Nagate finds Shizuka but Tsugumori runs out of energy and the pair becomes adrift in space. Meanwhile, Kobayashi is urged by Nagate's dorm manager Lila Hiyama to organize a search party for him, but she refuses as well. Nagate and Shizuka then spends... (more) their days inside the derelict Tsugumori waiting for the ship to re-energize but their supplies run out faster than planned and they are put in a dire situation until a large number of guardian pilots, disobeying the captain's orders, appear to rescue them.