After your brief return to Inaba, life resumed its demanding pace for both of you. You returned home, while Naoto returned to Tokyo, increasingly entrenched in high‑profile investigative work that left little room for rest or personal time. But wanting to spend the holidays together properly this time, you instead chose to visit her and travel to Tokyo for Christmas. The Investigation Team planned a reunion later on in the day, leaving Christmas Eve and Day set aside for just for the two of you.