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Why would there be an epilogue?
There’s no punch line waiting, either. What lines are left to cross?
Nadeko Sengoku has become a god. Over.
This is a story that could have ended with just that one line─right, so i have no idea what happened after that to 2-2, Nadeko’s middle school class.
If Nadeko’s “blowviating” caused some kind of chemical reaction that turned it back into a warm and friendly space, that’d make for a fine tale, but i doubt it, and i can’t go back to check, either.
i don’t feel like fabricating any more than i already have.
Nadeko’s personal prediction is that nothing particularly changed─in fact, maybe things only got worse.
Well, of course, i do hope the situation is starting to improve, that would be for the best.
Let’s leave the matter in Mister Sasayabu’s capable hands.
Try your hardest. i’m rooting for you from the bottom of Nadeko’s heart.
i do wonder about Mom and Dad, too, but that’s not something Nadeko can do anything about, either. You do hear all the time about emotional, delicate adolescent girls running away from home and never coming back, so i pray that they take it in stride.
i pray, even though i’m a god.
That said, it’d hardly be cute of Nadeko to chop the story off here and end it like one of those snakes i killed in the past. So instead of an epilogue, why don’t i conclude with a preview?
Preview:
One day in March, half a year later─come to think of it, i don’t know what day Naoetsu Private High School’s graduation ceremony falls on, i’ll look that up some time─within the grounds of Kita-Shirahebi Shrine, Nadeko sits on the steps of the hall, her back to the offerings box.
She’s using the Mister Serpent scrunchy not as a bracelet but as a scrunchy is supposed to be used, to gather her hundred thousand snakes into a ponytail─i mean, half a year will have passed by then, i would hope that i look at least a little different.
By the way, the shrine has been rebuilt, or it’s scheduled to be.
This isn’t just Nadeko’s wish but the town’s plan, so the construction should be done by March─they let it sit there when it was in shambles, but as soon as “a shrine was destroyed by heavy rains,” there was a movement to rebuild it. i really don’t get the world of adults.
Still, it could revive some level of worship. i should be even more powerful by this time in March.
Nadeko has all of her hair bravely bundled up in her ponytail, even her bangs, so you can get a clear view of her face from the front─which means she’s also staring straight ahead.
i don’t want to hide anything.
There’s no reason for Nadeko, with her pit organ, to be staring straight ahead, naturally─but today, this one day, she must.
Because for Nadeko Sengoku, today─is the day she quits humanity for good.
To seeing with her eyes, too─this is her last day.
…Welllll, at least, that’s how determined i want Nadeko to be as she waits─for them.
They’re climbing the steps now.
And as they proceed through the gate, that’s how i want Nadeko to be.
Koyomi Araragi.
Shinobu Oshino.
Hitagi Senjogahara─Miss Senjogahara is someone i’ve only ever seen from afar so i can’t picture her well even in this preview, but she’ll probably show up snuggled up next to Big Brother Koyomi.
She’d be breaking our promise, but i’d like them to at least be holding hands here─or else it wouldn’t make for a good picture.
Miss Shinobu Oshino won’t look like a little girl then─while she might not take her original form, she might appear to be about the same age as Koyomi.
She’ll probably have learned from last time.
No doubt, Koyomi will have raised his degree of vampirism, too─not that it means much in the face of Nadeko’s poison.
But i can tell how much more prepared he is.
Probably.
And, though this isn’t what we promised either, how wonderful it would be if Miss Kanbaru and Miss Hanekawa were there behind the three.
The full cast.
i couldn’t be any happier, as a final boss.
Of course, it doesn’t matter if they all come─Nadeko doesn’t feel like she’d go down in defeat.
She sways to her feet.
As she does, the countless snakes hiding in the grounds bare their fangs. They are Nadeko’s thralls, an extension of her will.
And what would be better than kicking off the final battle with this killer line:
“Welcome, Big Brother Koyomi. Let Nadeko make you look real cute.”
Then, it’s time for the romantic comedy to begin.
The showdown, in more ways than one.
Coming soon. You can count on the gods for that.
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