Kodai Shioya

While enjoying teatime at the Kawatani residence, Himuro (Yasukaze Motomiya), Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi), Nakajima (Yoshimi Tachi), Kawakami (Tatsuya Nakazawa), and Kawatani (Hitoshi Ozawa) exchange updates on their recent activities. However, Kawatani seems unusually restless—he had made secret plans with Nakajima to visit a soapland. Himuro and the others are exasperated, but just as Kawatani and Nakajima are about to sneak off, they’re stopped by Kawatani’s wife, Minami (Rin Asuka), who insists they join her for a takoyaki party. Desperate to escape, Kawatani and the others begin plotting their getaway…

Maki, the female bar manager, has a dark side as a "yakuza woman" who supports Tetsuya of the Uradora clan of the Kanto region. Maki's true identity is accidentally revealed to Natsumi, who works at the bar, and Natsumi's boyfriend Junichi, who has a crush on Tetsuya. Natsumi reports the incident, and the Uratora-gumi is temporarily on the verge of dissolution...

Kyowakai headquarters chief Yuto Tamura (Yamaguchi Yoshiyuki) seeks to settle accounts for his underling Tora, injured by the Toryukai. But the Toryukai enlists Diet member Kadowaka (Kato Kei) as mediator—only for his greed to be instantly exposed by underboss Renji Himuro (Motomiya Yasukaze), who seizes on Kadowaka’s weakness. Suddenly, masked assailants strike both Himuro and Tamura. Tamura corners one of them, but a terrified young girl (Yakuwana Tsumi) distracts him, letting the attackers slip away. Meanwhile, rogue member Shigeru Fujita (Yokoyama Ryo)—who defied both Tora and Toryukai boss Higashino—arrives in Kobe, intent on revenge against Tamura. To rein him in, the Sakota-gumi dispatches underboss aide Hayashi (Namioka Kazuki). As Tamura hunts the mysterious assailants alone, the image of the girl lingers, pulling him back to where it all began…

Himuro, who promoted Kawakami, the fourth Yamazaki-gumi advisor, to direct advisor to the Kyowa-kai, solidifies his intention to exchange sake as the Fujishiro-gumi's spiritual representative. Meanwhile, Himuro heads to Toryukai in Ibaraki to find out that the land being redeveloped by Hirokawa Kanko, which is affiliated with Itonaka Construction, is being handed over to a company affiliated with Marukami-kai.

Hearts is a host club in Shinjuku's Kabukicho district. Junya, the number one host, and Kazuma, the number two, are brothers who are engaged in a fierce daily battle to attract regular customers. Kazuma, who simmers behind Junya's back, uses forceful tactics to take hostess Miriya and delivery health girl Natsumi for himself.

Sequel to Rengou no onna.