As the Mirrored City continues to crumble, a portal opens and the Chief Priest of Koto and Inari’s organization arrives with his adjutant, declaring that the city, or “13th plane” was illegally created for Inari and Lady Koto’s own selfish purposes, and it must be destroyed to keep the other 12 planes from being destroyed. Aun and Inari’s familiars turn against him, and Lady Koto is wounded protecting him. Koto despairs at everything being her fault, but before the familiars can get to her Myoue shields her and snaps her out of it. With her hammer at the Chief Priest’s head, Koto demands he help her save her mom and the Mirrored City, or she’ll destroy all the planes herself.
“I feel no uncertainty. I know what’s most important to me.” So says Inari after smashing his fox mask, and with it the “observer” position he surpassed long ago. His boss isn’t moved and dismisses his speech as nonsense and stupidity, but then what he deems most important is far different than Inari. He seeks order and balance among the planes he looks over; the Mirrored City is an anomaly that threatens all that. But Family was what was most important to Inari, a family he was never meant to have but made anyway.
While out preserving the world he built for it, he and Lady Koto had a daughter, who inherited her mom’s not insignificant powers. Once Koto stops blaming herself for being born, it’s simply a matter of properly leveraging those powers to get what she wants: to save her family and preserve the city. There’s no shortage of people telling Koto how special she is, and the time has come to prove it. Is there a way to get what she wants without the rest of the universe suffering? Surely there must be.
Rating: 8 (Great)
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