Öishi arrives at the festival in a frenzy and kills several villagers. He grabs Rika, claiming that he knows that she is behind the curse of Oyashiro, and beats her to death with a baseball bat. Rika wakes up in the Sea of Fragments, where Hanyü tells her that she has used the last bit of her power to allow Rika to keep the memories of the hours leading up to her death. Before vanishing, Hanyü tells Rika about a sword hidden inside the statue of Oyashiro in the ritual storehouse that can kill someone living in loops...