"Hotaru's Way" opens with a conversation between hotaru and buchou. hotaru wants to see him for the woman he is today. buchou tells him that his company is a "big name" in the business and that they have a chance to surprise the client. He tells hotaru that he is working on a new apartment for the elderly and the disabled. He says he is going to go through the design again and come up with a way to make the apartment more independent. He asks where he can get his e-mail address from. he says he should have known better from his business card. buchu tells him he is killing it with the whole designer/assistant director thing. he calls the apartment a "donut apartment complex" and says they want the residents to spend their days in "a warm loving atmosphere" . he adds that they know the residents come from "all walks of life" and they want them to feel at home in the apartment. he asks if they have thought about systems that might help in that goal. he tells him they have decided to go back and forth until "the last possible minute" , but he says that the plan was a "hit" and that he wants to eat a meal tonight.