It's been a while since we've seen Hiroyuki, and now he's got a job offer from a super-ritzy hotel in New York City. He's bummed about it, but he doesn't know what else to do. Hiroyuki tells us that the hotel is looking for a "high-end" restaurant, which means that they're going to have to hire a bunch of people to run the place. That's going to take a year, he says, so he'll be out of work for at least that long. We learn that Hiroyuki's sister, Tachibana, has been telling him all about how he and his friend, Urushibara, tried to save someone from a knife attack at a nearby establishment. Thackeray's a big fan of this sort of thing, so it's kind of a bummer that the two of them didn't make it out of there alive. But he also tells Hiroyuki to chill out for a while, because his sister's not going to let him worry about anything while he gets out of here.