Shinjuku, Tokyo - Summer, Watanabe Hisao leads a routine life, where every day is the same for him. He wakes up at 5 a.m. and goes for a jog, then prepares breakfast for himself. Then, he takes a shower to refresh and recharge himself to ready for his day. Then, he heads to work as a lawyer at 7 a.m. and reaches his workplace at 8 a.m. He carries out his legal duties in a typical manner, without any variation. He went out to lunch with his colleagues, continued working, and returned home at 8 p.m. There, he made dinner, took a shower, and slept like usual. Succinctly, can tell he has an ordinary life like other people in Japan. The same routine every day, going to work back and forth, struggling to continue the work without feeling exhausted, and sometimes taking some little time to spend with friends and family. His life before also has an ordinary life like other people. He has loving parents who love him and his siblings. His father is a high school teacher and he and his sibling attend school. His mother is a housewife, and even though he is only a housewife she manages to educate her kids to be a successful person in education and good morals. He has two siblings, one older brother and another one younger sister. Three of them are successful in their careers. His older brother now inherited his father's work as a high school teacher at one of the famous schools in Tokyo. His younger sister is a surgeon at one of the big hospitals in Tokyo. He also has had two best friends since elementary school. Since they met at the elementary school, they never got separated from each other. They go to high school and university together, even though they take different majors and classes at university. Unfortunately, something happened between his two best friends that made them strangers. Because of that incident, after graduation from the university, they never spoke or hung out together anymore and decided to continue their own life. Until today, Hisao never knew what happened between both of his best friends which made them separate and take their path and continue their lives without each other anymore.
One day, his ordinary life started to take a turn to become bad. After work that day, instead went home he decided to attend his high school reunion. He was so excited and nervous to meet all his high school friends again, but the sad thing was the only two people he wanted to meet couldn't come, his two best friends since childhood but he was not surprised. They both fought with each other while at university since that time they have never been hanging out together and until today he never knew the reasons why his two best friends fought. He tried to ask but they never told him why. However, the reunion was going well, with everyone sharing and exchanging their life stories. Everything looked normal that night. Some of them started to have families, while others had successful careers. Even though some of them have trouble as friends they try to support each other without judging them. They were all happy and enjoying themselves, drinking and having a good time together. The reunion ended close to midnight and Hisao returned home at 2 a.m. He was too tired and drunk to go to his bedroom, so he slept on the couch instead.
The next morning, Hisao woke up with a hangover. He felt very dizzy. He checked his phone and saw the time was already 7 a.m.
"AAAGGGGRRRHHHH!! I'M LATE" He is shocked when he realizes he is already late for work. He got up from the couch and straightway went to the bathroom quickly. He washed his face and brushed his teeth in a hurry. He didn't take a shower or even change his clothes, without thinking much he grabbed his bag and rushed out to chase the bus. However, when he arrived at the bus stop it already left.
"Wait! Wait! Wait! Oh, please wait for me." He shouted out loud and chased the bus as fast as he could but the bus had already left him behind. He is in a hurry to get to the train station to arrive at the workplace on time. So, he had no choice except to rush to the train station. If he waited for another bus for him, it would take another 30 minutes and he was already late for work. So, he tried to run as fast as he could to the train station but suddenly encountered a group of dogs blocking his way. They suddenly ran after him and because of that, he had to take a longer route to avoid them. He ran as fast as he could but the dog group didn't want to leave him alone. They kept chasing him until one of the dogs got closer to him and bit his leg. He shouted because of the pain but that made the group of dogs become more triggered and bit him more at a lot of parts of his body and he still struggled to run from them. He screams out loud as he can, begging for help from the others to help him out but no one shows up. Finally, after 15 minutes the group of dogs did not chase him anymore and he reached the train station at 7.30 a.m. He was exhausted. He had only 30 more minutes left to get to his workplace on time, but the train he needed to take would arrive at 7.45 a.m.
"Oh, come on! I'm going to be late!" He sighed loudly when he saw the train schedule. People around him turned to look and wondered what had happened and why he suddenly shouted.
"What are you looking at, ha? You never saw someone late to go to work, ha?" He was pissed when he realized people were looking at him. He sat on the floor to rest after he ran like the world would end, took a deep breath, and tried to wait patiently. He looks so messy. The clothes he was wearing were tattered and torn because the group of dogs had chased and bit him away. The train arrived on time but the train was overcrowded. Without thinking twice, he chooses to get into the crowd. He was squeezed between the crowd until he suffocated.
Chiyoda, Tokyo - Hisao's workplace.
"He is late. He has never been late. What's the matter with him? Look at him, what happened to him? What happened to his clothes? Urrgghh, did you smell it? He's stinks! Is he not taking a shower? Oh my, what is the smell??"He arrived at Chiyoda train station at 8 a.m. and at that time he knew he was late. He ran to his workplace without taking a breath. However, when he arrived all his colleagues stared and whispered to each other. He feels so embarrassed and awkward because he can hear every single one of them whisper very clearly.
"WATANABE HISAO!! YOU ARE LATE!! GET INTO MY ROOM, RIGHT NOW!!" Suddenly, his boss out of the room called him out loud and asked him to come to his room right away after he saw he was late.
"Oh, gosh! I'll be dead." He felt scared and slaked when he saw his boss mad like a lunatic. He tried to take a deep breath and calm himself before getting into his boss's room.
"Oh, gosh! What is the smell, Watanabe? Are you not taking a shower today?" When he got into his boss's room, his boss straightly asked him why he smelled so awful.
"I'm sorry Mr. Hiroshi. I promise it won't happen again." He asked for forgiveness from his boss. However, Mr. Hiroshi still scolded him and gave a lecture to him for almost an hour. After the lecture, he continued his work and met his clients but things suddenly became worse when the clients started to complain about his attitude and body odor and what he was wearing at that time. He became anxious and mad and finally got into a fight with the clients. Due to that situation, Mr. Hiroshi was so furious and he had no choice but to give him a warning to Hisao and ask him to leave early. That day, he became so anxious and depressed, a feeling he never felt before. He kept asking himself why.
"Why?"
"Why?"
"Why?"
As he walked home, he kept saying the same word repeatedly.
On his way home, Hisao stops at the convenience store to buy a beer to release his stress on that day because he feels so depressed and upset. On that day, he got very drunk, and he started mumbling to himself, appearing to be quite angry and cursing everything in front of him. However, after all the mumbling and cursing, he finally fell asleep on his bed when he got home.
The following day, things took a turn for the worse. Hisao woke up very late at 9 a.m. but he didn't panic or rush like before, he even not bother to shower or change his clothes. He's only grabbed his bag and headed out for work. Despite feeling a lack of energy and having a headache from all the beers he drank last night, he still thinks he needs to go to work. His body odor had worsened for two days since he had last showered or changed clothes. He was still wearing the same clothes he had from yesterday's incident with the group of dogs. The beers he had drank last night had made his breath worse, and people began to stare at him due to his unpleasant smell and his tattered and torn clothes. However, he ignored their reactions and didn't care what they thought or said. All he wanted was to go to work. He arrived at his workplace at 10 a.m. and noticed people were staring and talking about him. However, he didn't bother anymore and just ignored all the people around him and he only proceeded to sit on his chair and start his computer. He sighed heavily with an expressionless on his face.
"Hisaaoo! Get into my room right now!" Mr. Hiroshi tries to hold his anger to Hisao and he looks like a madman who feels so pissed off. Hisao looked at him with an expressionless face while Mr. Hiroshi glared at him with so much anger on his face. He got up from his seat and went to Mr. Hiroshi's room with so helpless.
"What the heck, Hisao? What happened to you? You started coming late to work and picking a fight with the client. Your smell is so awful. Did you not smell yourself, Hisao? Do you not take a shower or brush your teeth? Look at your clothes! It's so tattered and torn. Have you not changed your clothes from yesterday? Where have you been yesterday? I told you to go home and take some rest. What are you doing? What happened to you? You look like some tornado has hit you. You look more messed up than yesterday. What are you thinking? Are you out of your mind?? Hhhmmm… Look, I can't handle this anymore, Hisao. You used to be one of my best employees and I like you a lot, but now you seem hopeless and useless. I don't know what to do with you and I don't care what's going on in your personal life because I don't want to get into it and get into some trouble because of it. I hate to get involved in other people's lives because my life is already upside down. However, I still care about you, Hisao. Please don't mix up your personal life and work together. Please get rid of it. How about you take time off to release stress and deal with your problems? Come back when you feel better and can be my competent employee again. Can you do that for me, Hisao? I can't help you if you can't help yourself. My job right here is to be your best employer and pay your monthly salary and your job in this company become a competent employee and make some pretty good money for me. Can you do that, Hisao?" Mr. Hirsohi began nagging at Hisao as soon as he entered the room while his nose and mouth were covered with his coat to avoid Hisao's odor. Mr. Hiroshi sighed heavily criticized him and suggested he take the day off until he can work again. He gives him advice to let him know his position in this company.
Hisao remained silent when he listened to Mr. Hiroshi babbling at him. Without any words, he turned away from Mr. Hiroshi and left the room without any noise. He picked up his bag from the desk and left as if nothing had happened. Despite feeling helpless, he stopped at a bar and continued drinking. He keeps drinking more and more until he feels so drunk. He had been drinking until midnight. He started to feel unconscious, he began not to realize what he was doing. He started making a noise and bothered others at the bar. He also tried to commit a sexual assault on the women at the bar and got into a fight with people. People started to feel annoyed and pissed with him and beat him mercilessly. After a severe beating, one of them stopped the fight and dragged him out of the bar before anything else happened in that place. His head bled profusely from heavy blows during the fight, his body was covered with bruises and cuts. Despite being in a helpless state after being beaten too badly, he still tried to force himself to get up and walk to leave the bar. He walks weak and tired but feels mad and babbling while he walks from the bar.
"What is he babbling about?" People around started staring and whispering to each other about his behavior. They have been wondering what this crazy madman is bustling about. He seems so angry with something but no one knows what it is about. He even scolded cats and dogs that passed through him and cursed things he bumped into. Not only that, people who suddenly cross by close to him will be scolded and chased by him out of sudden. He becomes out of the control. That night people were disturbed by a lunatic man. People start calling the police to take this lunatic man.
"What are you guys looking at?" He shouted when people kept staring at him and overheard people talking about him. Suddenly, he felt so helpless and tired, so he stopped in front of the convenience store to rest but finally ended up falling asleep there.