Morisaki and Asuna ask Nami about how to resurrect the dead

Morisaki and Asuna’s visit to Nami changes their search for a way to resurrect the dead from an inquiry into possibility into an encounter with its human cost. Nami confirms that she was brought back by her lover, Eve, but that the price of her return was his life. The revelation offers Morisaki knowledge he sought while exposing the terrible consequence his research had left abstract.

The Search for a Firsthand Account

As Morisaki ties up the boat, Asuna asks whom he is looking for. He explains that he has heard of someone in the village who has actually resurrected a person. Although he has read about resurrection and listened to an old man’s account, he believes the most useful information will come directly from someone connected to it. The two leave the river and head toward a village smaller than Amaurot.

At the house they have been directed to, Morisaki introduces their purpose as research into the resurrection of the dead and asks to speak with the person said to have performed it. The woman initially denies that anyone in the house has resurrected the dead. The pause before her answer, followed by her distinction between performing a resurrection and having been resurrected, shifts the conversation: the person they seek is not someone who claims mastery over the process, but someone who has lived through its consequences.

Nami’s Account of the Price

The woman identifies herself as Nami and tells them that her lover was named Eve. She says that she died five years earlier and was resurrected by him. Morisaki reacts with a gasp; for him, the account brings the reality of a returned-from-death person into a world where such an experience would be unimaginable on the surface.

When Morisaki presses her to explain the price of resurrection, Nami describes it as a consequence of disturbing the order of life and death. She says the cost varies with the time, the situation, and the individual, rather than presenting it as a fixed exchange that can be calculated in advance. Her answer establishes both the existence of a price and its uncertainty: the possibility of resurrection does not amount to a reliable method for choosing what must be lost.

Morisaki hesitates before asking whether this is why Eve is absent. Nami confirms that he was the price for her return: one life for another. Her explanation makes clear that resurrection did not restore both lovers or undo death without remainder. Nami lives, but Eve does not. Asuna understands the exchange as cruel and heartbreaking, contrasting it with the self-sacrificing exchange in O. Henry’s story The Gift of the Magi: here, the sacrifice has not produced a consoling reunion.

What the Revelation Means to the Search

Nami says that she found no meaning in the world alone and had wanted only the person she loved to live on. Her account therefore gives Morisaki more than a rule about resurrection. It reveals the intimate motive behind one such act and the loss that followed it, without offering a promise that another attempt would have the same terms or outcome. The information he came for is inseparable from the grief of the person telling him.

The visit also places Morisaki’s investigation in a sharper light. He had sought firsthand knowledge because books and an earlier story were not enough; now, the direct source is a woman whose survival depends on the death of her lover. The distinction between learning how resurrection happened and learning what it cost becomes decisive. Nami can confirm the exchange in her own case, but her statement that the price varies leaves no basis for treating it as a predictable procedure.

Aftermath and Narrative Significance

After the conversation, Morisaki and Asuna return to their boat without speaking. Their silence marks the immediate result of Nami’s account: it has supplied a concrete answer, but not one that can be received as a simple solution. The scene leaves them with the knowledge that resurrection may exchange one life for another and with no assurance about what any future attempt would demand.

That knowledge resonates later when Morisaki, after his own attempt to bring Lisa back is interrupted, begs Shin to kill him. Shin refuses and says that his brother told him to embrace loss and keep living. Asuna then opens her eyes and gently embraces Morisaki. The later scene does not erase Nami’s story; it brings its central dilemma into Morisaki’s own grief. Nami’s account had shown the cost of trying to preserve a loved one through resurrection, while the later exchange turns toward the possibility of continuing to live after loss. The visit is thus a crucial revelation in the resurrection plot and a warning that the desire to defeat death may deepen, rather than resolve, the suffering of those left behind.