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# Aniplex

# MTBB

Screw it. What a pain.

I'll kill both!

I'll just kill them both!

One.

Two.

That's right.

They're both bluffs. Simply put.

They're both bluffs, simply put.

Revealing this trick.

Let's reveal the trick!

Basically, by putting a hundred 'Loomer Nadekos as shikigami all over the floor,

Basically, by spreading a hundred familiar-'Loomer-Nadekos all over the floor,

God Nadeko created a "wall of Nadekos."

God Nadeko created a wall of Nadekos.

And if that's the case, I thought we can mingle among those 100.

And so, I thought I could mingle among those 100.

I drew bloomers and gymnasium shoes and made it three-dimensional.

I drew bloomers and gym shoes and made them three-dimensional.

Just like the material creation ability that ex-Heart-under-blade has.

Just like the material creation ability that the former Heart-under-blade has.

Well, I was able to seal a chisel, which wasn't a shikigami, into paper.

Well, I was able to turn a chisel, which wasn't a familiar, into paper.

So I simply thought I could do the reverse as well.

The idea of mingling among the herd of 'Loomer Nadekos

I figured the idea of mingling among the herd of 'Loomer Nadekos was a good enough plan,

wasn't that bad of an idea, I thought.

but to pull that plan off, we would need a decoy plan.

But to pull that plan off, we would need a decoy plan.

That's why I reactivated Wrath Nadeko after modifying her design,

That's why I reactivated Wrath Nadeko after changing her design.

And on top of that,

Right after that, I did one more.

I drew Current Nadeko as a character and turned her three-dimensional.

Current Nadeko as a character was drawn and turned three-dimensional.

That's right. I activated two familiars at once.

That's right. I activated two shikigami at once.

Wrath Nadeko dressed as Current Nadeko,

and a shikigami, Current Nadeko (shikigami version).

and as her familiar, Current Nadeko (familiar version).

I had them running side-by-side towards God Nadeko.

I asked Ononoki to create a straight path for that to happen by using her Unlimited Rulebook.

I asked Ononoki to create a straight path for them with her Unlimited Rulebook.

But, looking at the results, things didn't go quite the way I had thought.

But looking at the results, you can probably guess that things didn't go quite according to plan.

It was no good at all.

In the end, I am how I am now because that's what I used to be like.

In the end, she is how she is because that's what I used to be like.

I think you're clearly different from God Nadeko, though.

Maybe "different" is not the right word, so I should say you "changed."

Maybe "different" is the wrong word. I should say you changed, instead.

You were the one who was most at risk here. There's no doubt about that.

You were the one who was most at risk here. There's no two ways about it.

All of them were fabricated shikigami.

All the others were but artificial familiars.

But you, a living being, put yourself into the most dangerous situation.

That alone is enough reason for me to appreciate you.

You're completely different from God Nadeko, who stayed in a safe spot.

You've come a long ways from God Nadeko, holed up in safety.

You're no longer who you used to be.

I've never received such words that made me feel so happy.

I've never heard words that made me feel so happy.

But at the same time, those were very saddening words.

But at the same time, those words were very saddening.

Well, if you are to commemorate the shikigami who stood in for you,

Well, if you are to commemorate the familiars who stood in for you,

why don't you take this experience, those emotions, and draw them so you can preserve it?

why don't you take this experience, those emotions, and draw them—make a record of them?

Draw them...

...to preserve them, huh?

Make a record, huh?

Draw them, and preserve them as my work, and as a memory.

Anyway, Nade-koh...

Anyway, Naddie...

This time for sure, "clearing people out

This time for sure, the people-repelling skill rooted in shyness is gone from this building.

due to bashfulness around them" is gone from this building.

You should leave this area.

You should probably leave this area.

I'll deal with the aftermath here. I'm a specialist, after all.

The real labor from this point on is a realm only for the pros.

The grunt work from this point on is best left to the pros.

Simply put, your presence is no longer necessary.

That's all the more reason

for you to go to the place where you're needed, Nade-koh.

for you to go to the place where you're needed, Naddie.

Nadeko Sengoku. There's a place where you need to go right now, isn't there?

Sengoku Nadeko. There's somewhere you need to be right now, isn't there?

Yes, there is.

That's right.

It's actually not over yet.

Hello, Sengoku.

Care for a ride?

Let's see, I'm headed to...

Don't worry, I know where to go.

It's not like I chased around

I've been busy since we parted ways. I wasn't chasing around a bloomer-clad middle school girl for nothing.

a middle school girl in only bloomers for nothing since I parted ways with you.

Ougi...

Mr. Ougi.

Ougi, what exactly do you know?

Mr. Ougi, what do you know?

I don't know anything.

It's what you know, Sengoku.

You're the one who knows everything, Sengoku.

Mr. Meme Oshino once called me a "victim."

Oshino... Oshino Meme once called me a "victim."

I think that I really was one.

But it's also true that it was easier for me to live as a "victim" as well.

But it's also true that it was easier for me to live as a victim.

Loved, begrudged, hated, cursed.

I was passive through all of it. I didn't cause any of those actions.

But can I say that back then, I didn't think about wanting to be loved by others?

Can I say that I never did anything for someone to hold a grudge against me?

Can I say that I never did anything to make someone hold a grudge against me?

Can I say that I never did anything to be hated?

Can I say that I never did anything deserving of hate?

Can I say that I never did anything to be cursed?

Can I say that I never did anything deserving of a curse?

I have absolutely no clue what you're talking about.

What? Do you want to say that from the other side, you're the root cause?

What, do you want to say that from the others' point of view, you're the root cause?

Is that logic similar to how a bullied person is also in the wrong?

Is that like putting some blame on the bullied?

I won't quite put it that way.

I wouldn't quite put it that way.

I think what the other side did was the worst thing ever.

I think what they did was horrible.

But for those who loved me, and my friends... I didn't stop them from becoming the worst.

But I didn't lift a finger to stop people who loved me or who were my friends from doing horrible things.

I cared too much about myself, and didn't do that.

By continuing to be the victim forever, I made everyone around me the wrongdoers.

You're implying a lot there.

There's a lot to unpack there.

But what does that have to do with things now?

They're all stories from the past, aren't they?

That's all over and done with, isn't it?

All of this is about the present.

None of it's over. It's still happening.

Among the four shikigami I created,

Among the four familiars I created,

I took the Nadeko Sengoku who was the "victim" so to say

the Sengoku Nadeko who was the "victim" in that sense, Meek Nadeko,

and looked down on Meek Nadeko as someone who was lesser.

was the most inferior in my eyes.

That's why I had rigidly assumed

that she was being used by the other three Nadeko Sengokus as they pleased.

that she was being used by the other three Sengoku Nadekos as they pleased.

I assumed it all happened because she was the "victim."

Of the four, Meek Nadeko was the weakest.

But because she was weak,

she had no hesitation in taking advantage of the stronger ones.

she didn't hesitate to take advantage of the stronger ones.

Just like how I left it to other people on how to live my life.

Just like, when it came to living my life, I left it to other people.

Meek Nadeko took fighting and even fleeing, and left it to the other three.

Meek Nadeko took fighting—and even fleeing— and left it to the other three.

Are you saying Meek Nadeko was the true mastermind here?

But even if that was the case,

Meek Nadeko was crushed by the bookcase and flattened, right?

The 'Chool Nadeko crushed by the bookshelf wasn't necessarily the main body of Meek Nadeko.

Especially if that 'Chool Nadeko

was one of the shikigami that God Nadeko had mass-produced.

was one of the familiars that God Nadeko mass-produced.

If it was?

Supposing that's true,

What did Meek Nadeko want to do,

what did Meek Nadeko want to do

by twisting all the other Nadeko Sengokus, including you, around her finger?

by twisting all the other Sengoku Nadekos, including you, around her little finger?

Meek Nadeko wanted to buy some time.

She wanted to buy some time to do what she really wanted to do.

While Flirty Nadeko was standing out...

While Wrath Nadeko was waiting to ambush...

While Wrath Nadeko was waiting in ambush...

She, and only she...

She was the only one who was trying to do what she wanted to do.

But Mr. Ougi, you know the truth already, don't you?

But Ougi, you know the truth already, don't you?

What Meek Nadeko wanted to do, and what she still wants to do right now.

Since you're aware of my destination...

You're aware of my destination, after all.

Right.

Unfortunately, I can't say that's something you can write home about.

But do excuse me for saying this: I don't think it's that noble an act.

Yes.

No, it's not.

That's why I'm going to go stop her.

If I don't, this story will not end.

Well, we're here.

What you wanted to do last year.

What you left undone last year would be...

to kill off Senjyogahara-senpai, who was your romantic rival, right?

To kill off Senjougahara, your romantic rival, right?

How could you be so wrong, huh?!

Of course not, dumbass!

How can you have such a knowing look

You make a dramatic reappearance with your face all smug,

and arrive so gallantly when you're so slow to understand!?

yet you're that slow to understand?!

Go to Naoetsu High right now!

Get us to Naoetsu High right now!

To the front gate of Naoetsu High School!

You're wasting your time, Meek Nadeko.

It's useless.

That guy is not here anymore.

He's not here anymore.

Nobody stays as an eighth grader forever.

Nobody stays an eighth grader forever.

They can't be 14 years old forever.

It's useless to be waiting here.

It's useless to wait here.

Waiting here won't do you any good.

It wasn't good for me.

It didn't do me any good.

It was very, terribly bad.

It did me plenty of bad, actually.

Nobody became happy even if I kept waiting.

Nobody became happy just because I was waiting.

Even if I kept pining, it only hurt everyone.

That's why you can't be here.

That's why I can't be here.

You'd know something like that from the beginning, won't you?

But you understood that from the very beginning too, didn't you?

I mean, because I understood it.

I'm sorry.

It was my fault.

I'm sorry.

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# Aniplex

Screw it. What a pain.
I'll kill both!
One.
Two.
That's right.
They're both bluffs. Simply put.
Revealing this trick.
Basically, by putting a hundred 'Loomer Nadekos as shikigami all over the floor,
God Nadeko created a "wall of Nadekos."
And if that's the case, I thought we can mingle among those 100.
I drew bloomers and gymnasium shoes and made it three-dimensional.
Just like the material creation ability that ex-Heart-under-blade has.
Well, I was able to seal a chisel, which wasn't a shikigami, into paper.
So I simply thought I could do the reverse as well.
The idea of mingling among the herd of 'Loomer Nadekos
wasn't that bad of an idea, I thought.
But to pull that plan off, we would need a decoy plan.
That's why I reactivated Wrath Nadeko after changing her design.
Right after that, I did one more.
Current Nadeko as a character was drawn and turned three-dimensional.
That's right. I activated two shikigami at once.
Wrath Nadeko dressed as Current Nadeko,
and a shikigami, Current Nadeko (shikigami version).
I had them running side-by-side towards God Nadeko.
I asked Ononoki to create a straight path for that to happen by using her Unlimited Rulebook.
But, looking at the results, things didn't go quite the way I had thought.
It was no good at all.
In the end, I am how I am now because that's what I used to be like.
I think you're clearly different from God Nadeko, though.
Maybe "different" is not the right word, so I should say you "changed."
You were the one who was most at risk here. There's no doubt about that.
All of them were fabricated shikigami.
But you, a living being, put yourself into the most dangerous situation.
That alone is enough reason for me to appreciate you.
You're completely different from God Nadeko, who stayed in a safe spot.
You're no longer who you used to be.
I've never received such words that made me feel so happy.
But at the same time, those were very saddening words.
Well, if you are to commemorate the shikigami who stood in for you,
why don't you take this experience, those emotions, and draw them so you can preserve it?
Draw them...
...to preserve them, huh?
Draw them, and preserve them as my work, and as a memory.
Anyway, Nade-koh...
This time for sure, "clearing people out
due to bashfulness around them" is gone from this building.
You should probably leave this area.
I'll deal with the aftermath here. I'm a specialist, after all.
The real labor from this point on is a realm only for the pros.
Simply put, your presence is no longer necessary.
That's all the more reason
for you to go to the place where you're needed, Nade-koh.
Nadeko Sengoku. There's a place where you need to go right now, isn't there?
Yes, there is.
That's right.
It's actually not over yet.
Hello, Sengoku.
Care for a ride?
Let's see, I'm headed to...
Don't worry, I know where to go.
It's not like I chased around
a middle school girl in only bloomers for nothing since I parted ways with you.
Mr. Ougi.
Mr. Ougi, what do you know?
I don't know anything.
It's what you know, Sengoku.
Mr. Meme Oshino once called me a "victim."
I think that I really was one.
But it's also true that it was easier for me to live as a "victim" as well.
Loved, begrudged, hated, cursed.
I was passive through all of it. I didn't cause any of those actions.
But can I say that back then, I didn't think about wanting to be loved by others?
Can I say that I never did anything for someone to hold a grudge against me?
Can I say that I never did anything to be hated?
Can I say that I never did anything to be cursed?
I have absolutely no clue what you're talking about.
What? Do you want to say that from the other side, you're the root cause?
Is that logic similar to how a bullied person is also in the wrong?
I won't quite put it that way.
I think what the other side did was the worst thing ever.
But for those who loved me, and my friends... I didn't stop them from becoming the worst.
I cared too much about myself, and didn't do that.
By continuing to be the victim forever, I made everyone around me the wrongdoers.
You're implying a lot there.
But what does that have to do with things now?
They're all stories from the past, aren't they?
All of this is about the present.
Among the four shikigami I created,
I took the Nadeko Sengoku who was the "victim" so to say
and looked down on Meek Nadeko as someone who was lesser.
That's why I had rigidly assumed
that she was being used by the other three Nadeko Sengokus as they pleased.
I assumed it all happened because she was the "victim."
Of the four, Meek Nadeko was the weakest.
But because she was weak,
she had no hesitation in taking advantage of the stronger ones.
Just like how I left it to other people on how to live my life.
Meek Nadeko took fighting and even fleeing, and left it to the other three.
Are you saying Meek Nadeko was the true mastermind here?
But even if that was the case,
Meek Nadeko was crushed by the bookcase and flattened, right?
The 'Chool Nadeko crushed by the bookshelf wasn't necessarily the main body of Meek Nadeko.
Especially if that 'Chool Nadeko
was one of the shikigami that God Nadeko had mass-produced.
If it was?
What did Meek Nadeko want to do,
by twisting all the other Nadeko Sengokus, including you, around her finger?
Meek Nadeko wanted to buy some time.
She wanted to buy some time to do what she really wanted to do.
While Flirty Nadeko was standing out...
While Wrath Nadeko was waiting to ambush...
She, and only she...
She was the only one who was trying to do what she wanted to do.
But Mr. Ougi, you know the truth already, don't you?
What Meek Nadeko wanted to do, and what she still wants to do right now.
Since you're aware of my destination...
Right.
Unfortunately, I can't say that's something you can write home about.
Yes.
That's why I'm going to go stop her.
If I don't, this story will not end.
Well, we're here.
What you wanted to do last year.
What you left undone last year would be...
to kill off Senjyogahara-senpai, who was your romantic rival, right?
How could you be so wrong, huh?!
How can you have such a knowing look
and arrive so gallantly when you're so slow to understand!?
Go to Naoetsu High right now!
To the front gate of Naoetsu High School!
You're wasting your time, Meek Nadeko.
It's useless.
That guy is not here anymore.
Nobody stays as an eighth grader forever.
They can't be 14 years old forever.
It's useless to be waiting here.
Waiting here won't do you any good.
It wasn't good for me.
It was very, terribly bad.
Nobody became happy even if I kept waiting.
Even if I kept pining, it only hurt everyone.
That's why you can't be here.
That's why I can't be here.
You'd know something like that from the beginning, won't you?
I mean, because I understood it.
I'm sorry.
It was my fault.
I'm sorry.
Hey, listen up.
Nobody can stay in the same place forever.
Not in eighth grade.
Not in twelfth grade.
Not as a god.
Not as a vampire.
If you did something like that, everyone would be gone.
Even if you waited forever, a prince won't come riding a white horse.
You won't get a glass slipper delivered to you.
Even if you pretended to be sound asleep, nobody would wake you up with a kiss.
That's why you can't wait around in a place like this forever.
Let's go back to where everyone else is.
Everyone is waiting for you.
Flirty Nadeko, Wrath Nadeko, and God Nadeko, too.
They're all waiting for you to take action on your own.
Then....
Then, you don't love him anymore?
I love him so much.
It's so fun just to wait for him.
I'm so happy just pining for him.
I don't need anything else.
Still, you don't love him anymore?
You can't remember anymore?
Did you get bored? Did you forget? Does it not matter to you anymore?
Is it gone?
Is the future that boring?
Did I turn into that kind of an adult?
Meek Nadeko, I...
I promise you.
I will fall in love with someone again. I promise you.
I will not stop loving people.
I will not forget that waiting was so fun, and that I was happy just pining for him.
I will definitely not turn your heartbreak into a failure.
I'll chase my dreams, and I won't learn my lesson and I'll fall in love again.
I'll remind myself of that feeling of not wanting anything else.
I will make sure to become the person who you wanted me to become.
I will be a person who won't disappoint others.
So...
please stop waiting.
Let's head to the future.
Okay.
I'll always be with you, forever.
Your hardships.
Your pain.
Your cute heartbreak.
I'll turn them all into an interesting manga.
I'll turn it into a story that sparks joy in people's hearts.
Nadeko Sengoku, 15 years old.
Still developing, still growing, still straying off course.
Still inexperienced and unskilled.
I don't think I'll be able to become an adult for quite a while.
But on this day, I grew up just a little bit.
This is what you'd call an epilogue, as well as a prologue.
Talk of the future that will someday become a memory.
I don't know your circumstances but for starters, I covered up for you
regarding the front door and the phone line that was yanked out.
"I'm pretty sure my best friend Nadeko
barged in while we were gone and did all sorts of bad things,
but I'm sure she had no ill will so please forgive her."
That's what I told them.
She basically didn't cover for me at all.
Oh, don't look at her with such disdain.
Though imperfect, this is the little sister of my master.
As a vampire, an apparition of blood,
it's possible to traverse through her shadows if related by blood.
Though, this is illogical and puts reason into hiding,
and it causes much fatigue to the shadow's owner.
So as I said, don't look at her with disdain.
Here's a present for you, bangs girl.
Or should that be former bangs girl?
I thought about eating these together with you.
I hear that you have gained a talent to turn what you draw into a three-dimensional object.
So can you try to draw these and make more of them as an experiment?
I succeeded in taking the donuts I drew and turning them from two dimensions to three.
But taste-wise, it was a huge failure.
I guess you can't do this with food after all.
Even with my material creation ability, I can hardly make anything organic.
Now, how about we experiment with precision instruments next?
Experiment?
Yes. What continued from there were experiments.
It seems that Shinobu, in pretending to be experimenting with me,
she was lecturing me on how to use this special ability. I caught on midway.
WILL A TAXIDERMED CREATURE COME ALIVE?
Shinobu, though gruffly, and as if it didn't matter at all,
was telling me what to be careful of during usage and teaching me in a polite, thorough manner.
As for how to use the shikigami, there's nothing I can say about that.
I've made minions twice and failed both times, after all.
U-Um, Shinobu?
Huh? What is it?
Do you still think that I just happened to be cute?
"Blank stare."
What, who in the world said that to you?
There are people out there who can be so heartless.
If there's another fool who says such stupid things, bring that one to me.
Let me guarantee you this.
I am the king of apparitions who has lived 600 years.
I've been called the iron-blooded, hot-blooded, cold-blooded vampire.
You've killed me several thousand times,
then voluntarily abdicated the seat of god that held such power.
You rid yourself of such immense power and decided to become a human again
to live a grand life to this day like you're doing now.
There's no way that you just happened to be cute.
The greatest hate springs from the greatest love, you know?
Hate...
Indeed. I don't know if that's a good thing or not, but someone like you...
Even if you're reincarnated a hundred times, I'm sure you'll be a hateful individual.
Shinobu, you really do say devastating things.
In the end, Tsukihi napped until evening, and went home after eating dinner with us.
Yeah! Peace, peace.
Nade-koh.
I brought you some good news today.
When I reported your adventures this time around,
Ms. Gaen expressed quite an interest in your special ability.
She said she has a job that she'd definitely like your help with.
J-Job?
Right. She said that depending on the outcome,
she might want you to periodically help her with her job.
That's just how much value Ms. Gaen seems to see in you.
H-Hold on a second.
Don't get me wrong.
Ms. Gaen didn't appraise you for your skills as a shikigami user.
She put value in your calmness when dealing with trouble.
Four shikigami ran out of control, but you collected them back in the same day.
You could say your competence stands out more than any genius would.
Is that why you made me come up with the plan, Ononoki?
That's right, Nade-koh.
As a professional specialist,
and as a strict, unsentimental, business-like shikigami,
for the prosperity of our industry, and so that I could take it easy,
I was just doing my job to unearth new talent.
Now you see why I was so kind to someone like you, right?
Yes, I get it.
Ononoki is a very bad liar.
You're still a minor, so Ms. Gaen won't pass on any reckless jobs to you.
And of course, you can still strive to become a manga artist.
The time constraints will vary, but think of it as gathering material.
Wouldn't it be good to peek into the mystical world?
I can guarantee you'll make enough so you can live on your own.
I didn't think that this kind of punch line would be waiting for me.
I never thought it would be like this when a snake entwined and possessed me.
In the past, I've sought glass slippers that were beyond my means,
and I've been told that for someone who is always looking down, I'm neglectful of my own feet.
But it looks like I'll be wearing two hats. One as a manga artist, and one as a specialist.
Perhaps this is superfluous as well?

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# MTBB

Screw it. What a pain.
I'll just kill them both!
One.
Two.
That's right.
They're both bluffs, simply put.
Let's reveal the trick!
Basically, by spreading a hundred familiar-'Loomer-Nadekos all over the floor,
God Nadeko created a wall of Nadekos.
And so, I thought I could mingle among those 100.
I drew bloomers and gym shoes and made them three-dimensional.
Just like the material creation ability that the former Heart-under-blade has.
Well, I was able to turn a chisel, which wasn't a familiar, into paper.
So I simply thought I could do the reverse as well.
I figured the idea of mingling among the herd of 'Loomer Nadekos was a good enough plan,
but to pull that plan off, we would need a decoy plan.
That's why I reactivated Wrath Nadeko after modifying her design,
And on top of that,
I drew Current Nadeko as a character and turned her three-dimensional.
That's right. I activated two familiars at once.
Wrath Nadeko dressed as Current Nadeko,
and as her familiar, Current Nadeko (familiar version).
I had them running side-by-side towards God Nadeko.
I asked Ononoki to create a straight path for them with her Unlimited Rulebook.
But looking at the results, you can probably guess that things didn't go quite according to plan.
It was no good at all.
In the end, she is how she is because that's what I used to be like.
I think you're clearly different from God Nadeko, though.
Maybe "different" is the wrong word. I should say you changed, instead.
You were the one who was most at risk here. There's no two ways about it.
All the others were but artificial familiars.
But you, a living being, put yourself into the most dangerous situation.
That alone is enough reason for me to appreciate you.
You've come a long ways from God Nadeko, holed up in safety.
You're no longer who you used to be.
I've never heard words that made me feel so happy.
But at the same time, those words were very saddening.
Well, if you are to commemorate the familiars who stood in for you,
why don't you take this experience, those emotions, and draw them—make a record of them?
Draw them...
Make a record, huh?
Draw them, and preserve them as my work, and as a memory.
Anyway, Naddie...
This time for sure, the people-repelling skill rooted in shyness is gone from this building.
You should leave this area.
I'll deal with the aftermath here. I'm a specialist, after all.
The grunt work from this point on is best left to the pros.
Simply put, your presence is no longer necessary.
That's all the more reason
for you to go to the place where you're needed, Naddie.
Sengoku Nadeko. There's somewhere you need to be right now, isn't there?
Yes, there is.
That's right.
It's actually not over yet.
Hello, Sengoku.
Care for a ride?
Let's see, I'm headed to...
Don't worry, I know where to go.
I've been busy since we parted ways. I wasn't chasing around a bloomer-clad middle school girl for nothing.
Ougi...
Ougi, what exactly do you know?
I don't know anything.
You're the one who knows everything, Sengoku.
Oshino... Oshino Meme once called me a "victim."
I think that I really was one.
But it's also true that it was easier for me to live as a victim.
Loved, begrudged, hated, cursed.
I was passive through all of it. I didn't cause any of those actions.
But can I say that back then, I didn't think about wanting to be loved by others?
Can I say that I never did anything to make someone hold a grudge against me?
Can I say that I never did anything deserving of hate?
Can I say that I never did anything deserving of a curse?
I have absolutely no clue what you're talking about.
What, do you want to say that from the others' point of view, you're the root cause?
Is that like putting some blame on the bullied?
I wouldn't quite put it that way.
I think what they did was horrible.
But I didn't lift a finger to stop people who loved me or who were my friends from doing horrible things.
I cared too much about myself, and didn't do that.
By continuing to be the victim forever, I made everyone around me the wrongdoers.
There's a lot to unpack there.
But what does that have to do with things now?
That's all over and done with, isn't it?
None of it's over. It's still happening.
Among the four familiars I created,
the Sengoku Nadeko who was the "victim" in that sense, Meek Nadeko,
was the most inferior in my eyes.
That's why I had rigidly assumed
that she was being used by the other three Sengoku Nadekos as they pleased.
I assumed it all happened because she was the "victim."
Of the four, Meek Nadeko was the weakest.
But because she was weak,
she didn't hesitate to take advantage of the stronger ones.
Just like, when it came to living my life, I left it to other people.
Meek Nadeko took fighting—and even fleeing— and left it to the other three.
Are you saying Meek Nadeko was the true mastermind here?
But even if that was the case,
Meek Nadeko was crushed by the bookcase and flattened, right?
The 'Chool Nadeko crushed by the bookshelf wasn't necessarily the main body of Meek Nadeko.
Especially if that 'Chool Nadeko
was one of the familiars that God Nadeko mass-produced.
Supposing that's true,
what did Meek Nadeko want to do
by twisting all the other Sengoku Nadekos, including you, around her little finger?
Meek Nadeko wanted to buy some time.
She wanted to buy some time to do what she really wanted to do.
While Flirty Nadeko was standing out...
While Wrath Nadeko was waiting in ambush...
She, and only she...
She was the only one who was trying to do what she wanted to do.
But Ougi, you know the truth already, don't you?
What Meek Nadeko wanted to do, and what she still wants to do right now.
You're aware of my destination, after all.
Right.
But do excuse me for saying this: I don't think it's that noble an act.
No, it's not.
That's why I'm going to go stop her.
If I don't, this story will not end.
Well, we're here.
What you wanted to do last year.
What you left undone last year would be...
To kill off Senjougahara, your romantic rival, right?
Of course not, dumbass!
You make a dramatic reappearance with your face all smug,
yet you're that slow to understand?!
Get us to Naoetsu High right now!
To the front gate of Naoetsu High School!
You're wasting your time, Meek Nadeko.
It's useless.
He's not here anymore.
Nobody stays an eighth grader forever.
They can't be 14 years old forever.
It's useless to wait here.
Waiting here won't do you any good.
It didn't do me any good.
It did me plenty of bad, actually.
Nobody became happy just because I was waiting.
Even if I kept pining, it only hurt everyone.
That's why you can't be here.
That's why I can't be here.
But you understood that from the very beginning too, didn't you?
I mean, because I understood it.
I'm sorry.
It was my fault.
I'm sorry.
Hey, listen up.
Nobody can stay in the same place forever.
Not in eighth grade.
Not in twelfth grade.
Not as a god.
Not as a vampire.
If you did something like that, everyone would be gone.
Even if you wait forever, a prince won't come riding a white horse.
You won't get a glass slipper delivered to you.
Even if you pretend to be sound asleep, nobody will wake you up with a kiss.
That's why you can't wait around in a place like this forever.
Let's go back to where everyone else is.
Everyone is waiting for you.
Flirty Nadeko, Wrath Nadeko, and God Nadeko, too.
They're all waiting for you to take action on your own.
Then....
Then you don't love him anymore?
I love him so much.
It's so fun just to wait for him.
I'm so happy just pining for him.
I don't need anything else.
Still, you don't love him anymore?
You can't remember anymore?
Did you get bored? Did you forget? Does it not matter to you anymore?
Everything's just gone?
Is the future that boring?
Did I turn into that kind of an adult?
Meek Nadeko, I...
I promise you.
I will fall in love with someone again. I promise you.
I will not stop loving people.
I will not forget that waiting was so fun, and that I was happy just pining for him.
I will absolutely not turn your heartbreak into a failure.
I'll chase my dreams, and I won't learn my lesson, and I'll fall in love again.
I'll remind myself of that feeling of not wanting anything else.
I will make sure to become the person who you wanted me to become.
I will be a person who won't disappoint others.
So...
please stop waiting.
Let's head to the future.
Okay.
I'll always be with you, forever.
Your hardships.
Your pain.
Your cute heartbreak.
I'll turn them all into an interesting manga.
I'll turn it into a story that sparks joy in people's hearts.
Sengoku Nadeko, 15 years old.
Still developing, still growing, still straying off course.
Still inexperienced and unskilled.
I don't think I'll be able to become an adult for quite a while.
But on this day, I grew up just a little bit.

This is what you'd call an epilogue, as well as a prologue.
Talk of the future that will someday become a memory.
I don't know your circumstances, but at any rate, I covered for you
regarding the front door and the phone line that was yanked out.
"I'm pretty sure my best friend Nadeko
barged in while we were gone and did all sorts of bad things,
but I'm sure she had no ill will, so please forgive her."
That's what I told them.
She basically didn't cover for me at all.
Zzz.
Oh, don't look at her with such disdain.
Though imperfect, this is the little sister of my master.
As a vampire, an oddity of blood,
it's possible to traverse her shadows if related by blood.
Though it is a forced and nigh-nonsensical move,
and it causes great fatigue to the shadow's owner.
So as I said, don't look at her with disdain.
Here's a present for you, Little Miss Bangs.
Or should that be the former Little Miss Bangs?
I thought about eating these together with you.
I hear that you gained a talent to turn what you draw into a three-dimensional object.
So can you try to draw these and make more of them as an experiment?
I succeeded in taking the donuts I drew and turning them from two dimensions to three.
But taste-wise, it was a huge failure.
I guess you can't do this with food after all.
Even with my material creation ability, I can hardly make anything organic.
Now, how about we experiment with precision instruments next?
Experiment?
Yes. What continued from there were experiments.
It seems that Shinobu, in pretending to be experimenting with me,
was lecturing me on how to use this special ability. I caught on midway.
Shinobu—though gruffly, and as if it didn't matter at all—
was telling me what to be careful of and teaching me in a polite, thorough manner.
As for how to use the familiars, there's nothing I can say about that.
After all, I've twice made kin and twice been met with failure.
U-Um, Shinobu?
Huh? What is it?
Do you still think that I just happened to be cute, and that's all I've got going for me?
Hmm?
My word. Who in the world said that to you?
There sure are some heartless people out there.
If you run across another fool who spouts such blather, bring them before me.
Let me guarantee you this.
I am the king of oddities who has lived 600 years.
I've been called the iron-blooded, hot-blooded, cold-blooded vampire.
You killed me several thousand times,
then voluntarily stepped down from your godly perch.
You rid yourself of such immense power and decided to become a human again
to live a grand life to this day like you're doing now.
Who could write you off at someone who just happened to be cute?
The brightest stars rouse great envy and hatred.
Hatred...
Indeed. For better or for worse,
if someone like you were to reincarnate a hundred times,
I'm sure you'd still garner just as much hatred.
Shinobu, you have a really interesting way of cheering people up.
In the end, Tsukihi napped until evening and went home after eating dinner with us.
Yeah! Peace, peace.
Naddie.
I brought you some good news today.
When I reported your adventures this time around,
Gaen expressed quite an interest in your special ability.
She said she has a job that she'd definitely like your help with.
J-Job?
Right. And she said that depending on the outcome,
she might want you to periodically help her with work.
That's just how much value Gaen seems to see in you.
H-Hold on a second.
Don't get me wrong.
Your skills as a familiar user aren't what caught Gaen's interest.
She put value in your calmness when dealing with trouble.
Four familiars ran out of control, but you corralled them the same day.
You could say your competence stands out more than any kind of brilliant talent.
Is that why you made me come up with the plan, Ononoki?
That's right, Naddie.
As a professional specialist,
and as a strict, unsentimental, business-like familiar,
for the prosperity of our industry, and so that I could take it easy,
I was just doing my job to unearth new talent.
Now you see why I was so kind to someone like you, right?
Yes, it's clear to me now:
Ononoki is a terrible liar.
You're still a minor, so Gaen won't give you any reckless jobs.
And of course, you can still strive to become a manga artist.
The hours may vary, but think of it as gathering material.
Wouldn't it be good to peek into the mystical world?
I can guarantee you'll make enough so you can live on your own.
I didn't think that this kind of punch line would be waiting for me.
I never thought it would be like this when a snake constricted and possessed me.
In the past, I've sought glass slippers that were beyond my station,
and I've been told that for someone who is always looking down, I sure do tend to trip over anything and everything.
But now I've got two way to climb upward in life: one as a manga artist, and one as a specialist.
Well, I guess when there's a snake, there'll always be a ladder.