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He's definitely up there!

Ei Sekigahara
Our heartthrob assassin's final segment does not disappoint. Yuki helps Ei get to the SIU HQ, where he comes face to, uh, glowing orb thing, with an android Tetsuya Ida. Ryoko did kill the guy but he of course saved his memory to a backup, which now holds Iori hostage. But Ei has regained more memories and we get an enthralling flashback sequence with Morimura. She has learned we're on a hard time limit now: the world we are on is losing stability, and any further attempted loop resets would destroy Sector 0. And then we finally see the infamous log she erased.

The log wasn't removed as part of some grand conspiracy, she was acting out of regular self-interest. And guilt. In 2188, Morimura and Sekigahara confront each other. In doing so, we learn that there are allegedly only ten humans left alive (which ten?), that Ei is willing to detonate a bomb on the only remaining structure with surviving humans, and that... Professor Chihiro Morimura caused the annihilation of humanity. Whoa. I wonder if humanity was already on a downward spin and that's the reason for the Ark project in the first place, or if she was simply an egotistical scientist getting down and dirty to fund her own vanity project, which ironically then became humanity's last hope. Either way, she traded nanomachines on the black market and this somehow resulted in the spread of the infection that has all but destroyed the species.

2188 Ei moves to kill her, and back in the alley Morimura expresses her guilt over her identical DNA self's actions. I wonder if learning all this is why she's been acting 'off' according to Gouto, there's no reason to doubt her sincerity here. As I contemplate this, child Chihiro arrives, and shoots the adult Morimura. Holy shit! This is cold-blooded murder, I can't think of any reason this killing needs to happen. Is this Chihiro in on some other agenda, or is she petty enough to kill anyone sharing her DNA? Does Gouto know about this? Will multiple clones be unable to coexist after all is done? If so, I worry for Iori! The scariest part here is that child Chihiro exists as of the final battle, so if she is up to something then nobody has stopped her yet.

Ei tells Idabot the truth and causes Ida to hesitate, thinking about Tomi and giving Ei a chance to finish his mission. He rescues Iori, nonchalantly embraces her and we cut to the final battle, where he is the last sentinel to take his place in the fight. A thrilling story from start to finish, Ei's assassin-with-a-heart-of-gold character is very appealing and having connections to every other central plot character doesn't hurt. Ida's story may be done for real this time, though once again I'm not certain on that front as his memory is still backed up to Sector 0. The tale of Morimura and Izumi, however, I think is far from over.

Cleared:
Shu Amiguchi
Ryoko Shinonome
Tomi Kisaragi
Yuki Takamiya
Natsuno Minami
Nenji Ogata
Juro Kurabe
Megumi Yakushiji
Ei Sekigahara- CLEARED

Uncleared:
Keitaro Miura- 87%
Iori Fuyusaka- prologue done
Takatoshi Hijiyama- prologue done
Renya Gouto- prologue done

NEXT UP: It's Iori or Hijiyama. I'm gonna follow the thread and go for Iori next, to see the other half of this self willed love story and hopefully get some much needed perspective from Morimura. From what I've seen so far, there's very little of Iori that resembles any of the other Morimuras personality-wise, I'm very interested to see how this will all tie together.