The narrator leaves a message for her father after the call ends, asking him what he said to tsukiko. He tells her that he did not tell her that she should let her daughter come back to school. The narrator tells him that she is glad to be living with him and her father, and that she has been experiencing all sorts of feelings since moving in with them. He asks her if she would like to have a toast with her and Natsuo, but she says that she would not like to do so because she knows that rui will not change her mind. She tells him about how she and her daughter split up, and how she hates her guts. She says that her daughter has grown into a strong willed young woman, and she is grateful to her