This would also have been the episode that would have matched the dream of when  Moriko Morioka was in the hospital.  The actual manga scene was not such a collection of happy memories.

What we begin to see is a person who worked very hard at their career.  They went above and beyond.  She was the kind of supervisor people hope to have on a job, as their mentor.

It's a happy memory at first of someone making a coworker's onboarding the experience she herself wished she would have had.

There is a few moments of happiness followed by the toxic cancer that actually broke Moriko Morioka.  Her Division head Ikeda Ririka is the real villain of the work.

Be aware, that when i say cancer, I mean it.   It's the kind of boss that can destroy their own company from the inside.  This is even the words the author herself uses on this character, which is a deeper metaphor than most might think for the author.

In the anime, there is a scene coming up soon in the anime where Moriko Morioka is working at 11 PM.   She's promising to get something reviewed within the next 30 minutes at that time.   

She will be expected to be back at work early the next day and to look like she wasn't tired from working the hours she is.  Weekends are an option that will be taken away soon and there is no overtime.   There is no time left to have a life let alone try to make time to date someone.

She has a new hire she values and has put the work in to mold into a valued member of the team.  Thus, you have someone trying to protect a valued employee from someone who is largely responsible for the company's horrible turn over rate.

There are people in the working world, who do everything they can to keep their company afloat.  Though it isn't the same as dodging bullets, it is something noble in its own way.   They are people who risk their health and their careers, all to try and keep a workplace in business.

It is its own quiet form of heroism.  It is one that entire societies depend on.  After all, without these people, there would be far fewer places to work. 

On the grand scale, without people working, society's taxes and thus safety nets would collapse.   From the shirking economy to rising crime, everyone would be touched by this change, from the top to the bottom of any nation.   Like a food chain, our national economic ties bind us all.

Moriko Morioka was one such person.  She put in effort and shielded her subordinates, until her boss Ikeda finally broke her.

Appearances are everything to Ikeda, as she hides her activities from her superiors through image.  Cn you guess who gave Moriko Morioka the thrown away flowers in episode 1?

There is another side to the manga where the two mains lives have crossed.  It is business.

Because when a business loses the people that keep everything running, it loses either its ability to run or not be bought out.  Thus, its fate is sealed.

For his company, Yuta Sakurai is taking lead on a recent merger.  He's become aware of an employee that did an amazing amount of work at a junior level.

He's having to deal with a villain we already know.  

Who attempting to still keep up appearances...

Thus, we start to go into the main romantic plot.   The leads have met twice in real life and outside of it.

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The merger and the research behind it are still going on.

There is a lot of happy photos of the troubled division.