Haruo Sugimura is fresh from serving a two-year stint in prison for assaulting someone when he is recruited by a loan shark named Sakai to help collect money for a company called Minami Hachi Ban Kogyo, baesd in Osaka. Their rates are ruthless: 10% interest is added every 10 days. Their customers are desperate: a hostess who owes money to other loan sharks, a man made suicidal because his family don’t love him anymore. Haruo learns about the art of the loan shark as well as the dark side of peoples personalities.
Due to the government’s new policy, the Japanese Economy is growing steadily. Although companies are prospering, the citizens are experiencing poverty. Nichiwa Motors initiates their development in warfare devices. Wataru, the president of Nichiwa Motors, creates cyborgs and releases them to the city. Seika Mamiya gets mortally wounded in an explosion during the attack, but luckily she is revived as a cyborg.
Ms. Tachibana goes to Ms. Mochizuki's house to perform a pokupuku (exorcism).
