Synopsis

A prickling awareness tells Yuzuki that a man is poised to disturb one of Ai’s straw dolls. She moves swiftly to intercept him, but Ai, with a quiet resignation, informs her that resistance is pointless. Ai reveals the man's fate, a glimpse into a future yet to be. Instead of after-work camaraderie with colleagues, Naowa has devoted himself to playing with a young girl named Kaya, his affection for children a constant. He banished his coworker, Nakajima, to a fate worse than hell for his unsettl