While searching for Sirius on orders from the queen, Takara meets Tina Soejima, a pole dancer earning a living for her infant son while her deadbeat boyfriend spends her earnings on gambling, which reminds him of his past as a prostitute. When Tina's boyfriend attempts to force her into prostitution, Takara ascends to a world based on the Wind God and Thunder God, of which the Wind and Thunder Gods attack him with tobacco fumes and alcohol. Takara resists the attacks, and he is assaulted by a projection of his mother...