Chika reveals to Tetsuo that before they started dating, she used to pass out. It stopped after they started to date but started again after he died.
Tetsuo is at a brand new office belonging to a re-lifer friend and they are discussing an idea for a new business when he gets a call from Chika. "Thank God you're alive". Tetsuo learns that a Polish gentleman he met at the re-lifer meeting has gone missing without a trace. He meets up with Chika and tells her he thinks his time with her will be short.
Tetsuo tries to understand why Chika is passing out again. The answer may lie in her life with her parents and the way she was treated by them. It appears the issue lies with her mother. Tetsuo convinces Chika that it's about time they went to visit her parents since they haven't seen them in a very long time. Knowing that he may disappear any day, he tells her there's something he has to do. She reluctantly agrees to go.
When they get to her parent's home, everything seems normal until her mother starts digging into her. She sits there, takes the verbal abuse in front of Tetsuo and Riku and says nothing. Tetsuo's eyes start to water as he calmly defends Chicka. Her mother doesn't let up and Tetsuo calmly continues to defend Chicka as her father begins to tear. They leave the parent's home and Chika manages to smile a little bit as she turns to look up at her parents before turning around and heading home.
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