Kazue tells Meiko that she can't enter the family register till a year passes, ans she has to be the maid till the year ends. She can't eat a hard-cooked breakfast if it doesn't taste well. More importantly, the rice bran is purposely messed up by Kazue. Yutaro decides to work for the first time at the Architecture Division of Osaka City Hall and teams up with veteran Omura. Meiko goes out to the market and is amazed at the richness of Osaka's food ingredients, but the Western dishes she made with the utmost care cannot be looked at by Kazue, and Meiko is battered.