Months after the Starside Hotel event, Kaiji meets Endō again, and asks him for an opportunity to gamble. Endō kidnaps Kaiji and forces him into manual labor, constructing an underground nuclear fallout shelter for the Teiai Group for 15 years to pay his debt of ¥9,500,000 (around US$92,600). He is paid in perica, only making ¥350 (US$3.41) a day. He makes a plan to save up 500,000 perica in half a year, to buy a one-day outside pass to gamble for his debt...