Yoshiko Mita

Hayame goes to find Issei, who has not come home, and receives a photo on her phone showing Issei being held captive. The sender was Kikuno. If Hayame wants to save Issei, she must start a relationship with Seigo. Seigo hears about this from Hayame, and notices a hint from Kikuno’s words and comes up with a way to find where Issei is held captive. To pull this off, he will need Kurose and the other employees’ help. Meanwhile, Issei questions Kikuno, asking her why she is so fixated on Hayame. Before long, Seigo determines where Issei is. Hayame rushes out of the inn and heads to where Issei is.

After the kiss, Hayame could not get a wink of sleep. Meanwhile, Etsuko and Yoshitora leaves the house on an urgent trip, leaving only Hayame and Issei at home for a while. Issei wants Hayama to tell him her feelings, but she is unable to respond. Then, Kikuno suddenly appears, and starts explaining why she did such a horrible thing to Hayame at the fireworks and what her real motive is. Hayame then goes to work and asks Seigo about Kikuno’s past. What's more, Seigo’s love for Hayame remains unchanged after ten years, and he confesses to her. Hayame is conflicted between Issei, Seigo, and Kikuno’s feelings, and is at a loss. Meanwhile, Issei goes to meet someone in order to protect Hayame.

The fireworks festival is here. Issei finds himself captivated by Hayame in her yukata outfit and wants to get closer to her, but he does not have the courage to act on these feelings. Hayame, completely oblivious to Issei’s feelings, is full of excitement seeing the festival booths for the first time since she was a child. A shooting game begins with one hundred thousand yen off her debt if she wins. Meanwhile, Seigo is having a drinking party with the committee members in the office. Kikuno drops by, and Seigo is worried that she may be plotting something. Hayame and Issei finishes their shooting game and Hayame ends up injuring her leg, so the two decide to rest. Issei compliments Hayame on her yukata, and Hayame’s heart suddenly starts pounding, quickly bringing them close together.

Hayame starts working at the inn, but her co-workers are cold towards her. They are jealous, thinking that Hayame may be in the running to be Seigo’s wife. Meanwhile, Issei hears from Yoshitora that Seigo is worried for Hayame, and he is unhappy that the girl he brought may be taken away by his older brother. Hayame is close to quitting her job at the inn, but is not sure why she hates the inn so much. Then, one day, Etsuko asks Issei to take out a hanging scroll from the storage room in the old building, which is supposedly haunted. Issei not only hates the inn, but is also a scaredy-cat. Thus, he comes up with a new game to make Hayame do it: Retrieve the hanging scroll from the haunted storage room. But Hayame, who decides to take part in the game, is met with unexpected misfortune.

Hayame Katsuragi was living a peaceful life as a housewife, until her husband Masahiro Imai suddenly asks for a divorce. Hayame runs away from home in shock but has all of her money stolen by a pickpocket, turning her into a penniless, unemployed, and homeless divorcee. A few days after Hayame began sleeping in the park, Issei Kataoka, a rich and handsome high schooler, appears before her. Issei is the son of a luxurious long-established Japanese inn. He invites Hayame to his estate as a way for him to kill some time. In exchange for letting her stay at his estate, Issei proposes that they play games of real life. If Hayame can clear the mission on the die, she will win large sums of money. The game is in poor taste, but she has no choice due to her large amount of debt.

During summer vacation, Issei is working part-time at the inn, which the female inn employees are thrilled about. Etsuko is also impressed by Issei’s enthusiasm, but Seigo seems displeased for some reason. Meanwhile, Hayame is feeling down. The other girls, especially Nozomi Chiba, are suspicious about her relationship with Issei. On top of that, Seigo receives a negative feedback about Hayame from the employee opinion box and asks her about transferring to a different inn. Although she is unwilling to quit, she feels it might be better for those around her. Issei hears about it and vows to find who wrote the feedback and make them retract their statement. Meanwhile, Seigo thinks the real reason why Hayame does not want to change inns has to do with Issei.