Masaki Horiguchi

Master Shinkome asks Shinden to find a former disciple, Shintoto, from his rakugoka (comic storytelling) family. Shinden visits ex-disciples in his search for Shintoto.

An elementary school student Kazuya lives with his step parents. His biological mother is dead and his biological father is lost. To trace his biological father, Kazuya visits a strip club, his mother's former workplace. There, he finds out a 'HOPE' cigarette box and an old photograph of a man and his mother, which gives him a hope of finding him.