As Uruu recalls his mother's suicide, he establishes a connection with Birika Kanda, a high school art student who suspects her mother is cheating on her father, a famous politician. When Birika learns that her mother's lover does not return her feelings and begins making advances on her, Uruu ascends to a world based on Water Lilies. He sees a projection of his mother and Homura's father's affair, with his mother protecting Homura's father from his attacks and forcing him to experience the heat she felt from Homura's father...