This special lives in the space before Kazuhiro learned what rescue actually costs. It's the last job before the training became weight, before he understood that showing up means staying when it hurts. The series earned its ending by showing you how fragile he was at the start, how the work didn't make him a hero, it made him human enough to care about people he'd never meet again.

Saigo no Shigoto is the thirteenth episode of Yomigaeru Sora: Rescue Wings, released as a DVD special. Its story is set before the events of the TV series. That series follows Kazuhiro Uchida, a trainee fighter pilot transferred to a rescue centre in a small town, where demanding missions and strict seniors test him as he slowly comes to accept rescue work. The special is a single-episode drama.