'm so ashamed.
**[13:52] Jiro**
I was just taking advantage of her goodwill.
**[13:55] Jiro**
I should just disappear-
**[13:57] Ohana**
It wasn't out of goodwill.
**[13:58] Jiro**
What?
**[13:59] Ohana**
She only said what she said
because it's part of her job.
**[14:04] Ohana**
Do you honestly believe
that she's *that* nice of a person?
**[14:07] Jiro**
H-H-Hang on,
**[14:09] Jiro**
you just ruined the entire mood.
**[14:12] Gran**
You have my apologies, sir. She's absolutely right.
**[14:16] Jiro**
Yeah.
**[14:17] Jiro**
What?
**[14:20] Tomoe**
Madam!
**[14:22] Gran**
In our occupation,
you cannot doubt your customers
**[14:24] ---**
even if you realize their true background.
**[14:29] Gran**
Besides,
**[14:30] Gran**
if you pay your bill
after winning an award,
**[14:33] Gran**
we'll be even.
**[14:37] Gran**
No one knows what the future holds.
**[14:40] Gran**
As long as you win the award-
**[14:41] Gran**
No, as long as you
don't give up on winning it,
**[14:45] ---**
there's still a chance.
**[14:47] Gran**
You're still our customer.
**[14:50] Tomoe**
H-Hey, that was just too cool!
**[14:54] Jiro**
But I can't!
**[14:56] Jiro**
It's impossible!
**[14:57] Jiro**
Impossible!
**[14:59] Jiro**
I'm talentless!
**[15:01] Jiro**
I'll never be able to win an award!
**[15:08] Ohana**
Mr. Jiroumaru!
**[15:12] Jiro**
I... don't want to die!
**[15:15] Tohru**
What?
**[15:16] Renji**
Hey, we're going to help him.
**[15:19] Nako**
Please hold on to that, Ohana!
**[15:22] Ohana**
Nako!
**[15:24] Tohru**
Hey, don't-
**[15:36] Tohru**
Amazing...
**[15:38] Tohru**
Is she going to be okay?
**[15:39] Grand**
Of course she is.
**[15:41] Grand**
As a child,
she was called "Kappappa."
**[15:44] Ohana**
What?
**[15:44] Tohru**
K-Ka?
**[15:46] Grand**
If I recall correctly,
she's been having swimming lessons since she was three.
**[15:49] Grand**
Now then,
shall we go and meet them?
**[16:00] Minchi**
Nako!
**[16:01] Tohru**
Nako!
**[16:03] Tomoe**
You were so cool!
**[16:06] Minchi**
You okay, Nako?
**[16:08] Nako**
Minchi...
**[16:09] Minchi**
Yeah.
**[16:11] Tomoe**
Let me grab you a towel.
**[16:14] Ohana**
Nako.
**[16:18] Jiro**
I can't even die...
**[16:21] Jiro**
I'm such a...
**[16:23] Tohru**
You still spouting that rubbish?
**[16:26] Jiro**
I'm seriously such a-
**[16:33] Oharu**
You *do* have talent!
**[16:37] Oharu**
"I want to sparkle!"
**[16:40] Minchi**
What the heck are you talking about?!
**[16:42] Ohana**
It's a line from something Mr. Jiroumaru wrote.
**[16:46] Ohana**
You, Nako, and I are part of the cast.
**[16:49] Minchi**
What?
**[16:50] Ohana**
And...
**[16:52] Ohana**
We're touching each other
**[16:55] ---**
in inappropriate places
with the mop, but...
**[16:57] Minchi**
We're what?!
**[16:59] Ohana**
Yes, it was a perverted novel,
**[17:03] Ohana**
but you understood things about me
**[17:07] ---**
that I didn't even realize myself.
**[17:10] Ohana**
It's not like I *wanted* to work,
but I was upset,
**[17:14] Ohana**
so I wanted to do *something*.
**[17:17] Ohana**
I didn't understand
**[17:18] ---**
where these feelings
of mine were coming from,
**[17:20] Ohana**
but you knew and told me.
**[17:24] Ohana**
I wanted to sparkle.
**[17:28] Jiro**
Ohana...
**[17:29] Ohana**
I don't know much about novels,
**[17:33] Ohana**
but I think it's vital that writers are observant.
**[17:37] Ohana**
You taught me something
about myself that I hadn't known.
**[17:41] Ohana**
You're a true novelist!
**[17:53] Jiro**
I'm so sorry!
**[17:55] Ohana**
Mr. Jiroumaru is going to be
working at the inn now.
**[17:59] Tohru**
Hey!
**[17:59] Ohana**
He's going to continue writing
**[18:01] ---**
and aiming for the award
while paying off his inn bill with labor.
**[18:10] Tohru**
Anything you eat at the beach
always tastes better than usual!
**[18:14] Tohru**
It's not ready yet, sir!
**[18:16] Enishi**
Geez, come on...
**[18:17] Ohana**
Nako!
**[18:19] Ohana**
You were the star today!
**[18:21] Ohana**
That was so cool!
**[18:25] Nako**
Do you want me to teach you?
**[18:27] Ohana**
What?
**[18:28] Nako**
I-I'm sorry!
**[18:30] Nako**
I guess being able
to swim is sort of useless, isn't it?
**[18:33] Ohana**
No way. I don't think that at all!
**[18:37] Nako**
I'm not really good at teaching
you what you need to know to be a waitress,
**[18:42] Nako**
but I'm more confident at swimming, so...
**[18:48] Tohru**
Hey! Supper's ready!
**[18:51] Ohana**
Let's go!
**[18:52] Nako**
Okay.
**[18:55] Tomoe**
It smells delicious!
**[18:57] Tohru**
Eat to your stomach's content!
**[18:58] Ohana**
Oh, spinach.
**[19:00] Ren**
Spinach goes well with the small fish.
**[19:06] Ohana**
Allow me to serve you.
**[19:12] Ohana**
Here!
**[19:14] Ohana**
Enjoy!
**[19:22] Ohana**
She ate it!
**[19:23] Tomoe**
Ohana?
**[19:24] Ohana**
She really ate it!
**[19:24] Tohru**
I seriously don't get her sometimes.
**[19:26] Ohana**
Yay!
**[19:28] Ohana**
She ate it!
**[19:29] Minchi**
Balut!
**[19:33] Ohana**
B-
**[19:35] Ohana**
Balloot?
**[19:40] Gran**
Dear, she's...
**[19:42] Gran**
the spitting image of Satsuki.
**[19:48] Gran**
Has Mr. Jiroumaru moved rooms yet?
**[19:50] Bean**
Yes.
**[19:53] Gran**
It used to be a
storage room for futons,
**[19:55] Gran**
but he'll just have to live with it.
**[19:59] Gran**
Is there something wrong, Denroku?
**[20:01] Bean**
So you knew.
**[20:04] Gran**
Knew about what?
**[20:05] Bean**
You knew that Ohana would set things right.
**[20:12] Gran**
They say, "Praise a fool, and you may make him useful."
**[20:22] ---**
Waitress Handbook
**[20:24] Ohana**
This is so difficult!
**[20:26] Ohana**
Time for a break.
**[20:38] Ohana**
I wonder if she's still
practicing her peeling.
**[20:46] ---**
An insult other than "Die!"
**[20:46] ---**
"I hate you." -> But maybe this is too common...
**[20:49] ---**
"Stay away from me!" -> But maybe this isn't harsh enough...
**[20:52] ---**
"Balut." -> Smelly and ugly!
**[20:55] ---**
Smelly and ugly!
**[20:59] Minchi**
Balut!
**[21:01] Ohana**
"Balut.
**[21:02] Ohana**
A duck egg with an almost fully developed
embryo inside.
**[21:05] Ohana**
It's a dish, but it's disgusting.
**[21:07] Ohana**
I can't stand them and I never will.
**[21:10] Ohana**
That defines how I
feel about her too..."
**[21:13] ---**
We have a winner!
**[21:19] Ohana**
It's incredible how much
effort she put into this...
**[21:24] Ohana**
It's actually kind of
refreshing to be hated *this* much.
**[21:31] Ohana**
Another inconsiderate text from Mom?
**[21:35] Ohana**
Guess I know where that trait came from.
**[21:39] ---**
From: Ko
**[21:39] ---**
I'm sorry I didn't see you off. Good luck with everything, Ohana!!
**[21:41] Ohana**
Ko...
**[21:44] Ohana**
It was a mysterious feeling.
**[21:46] Ohana**
When I was still in Tokyo, we texted
each other all the time. It was nothing speical.
**[21:51] Ohana**
Yet his latest text made me really happy.
**[21:55] Ohana**
"Good luck," huh?
**[22:00] Ohana**
Yeah.
**[22:01] Ohana**
I'll do my best...
**[22:05] Ohana**
so I can sparkle here.
**[23:40] 1**
Minchi is really popular with the guys.
**[23:41] 2**
They're actually more
warmhearted than anyone!
**[23:43] 3**
Who are you calling a "plateau girl"?!
**[23:47] ---**
Episode 4
**[23:47] ---**
Grey Heron Rhapsody