Soichiro's only remaining friends in the world are Riko Matsushita, the daughter of his late guardian, as well as his cat Pete, a feisty tabbycat who hates going outdoors into the snow.

However, after sobering up and attempting to confront Kazuhito at the latter’s home, he discovers Rin, who subdues him and instead arranges for him to be frozen by associates at a subsidiary of Mannix Enterprises, as payment for a past favor.

While recuperating at the cold sleep clinic, he learns that lifelike service androids - including his assigned chaperone PETE-13 - have become commonplace in the future, with the market dominated by Guardian Manufacturing and Aladdin Industries.

He learns from Guardian CEO Gota Tsuboi that their company brought out FWE years before, but the exclusive rights to the technology were once held by Aladdin - all of which had been apparently arranged by Soichiro himself.

Toi expresses gratitude for the invention of the Plasma Battery that now powers his time machine, and eagerly sends Soichiro (and inadvertently, PETE-13) back to 1995 with a large quantity of gold.