workers".
I see. Will our "relations"
continue to be "good"?
If you apologize,
I won't bear you a grudge.
You don't lack humour!
How amazing!
You act as if you'd been offended,
when you were at fault.
Your taste for denouncement
is odd in a country
with a strong sense of honour.
You think you can give me
morality lessons?
Why did I ask to speak you?
It was reckless.
It was to reconcile us!
Fine. If you apologize.
You're intelligent.
Why pretend you don't understand?
Don't be pretentious.
You're simple to figure out.
Then you should understand my anger!
I understand it
and disapprove of it.
I had reason to be offended
by your attitude.
You solicited a promotion
to which you had no right.
Even if it was a chance for me,
it didn't harm you.
I've been in this position for one year.
I fought for years to get it.
You thought you'd get a similar rank
in a few weeks?
So that's it.
You want me to suffer, too.
How childish!
Like you now
talking to me this way,
aggravating your case!
Is that proof of maturity?
I'm your superior.
You have no right
to speak to me so rudely!
I know...
I have no right.
But I'm disappointed.
I admired you.
I'm not disappointed.
I didn't esteem you.
Next morning,
Miss Mori informed me of my new job.
You'll stay in this department.
And do accounting.
You'll stay in this department.
And do accounting.
Me, an accountant?
Why not a sumo wrestler?
Accountant is a big word.
You don't have the talent to be one.
These are all the recent invoices.
These ledgers correspond
to our 11 departments.
It's a simple task, within your skills.
First classify the invoices
by date and department.
Like this one:
11 million for Finnish cheese.
A coincidence: It's "Dairy Products".
In the DP ledger
you copy the date, the company,
the amount.
Then file the processed invoices
in this cabinet.
- Isn't it computerized?
- Yes.
Once a month, by Mr Unaji.
Thanks to your work
it won't take him long.
True, it wasn't hard.
Though at first I had trouble
picking the right ledger.
What's Reming Ltd?
Non-ferrous metals.
Department MM.
What's Gunzer GMBH?
Chemicals. CP department.
This work was totally boring.
So much the better:
I could dream as I admired
my denouncer's exquisite face!
The weeks went by.
I became quieter and quieter.
I reached "invoice serenity",
a sort of Zen of accounting.
I embraced this mindless
but voluptuous activity.
How silly I'd been
to get a college degree,
when my brain could blossom
in repetitive stupidity.
I realized I was devoted
to the contemplative orders.
Writing down numbers
as I looked at beauty, was bliss!
Fubuki was right:
I took a wrong path with Mr Tenshi.
I didn't have a conqueror's mind.
I was a cow grazing
in a meadow of invoices,
waiting for the train of grace
to pass by.
How nice it was to live
without pride or brains!
At the end of the month,
Mr Unaji computerized my work.
I was proud to be an able link
in the chain!
This is odd...
This is very odd!
Miss Amelie!
What's this?
It's an invoice from the GMBH company.
The GMBH company?
Did you say GMBH?
Explain to me
what the GMBH company is?
It's a German company.
Why is "GMBH" always preceded
by one or several names?
They're subsidiaries!
You idiot!
GMBH is German for Ltd. Or Inc.
The companies you grouped
under GMBH have no connection!
It's as if you grouped under Ltd
all our US, British,
Australian partners!
How much time will we lose
catching up your mistakes?
The Germans are weird. To say GMBH!
What nerve! You blame your stupidity
on the Germans!
Calm down. How could I know?
Your country has a common border
with Germany!
Yet we, so far away, knew it?
I almost brought up Japan
and Germany in WW II.
But I avoided that tricky course.
Don't just stand there!
Get the invoices you classified
under chemicals!
It took us 3 days to put the ledgers
back in order.
On the morning of the 3rd day...
Now what has