A girl named Inoue Manami comes looking for the detective late at night but finds him drunk and unwilling to help so they agree to meet the next morning.

The next morning Kazama does not meet with the girl but rather police detectives who have traced her last known location to his apartment.

His newer work is noticeably different because Aoyama has begun to paint with the blood and ground flesh of corpses.

Kazama's friend finds Aoyama Yuki's house and speaks with his daughter Maho.

After Yuki's wife committed suicide he moved in with his lover Seto Masami, a housekeeper.

She calls Kazama with this information and theorizes that Yuki's wife Chie was driven mad by his extramarital affair, causing her to commit suicide.