Synopsis
Yoshiharu Kawaura belongs to the first generation of humans ever born on the Moon, and he holds a wild ambition: to someday stand among the elite who occupy the center of Lunar City. A homeless teenage runaway with little more than a small stash of savings and a sharp tongue, he sleeps in internet cafés and trades stocks on the Lunar Stock Exchange. Through hard work and a natural gift for reading the market, his starting capital of one thousand mools multiplies to seventy-two thousand mools in just a few months—and his winning streak shows no signs of ending. Still, for all the Moon's status as a low-tax, lightly regulated economic paradise, street kids like Yoshiharu must always stay one step ahead. After a brush too close with the authorities, he takes cover in a church managed by Risa, who earns extra income working at a Chinese restaurant. As luck would have it, another resident of the church is Hagana—a sharp-eyed girl of few kind words with mathematical talent bordering on genius. Operating under the alias Haru, Yoshiharu instantly spots her potential as a quantitative analyst and forms a partnership with her to compete in a virtual stock trading contest that serves as a golden ticket into the financial community. As their success inside and outside the competition draws more investors to Haru and his ambitions, the real test becomes whether he can hold his nerve and stay ahead of a market that refuses to stay still.
