Nao realizes the old lady -owns the barbershop- that was helping her with Tsugami is really her birth mother that she believes abandoned her many years ago. The reporter that was tracking her down from Hokkaido finds her in Tokyo with Tsuagmi. He blackmails her for 10 million yen to keep his silence.
At the same time, in Hokkaido Reina's mother mother Hitomi (Ono Matiko) has her daughter's funeral.