With Ushio still hugging her toy robot, a big smile on her face, it was time for the father and daughter to start heading for the train back home, what Tomoya wasn't expecting, was it to be so crowded on the way to said train, with the man telling Ushio to stay close to him, as the two of them navigate their way through the sea of people around them. After some time had passed, Tomoya noticed how quiet Ushio had been, and turned to look at the girl to see if she was okay, only to find that Ushio wasn't with him, making the man go wide eyed.
"I have to find her before someone kidnaps her or something!" Tomoya thought in panic, all kinds of scenarios going through his head, he was scared of what could happen to the girl if he didn't find her soon. Searching for the lost child, Tomoya (who currently was a nervous wreck to say the least) was trying to retrace his steps, he couldn't have gotten separated from Ushio that long ago, so she (hopefully) couldn't have gone far.
"Daddy where are you? I'm scared." Ushio asks in thought, the frightened girl on the verge of tears, as she frantically looks for Tomoya, hugging her toy robot as a sort of way to comfort herself while she was in her current situation. The hundreds of strangers around her, making her more, and more anxious, as the young Okazaki tries to stay positive, and tell herself that she's going to be fine, and that Tomoya would find her, and that he would never just leave without her. "D-Daddy, I w-want my daddy!" the girl whimpers, the tears becoming harder, and harder to hold back, her body trembling from how scared she was, the girl wanted her daddy, she wanted Akki, she wanted Sanae, just somebody she knew, someone that she knew she would be safe with. The child didn't want to be alone, not with all of these people that she didn't know.
"What's wrong little one? Are you lost?" an unfamiliar voice asks Ushio, the voice belonging to a long black haired woman who was warmly smiling at the lost child, the young woman, from what Ushio could tell, was around Tomoya's age. "I'll help you find your parents, don't worry." the young woman assures a hesitant Ushio.
"Y-you'll help me find Daddy?" Ushio asks, her voice shaky, unable to help herself from sniffling, as tears start trickling down her cheeks, her eyes stinging from the tears in her eyes.
"I will, I promise." the woman smiles, "What does your daddy look like?" she asks, with Ushio doing her best to describe Tomoya to the woman that was helping her reunite with her father.
Tomoya doesn't know how long he had been searching, and calling out to Ushio for, but it felt like forever, the man was worried sick for his daughter, she was probably scared out of her mind, Tomoya certainly knew he was.
"Ushio! Ushiooo!" Tomoya calls out to his daughter, "Please be okay Ushio, please." he prays in thought. "Where could she be?" the concerned man asks nobody in particular, while searching the crowd for his little girl. What felt like hours passed, with the man becoming increasingly more scared, as he continued to call out to Ushio while still searching for the girl. When the man hears a familiar voice, a wave of relief washes over him, as he sees his teary eyed daughter running over to him, the two embracing each other in a hug, as the frightened girl cries while Tomoya does his best to help calm her down as he runs a hands down the back of Ushio's head, like he had done back on the day he had nearly lost Ushio while holding her in his arms.
"Daddy, I-I was so s-scared!" the girl sobs in Tomoya's arms.
"Sshh, its alright Shio, you're safe, I'm so glad nothing happened to you." Tomoya tells the child, as the woman that helped Ushio approaches the two Okazaki, smiling upon seeing the reunion.
"I'm so glad I found her when I did, who knows what might've happened if I didn't find her." the woman says
"Thank you so much for helping Ushio."
"Y-yeah, t-thank you for h-helping me." Ushio thanks, in between her sobs. After thanking the young woman that helped Ushio, the two Okazaki once again head for the train back home, with Ushio keeping a good grip on her father's hand as they walk to their destination once again.
"You look really tired Shio, you can go ahead and sleep if you'd like." Tomoya suggests, Ushio was definitely tired from the day she just had, not that Tomoya really blamed her for it. Ushio, who was currently having a hard time keeping her eyes open, shakes her head before responding to her daddy.
"I'm scared that you'll be gone if I go to sleep." Ushio answers honestly, "I got lost because I accidentally dropped my robot. When I picked it up, I couldn't find you." she continues, recalling what had happened. She had only looked away for a few seconds, but it was enough for her to not be able to find Tomoya in that huge crowd of people.
"Don't worry, I'll still be here, trust me, I would never leave this train without you." Tomoya assures Ushio, while the other passengers on the train continue to enjoy their own conversations, and spending time with their own families. "If anyone tries to take you, or do anything to you, they'll have to go through me first." he adds, with the man getting a tired smile from Ushio as a response to what he had just said before the girl finally falls asleep for the rest the train ride back to Hikarizaka.