Asako's health is quickly deteriorating. Meanwhile, Yuuji is assigned to various missions by JB after he officially inherits Asako's old codename is CIRS, 9029. While on a guard duty mission in Colombia, Yuuji receives a call from JB informing him that Asako has collapsed causing him to rush home. Yuuji reveals that Asako suffers from a kind of venous thrombosis and that the original cause was a capillary rupture that happened after Asako took a shot from a high-caliber riffle. While such a condition would normally be survivable, Asako, despite her periodic treatment, regularly used booster drugs which made her body fragile. The doctors concluded that there was nothing they could do for her. Now on her death bed, Asako welcomes Yuuji home and he tries to will her into living and eventually breaks down in tears. Asako tells Yuuji to live for his own sake as he is now capable of accomplishing anything. Asako and Yuuji briefly reminisce about a brief moment in his past which he has forgot