Tadashi helps him up and Ainosuke thanks him for teaching him how to skate. Tadashi runs up to him and asks if he is alright, Ainosuke lays on his back and with a wide smile on his face says that skating is really fun. Ainosuke then climbs on top of something, jumps off it, and lands in the pool. He says that he can’t cause trouble to the man he serves.Įpisode 11 - During a flashback, Tadashi and Ainosuke are skating in the empty swimming pool. Tadashi takes Reki to a love hotel when he hits him with his car and tries to get Reki to agree to a private settlement because he doesn’t want the incident in the paper. He claims that he was the one who had lead Ainosuke down the wrong path, which is why he was going to win and take skateboarding away from him. He says that if it were any other hobby, Ainosuke could have befriended someone of proper social standing instead of him, and then his father wouldn't have had to make him quit. He talks about how skating was Ainosuke’s only breather, his lifeline, yet Tadashi still wished that he had never taught him how to skate. Tadashi was the son of a servant, so he thought that it was taboo for him to get close to Ainosuke. Tadashi walked up to him, skateboard in hand, and had asked if he would like to skate with him. It suggests that the two spent quite a lot of time together as children.Įpisode 10 - Tadashi thinks back to the time when he found Ainosuke out by the pool one night, crying. Tadashi caresses the logo drawn at the bottom of the empty swimming pool: two linked hearts.Įpisode 9 - While watching the beef between Ainosuke and Kaoru, Tadashi comments that Ainosuke had changed and that it’s his fault.Ī younger Ainosuke, despite his higher social standing, helps Tadashi with his chores and tasks. He then stands back up and begins to skate, a third-quarter moon is seen in the background. Tadashi caresses the logo drawn at the bottom of the empty swimming pool: two linked hearts. Ainosuke retaliates by throwing him to the ground and pulling his hair before looking down at him and saying, “Go ahead and try! A dog cannot disobey his master. Unfazed, Tadashi goes on to say that he is going to win the tournament. He also reminds Ainosuke that he was the one who had taught him how to skate, causing Ainosuke to lash out and grab him by the collar of his shirt. Tadashi reveals that he entered the tournament so that he can go up against him and says that if he wins, he will have him renounce skateboarding. In episode 8, Ainosuke confronts Tadashi.Īinosuke confronts Tadashi after the qualifiers.
The flashback ends and Ainosuke comments that Tadashi has always been like that.Įpisode 8 - Ainosuke is standing under a first-quarter moon while questioning if there is an Eve out there somewhere just for him during a flashback. When Aiichiro asked Tadashi if he has any complaints, he once again says that he has no opinions.
I have no opinions.” It then cuts to a flashback and in it, Ainosuke’s father burns his skateboard and tells him that he needs to move on from playing around like that. He asks Tadashi if he is dissatisfied and Tadashi says, “No. Ainosuke then proceeds to call him a “damn dog”.Īinosuke tells Tadashi that he will take the blame if they accuse him of perjury. Just like what your master ordered.”Įpisode 7 - Tadashi at first questions Ainosuke’s decision to go to Crazy Rock, but then says that he’ll prepare right away when the other glares at him. You’re just a dog.”Įpisode 5 - Ainosuke tells Tadashi, “Good boy. Ainosuke brushes him off by saying, “You’re being intrusive. Tadashi suggests that Ainosuke postpone his beef against Reki since he had to catch a flight to Haneda the next day. Episode 4 - The camera pans over to Tadashi when Ainosuke’s aunts tell him that he should find a wife soon and that it should be a woman worthy of the Shindo family.