In order to break out of the severe recession, a special administrative ward,“Shinkoumi”, was developed as Japan’s major Casino Resort.
This place, which formerly belonged to The Tokyo Bay No. 13 - a subregion in the city’s center - has actually always had a constant influx of profits despite being in the midst of a recession, and the management group of the casino, Takasato, resides here as if ruling the country. As the uncertainties of the recession continue, the people gather at Shinkoumi without a care of what will come tomorrow but only dreaming of getting rich quick or beating the blues.
The peace and order of the city is deeply disturbed with mobs of people, corruption hangs in the air everywhere like a shadow, and crime is great and frequent.
The main character, Towa, lives in this city, mooching off his old friend Taku, a doctor working in a hospital, and living a degraded life in the moment without thinking of the days to come.
Towa has an interest: “Drawing what people desire”.
He oil paints with the intention of producing buried desires that are bursting to come out from deep within people’s hearts. He takes in those desires and lays it down on paper with a paintbrush.
His pen name is “euphoria”.
It doesn’t matter even if his opponent and himself undertake a fatal wound as a result of those desires being fulfilled.
Because to his opponent that is “happiness”…
