Late July in Tokyo.
After being overwhelmed by the sheer scope of the rental management industry at an exhibition in Odaiba, Kohei meets up with Sumika in Jiyugaoka after she finishes work.
He is still just beginning to learn the ropes of the job.
Arrayed before him are the realities of the business: management systems, rent guarantees, tenant monitoring services, repairs, and tenant relations.
“Perhaps I didn’t understand anything at all…” Harboring this thought, Kohei is taken by Sumika to an old eel restaurant tucked away in a back alley.
Afterward, the two head to Bar Setouchi Breeze.
With a “Summer Haze Peach Frozen” cocktail—lavishly made with seasonal summer peaches—before them, they gradually open up to one another about work, life, and the complexities of a relationship that is perhaps too close—that of childhood friends.