Kaede, who is suspicious of Chiyomi Horikiri, who is talking to someone in a room where there should be no one and calling out to that “someone” as “Minami,” resolves herself and enters the room! When Kaede asks “Is there a tiny Minami here?”, Chiyomi replies “There is”, and shows her a tiny Minami doll that she made in the handicrafts club. Chiyomi managed to get through by desperately covering up, but she doesn’t know if she was able to dispel Kaede’s, Yuriko’s, and Shintaro’s suspicions, and she also feels embarrassed about performing a one-woman play with a doll. At the time, Kaede, Yuriko and Shintaro were holding a strategy meeting about “Chiyomi talking to Minami’s doll by herself.” As they talked about their own youthful experiences with dolls, they came to the conclusion that they should stop thinking of Chiyomi as someone who was in pain.
