KOI NO KISEKI

Episode Seven

After the press conference in which she revealed her true self, Ayako's(Hazuki Riona) popularity just kept growing and growing, and this time, she was chosen to appear in a drama. Although Ayako clearly won fair and square over Kurata Yukino(Kanno Miho), she felt kind of empty and alone.

On the other hand, Kai-kun(Hagiwara Masato) goes to Yukino's hometown to find the truth about her life. But he finds out something completely unexpected. A young girl by the name of Kurata Yukino had already died at the ripe age of 14. What was the meaning of this? Did this mean that Yukino was really not Yukino? Kai-kun becomes bewildered at the depth of the matter.

But right in front of Kai-kun appears Yukino. Yukino was disappointed and delirious at Kai-kun for trying to delve into her personal life, but Kai-kun replies, "I want to find out who you really are." Kai-kun confesses his true feelings to Yukino, but she replies angrily, "No matter how dirty the methods I use are, I will never give in to Ayako!" She walks off.

Kai-kun is able to meet up with a couple of Kurata Yukino's(the real Kurata Yukino) friends. They tell him that Kurata Yukino was probably the cutest and most brilliant girl in the class, but she didn't have many close friends. They show him a photograph album of when they were junior high school students, but the picture of Kurata Yukino didn't look anything like the Yukino he knew. But right when Kai-kun was about to leave, one of the girls recalls that Kurata Yukino had one close friend, but she couldn't remember that friend's name. She tells Kai-kun that she would contact him whenever she recalled the girl's name.

Ayako felt somewhat alone although she was successful with work. Although everyone started accepting her, she didn't feel like herself. Ijiri-san tells her that she and Yukino were like mirrors set an angles to each other. In order for Ayako to become more beautiful, Yukino's presence was necessary. And vice versa. But Ayako couldn't see the true meaning in Ijiri-san's statement and begins to worry even more than before.

That night, Kai-kun returns from Yukino's hometown. He visits Ayako's apartment. Although he couldn't explain to her what he found out about Yukino, he tells her, "I will take you someplace far from Yukino's reach."

Yukino, on the other hand, has flashbacks of when she was a child. Her mother used to always abuse her while her younger sister, Hatsune, was watching on. Her mother loved Hatsune more than Yukino. But why was Yukino treated this way by her own mother?

Kai-kun receives a fax from one of the girls who had found out who Kurata Yukino's only friend was. The name of the friend was Goto Yukiko and a picture was attached. But Goto Yukiko was too hard to see. Kai-kun decides to visit the hospital where Goto Yukiko was hospitalized before she died, but when he goes there, he realizes that it was the same hospital where Ayako's father was hospitalized. He finds out from one of the nurses that the girl who pretended to be Tsukamoto Taeko(Yukino) had a younger sister.

Kai-kun decides to visit Yukino's house, but right when he leaves, Ayako enters the hospital. They didn't see each other and pass by. But before Ayako is able to enter the hospital, a mysterious man from above tries to drop a couple of steel bars on Ayako, but someone is able to save her. It was Ijiri-san. But Ayako had already lost consciousness. He takes her to his university hospital. Ayako wakes up in his office, but Ijiri-san wasn't there. She went over to his desk and saw that his computer was on. But on the screen was a picture of Yukino, but her face was different. It was Yukino's face before she had plastic surgery under the care of Ijiri-san. But Ayako didn't know this yet.

Kai-kun goes over to Yukino's house to talk. He starts verbally attacking Yukino. He says that by using Ayako's(Taeko's) father, she was able to become Kurata Yukino. And then she ended up killing Tsukamoto Masaharu. She killed him, because Masaharu knew that Yukino was actually not Yukino. And Kai-kun continues to say that she also killed the real Kurata Yukino with her own hands. He found this out when he visited the hospital today. He thought it was strange that the hospital Goto Yukiko died at was the same hospital where Taeko's father died. Kai-kun asks, "Why?", with a depressed face. Yukino begins crying and says, "I was hateful..." She tells Kai-kun that when she was a child, she was betrayed by her best friend. Then Kai-kun asks, "Who are you?" Yukino, while taking her time, answers, "....Yukiko." Yukino was really Goto Yukiko. She was the only true friend of the real Kurata Yukino but was betrayed by her, leading her to kill her. She, like Ayako, became someone else. Yukino begins crying on Kai-kun's shoulder. Kai-kun was probably the only person Yukino could confide in. He wanted to help Yukino and was clearly in love with her.

- End of Episode Seven -