eiji returns to the fence and unexpectedly finds porta, one of patema's friends, and is reluctantly brought to the underground. they, along with the society's elder, devise a plan to free patema. eiji and porta work together, using each other's weights to sneak into the tower by going through its abandoned basement. eiji enters the top floor alone and frees patema, but izamura and numerous forces soon arrive, chasing the two to the roof. izamura grabs patema and orders his right-hand man, jaku, to shoot age. patema, however, jumps off izamura and grabs eiji, and they float off into the sky. izamura then commands that eiji's "death" be reported as an accident.