Boiled Eggs and Debt, or Until You Reach Out

Tamaki Katsuragi is thirty, and his life doesn't belong to him. For eight years he's run his late father's tiny Sumida diner alone, chained to a thirty-million-yen debt inherited from the man who vanished without a word—a debt the Hishinuma-kai never lets him forget. Every month the phone rings. Every month he bows his head and begs for more time. Every month he buries a little deeper the dream he's never told anyone: a hairdresser's license, a small salon of his own, a life that isn't just surv