Elena is immediately remorseful and apologises to Shuichi's head. Claire tries to kill her, but Elena's monster body is unharmed by gunfire. Elena reveals she was sick of their parents being terrible people so she killed them for Claire's sake. She gives Claire a second coin before leaving. Claire decides to kill herself, only to realise Shuichi is still alive. She rushes to the vending machine and meets the young man, who reattaches Shuichi's head in exchange for a coin. The man reveals he is a shape shifting alien and explains hundreds of his fellow aliens were returning to their home planet as streams of living data inside the coins, but they were scattered when their ship crashed, and as he is unable to repair the ship alone he is recruiting human Gatherers to find the coins. In exchange for this he offers the power to transform into any physical form, but should anyone collect 100 coins he will offer them any power they wish, maybe even enough to destroy a planet. Shuichi asks Claire not to use her remaining coin or it will ruin her life. Claire agrees, but only because her life has already improved since meeting Shuichi. They return to school, where Shuichi's friend Nana manages to cheer him up without realising it and he decides he cannot let the power of 100 coins fall into the hands of anyone who might abuse it. Claire decides to find the crashed alien ship in the mountains, hoping it contains a hoard of coins that didn't fall out when it crashed.