Akiyuki leaves the nekomata with Kio and Zuizo while he continues on towards Tsumebara Pass. Inside a tunnel, Haru and Furuichi spot one of the suits from the missing squadron, but its mainsoul pilot has turned into a humanform. Akiyuki meets up with Haru on a bridge outside the tunnel, but their reunion is cut short when he exposes his right arm in combat against the humanform. An angry Furuichi confronts him after discovering that he became a Xam'd, but an unknown Xam'd intervenes and allows Akiyuki to run away. Nakiami later finds an exhausted Akiyuki at the harbor, and later says her farewell to Kio and Zuizo for their help. Furuichi reports to Kagisu that Akiyuki is a Xam'd. Nakiami brings Akiyuki safely back onto the airship as the crew prepares to take off.