Hisui's ferry terminal, where evacuations are proceeding. As they arrive, they find the ferry is overloaded and unable to accept more passengers, but Kanae states that she must meet her boyfriend, revealed to be Tomoya, there. However, the aftershocks of the earthquake and extreme soil liquefaction causes the terminal to begin to collapse, so the pair flee in a lifeboat to a flooded apartment complex and rest for the night, and Kanae convinces the protagonist to help her find Tomoya. The pair awaken to the apartment building collapsing, and narrowly escape back to their raft. After making it to dry land, they go back into the city, once again crossing paths with Kirishima, learning that the source of Vestola's struggles is their rival company Kerberos taking advantage of the chaos to spread rumors about Vestola. Kanae and the protagonist eventually meet Tomoya again, who reveals he is assisting with recovery and evacuation efforts in the city, and proposes to Kanae, who accepts. Electing to stay with Tomoya to help with recovery, Kanae wishes the protagonist luck, and the protagonist continues to search for a way out of the city. After briefly becoming inducted into, then ousted by, a cult which had been defrauding citizens of their money in exchange for shelter, the protagonist flees into the residential district and volunteers to assist an elderly woman locate a doctor; the local hospital is overcrowded, but they manage to find medical assistance at a nearby elementary school that had been turned into an evacuation shelter. They meet a foreign exchange student named Danny, but the two find that most of the Hisui city citizens at the shelter distrust them, leaving them unable to find food or water; the protagonist's attempts to assist by providing tap water in a novelty water bottle causes the citizens to believe the water to be a "miracle cure", but are angered when they discover it only to be regular drinking water, and force Danny and the protagonist out of the shelter. The protagonist arrives at a burned down shopping plaza, where they meet Tomoya again, still assisting with recovery efforts. They also cross paths with the "scary looking man" once more, who is apparently following Tomoya for an unknown purpose. After assisting the citizens at the plaza, they return to Kanae, who informs the protagonist that an evacuation plane is flying citizens out of the city at