"Medicine alone can't save a person."

Tetsuro Omachi was once a promising physician at a university hospital, renowned for successfully performing high-risk surgeries. Yet after losing his mother, he stepped away from his brilliant career path to work as an internist at a local community clinic—all for the sake of his newly orphaned nephew.

One day, Associate Professor Hanagaki, who harbors deep respect for Tetsuro's extraordinary talent, brings him a complex case. The patient is an eighty-two-year-old man.

He is none other than the father of Professor Torahiko Hiraizumi—the university hospital's absolute authority figure, and a man Tetsuro once deeply enraged...