Jin reflects on a passage about sacrifice from Kirima Seiichi’'s book, The Victor's Principle. Later, Suema questions Jin about the change in Kotoe's demeanour, and he offers to fill the void in her heart, but she declines. After she leaves, Suiko appears, and Jin tells her that he must finally confront Spooky-E. Meanwhile Misaki is followed by Kotoe and hired thugs, but Misaki changes to Boogipop and beats them up. Just as he threatens to kill Kotoe, Nagi arrives and stops him...