Summary: After returning from the factory, Canaan, Minoru, Yunyun, and Maria find a place to stay in a nearby town.

Summary: Maria and Yunyun are saved from Natsume by Alphard, and Alphard lets them go.

Summary: When group arrives at the place know as Factory, Maria and Yunyun stay with the car while everyone else goes inside.

Summary: Yunyun tries to pretend not to recognize Maria, but she ends up having no choice but to join the group.

Summary: After a nightmare about Maria shattering into pieces, Canaan wakes up to find Maria standing over her hospital bed.

Summary: Canaan has arrived at the conference hall and makes her way past the guards, dodging and running with such speed that they end up shooting each other.

Summary: Minoru is working on his big story about the Borners and their village, but his editor tells him to make it simpler

Summary: Not knowing what Canaan went through, Maria sticks with Yunyun on her houseboat.

Summary: In the aftermath of what happened, Maria shuts herself in her hotel room, distraught over how Canaan isn't a normal girl like she had convinced herself.