College student Sasaki Tsunehiro is down in the dumps. After a life of repeated failures, he's been given two years to live. He slips and falls off a bridge as he's chased down by loan sharks.

When a huge bounty is put on catching a houndshark, all the anglers rush to be the first to catch it. To their surprise, they find Hiro fishing for the shark in an attempt to pay off some of his debts.

Takaaki and Hiro run into each other on a bridge, where they had both planned to fish for sea bass. Takaaki is still reluctant to hear what Hiro has to say.