Akiko kept composing poems of love toward him as if brushing aside the cold eyes of the people around her by doing so; eventually Akiko left her home in Sakai and ran to Tekkan.
晶子は周囲の冷淡な目を振り払うかのように彼を想う歌を作り、ついに堺の家を飛び出して鉄幹のもとへ走る。