Kazumi Magica Chapter 16: Strawberry Risotto
Released on April 24, 2012.
Continuing immediately from the previous chapter, Kazumi turns around and finds herself face-to-face with Misako Ishijima. Ishijima appears to have no memory of the bomb threat or her transformation into a pseudo-witch, and urges Kazumi to get in her car. They drive away from the lighthouse. Ishijima explains that over 20 young girls have gone missing in the past few months (Airi being amongst them), and she was worried that Kazumi was in danger. The only lead on the case is that each of the missing girls' phones had a text message containing the word "Hyades"; no records of these text messages exist in the phone companies' servers. Ishijima off-handedly asks Kazumi if she regained her memories yet. At this, Kazumi bursts into tears, and they hastily pull up at Souichirou Tachibana's shop.
Kazumi eats and falls asleep while Ishijima and Tachibana talk over coffee. Ishijima pulls out a photo of a young girl, who she identifies as Remi Shiina. She and Remi were close friends in their last year of middle school. Remi went missing, however, and Ishijima heard from Remi's sister that she had been a magical girl. This prompted Ishijima to dedicate her early career to secretly investigating magical girls. The two then discuss whether miracles and magic exist.
Over the next week, Kazumi stays at Tachibana's shop. After several days, Kaoru drops off Michiru's diary, with a letter to Kazumi in it. Kazumi opens the diary, reading about Michiru's grandmother, how she met Yuuri Asuka before the Pleiades Saints were formed (breaking up a fight between Yuuri and Kyouko at one point), the time she spent with the Pleiades, and finally her grief at having discovered the truth behind witches. Kaoru's letter informs Kazumi that Umika, Saki, Mirai and Nico are planning to kill her, and urges her to run away.
Kazumi and Tachibana have one final meal of strawberry risotto, after which Kazumi thanks him and leaves. She heads to the Freezer, and telepathically announces herlocation to the Pleiades. She says that she isn't going to run away, and demands that they meet her at the Freezer to end things (threatening to deactivate the Freezer and let the Soul Gems inside hatch if they do not).