The Cocoon of Caprice IV.Asako's health is quickly deteriorating. Meanwhile, Yūji is assigned to various missions by JB after he officially inherits Asako's old codename in CIRS, 9029. While on a guard duty mission in Colombia, Yūji receives a call from JB informing him that Asako has collapsed causing him to rush home. Yūji reveals that Asako suffers from a kind of venous thrombosis and that the original cause was a capillary rupture that happened after Asako took a shot from a high-caliber rifle. While such a condition would normally be survivable, Asako, despite her periodic treatment, regularly used booster drugs which made her body fragile. The doctors concluded that there was nothing they could do for her. Now on her death bed, Asako welcomes Yūji home and he tries to will her into living and eventually breaks down in tears. Asako tells Yūji to live for his own sake as he is now capable of accomplishing anything. Asako and Yūji briefly reminisce about a brief moment in his past which he has forgotten. Asako then falls asleep and passes away peacefully. Grieving over the death of her best friend, JB recalls when they first met in an orphanage as children...