[They leave. Obaa-San turns to the tree. The Gaki enters, strangely agitated.

THE GAKI

Obaa-San, for so they called you, tell me—did you say you'd go to the lowest hells if you might know the touch of your own child?

OBAA-SAN

Forever—could I but fill this emptiness in my mother-heart.

THE GAKI

Would you really pay?

OBAA-SAN

Yes, yes. But why do you ask?—Who are you?

THE GAKI