While Masa is recuperating from his illness at Souji's house, Ume tells how Souji helped him escape from his life in a criminal gang in Chuugoku. As Ume leaves, he passes a former gang member Senkichi who asks Souji for money. He needs it to pay off Denshichi, a former gang leader who is pressuring Senkichi to join his new gang. Souji turns Senkichi away but Ume gives him some money.