aiga's controlling leader, izamura, discovers patema's presence and orders his troops to capture her. eiji discovers that by holding patema, her inverted gravity makes him lighter, reducing the speed at which he falls. they evade the troops, but are soon captured. eiji is scolded and reprimanded, while izamura takes patema to the control tower, threatening to release her into the sky. he shows her that he had captured lagos, who has since died, and imprisons her on the top floor with an inverted weight, with only glass separating her from the sky.