The platoons take Fubuki to a safehouse, where he makes a recovery and confirms that the Other holding facility was originally built to find a way to help Alice, Hanabi's aunt and Fubuki's fiancée, return to human form. The platoons realize that Karen absorbed the powers of Yuito and Kasane in an attempt to save Alice. With Luka's permission, Fubuki reveals that he used to be childhood friends with Karen, Luka and Alice, who wanted to enlist in the OSF despite her apparent lack of psionic power. Once Fubuki and Alice reached the OSF office, they met Karen and Luka, who had been born as duds and were being used by scientists in an attempt to artificially infuse them with psionic power...