After the Naoetsu Girl’s Basketball Team Alumni members introduce themselves one by one, Koyomi asks them what the five missing girls had in common. When they say they have nothing in common, he wonders if that would still be the case if one were separated from the other five? How is one girl not like the others? How does she stand out from the other four, just as he sticks out like a sore thumb at the pajama party?
As Koyomi ponders this, that odd girl out, presumed to be Kiseki Sowa, confronts Suicide-Master, who is now alone at Kanbaru’s and has a deal for the girl who poisoned her. But first, we learn that Suicide-Master didn’t attack her to “show off” to Kiss-Shot, but because the girl begged her to make her a vampire.
Koyomi, and perhaps Gaen as well, have so far operated under the assumption that the victims didn’t want to be attacked. In Kiseki’s case, she did, and when she was, she became a vampire while Suicide-Master was poisoned. As for the deal: Kiseki can drink her blood and become human, or devour her entirely and become an even more powerful vampire.
Kiseki reveals just how much she has to learn about being a vampire when she asks what Suicide-Master gets out of the deal. Suicide-Master replies that while she’s in no real hurry to die, she wouldn’t mind ending her life for good, having seen that Kiss-Shot is in good hands and having fun, and having accomplished enough in her 1,000+ years of existence, and considers it more noble to be killed than have to commit suicide.
It’s unclear what Kiseki has chosen to do with Suicide-Master when she rushes at her, though in any case she’s decided to kill her. But she’s stopped in her tracks when Suicide-Master asks her imminent killer her name, and rather than Kiseki responding, it’s a newly-arrived Koyomi who says her name, and it’s not Kiseki Sowa, it’s Harimaze Kie.
In the end, what set one of the high school girls apart from the others is that one of them was the first victim. Thanks to the fact the mummies are all very similar in appearance, Harimaze was able to use Kiseki Sowa’s in place of her own, dressing Kiseki in her uniform and placing her belongings around her.
Of greatest importance to Harimaze was leaving her cell phone on the first mummy found, as it had an app that recorded information in the background when it was in the possession of Gaen. This is how intel on the investigation was being leaker to her. It’s also why Harimaze didn’t know Koyomi or the alumni’s whereabouts; her phone battery died.
Just as Koyomi was mistaken about Harimaze being an unwitting victim, she questions whether the other victims are really in any different a situation than they were before. To be in high school for her, and them, is akin to “not knowing if you’re alive or dead.” It’s an adolescent purgatory, filled with potential but devoid of realization; all prospects and no outcomes.
Harimaze is disappointed that Koyomi has forgotten what it’s like to be in high school, but she’s not going back. If she was in the wrong, and she admits she was, she’ll chose to remain in the wrong. She’s chosen “the red darkness” (that’s a great line right there) and asks that he let her “make even more mistakes.”
But Suicide-Master warns Harimaze that she didn’t make up her mind fast enough, so “this is how things end up,” meaning Koyomi, simply by chatting with her, is able to buy enough time for Kagenui Yozuru to arrive and stomp the crap out of her. And Yozuru, a dyed-in-the-wool, Capital-A Adult, can’t and won’t let her continue her little rebellion.
To commemorate this resolution, Suicide-Master reverses what had become her catchphrase and declares “It seems I have lived yet again.” That gives this story, which you could say started over 600 years ago, some nice symmetry.
In an epilogue featuring a welcome cameo from the incomparable and effortlessly stylish Senjougahara, now a college student herself, Koyomi tells her what transpired during this rather unique case.
Yuzuru didn’t kill Harimaze, but reverted her back into a human so that the four mummified girls were restored. Suicide-Master was exiled from Japan and that was the extent of her punishment, but it was well worth it for her as she now knows and approves of Kiss-Shot’s fate.
Koyomi also tells Senjougahara that while the mummy case is resolved, he’s still going to try to resolve the underlying issue with the current girl’s basketball team. And while he’s in college now, he still considers himself an “adolescent” in the same way those girls are.
Koyomi hasn’t yet become someone like Yuzuru, who is an adult by dint of never hesitating. And because he’s still capable of hesitation, he’s capable of investigating apparition cases and empathizing with their subjects, in a way Yuzuru cannot. That makes him a valuable asset to a specialist like Gaen, for which brute force without hesitation isn’t always the solution.
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