After waking up at home, a young man learns from his father that Sophie and one of the babies did not survive, having already been cremated while he was unconscious for a day. The father urges him to focus on surviving as the family's last heir, promising protection and warning him against a trapped life like his own. He entrusts the young man with a pendant left by his late mother, meant to watch over him. Meanwhile, the young man's ill mother prepares for her upcoming medicine, and he struggles to earn money to afford it, facing urgent pressure from loss and responsibility.