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Alisa is then sent to a school for mentally disabled children, where she discovers a magical ability to fulfill her wishes.

Though Alisa is initially excited by the move she is forced to take menial jobs which make her miserable.

The stranger's name is Sasha and while initially welcoming of Alisa in the morning, after he sobers up, he is rude and dismissive.

In the morning, while still rude and abrupt Sasha asks Alisa to join him for coffee and brings her to work where he is casting children for an ad for his service.

Returning to Sasha's apartment that night, dressed in a mascot costume from her other job, she sees him and Rita having sex and calls him a traitor.

She calls him to try to stop him from boarding and tells him that her grandmother died in his apartment and she is alone with the corpse, causing him to reluctantly miss his flight.