Magia Record Main Story Part 2 Chapter 11
Episode 1
Summary by bigscarythings
Chapter 11 opens with Iroha in her pajammies, reflecting on/recapping events, that now they're going to grab the APS from Kyubey. She gets a text from Lavi explaining that today, at 9 AM, Tasuke (Nayuta's father) will be explaining what he’s learned about magical girls over at the aquarium.
Cue the title drop.
Later that morning, Kyubey approaches Kagome off in the marina near the aquarium, remarking that her desire to spread the megucapill hasn't changed. Kagome says yes, as long as magical girls are a thing and fighting witches, the world should know their suffering and sacrifice, just for the possibility of hope that people will become kinder as a result. After all, looking at what happened in Kamihama last chapter, Kagome has hope that this can come to pass. Kyubey, however, warns about the Will of the Universe theory - if that theory is correct, then Kagome's wish could threaten the lives of countless people. But Kagome says that Folklore is having a change of heart, and so she believes there is hope for the future, too.
Iroha enters the scene, saying Yachiyo and company are running behind, when her eyes land on Kyubey. Kyubey knows what she's about to ask and says no, he's not giving up the APS - as long as megucas don't want to witch out, he won't back down, and he slinks away. Iroha figured it didn't hurt to ask, though they expected such; for now, they all plan to gather in the Folklore aquarium to regroup and strategize.
Kagome ponders on the fate of the APS, saying all this tension has made her uneasy...
Along the way, we see Hinano and Ao at Ryo (and Ikumi?)'s grave. Hinano thanks Ao for having come; Ao says she doesn't deserve thanks, but she is glad to finally give a proper apology to Ryou.
Meanwhile, at the temple, the Buddhists wrap up their sutra reading. Ryoko seems to say that Sakuya was of a different denomination/temple, so this was more an indulgence for Ryouko. Charu wonders if that's kosher, but Ryouko says it's not so much the specific religion that matters - something like it's not about who you pray to, but who and what you pray for.
Now at the aquarium, Tasuke recaps his side of Arc 2 - that he was researching how to save megucas before bailing out, and the rest is history. But, as Nayuta points out, the events of Chapter 10 turned him and Rabi and friends around, and they all found a new hope. Casualties from the whole shindig have been remarkably low, going against expectations, and everything turned out fantastically.
Perhaps suspiciously so, a scowling, skeptical Rena points out. Sana, looking frustrated, also says that none of this mess would have ever happened had Neo-Magius] collapsed when it did, without being revived...and gives a very pointed glare at Sasha. Himena stands up for Sasha, saying she and Hiko are the ones responsible for NM's doing, and Sasha stands up for her in turn, given she was the one to revive it to begin with. But Tasuke says no, he's responsible, given he cocked up the Will of the Universe idea anyway. Rabi says she and the Folklore gang are also responsible because they took his theory for granted, but Tasuke won't have any of that - as the adult, he was the one who had authority over them and led them into this.
Despite his grave missteps, however, he begs the megucas gathered to take the Folklore girls under their wing - as does Nayuta. Yachiyo asks that Tasuke stands by them until the end from now, and he assents, saying he'll finish his book and do everything he can to support all of megucakind. Nayuta will help him, too. That settled, Yachiyo agrees to work with Folklore, as does Ui and Iroha; Felicia has her misgivings, but figures sure, why not. Himena says she'll work with them, too, and so does Shizuka - now that Asahihas returned to the fold, she won't let her go again! And Yuna also says that Urara has been well-accepted by PB, so it's all good to them. Nayuta is happy to see everything working out so well…
(So clearly, disaster is going to strike)
With all that fuss resolved, Livia arrives at the aquarium, remarking on how many people have gathered - not just the faction leaders like she'd expected Iroha notices her and thanks her for helping breaking Himena's hold on the city. Livia's had enough with everyone thanking her left and right, though - even Himena came crying and apologizing to her! It's all too much, really; to her, it was just business as usual.
But with the Folklore stage of the meeting over, Livia wants to talk about Mitama and Seventeen Nights They're still missing, but Sudachi gives the big Fumu bomb - everyone goes "wtf" but Yozuru translates, saying they've tracked down MitaKana's location, and asks that the three of them be entrusted to retrieve the duo, and ask that everyone conveys their feelings about Mitama and Kanagi, all for a plan Puella Care has in mind. As this goes on, Momoko and Mikage insist they join Puella Care, too, but Livia says now is the time for darkness, not light - Livia vows to bring the duo back, saying Kamihama Magia Union and friends need the remaining two Kimochi stones, anyway. Momoko and Mikage ultimately agree. Iroha thanks Puella Care again for bailing them out; Livia brushes it off, saying they can repay her sometime.
Now, after a scene transition, it's time for Folklore's regularly scheduled meeting...except they have nothing to report! They just recap that the big problem here is the APS, and they need it back from Kyubey, but that depends on getting MitaKana back in the saddle. Rabi admits to her friends that she's still got some doubts that this will work out, not wanting to get her hopes up only to see them fall, but she says they'll wait and hope for now. Tasuke, however, has much more to do than just sit on his thumbs - in this case, he needs to get his long-due health exam! It turns out Dr Satomi's (Touka's father) excuse for keeping him under hospital arrest wasn't insincere after all - Tasuke does need a health exam...but says he'll be fine, that surely, his brother is just overreacting…
The next day or so, Rabi awakens Nayuta with the sound of a clanging pan, just like old times Nayuta whines that it's a holidaaaaaay, but Rabi says they need to be on top of their game even then! Still, Rabi's energy is a good sign that she's feeling better - she asks Nayuta what she wants for breakfast, but Nayuta yawns in response; Rabi scolds her, saying she mustn't stay up late on her phone, but that's not what was happening - Nayuta, looking determined, bolts up to her room, getting a little chuckle out of Rabi.
When Nayuta comes back, it's with a badge in hand, with her, Rabi, and Mikage drawn on it - she was making a handmade Team Nayupapa Search Party good luck badge for Rabi! Rabi points out that they already have such a memento by Mikage, but Nayuta wanted to make one herself, featuring the three of them. So if Rabi ever feels hopeless or scared again, all she has to do is look at that badge, and remember that she's not alone - she has Nayuta and Mikage always by her side.
Rabi says she's gotten over the resignation thing, but Nayuta admits she's worried that Rabi will disappear - she's already lost her mom in the divorce, then her dad disappeared, and even though he's back now, he had to go to the hospital just the other day... So if Rabi goes away, too...
Rabi takes this to heart and sincerely thanks Nayuta for the badge. She suggests that she and Nayuta visit Tasuke today, and also says that Tasuke says he's not worried about his health himself. And just then, Mikage arrives at the house, too, with her signature "Naaaaaaaaaayuuuuuuuutaaaaaaan!" cry - and so the whole gang is back together!
Now onto Iroha and Ui, who are going to the hospital to meet with Mifuyu, with Yachiyo seeing them off. They want to see if they can communicate with Touka and Nemu, now, since they've apparently healed up some - they want to see if they're conscious somewhere inside their coma…
Iroha, Ui, and Mifuyu meet on the hospital campus. Mifuyu is slightly delayed, having looked more into Mirrors - and reports that Karin is gone. Specifically, a copy in Mirrors mentioned that Karin breached the labyrinth all alone; Mifuyu didn't buy it at first, but a Sakae meguca looked into it and confirmed. But no matter where they investigate, they can't find any trace of her.
Iroha asks if there's anything she can do to help, but Mifuyu tells her not to worry about it. Just then, Sakurako shows up, having sensed Iroha and Ui's presence. She says Touka and Nemu will be happy to "see" them again. Ui wonders if maybe they'll wake up if they use telepathy, but alas, no matter how much they talk, no dice. Ui asks if they're really okay, and Sakurako says yes, the trauma has completely healed and there are no abnormalities in the bloodwork, as well as various scans. And their soul gems are perfectly fine, too...
Sakurako simply tells them all to wait and see. Ui wonders just what it was that TouNemu did... Mifuyu wishes they had at least explained things to everyone else before the Big Bang Incident. But there’s nothing to it now - IroMifuUi depart, promising to visit again soon, and Sakurako returns to her post of guarding TouNemu.
In the lobby, Mifuyu spots the Nayufam and goes to greet her, but there's a commotion going on - Tasuke assures Nayuta that it's just a simple exam, he'll be fine, but Nayuta has a terrible feeling about all this, and can't stop crying... Iroha interrupts, asking if everything's okay. Touka's father insists on getting Tasuke's examined ASAP, and they depart. Rabi assures Nayuta that Tasuke's made of stern stuff, and Mikage says if she can be energetic even though her sis is gone, Nayuta can perk up, too. Nayuta remarks that Mikage is strong; Rabi gives Nayuta a kerchief, and Iroha, Ui, and Mikage step outside so Nayuta can recompose herself.
There, Iroha explains that PC is now officially off to save MitaKana, and that she, Mifuyu, and Ui had been there to check on TouNemu. Mikage seems to have doubts about this still, but Iroha assures that Livia can be trusted - and this may be something only a Coordinator can resolve. Again, though, all they can do is wait and hope... In a flashback, we get a recap on how Kyubey's hijacked the APS for a while now; he doesn't have it entirely under control yet...but he will if they don't stop him. Back in the present, Iroha reaffirms her resolve to get it back.
Now, we transition to a flashback to a certain event...yes, Call of the Open Sea! As it turns out, MitaKana seem to have gone to that very same beach now. Puella Care is rolling in by train, where we find that Livia, after unintentionally looking into Mitama's soul, found that Mitama believes that beach is the ideal place to die. Livia recaps the tragic story of the Diviner who once lived in that beachside village in the days of yore. Livia thinks that the Diviner carried a grudge against the village that denied her love and turned into a Witch as a result, and Livia also sees the parallels with Mitama.
This particular locale is significant to Mitama because of everything she and Momoko went through there - perhaps, in Mitama's mind, dying there would, in a twisted way, be a workaround for Momoko's vow that she would die with Mitama if Mitama's wish came true. Livia remarks that if only Mitama had been honest and forthright with her friends to begin with, none of this would have come to pass...
The subject of honesty prompts a question from Yozuru - she admits she and Sudachi saw Livia's past by accident, too. And now they want to know - what is Livia's purpose in this whole battle? What is Livia's endgame here? Livia is silent at first, then says if they did see her past, they would know. But Yozuru says they couldn't grasp it all; the experience was just too overwhelming. Sudachi insists, too, and Livia, finally, knowing the cat's out of the bag, decides to tell them everything.
Livia explains her purpose is to save magical girls all over the world. Yozuru affirms she and Sudachi learned such, but in her soul, they felt Kyubey as this massive, overwhelming presence in Livia. Livia supposes that yes, Kyubey would be a significant presence in her soul - because she's trying to save magical girls, and the way she's going about that is by fulfilling his mission. Yozuru remarks it truly is as they saw, then - but Livia elaborates, saying that Kyubey is running this whole system because has an energy quota he needs to fulfill to save the universe. If he fulfills that quota, then the whole magical girl project is done and Kyubey will peace out - ergo, the sooner he fulfills that, the faster magical girls and the universe will be saved. Sudachi fumus in protest; Yozuru agrees that it's a bit of a ridiculous plan - for one, it requires the sacrifice of countless megucas. Yes, Livia says, hence why they stationed themselves in Kamihama - a muggle documenting magical girls has been unheard of, along with a magical girl clash on this scale, let alone the Doppels. But Livia figured this was a good prospect for them in two ways - for one, if Doppels are a renewable energy source, and as efficient as the Witch system, that could be an ideal solution for them and Kyubey both. Second, Kagome is a girl with serious potential - by cooperating with Kyubey and protecting her as she forges bonds with all these magical girls, her karmic weight would snowball, and once she contracts, she would be a source of enormous energy for Kyubey's goals.
Yozuru puts it simply: If Kagome witches out, boom, that's a huge part of the quota met right there. And by Yozuru's reckoning, that's certainly not in line with Livia's teachings about kindness... Livia says that's why she fanned the flames of the Kimochi Bowl as she did - more fighting equals more doppels equals more test data for Kyubey. Alas, however, their energy output failed to meet Kyubey's standards, and so Livia had to fall back on Plan B - Kagome contracting and witching out (sacrificing one for the sake of many). This is what Livia meant in Chapter 7 that protecting Kagome would give them all a happy future. Yozuru ultimately supposes that may be the best solution - but Livia says no. The best solution is Iroha's - to overthrow Kyubey's control of the APS system (cue "take my revolution"), because that right there would be instrumental in saving all of megucakind. And in order to fulfill that, they need to turn MitaKana around.
In the end, Livia is doing all this for the sake of the universe - she's not being nice to Yozuru and Sudachi for their sake, but for the universe's, for the greater good. Yozuru and Sudachi say given what they saw in her soul, it all makes sense now.
Onto KanaMita - we get a flashback to Chapter 10 about them going off to destroy Himena's system; Tsuruno offering to join them, but them declining. Kanagi, in the present, remarks that her feeling was right - they can no longer walk the same roads together. They flash back again to the moment of their redemption, where Kanagi reflects that in her grief, she ignored everyone else's; Mitama adds that joy is inevitably balanced out by sorrow, and reflects on Momoko talking about how they'll figure out what to do about Mitama's wish together when the time comes.
Kanagi explains that they're here to die after stopping Himena - that they'll witch out here, a place where they'd cause the least damage. She knows Mitama wanted this place specifically, where a Diviner lost herself to her grudge, just as Mitama and Kanagi find themselves unable to escape their own. Kanagi looks to thet Kimochi stones and asks that the Kimochis within entrust themselves to Iroha and Yachiyo, and seems to sort of will their bodies for the Kimochis to control as they please, and also permits them to consume their Witch forms as well - before Kyubey ("that white tanuki") takes everything away.
Puella Care peel onto the scene just as KanaMita are about to witch out, and upon sight of the duo, instantly transform and get to work. There's normally a procedure for these things, but they have no choice but to do this on the fly, with how bad MitaKana's conditions are - they purify the girls real quick and then do a joint Coordination on them both. The mindscape resembles the Doppel talk foggy background, torn apart with twisting branch-like extremities - Livia and Yozuru remark that they sense all the duo's joys deeply entwined with sorrow - makes sense, given the Kimochis they bound themselves to.
We see grey specters of the KMU characters talking - like Leila saying that she's fed up with this whole mess about the election and corruption; the last thing MitaKana ought to do is ruin everything that's left. Rika, meanwhile, condemns Mitama for having secretly worked for the Magius, saying she's been nothing but scum - how long is Mitama going to trouble everyone? Kokoro, now, talks about how terrible it is that someone so preoccupied with how to properly mourn someone turned around and started advocating for destruction, which would cause so much mourning. Moka says she'd rather die than beg for forgiveness for something like this; Riko expresses disappointment at how MitaKana weren't kind people after all; Manaka says they're rotten to the point they should be burned up and destroyed; and Hinano's specter, finally, tells them she'll at least give them both a comfortable death - just take this potion, and...
In truth, all of that is Mitama and Kanagi's warped vision of how they think everyone else feels about them, and with all that, they conclude they deserve to die. But with a flash of light, Yozuru counters with the true feelings of their friends, gathered from the meeting the other day - first, Hinano feels so guilty for not being able to help MitaKana, while Rika talks about how safe and happy she's felt at the Coordinator's shop. Manaka feels ashamed that she never considered what Mitama might actually be going through, in all the good times they shared. Nanaka can't say she's all good with MitaKana, but says they needn't to resort to an answer so drastic. Moka asks for Mitama to continue helping her, because she depends on her; Kokoro says that given how magical girls struggle with themselves so much, they need people like Mitama and Kanagi in their lives who reach beyond their own selves and help others find their way. Riko says east-side megucas aspire to be like big sis Kanagi someday; Leila says the duo have done so much for her, and she's been wanting to repay them when she grows up. Finally, in proper Live2D form, we see Mifuyu, Yachiyo, and Iroha in turn. Mifuyu says that if not for KanaMita, no one would have survived as long as they did. She implores them to come back - for them all to live as they did before in times of peace. Yachiyo says she had asked Kanagi if she'd ever considered people outside of her, precisely because Kanagi has been so unselfish, to help Kanagi see who she truly is deep down - believing that once Kanagi say that, she would be able to find the road home. And finally, Iroha says that MitaKana and everyone can all be silly fools together - if wanting peace is foolish, then foolish they shall all be.
Under all these sincere feelings, we get a vision of the Arc 1 finale CG, with everyone celebrating the fall of Walpurgisnacht - and Kanagi and Mitama feel a belonging and oneness with everyone again...and they want to go back.
The KanaMita mindscape rumbles, but does not yet break. MitaKana aren't teetering on the brink of the metaphorical cliff now, but the roots of sorrow boring into their souls still grip tight. Livia concludes that if MitaKana wake up now, they'll still be in the grips of their grief and regrets, and will witch out sooner or later. Asked what she should do, she says Puella Care needs to broaden their perspectives. At Sudachi's questioning, Livia explains that KanaMita have been boxed in by Kamihama's issues - the stress of daily living has made them hypersensitive to the problems their loved ones go through, but has blinded them to the suffering of the broader world. And that is what they need to be subjected to.
Yozuru thinks this will make things so much worse, but au contraire, Livia says. When people are at a low as deep as this, Livia argues, the answer is not to show them goodness and light, but the horrors and ugliness of the world. (Reminds me of a certain anime scene...) The purpose is not to take pleasure or schadenfreude in their pain - but rather, in knowing what kinds of suffering and problems other people face every day, it helps put your life in perspective, in a more objective light. (My read is like, it's not exactly like "your problems don't matter," but rather, they're not the end-all-be-all of your existence, and no matter how bad it seems, you're not the only one suffering, either) The earth is but a mere speck of dust in the greater universe, and so are we - and in that light, perhaps, MitaKana can finally process and let go of their grief. So what can they show MitaKana, Sudachi asks? Simple - Livia proposes that they all walk MitaKana through their pasts and their pain.
We skip right over Yozuru and Sudachi's sequence (see their MGSes if you haven’t already) and into Livia's, who tells the tale of her past. She never knew her mom, only her dad, in an apartment in an oceanside town. Her father was fairly absent, almost always out of the house for work or recreation or some other reason, but she didn't have a bad life - her dad made sure she had money for food, she studied hard, her dad praised her. She spent most of her time in the library than out with friends, but despite being nose-deep in books and looking very different from everyone else, the others in town were kind to her . Really, the only problem was that she was poor, but life, for a time, was sweet.
One fateful day, however, she was pulled out of class with the news that would shatter her world - her dad was killed in a workplace accident, crushed to death. Her last memory of him was him coming home happy and drunk three days before his death - he was a jolly drunk, so the one and only bright spot of all this was tht her final memory of him was at least better than directly seeing a gruesome death.
Livia was sent to an orphan's home, where she met her mother for the first time after the latter flew out to see her. Her mom, however, couldn't speak Japanese, and to Livia she felt like a stranger, and didn't want to leave behind everything she knew to go to a foreign country, and chose to stay in the orphanage. In the end, her mom went home without her. In retrospect, Livia notes that despite the massive disadvantages, she might've been better off leaving with her mom. And boy howdy, she might've been right.
Livia's life went downhill from there, you see - the orphanage was a rough place to be, with two bullies having the run of the place and making Livia and other kids verbal and physical targets for their cruelty. She got into brawls with the two boys and straight up wanted to kill them, saying that if all they do is make others unhappy, why should people care if they die? After breaking up one of their fights, the woman in change (the orphanage director or something) tried to explain that the bullies, as fellow orphans, were suffering as well, and expressed that unbearable pain by hurting others, too. But that's not nearly enough of an excuse for Livia - like, so what, she's supposed to just lie back and take it, all because they're in pain? Is it because she's a foreigner, and therefore at the bottom of the pecking order, and so her own pain matters less than theirs? It escalates from there, things get heated, and the incident ends with Livia punching the director in the face. In such a rage, Livia wanted to kill the director, too - but suddenly imagined her father's brutal death, and decided to just flee the orphanage instead.
With nowhere else to go, Livia went to live with a pair of girls downtown who were in a similar spot as her. Now away from the abuse in the orphanage, she was able to see that other people had similar circumstances to her - that unhappiness and cruelty were everywhere, not just in her, and she was able to be slightly more at peace with things. During that period, she and the other girls survived by doing odd jobs for a shady guy, serving as a courier delivering messages for him. The girls eventually screwed up one job, and the man turned violent - Livia managed to escape his wrath at first thanks to a good samaritan (though her friends ended up being hurt or worse by the thug), but she made it out, all was well... She expected the police would come and arrest her, but hey, prison would be better than being stuck with that guy…
...Except it turns out the good samaritan was in with the gangster, and she falls right into their clutches.
She's taken to an old woman, the head honcho of the operation. After slapping Livia around for speaking out of turn, the lady remarks that Livia is beautiful, intelligent, with good motor skills and athletic ability... Livia silently awaits her fate, and the granny remarks that Livia must be wondering why her life is so miserable. The lady explains that, in her eyes, everyone is either a good person, or an evil person - that is the only path to happiness (of a nature). You cannot lead a good life if you are surrounded by bad people, and vice versa - and you will not survive otherwise. It's best to adapt to the circumstances you're in. The lady knows Livia's past, that Livia lived an upright life back in her home village, but her life has spiraled to the point that Livia can no longer return to as she was once was. The kind of people who thrive in Livia's world - the bullies, this gang/yakuza/whatever - are evil people. Violence, in one shape or another, is necessary to survive here. Livia has been cast into hell, now - and if she wants to live, she needs to become evil like the rest of them.
The lady has plans for Livia. Livia will be trafficked to a circus, where her talents can come in handy; meanwhile Livia's friends, who lack such talents, are sent off to fates unknown. Livia realizes, to her horror, that this was the plan all along - the courier job was a lure; she and her friends were marks for this trafficking scheme. Livia, looking sick and bitter, asks how much her wage will be, but the lady simply tells her that there's no point in cattle knowing their own price - from this day forward, Livia will no longer be considered human.
While Livia was in all likelihood still in Japan during her time at the circus ("circus"), she spent the entire trip unconscious and in the dark. By the time she came out, and in the chaos and confusion of her life, she felt like she was in a foreign land. She was made to work with magic and illusions, put through a harsh training regime. One of the few bright spots were two friends she made, like her partner, a girl who hailed from where Livia's mom came from, and a guy around their age (they're all teenagers around this point). In her time there, Livia worked with people from all sorts of different backgrounds, with terrible circumstances as well, like her partner who was also kidnapped/trafficked into this, or the guy who ran away from home to escape his family and wound up here. They often spoke of their dreams together, the guy wanting to find his own place in life, and the girl wanting to reunite with her family someday. Over time, Livia became more detached from her experiences , and was able to see things from a hands-off, "bird's eye" view.
Given the circus's ruthless regime, however, injuries were a constant problem. Several people Livia knew, including her two friends, were reassigned to different positions when they got hurt. With Livia being under such an unrelenting schedule, she never saw them again, but wondered about them. (It was a little odd that all these reassignments were happening, given that the circus wasn't that big, but she wasn't in a position to question it...) Eventually, Livia met this fate, too, by accidentally having her leg stabbed in a sword trick.
After treatment at a shady "hospital," her injury and its repercussions were severe enough that she wouldn't be able to perform again. On the bright side, she thought she could be reunited with her partner again...but while the director told her she was to be reassigned, she ended up discovering that she was about to be sent off to an unknown facility again - and she could not bear it. She wanted to be human, not an object, and at this point, she just wanted to die than be subject to another day of this abuse.
She wanted to flee, but the circus moved faster than her; she was knocked unconscious, and awoke lying in a dimly-lit room with large drawers reaching the ceiling - a hospital, she thought at first. She managed to hide from the traffickers (speaking in a language she can't recognize), wondering if she was being sold elsewhere again. Once alone, she realizes the room has an ungodly stench. She opens up one drawer - and sees the rotting face of her former troupe partner. She opens more, and sees more familiar faces, like her guy buddy, too and knows now that this is where injured circus members got "reassigned." Livia, as you'd expect, is horrified, but finds sudden grit and determination, too - to survive where her friends could not, to expose the evils of these traffickers and find some kind of retribution.
The traffickers find her and she runs and runs and runs - but a stray bullet catches her in the leg and takes her down. She collapses to the floor, her body finally giving in and surrendering to death (cue the chapter homescreen CG). Livia's life flashes before her eyes, from her father and the warmth of her childhood to the nightmare she lives now; the visions culminate in the whole "you have to be evil in order to survive this world" scene from the old lady. And in what she thinks is a dying hallucination, Livia sees a certain white creature approaching her for a contract, and Livia makes her big wish: "Make me evil."
Shortly thereafter, Livia is forcibly expelled by her Coordination by Yozuru and Sudachi, who panic that she's overexerting herself. Livia freaks out, thinking they bailed out too soon, but it's actually just enough to save Kanagi and Mitama - a good number of the tendrils of sorrow begin to fall away, with Kanagi and Mitama beginning to breaking free from their grief. Puella Care rallies together for one last push to free Mitama and Kanagi - and then the episode ends.
