Akasaka and Oishi find the kidnappers' hideout and rescue Toshiki, but Akasaka is shot. They discover that their efforts were in vain because the perpetrators' demands had already been met. Akasaka tries using the phones at the hospital and out on the streets but all the cords have been cut by someone. At a particular phone booth, he finds Rika and asks if she cut the cords. She replies that making a call would make him sad. She takes him to see the festival and an ominous Rika describes each death occurred in 1979 and that the last one will be her own murder. She suggests him to survive, but live a happy life. The evidence revealed Akasaka's wife died saving a child at the stairway. A few years later, Akasaka visits Oishi in his mother's birthplace, and reveals what Rika told him on the night several years ago. Oishi tells him that on the day of the great disaster, Rika was killed. Akasaka reveals that he has returned to find the truth about the curse.