the airport, and gives them a ticket. As they go to the airport, the protagonist encounters Ms. Higa again, but they discover one of her students, Hiroko, is attempting to commit suicide due to repeated bullying from her classmates. Ms. Higa rescues Hiroko, but falls to her death. The protagonist continues towards the airport, meeting Yayoi again, but discovers she was sexually assaulted and traumatized by the drunken thugs from the metro. They then discover that another, larger evacuation shelter has been established near the city center, and the protagonist may choose between going to the airport with Yayoi or journey alone to the city center. If they decide to go to the city center, they discover the area already flooded with citizens, desperate for aid. The situation is exacerbated when the Hisui City Hall's power is restored, despite the majority of the city still being without power. The protagonist gets caught up in a mass of citizens flooding into the city hall to demand answers from the city administration. As the crowd corners the mayor on the roof of the building, another aftershock causes the protagonist to lose balance, but they are rescued from falling by Kumazawa, an unscrupulous entrepreneur whom the protagonist had encountered in the city previously. If the protagonist travels to the airport with Yayoi, they meet Kanae at a rest stop just before the airport bridge, and the three embark with the last group of refugees to the airport. However, upon arrival it is revealed that the evacuation plan is actually a ruse by "Snake Snake", a human trafficking syndicate which is taking advantage of the disaster to capture refugees to sell into slavery; Tomoya, whose actual name is "Keith", reveals himself to be a high-ranking member of the syndicate, having faked his identity and relationship with Kanae to gain her trust and integrate into Hisui City's population, and has the protagonist, Kanae, Yayoi, and the rest of the refugees imprisoned in their ship. The protagonist manages to slip their bonds, and, using an improvised bomb, frees the other refugees and destroys the ship during their escape. Keith confronts the protagonist on the docks and attempts to shoot them, but he is stopped by the "scary looking man", actually an undercover police detective, who arrives with backup to arrest Keith and the rest of "Snake Snake." After the rescue, a helicopter arrives to evacuate the