Maniwa hears someone call out to him behind a pane of glass79, and it turns out to
be an anime-esque woman dressed in a Playboy bunny costume. The bunny takes him to
the residence of the otaku-esque man that was previously seen in episode 3. Maniwa
meets the other various dolls that he has created (who comment that the otaku will not
respond to anything Maniwa says because he is “only a doll” (“tada no ningyō”) and is unable to respond to actual human interaction). Using Maniwa’s access to the police
network, the dolls find a 10-year-old newspaper article about a schoolchild named
Tsukiko being attacked by a middle-school student with a bat. Maniwa then hitchhikes
his way to the home of Tsukiko’s father to try and find answers.