Comparing Version 2 to Version 3:
Synopsis:
It's July 22nd of the 5th loop. <spoiler>Ushio is glad to see Hizuru/Nagumo alive and well again. Hizuru asks if she really died in the previous loop, and Shin confirms it. Shin passes along 4-Arms' claim that "The world you (Shin) observe becomes reality". He asks how he got this fantastic power. Hizuru says his left eye, Haine's eye, is "made of Shadows". Shin doesn't know when it first appeared (was 'printed'). Hizuru concludes that it was Ushio who gave him the eye. Hizuru asks Shin why he thinks the last attempt to stop the Shadows failed. He says it was because he and Ushio were operating separately from her and Nezu. She agrees and promises thatvthisthat this time they will cooperate (even though Nezu remains suspicious of working with Ushio, a Shadow). When Hizuru shakes Ushio's hand a strange vision of alternate realities occurs to everyone. 4-Arms' goal is to resurrect Haine. Nezu concludes that the 'giant flat body' (at the Summer Festival?) was the real form of Hiruko. They conclude that her girl-getting-a-transfusion body in the caves is fairly weak at the moment. Shin feels they need to find a way to beat 4-Arms before daring to go after this target. Ushio suggests that they capture her Shiori form, like last time. If they do, she thinks she can erase it by reversing the process which Haine used to try to take control of her mind while in the cavern. Meanwhile, Sou insists on talking to his father, the Doctor, who finally grants him five minutes of his time in the evening. While alone the Doctor is talking to someone with his cellphone. He is told that Shin is investigating Shadow Sickness. He wonders why first Ushio, then Hizuru, and now Shin became interested in it. The person he is talking to is the one who failed to completely erase Ushio's Shadow (Haine?). Shin asks if it was Haine who killed Ryuunosuke 14 years ago. Hizuru says yes, and that Haine was then her friend. Ushio, Ryuunosuke, Shin and Nezu prepare to attempt to capture the Shiori Shadow. Ryuunosuke knocks on the Kobayakawa's door just like last time. </spoiler>
