Episode 8. One Friday night. Shirō and Kenji meet Yoshi-kun whose real name is Yoshiyuki Nagahsima and Tetsu-san whose real name is Tetsurō Honda. Both of them are the friends of Kenji. Tetsu-san who runs a restaurant says that he decides to obtain organic ingredients for the cuisine served there. It's obvious that he and Yoshi-kun are a gay couple and Shirō feels restless while he is with them. Though he tells Kenji that it saves him the trouble of cooking dinner, he cannot bear speaking about being gay in an ordinary restaurant, not in the one in Shinjuku ni-chome. Kenji apologises him but he then feels irritated and tells him he doesn't need to do so.
Shirō (Hidetoshi Nishijima, second from the left) meets Tetsu-san (Daikichi Sugawara, second from the right) and Yoshi-kun (Bokuzō Shōna, far right)
On the weekend, Shirō shares peaches with Kayoko Tominaga. Kayoko says that she received many peaches as summer gift before but now she has to by them by herself. However a dozen of peaches are too many for her family so she decides to share them with Shirō. She tells him that he seems to be cool but is not so in reality. It's true that he will feel so sad if he lives apart from Kenji now and it's hard for him who is over forty to seek for another partner using online dating app.
Kenji who is at work talks with someone on the phone and sends e-mails to Shiro who is on the way home from Kayoko's flat. Shirō learns that Yoshi-kun and Tetsu-san will visit them. Kenji tries to buy organic ingredients Tetsu-san mentioned for the dinner but they are over the budget so he cooks dinner in his own way. Shiro minds that it's too simple to entertain them but they enjoy eating the dishes with red wine they bring for Shiro and Kenji. But Shirō is very nervous.
Tetsu-san and Yoshi-kun visit Shirō and Kenji (Seiyō Uchino, far right)
Tetsu-san tells them that he is a restaurant owner and made a fortune. He decides to draw up his will but he hopes to leave his fortune not for his parents but for Yoshi-kun. So he wants to adopt Yoshi-kun (*) and attempts to consult Shirō at his firm about it. But He is afraid of troubling Shirō who hasn't come out there. However Shirō accepts it.
After their leave, Shirō tells Kenji that he should have told him what their purpose was. Kenji apologises him but Shirō is not angry with him but himself who is intolerant of letting his coworkers know that he is a gay. After that Kenji goes out to discard non burnable rubbish. Shirō worries if he doesn't return to him.
Kenji eats peaches and feels happy
On the following morning, Shirō prepares Kenji's breakfast and is about to go out. Then Kenji appears and asks him to cook hamberg stake using his recipe for dinner. Shirō appreciates Kenji who healed the relationship between them at heart while going to office. Kenji finds some peaches and his breakfast in the fridge and feels that he is beloved so much while eating them.
(*) In Japan, the partnership of gay people that is regarded to be equivalent to the marriage is adopted by some local governments now.
The images are from the official website of TV Tokyo.