The fifth episode of the Fuji TV Getsuku drama "Second to Last Love 3 " (Mondays 9pm), starring Kyoko Koizumi and Kiichi Nakai , aired on May 12th. The exchange between Wahei (Nakai) and his only daughter Erina (Ayana Shiramoto) became a hot topic on social media.
◇The following contains spoilers
Erina invited Wahei and Chiaki (Koizumi) to Cafe Nagakura. She started by saying that she had heard from an acquaintance that Wahei had introduced her to his coworkers as "a girl with a bit of a daddy's girl."
When Chiaki asked, "What did Erina think when she heard that? Were you annoyed?" Erina replied, "At first, yes. But I don't think I was angry at all. In fact, I thought it was cute. I also felt a bit sorry (because that's not how it turned out)."
"I'm really sorry," Wahei apologized, and Erina told him that she didn't think their relationship was bad. "I think he thought he had to do things for his mother, who had passed away, but I didn't like the way he treated me, like, 'That's how father and daughter should be,' or the way he treated me like a girl," she told him.
"You did your best, Kazuhisa Nagakura did too," Chiaki said, showing concern for Erina. Then she asked, "So, have you changed a bit now?" Erina admitted that she had changed, saying that she hadn't thought much about it since she left home and came back.
"Maybe it's because I've become an adult and our sense of distance has changed... When I was a teenager, there were so many things I wished I could talk to my mom about. But I couldn't tell my dad how I felt. I knew it was him who was suffering the most. I didn't want to make him sad. But I just didn't like seeing him pushing himself too hard. I think I bottled it all up inside and sometimes took it out on my dad. I'm sorry."
Looking back on the past, Erina couldn't help but shed tears as she revealed her feelings for her father, saying, "I guess it's because I've come to understand a parent's love and the value of family. I'm having fun now. There are times when I think there's nothing I can do about (Kazuhisa). He's quite argumentative and I think he talks a lot. But I like him as a person."
Wahei and Chiaki's eyelashes were wet as they thought about Erina.
On social media, comments such as "I could almost cry at the interaction between father and daughter," "I cried at how grown up Erina was," "It was a great scene between the three of them, it was all about the father and daughter," and "The scene where Erina, Chiaki, and Wahei were all crying while eating in the garden was really good, and then the part afterwards where Wahei was drinking by himself and talking to his wife made me cry" were posted one after another, and it became a hot topic.
