In a vision, Marie explains to Yu that her duty as Kusumi-no-Okami is to absorb the fog released by the other gods into her body. Having absorbed all the fog that would have been released when Ameno-Sagiri was defeated, Marie chose to vanish in the Hollow Forest to prevent the fog from being released to the human world. After hearing this, Yu manages to stand up, again, and fights against Kusumi-no-Okami, managing to get Marie to express her true desires to be saved and spend more time with everyone...