Daisuke left Daigaku Nanko before graduation because of sickness and worked as a translator at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department (under Naimusho); Daisuke placed confidence in his bright youngest brother Soseki, and intended him to graduate from a university to succeed in life and to restore the Natsume family.
長兄は病気で大学南校を中退し、警視庁(内務省)で翻訳係をしていたが、出来の良かった末弟の金之助を見込み、大学を出て立身出世をさせることで夏目家再興の願いを果たそうとしていた。