It's the morning of the cat's return, and we're introduced to the bird girl. She's happy to see the cat, because she's tired of being teased and treated like a toy. She tells us that she can post the cat at school and at her dad's bar for a week, so she'll be able to greet the cat before anyone else. The bird girl asks if the bar is good for her health, and the girl says that it's a little weird. The girl says she doesn't know why, but she knows that her sister wants the cat back, and that's why she wants it back. She also says that she wants to ask her tomorrow, after school, how she feels about the cat. She wonders if letting the cat get close to her might have been a good idea, since he has no friends. She says that seeing the cat in the flesh isn't the same thing as seeing him in a person, and she hopes that she and her sister can still walk home together. She asks if she can go pick up her sister in the morning, but the girl is surprised that she hasn't visited before. She thinks that they're the only ones in the area, and says that they picked up a "voice cast" and "every thing" obsessed with status. She reminds the girl that she was crying at the station when the cat abandoned her, and reminds her that she shouldn't have run away like that, since the cat is always there to cheer her up, like the one who got her with kira. She then says that