March 13, before Araragi is supposed to meet with Senjougahara to go to the university for entrance exams, he goes to the Snake Shrine where he meets Gaen. As Kagenui, Kaiki and Oshino are all missing she feels she has to act. She explains to him how the solution to all the events happening around him would be solved by his death, to which then Gaen proceeds to chop Araragi into small pieces with the original Oddity Killer sword, "Kokoro-Watari". Araragi wakes up in a white void, and is greeted by a familiar face.