Tsukasa and Katsuragi have found out that Hayashi has been in Japan the whole time. They set about trying to capture him, but Hayashi’s countermoves make a mockery of their efforts. Meanwhile, Hiroki has been left alone in the store by Tsukasa and is becoming emotionally unstable.

Tsukasa finds himself face to face with the fugitive Hayashi. While Tsukasa expresses a mixture of joy at their reunion and bitterness at having been abandoned in the first place, it appears that the two of them are now at cross purposes. Back at the hotel, Satoru goes to the bar and meets Jin, a woman connected to the Company. Satoru is wary, but Jin has an offer to make him.

Tsukasa and his co-conspirators have used Meiling’s butterfly to forcibly bring Hiroki before them. Hiroki is shocked to realize that Tsukasa has brainwashed Satoru into believing that Hiroki was the one who crushed Hayashi. Trapped by Satoru’s door, Hiroki resorts to desperate measures in an effort to escape.