Even with the darkness surrounding her soul, Kaori's inner self was wide awake. The darkness that surrounded her soul from all sides seemed peculiarly familiar to her; it seemed that she knew this feeling quite well. It was awfully similar to the feeling when she was in a coma. Even in the darkest sensation of the darkness surrounding her, Kaori could hear a voice calling out her name very softly. The voice was soft with patience, but she could sense hope and sadness in it at the same time. She knew the voice. There is but one person in the whole world the voice would belong to. "It must be Ryo! It has to be you, Ryo. I just know" her inner self cried out inside her head, but the darkness didn't diminish, not even by a pinch. There was not a trace of the slightest ray of light around her, but she could hear his voice as clear as a day. Her mind went blank and she desperately wanted to open her eyes just to get a glimpse of the only person she had ever loved truly: Ryo!

As Ryo kneeled down, he could feel his insides churning up with the pain in his bones, still he paid no heed to it. At that moment all that mattered was Kaori's health. The life from his previous year flashed before his eyes: the previous year where he didn't have anyone to return to, no home to turn to at the end of a day, no one to hope something from, no one to abstain him from the very evil that he faced each and every day of his life. After he 'accidentally' found Kaori, he dearly wished for such day not to return to his life ever. No one could understand his mental state, but in truth he was moved to his core, living his life in the past year. As he found Kaori, he had taken for granted that his days of suffering was over, but yet here he was, facing the worst fear of his nightmare coming true before his very eyes yet again after that fateful rainy night approximately a year ago. "Kaori………….? Hey Kaori….. Get up please…….. For God's sake………" he softly called out after he had kneeled down. There was no answer. There was no response from her side. Out of options, Ryo leaned down, and touched her lips with his own. The result was not much different. Instead he heard a voice near his ears, the voice was a loud pitched one, "Ryo, it seems like she was drugged. We have checked her body; we found several needle marks on both of her wrists Whoever she was with, for the past few days, have possibly drugged her. Ryo was bewildered, all he could understand, was that, the only person he was ever attached to, the only person he ever loved, was suffering before his very eyes, and he could do nothing about it. God knows how helpless he felt at his heart! He was trying to get back up on his feet knowing that any try to wake her up would possibly be futile, but the surprise was, he couldn't! As he tried to get back up, he could feel his blue overcoat being pulled down by something. When he looked for it, he was surprised to find that it was none other than Kaori who had gripped a corner of the hem of his overcoat. Ryo didn't even make a further try to stand up. He bent over her prostrate figure, and brought his mouth neat to her ears, "Kaori, can you hear me?" he whispered in her ears, "If you can, please open your eyes. Don't make me more afraid than I already am, at the present moment! Please Kaori, I beg of you!" He added with a damp, heavy voice. By now even Umibozu had come behind Ryo. No one could understand Umibozu, but he too was tensed about Kaori's not returning to her senses. He knew that under normal circumstances, Kaori would take mere minutes to come back to her senses, especially if Ryo's hurt so badly. It was unnatural of her to be senseless for so long! "Something's not right" he thought. Just then Ryo observed that Kaori was fluttering her eyes. She still couldn't open them, but it so seemed that she was trying hard to do so. Seeing her like this, Saeko didn't waste a single moment and blew the whistle that she had been carrying in her hands for quite a long time now. The result was as expected, several armed officials came and almost instantly an ambulance came and stopped just before the construction site. Several nurses appeared from within it carrying a stretcher, in which they carried Kaori to it, and with Kaori, Ryo had to go too, because Kaori never released her grip on the hem of his blue overcoat that she had grabbed somehow. This time Ryo was not prepared to leave her alone, in spite of Saeko's prohibitions, he went with her.

Kaori could hear and feel Ryo's voice alright, but she couldn't see him. She had already been through this feeling once before. It so seemed that this tome was no exception. Kaori was entangled in a similar turbulence again. Her inner self was crying aloud to break free of the shackles that bound her to this world of deaf and blind; That bound her in a world where one can only feel, but can't see or respond to the person he/she loves. Kaori was trying her utmost to open her eyes. The time she saw Ryo for the last time, walking toward the market flashed before her eyes. She could understand that if she didn't take any action soon, her body, along with her senses would forever be lost. In other words, she could sense the eternal sleep approaching her gradually. She could feel herself sinking into the never-ending darkness around herself. The darkness here resembled a vortex of quicksand, no matter how hard she tried she couldn't break free of its trap. Just then she felt the softest touch on her lips. "WHAT! NOT AGAIN! THAT BASTARD! HE'S ACTUALLY………" she couldn't think any further, she tried her utmost to open her eyes, but it was as if they're made of lead; they won't open. With the last bit of strength she had left within herself, she moved her left hand, and there it was; the hem of his blue overcoat perhaps! Kaori caught hold of it with all her might, never to let it go perhaps! Sometimes later, she could hear sunken voices, and even after that, she could feel herself being lifted and taken to somewhere but she never loosened the grip of her right hand in which she held her life; her Ryo!