"Devotion"

While Aiko tells Kanzaki about the original Aiko's plan to sacrifice herself, Isazu establishes a link to and takes control of Yuzuha's humanoid Matter so he can interrogate Kanzaki/Yura and analyse Aiko's brain to save his daughter. Kanzaki explains how as Yura, he accelerated the duplicate Aiko's brain development using Dream Contact to channel the original Aiko's memories to create a fully formed duplicate brain. Kazuki suddenly arrives and frees Aiko and Kanzaki from the Matter and they head for the basement shelter while the JSDF prepares to incinerate the entire Area despite Nanbara's objections. They reach a storeroom where Kazuki awkwardly declares his love for Aiko and promises to save her, but she says he loves the wrong person. Meanwhile, Nanbara sends in a team of Divers to collect matter samples and stall the JSDF action. Kanzaki sends a message to Kurose to sever the link between the unconscious Yuzuha and the many duplicates of her body which were created within the Matter. Meanwhile, Kanzaki, Aiko and Kazuki reach ALSUS, the multi-purpose surgical installation where the original operation took place two years earlier.