After being “missing” for three days, Hinazuki returns home. When her mother, Akemi, sees Satoru and Sachiko standing a few paces behind, she flies into a fury and waves a shovel around. Right after Sachiko barely avoids getting hit with it, two employees from the Child Consultation Center and Yashiro appear. Akemi doesn’t take well to the news that she’s going to lose custody of her daughter and starts raging about going to the police. If the police are told about the three-day “kidnapping”, Satoru and his mother may be in trouble… but then Yashiro turns the situation on its ear by introducing a new person to the proceedings…