Back home (that would be the Teiai headquarters), Tonegawa sets off to let the chairman know about his coveted entertainment project, namely the proposal for the Restricted Rock-Paper-Scissors. At first it seems as if the process would be smooth. One does not put rush. One should just take one's time and tell Hyodo about it when the timing is right. But one doesn't rush. However, the opportunity to make himself likeable in the tired old eyes of his overlord starts going down the tubes when he was tipped off that he was going on a 10-day holiday trip to Hawaii. Tonegawa uneasily starts to pace back and forth, trying to formulate some way to apporach him and get the necessary approval. He can't just approach Hyodo as this would upset him and likely result in a hard refusal of his plan. Providence showers on Yamazaki though, and he's able to recount the one brief moment when the chairman is most open for approaches, which is after his "king's bath". But it's just about after he steps out of the bath until he reaches the adjoining room. Afterwards his mood reverts to its sour default mode that he is known for. Tonegawa weighs his options, ponders hard over the likely outcomes, waits (one does not put pressure. One waits) and tenses up for the moment of truth. He had been told to check out the angle of the chairman's eyebrows, which should not be higher than 40°. Apparenly, a 40° angle or lower means that he's in a good mood and most likely to take a fancing for the project proposal. After what seemed like an eternity, he emerges from the cleansing chamber. Only to be wearing a mask, making it impossible for Tonegawa to have a clear reading of his eyebrow configuration. None of this matters in the long run though. He got the green light for the project by going with him on this trip and pried the approving words from the ruling geeser after the latter was spotted having fun with some young minxes at a pool party.

WIth the inception stage officially over, it's time to start the elaboration phase. First in the powerful man's agenda is finding a proper venue to hold the event. Many suggestions are thrown around, only to be quickly discarded as inane or too predictable (aka boring). One suggestion caught everyone's eye though. Saemon was the only employee that didn't shave his head to atone for his tardiness when everyone had arranged an informal meeting after work. He quickly established himself a reputation for efficiency and useful ideas by suggesting the current project in detriment of Tonegawa's original design. Now he's back at it again. This time, he throws up a presentation about the whole event being held on The Espoir, a liner owned by a company that happens to be a subsidiary of Teiai, thus ensuring the level of secrecy that theproject requires. As a bonus, it offers plenty of room to manoeuvre and contrive all sorts of schemes to come out the winner. This is jus what Hyodo wants in a game. Witness what people might do to emergy victorious in a game that might mean either their salvation or their descent into further debt. Everyone is impressed, except Ebitami, whose idea was presented in the form of bulky instruction manuals to explain the reasons for his choice of venue. It soon becomes obiovus that he completely misses the point by trying too hard on an idea that wasn't good at all to begin with. Tonegawa is still willing to help the enthusiastic learner though, and tells him to shock him with his next challenge: think up a clever design for the rock-paper-scissors card. The blowback is bad. Ebitami has the gall to intercept Hyodo at an escalator and tell him to dip his hands in a bucket of paint and imprint them on a huge sheet of construction paper to use them as the signature marks for the cards. The chairman is a bit thrown off balance by this sudden display of brash insolence, and quite angry as expected. He fires Ebitami on the spot as Tonegawa contemplates makes a run for it lest the chairman associates him with Ebitami's uncalled-for act. At least he kept true to his word. He did manage to shock Tonegawa after all.