This chapter opens at a gold-cliff hotel in Shanghai, where a young man named haru kaku is waiting for his friend urusai to arrive. haru is a student at a nearby university, and he has come to meet his friend. The two of them have just met, and haru wants to invite them to his hotel room to have a chat. He tells them that he is the butler of a large consortium, and that the young leader of the consortium has expressed an interest in visiting China. The young man's entourage of thirty bodyguards accompanied the young man on his tour, but the leader suddenly passed away the day after they left, and the bodyguards have been constantly hunted down and killed by hitmen ever since. He begs haru to protect his young master, but haru says that he only needs to protect him for seven days.