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Tenma is at a train station, having followed a lead on a neo-Nazi cell. He is exhausted, paranoid, and haunted by the photo book’s imagery. He sees Johan in every shadow.

Inside, he finds a child’s drawing on the wall—identical to one from the picture book. Suddenly, the lights go out. A voice speaks through an intercom. It’s not Johan directly, but a recording of Johan reading a story: “The cruelest thing… is to make someone remember happiness in a place where there is none.”

Eva, drunk and terrified, screams: “Kill him! Kill Tenma! I want to live!” Tenma, listening, smiles sadly. He then kicks the door open using a loose pipe (a rare physical action for him) and enters Eva’s room. The kidnappers have fled.

Eva sees Tenma. She expects rage. Instead, he unties her and says: “I forgive you. I forgave you a long time ago.”

Tenma receives an anonymous tip that a child is being held in the basement of an abandoned wing of the Munich University Hospital (a reference to the Kinderheim 511 experiments). He goes alone.

Tenma realizes it’s a trap. The door locks behind him. On a monitor, he sees Eva Heinemann being brought to the same building by unknown men.