ShortSummary
| - Shū is diagnosed with acute pancytopenia. (en)
- All teams are instructed to line up several thousand tiles for a successful domino effect. Asumi and Kei try to find a nickname for their teammate, but the girl reveals her name as Marika Ukita and asks how Asumi remembered their room number. Asumi tells them that each room number is the distance to a star, and their room number indicates the distance to her favorite star, Spica. Meanwhile, Fuchūya's and Shū's teammate becomes frustrated and threatens to fail the three of them from the examination, but Shū warns him off. On the fourth day, the room experiences a sudden decompression, and the tremor causes all tiles to collapse. Many applicants withdraw when they are unable to withstand the decompression sickness. The incident triggers Asumi's memory as a toddler when she witnessed the Shishigō accident. (en)
- Years later, Asumi is studying for an entrance examination into the Tokyo Space Academy's inaugural astronaut training course. She hides the desire to enroll from her father due to the family's financial restrictions and worries about leaving him alone. Asumi's father later discovers the application forms and becomes angry, but Asumi tells him that she is withdrawing from the process. Lion-san tells Asumi that her father is not angry at the application but because she stopped talking about her dreams to him. When Asumi visits her father at his workplace that night, he tells her not to withdraw and gives his savings to pay for the application fee. He also reminds her of the space travel ticket she made for him years earlier. (en)
- Several weeks after the funeral of her mother, Asumi receives an assignment in elementary school to draw a family member. She begins drawing her mother, whose head is entirely wrapped in bandages. That night, Asumi's father tells her that those who have died must cross the Sanzu River into the afterlife. At the riverbank the next day, Asumi's sketchbook falls into the water, and she also falls in while attempting to retrieve it. Fuchūya discovers her unconscious downstream and alerts her father. Asumi enters the spirit world and finds Lion-san but does not recognize him without the lion head costume. He warns Asumi not to reveal her name while in the spirit world. She also encounters a woman whose entire body is wrapped in bandages and realizes it is her mother. The woman asks for Asumi's name, but she lies and says she has forgotten it. Asumi decides to draw her mother again and gives it to her. The woman later regains her sight realizes she was helped by her daughter upon seeing the drawing. She tells Asumi to continue on living, at which point Asumi wakes up in the hospital. (en)
- Asumi finds out that her childhood friend and classmate Shinnosuke Fuchūya is also an applicant to the academy. At the end of the examination, they are taken by bus to another facility in order to take a second examination in a closed environment. Asumi is assigned a room with Kei Ōmi and another girl who does not reveal her name and acts condescendingly toward the two. Fuchūya is grouped with Shū Suzuki and another applicant. Once in their rooms, the teams find out they will be locked in for one week with the provided supplies. They are also assigned a project that is stored in a safe with an electronic lock. The lock, which can only be opened by typing in the randomly assigned room numbers, baffles those who have already forgotten them, but Asumi remembers the numbers clearly. Inside the safe, they find that the project involves dominoes. (en)
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