Summary of the after dark.
It was begin just before midnight, from 12 midnight to dawn. It was happen in Denny’s restaurant in downtown Tokyo. Maria Esai sits at the front window by herself and while reading a book. Takashi enters the restaurants, passing Mari for a few steps until he remember her face. He said that they met 2 years earlier. Takashi knows his old sister. Mari remains annoyed at his presence during their initial conversation. Mari is very different to her sister. Mari is very nerd, she always in her room reading books while her sister is very sociable and really beautiful. After that, Takashi eventually leaves for his band practice. Minutes later, a large woman named Kaoru bursts into the restaurant and approaches Mari. She needs a Chinese speaker to deal with an injured patron at the Alphaville, a love hotel she manages. When Mari went to the hotel, she finds that the Chinese woman, a prostitute was harassed by the costumer. She was beaten and robbed by it. Sharikawa, the man who beat up the prostitute: a computer industry worker for a company named VERITECH who prefers to work alone in the middle of the night. He “does not look like the kind of man who would buy a Chinese prostitute in a love hotel. He is married and has a children. Mari and Takahashi are reunited hours later, and his connection to Kaoru is revealed: he visited the Alphaville hotel once with a girl, possibly Eri. Takashi said that he and Eri met two months ago. Eri told him that she wanted that she could be closer to Mari. Mari bemoans the “history between us” that has caused their distance. Takahashi suggests that Mari’s sister, metaphorically or literally, is in a place where she is “raising wordless.