Okay, now we're back in the present tense, where we meet Hiroyuki and his father. Hiroyuki's worried that his father is going to be late for work, so he decides to take a moment to chat with his dad. The two men reminisce about their childhood together, and Hiroyuki tells his father that his mother died in a car accident when he was five years old. His father was a cop, and he and his dad avoided each other for a long time. Eventually, the two men got into fights, and they ended up living together to get away from each other. When Hiroyuki asks his father why he's so upset, his father tells him that it's because he beat up the weak in school, and that he'd better go home and get help. He also tells his son that he was recently stabbed in the stomach, which Hiroyuki thinks is just a random toy. He's not sure what's going on, but he knows that his dad was arrested for beating up an off-duty police officer. He blames himself for the whole thing, and says he'll never see his dad again. He tells his dad that he won't get another chance to protect him, like he did when his mom was killed in the accident. Now, he says, every time he gets in trouble, he has to go to his dad and ask him to come back and protect him. He promises to say all of this to his father over and over, until he finally puts his mind at ease.