The next morning, the two of them go for a walk. As they are walking, shimmer asks his mother if she is okay with letting Asuka live with them. She replies that she is, and that she tries to take it easy on herself. He asks her why she is staring at him like that, and she replies that he is a complete stranger. She says that he owes her for what he has done, but that she does not want to talk about him. He is grateful that she has offered him a place to live, and he says that people should help each other. He says that because he is already living with the family, he does not think it is a big deal that they let him live in their annex. He wonders what his family is like, and wonders what he would think of his parents. He tells his mother that he has no wife or children and that his status remained the same as his older brother, who is sick, was not married off to anyone. He was a good soldier in the military.