RyÅta drags KÅsei to the hospital to visit Kaori, who continues to exhort KÅsei to keep practicing for the piano competition. During a rainstorm, Tsubaki knows that KÅsei loves Kaori, even though Kaori loves RyÅta. Tsubaki says that KÅsei should fall in love with her instead, only to kick him in the shin and run off in tears. The next day, Nao suspects something happened between KÅsei and Tsubaki, while Hiroko tries to tell KÅsei that he needs to concentrate on the piano competition finals. Kaori later contacts KÅsei to watch a late night flight in the starry sky. The following day, KÅsei admits to RyÅta that he likes Kaori, though RyÅta already figured as much. KÅsei and RyÅta walk towards Kaori's room, where nurses run in panic. They find out that her condition is drastically worsening as she seems to enter in cardiac arrest. KÅsei takes a dying kitten to a veterinary, but it is too late, seeing his hands covered in blood. He washes his hands and cries in agony.