He goes back to pick Ushio up midday and brings her to her new home, but since he has to return to work, he leaves her there alone. Instead of getting angry, he introduces himself to them and explains his situation. The next morning, Tomoya takes Ushio to kindergarten before heading to work, and while he’s there, he hears the other mothers gossiping about him. He feels that it’s Sanae’s turn to cry and vows to stay by her side until she stops, and Tomoya then hears her start crying. That leads to Akio noting how Ushio has helped them considerably, but he realizes that it’s over now. Akio knows that Sanae hasn’t cried since that day, so Sanae explains that she had to raise Ushio. After a round of baseball – in which he hits Akio’s pitch – and eating and drinking with family, he and Ushio go to bed, but Tomoya wakes up later that night and hears Akio and Sanae talking.

He apologizes to Sanae for making her and Akio take care of Ushio all this time, and he promises to raise her himself from now on.

Upon his return to the Furukawa home with Ushio, Tomoya enters Nagisa’s old room and finds it just like it used to be.

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