On Monday, three days after the sheep 's disappearance, Chuuya receives a text from an anonymous number that says:

I found them.

It takes him barely a minute to decipher the characters on his screen. Not only because he makes sure to keep up his lessons, with or without Dazai, but because of the symbol that 's attached to it. A sheep.

His stare remains glued to his phone for a long time even though the images in his head go beyond this one short message. He wonders whether the sheep took back their old territory in Suribachi city, or whether they decided to stay low for now, gather their strength, and come up with a strategy before reclaiming what was once theirs. It 's what he would have done. He wonders whether Yuan told them about the choice that Dazai had given Chuuya, or whether she came up with a lie to explain her decision to leave him behind as well.

He wonders.