Batou heads to a bank in Fukuoka to deposit his earnings from his work with GHOST, but suddenly finds himself embroiled in a bank robbery concocted by a few senior citizens who lost their retirement funds in the Simultaneous Global Default. After listening to their stories, Batou decides to help them by depositing his funds at the bank, then using his account to short-sell a cryptocurrency using the branch manager's terminal before the SAT storm the building to rescue them. The seniors split their funds, the branch manager gets arrested for the cryptocurrency's crash, and Batou reunites with PSS9.