In this short scene, we learn that three years ago, the two men met in a hotel room and exchanged a series of cryptic messages. One of the messages was sent by mirena, who had just returned from a meeting with kanda san. In the message, mirena tells kanda that she is very short on cash and wishes to meet him the following day. kanda replies that he has a habit of selling his "selfs" and that everyone is doing the same thing. He tells mirena that he is going to give her 30,000 yen and that he will send the message to his wife. He then tells her that his followers are leaving him and that it is too late for him to use a legal trick to escape. He adds that he plans to kill kanda, but that it looks like the two are in a meeting. He says that he had a bad day a year ago and sold the book he had stolen to a used book store. He is a horrible person and that is why he had to sell the book. He apologizes to kanda for the first time and tells him to break up the message. He goes on to say that he was just picking an "o" because he had lost the "x" , but now that he feels like killing kanda he decides to kill him. He asks kanda to read the message so that he can tell if it is true or a lie. He wonders if kanda will be a hero or a villain when he is really at his best.