Silver Spoon (銀の匙)

Icchan?

Good job back there.

Yeah, you're welcome.

Were they all sold to dairy farms?

Okay, I see.

It's not so easy, after all.

We decided to sell all the horses too.

Gramps said it's too hard on him physically to take care of them.

I hope someone nice will buy them.

I'm going to get a job instead of taking over the ranch.

Yeah, so...

Icchan, listen.

If my family's okay with it, would you be interested in taking over the Mikage Ranch?

Your family's been running the ranch for generations, right?

I don't think it's appropriate for a brat from a ranch that went bankrupt to stumble in like it's his lucky break.

Besides, I want my own ranch.

Yeah, okay.

I understand.

Sorry. Let's pretend I never asked.

When I was a little kid I thought the future

When I was a little kid I thought the future

would be pretty different from what I'm seeing right now

would be pretty different from what I'm seeing right now

I'm okay with that, though

I'm okay with that, though

I became a traveler

I became a traveler

Sometimes it rains or the wind is strong,

Sometimes it rains or the wind is strong,

but I want to find something important to me

but I want to find something important to me

Love me

Love me

Alone everything is harder in life

Alone everything is harder in life

Love you

Love you

I want to really believe in the miracle of love

I want to really believe in the miracle of love

Even the things I see every day will be beautiful

Even the things I see every day will be beautiful

I won't be able to forget any of it

I won't be able to forget any of it

I wonder if I'll ever feel like that

I wonder if I'll ever feel like that

One day, I hope I will be able to

One day, I hope I will be able to

smell your hair on the breeze

smell your hair on the breeze

with every passing second

with every passing second

Cheese Processing Room

Fall Chapter, Episode 10 Dream

Fall Chapter, Episode 10 Dream

What? You're going to try to get into a university, Aki?!

Yeah, that's where things stand.

Like the Ag and Vet place next door?

That'd be my top choice.

I liked what I saw when I went with the equestrian club to borrow horses.

But that one's tough to get into, right?

Right, so...

Hachiken!

I heard you're gonna tutor Mikage?

Y-Yeah.

What this?

Nice move, you perv!

Perv-Hachi!

Shut up, Perv-Chicken!

Ooezo Agricultural High School Dormitory for Future Agriculture Managers

Mikage.

Yeah?

Can you show me your recent exams to start?

Huh?

I want to know which subjects you're not so good at.

Promise you won't laugh?

Promise.

D-Definitely better than Tokiwa!

Sorry, sorry, sorry!

I still think you should take the B-track for Japanese History.

You can take entrance exams to more universities that way.

Japanese History B?

I'm not good at memorizing names of historical figures.

My eyes just sort of slide over them.

But your scores aren't bad for livestock science and crop science.

Crop Science

Livestock Science

Japanese History

You did fine writing down complicated cultivar names.

But way too many historical figures have similar names!

The Taira clan always has "mori" in their names!

The Tokugawa clan always has "ie"!

What's so different about livestock?

There's Berkshire, Hampshire, and Yorkshire!

She probably just isn't interested in history.

I don't want to force it on her and make her hate studying.

You should just connect it to your favorite topic.

Mikage, do you know about the Soma wild horse chase festival?

Yeah, I do! It's in Fukushima!

People dress up as warriors and ride horses, right?

That was started by Taira no Masakado, ancestor of the Soma clan.

The tradition is more than a thousand years old.

Wow! That long?

Taira no Masakado...

She took the bait!

Masakado's uncle's line eventually produced Taira no Kiyomori.

Kiyomori died in 1181, which is around the time the Taira clan went into a losing streak in war.

What was especially amazing

was when Minamoto no Yoshitsune, younger brother of Kiyomori's rival, Yoritomo,

rushed down a steep ravine on his horse and launched a surprise assault that crushed the Taira clan!

Wow!

The horse and Yoshitsune have amazing skills!

That was the Battle of Ichi-no-Tani in 1184.

This is going to work! Mikage's an easy sell!

You here, Hachiken?

What is it?

Yo. I want to talk about the pizza oven.

There's talk about making pizza baking an official school event.

You should join the planning committee.

Huh? The committee?

You'll join, right? You're a yes-man!

Um...

I'm sorry, but I can't!

What?!

We were counting on you never saying no!

Sorry! I just can't this time!

I made a promise to help a friend study.

It's really important for my friend's future, so I don't want to cut corners.

Well, I guess I'll let it slide.

Value promises with friends.

Right!

Sorry I bugged you when you're busy...

The friend you're helping is a girl?

Yeah.

It's just the two of you studying?

Yes.

Execution.

Pork Bowl!

Hachiken, come over here!

Hachiken!

Sorry.

For what?

I'm getting help from you in a lot of different ways.

I feel bad for taking up your time.

Don't worry!

You know, I like studying.

It's about the only way I can help you.

But really, I'm causing you a lot of trouble.

Sorry.

You've been apologizing non-stop since the other day.

You really shouldn't worry.

I'm doing it because I want to.

Right, sorry.

Guestbook

Please write anything about the event you'd like.

Equestrian Club

Thank you

Thanks to you, I made progress on my future,

and with my parents too.

Thank you.

Aki, let's go to club!

Oh, what's this?

English vocab flip cards.

I figured I should try to learn even a little whenever I have time.

This brings back memories! I did this in junior high!

So you really want to take university entrance exams.

Yeah.

I can't depend on Hachiken for everything.

If there's anything I can do myself, I should try.

That's love for you.

Wh-Wh-Wh-What, Sakae?

Th-Th-That's not how it is!

What?

You guys aren't going out?

After coming this far, you're still on the fence?

Are you an idiot?

Yeah, I'm an idiot.

I'm dumb.

What?! You guys aren't dating?

Since you two were studying all friendly-like and all, I totally thought...

Ya...

Is that what you'd call "pseudo-satisfaction"?

Mikage's at the top of her game.

She looks like she's having a lot of fun.

She must be taking a break with these horses from studying.

Let's hope it helps her with both her studies and her horseback riding.

History through horses, huh?

That's an unusual teaching method.

But piecemeal learning? Is that going to work?

I just have to fill the gaps between the pieces so that she gets the entire history.

Horses are integral to the history of humanity!

At least up until the modern world...

So your enemy is the iron horse.

Break time!

It's tough to take the national entrance exam after going to an agricultural high school.

The general subjects are too lax here.

Yeah.

Oh, didn't your brother get into Tokyo University?

Why not ask him for studying tips?

I don't want to ask him for help.

Give that stubborn pride to the pigs.