In 2019, the same girl, now old and ill, tells her journalist son Kudo Jin her story before she dies.
High schooler Ichikawa Miho attends the concert of Maki, a charismatic rising musician, where she is groped by a pervert.
She comes across Jin's article, accesses the Hell Correspondence, and types in the name of her attacker, Nagaoka Takuro.
She sees a vision of Hell, and meets Ai, who gives her a straw doll with a red thread tied around it.
However, pushed over the edge by a cruel letter from Takuro, Sanae pulles the thread and the doll dissolves.
Miho hears about Kudo's murder on the news and decides to send Maki to hell.
Maki's true colors are revealed to the public, causing his album sales to drop rapidly; his men are arrested by the police thanks to Kudo's testimony before his death.