Cooking Steak

He cooks a $6 steak in an Airbnb, contrasting it with ¥4,000-per-person yakiniku and ¥10 instant coffee. Still married, he reunites with his wife, visits Osaka Castle, and considers moving back because the month-long Airbnb feels wasteful. Lonely and low-energy, he fears neighbors hearing and infection from an elbow wound, while finishing a video and drawing.

His return toward his wife contrasts sharply with recent freedom-seeking, showing loneliness quickly overriding independence.