Nagisa wakes up and finds himself in dark room, after that he is verbally abused by Yūji. Hanako goes to see CEO Kazuhisa in person, but she then realizes that only the A-TEC team members can solve this problem by themselves. ATEC's members have a plan to save Nagisa and try to put it into an action. In the meantime, in the process of investigating Nagisa's whereabouts, Kaito comes across a plan to "re-create A-TEC", a guidebook which Nagisa had prepared for a presentation, he then makes a plan to prepare for the presentation and to recapture Nagisa. By exploiting Nagisa's connections, Hanako heads down to Coldwood to look for a helping hand. At Kirishima warehouse, as Yuji tries to launch a rocket with the X-3 engine with Nagisa at Coldwood, the members led by Hanako come to Nagisa's rescue. In the console room, Hanako, who tries to stop the rocket launch, is shot by Yuji, leading to a failure of the plan.