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This time, Shomuni faces off against the formidable president's wife, Sayuri (Nogawa Yoko), who lives by formality, customs, and manners. And Azusa's "100-year love" gets involved in the mix.

As the year 2000 approaches, Manpan has contracted a team of computer experts to counter the anticipated threat of malfunctions to the system when the Y2K bug hits. Meanwhile, Terasaki and Nonomura are about to deliver the dreaded Black Card (a lay-off notice) to a member of the staff, but to whom? When Chief Inoue mysteriously vanishes, Shomuni are left without the key to the safe, which contains their tickets for a relaxing New Year trip to the Onsen (Hot Springs). An infestation of rats is in the building and Shomuni must lay traps, but what kind of rat will they catch?

As the New Year dawns, a sequence of dreams reveals a significant set of numbers to the girls of GA2. Manpan hopes that a new medical scheme will bring global expansion, but could there be a debt to pay? As the fortune of the company increases, so too does the threat from malignant external forces. Crime Prevention Training is clearly mandatory. Ukyo seems strangely detached during Manpan's finest hour, but why? Time is precious to many people, in many different ways.