During the summer holiday, Yasu and Niko decide to join a summer training camp organized by the school to reinstate the track club after its temporary disbandment following Rui’s death. However, the other girls in the club, led by a mean girl named Miho Kawakami, are not happy to see Yasu again, holding her partially responsible for Rui Tomatsu’s reign of terror. Eventually, the groups turns onto Niko as well because of her continued efforts to defend Yasu from their harassment. When the two are abandoned in the woods together during a “test of courage”, Yasu reveals that she has signed up for classes at a college prep cram school in Tokyo, announcing her departure from Mitakihara when school starts up again.
Meanwhile, Koharu seems even gloomier than usual, dissatisfied with the mysteries of Kae and of her mother’s disappearance being solved without her involvement and the results being less than pleasant, as her mother is now set to be released from the hospital, even though she still doesn’t remember her own daughter. When Koharu expresses fear over the prospect of her family being torn apart, Hanako calls upon Niko for help. Believing the memory loss Koharu’s mother is suffering from to be the result of her soul being damaged, Niko offers to pull the amnesiac’s soul into the Dreamscape so it can heal. When Hanako changes the topic to Kae’s revelations about Cecilia, however, Niko mentions Cecilia might have left the Dreamscape altogether — something that should be impossible.
At the same time, it is revealed that when Cecilia disappeared1, she left behind a letter, admitting to Yui that she was, in fact, a former Puella Malefica. When asked how she feels about this, Yui is genuinely at a loss, not at all sure how she feels or even should feel about this revelation.
- To find out what Cecilia gets up to during her absence from Mitakihara, read the short story The Covern of Kamihama. ↩︎
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