Having seen Kiriko's crime attempts take wild turns and end in failure, money lender Kazuo suggests to her the ultimate crime: murder. Knowing that he is stricken with cancer, he asks Kiriko to murder him so that he can "die like a bad man should." Kiriko refuses this offer at first, saying that murder is outside her conscience, but then she considers Kazuo's sentiments and the days spent with her associates, and she wavers. (Source: nhk.or.jp)