Chapter 44 opens with Hiroyuki and Natsumi's reunion. Hiroyuki is distraught over his sister's abduction. He tells his friend that he will stay at the shelter until he can find someone to take care of the defect. He also tells him that the ground is soft and that he must plant the seeds for the future. He asks Natsume to tell him everything that he knows about the incident. He says that if he does not tell them everything, he will go back to his old hideout and die. He then tells him about his dream when he was a child, in which he fell from the top of a tree and was carried to the hospital by a man who carried him all the way there. He wants to tell his friend about the abduction, but he is afraid that it will kill him.