"Volition"

As the two Aikos speak to each other inside the Malignant Matter, the rest of the team try to reach a bunker in the basement before the government JSDF launches an all-out attack on the Malignant Area. Trying to find Aiko, humanoid Matter engulfs Kanzaki where he becomes Yura and talks to Yuzuha who pleads with him to rescue her from her situation. The original Aiko tells her duplicate about the Burst accident and her transformation into the Matter and thanks her duplicate as experiencing the memories of the life her duplicate lived kept her sane and conscious allowing her to keep limited control over the Matter. She then promises to try to suppress the Matter and duplicate Aiko is released from the Matter. She manages to find Aiko’s mother and brother and promises to rescue them, while original Aiko frees Kanzaki.