On the eighth of August, Hiroshi and his friends are trying to pull a rope around fujii's neck. Hiroshi asks one of his friends if he's one of the shintaros trying to do it. The friend replies that he is, and that he knows he should have done it. He's also shocked to learn that the rope is being pulled by ryu, who is trying to protect Hiroshi. He asks the friend if they're trying to kill him, and the friend says that they are. He tells the friend that ryu hurt his foot when he was protecting him earlier, and Hiroshi doesn't want to tell him. He says that he'll be back some day, and he tells his friend that he was just trying to find out what was going on with the hanging. He also says that his sister was murdered, and they know it.