As an anime-only viewer, I didnt know she wouldnt be coming back out.
Nobara follows him underground, where he crosses paths with the real Mahito that Yuuji is chasing.
Mahitos double lines up his pursuer perfectly to be in the direct path of the Real McCoy.
Yuuji and Nobara spot each other, but its too late.
The real Mahito places his hand on her face, I knew it was all over for her.
Appropriately, Nobaras life flashes before her, and thusoureyes.
Specifically, we go back to when she was just a first grader in her tiny village.
In the parlance of former times, she gets a little more girly.
But one day they arrive and Saoris house is covered in graffiti and intentionally buried in snow.
Saoris family eventually leaves town.
Fumi holds Nobaras hand, and witnesses her crying for the first time.
Not just crying, but bawling her eyes out.
Some years pass, and Nobara is the next to leave the village to attend high school in Tokyo.
Back in the present, Saori is now an salarywoman working long nights by the glow of her computer.
The present Nobara finds herself in a white void filled with chairs, most of which are empty.
And I should have hated everything about this episode, but I couldnt.
My cynicism melted as soon as I saw young Nobaras brightly smiling, then sobbing face.
