Meiko is pleased that her family in Tokyo will come to New Year. Yutaro is instructed by Takemoto to build an elementary school for concrete construction. Meiko wants to invite Shozo during the New Year, but Yutaro does not allow it. At that time, a man who once worked with Shozo visited. Meiko guides him to a tenement house. Yutaro is worried about the construction of an elementary school from the memory of the earthquake, but Omura encourages him and decides to work.