Episodes

## Episodes of the Anime

After the Reset, Kei goes to Tsushima complaining about what happened: he lied to them telling the mission was over while there were actually bigger problems to face. He then asks again about the Mcguffin: this time, Tsushima tells him that the Mcguffin is a special item, rumoured to allow his possessor to control all the abilities in Sakurada. He says that it is actually a small black rock and that he’s in posses of it. Kei decides to tell Minami what will happen if she goes to the mountain, preventing her death: he then proceeds to meet Murase Youka for the third time at the tea-room and he discovers that apparently  she can’t retain the memories of the previous timeline. Murase tells them she was using the cat as an excuse to test her ability with them: in that moment, Tsushima enters the tea-room and tells them that the Mcguffin had been stolen by Hitsuchi. While on their way to Hitsuchi, Murase tells Kei that her objective is to destroy the Bureau and rebuild it and asks him to join her. Murase uses her ability to find Hitsuchi, by cancelling the obstacle between her and him: once they arrive at his house, he tells them that he hasn’t got the Mcguffin, but Murase doesn’t believe him and threatens to cut his phone line again, as she did three days before. Kei defends him and asks him to find the person who actually has the Mcguffin: that person is Minami, but when she comes to give it to Kei, she’s attacked by Murase who steals the Mcguffin. Tsushima tells Kei that Murase is angry at the Bureau because her brother, who worked for them, died in a car accident the year before: he was the one to talk to Murase about the Mcguffin, in order to induce her to steal it and ask Kei to confront her in order to defeat her once and for all. Kei is reluctant to do that but left with no other choices, he asks Tsushima to arrange an appointment with her for the next day.
Once Kei and Haruki meet Murase, he asks her if the cat really died in the accident and she respond positively. He then tells Murase that he will help her fight the Bureau if she passes his test, which consist in making him surrender to her ability: if not, she will have to follow Kei’s idea to take it down. Before they start fighting, Kei makes Haruki save and then he tells Murase what he thinks about her: he thinks that Murase really wanted to save her cat using the Reset, but after she realised that this provoked Mirai’s death, she threatened Kei and Haruki in order to make them Reset again, but she didn’t use her ability, in order to forget what happened. Murase is irritated by Kei’s word and says that she isn’t that weak: in order to convince Kei, she activates her ability over her entire body, threatening again to kill him. In order to prove his point, Kei sacrifices himself and dies touching Murase with his head, traumatizing her: after that, Haruki receives a message of Kei via Tomoki’s ability, telling her to Reset. After Kei is revived, Murase gives up and Kei consoles her, telling her how much she could help by using her ability in a positive way and becoming friends.

The next day, Kei tells Sera that they are going to skip school for the day: the girl, feeling guilty, tells them that she will found a way out on her own, so that she will stop bothering them and allow them to go to school. After Kei points out that she did the same the previous day, Sera says that that was completely different. Sera tells them the story of her elementary teacher, who taught her that “as long as you have a pure thing in your heart, you’ll be able to find nothing but pure things”: she believed to this saying through elementary and middle school, but this belief didn’t get her any pride and she thinks that people that don’t stand by the rules are smarter than her. The day of the entrance ceremony, she tried skipping school after losing the bus, but this wasn’t making her happy, since she was betraying her belief: for this reason, she ended up in the marble, in order to live life the way she wanted. Kei disagrees with her: after speaking with her former classmates, he discovered that during middle school she was called “Student Monitor”, because she was always warning the others not to break the rules. This caused her social isolation, so Sera says she decided to skip school in order to get better in breaking the rules. Kei doesn’t think that that was her true intention: he knows also that she used to bring candies at the school, even if it wasn’t allowed: she always tried to eat them there, but she never succeeded. The day she collapsed she didn’t want to skip school: feeling guilty, she looked at the upside down school clock trough the marble, so that she could believe that it was still early morning instead of noon; her desire to be in that world brought her inside of it. Sera confesses, but it’s now to late to go back for her: Kei stops her and ask Haruki to Reset.
Back to the day of the entrance ceremony, Kei goes in front of the bus stop where Sera found the marble and takes it away. At the school, Sera is thinking of eating a candy, but she’s stopped by Kei: she says that she wasn’t going to eat it, since it’s against the rules. Kei tells her that it’s not so important to obey the rules and invites her to eat it: Sera finally convinces herself and feels relieved. Kei tells her that eating candies outside of classroom it’s actually fine and that following the rules is not a stupid idea. Reassured, Sera will continue to follow her belief.

In the present, Tsushima calls Kei telling him that a “certain woman” wants to see him and Haruki: he explains that she stands near to the top of the ladder in the Bureau and so it’s impossible to refuse her invite. After the call, Kei meets an old man called Hiroyuki Sasano, who has asked him to give him the MacGuffin: his ability was stolen the previous week by a mysterious girl and so he thinks that by using the Macguffin, he’ll be able to regain it. Sasano was able to go inside the photos he had taken using his ability, but only if he was in the same spot where the picture was taken and for a limited time. Kei refuses to lend him the McGuffin but decides to help him find the girl who stole his ability: the old man tells him that she wore jeans, a cross choker and red contact-lenses. Flipping trough Sasano’s photo book, Kei surprisingly finds a picture of Souma Sumire, holding what seems to be the MacGuffin: when he asks Sasano who told him that he had the MacGuffin, the elder only refers to a friend from the Bureau. Kei asks Sasano if he could use his ability once the case is solved.
Kei calls Hitsuchi asking him what he had found about the MacGuffin: he says that the story about it is probably just a rumor, and that its origin can be traced back about two years before. Kei then asks him to gather information about Sasano, discovering that the old man is one of the founding members of the Bureau, for which he worked for ten years.
The next day, Kei and Haruki are picked up by Kagaya, the same agent that we saw in the flashback at the beginning. As they reach the Bureau building, Kagaya asks them to enter one at a time, as they will be received individually. Haruki enters one room, which is then locked thanks to Kagaya's ability, while Kei follows the agent in a studio, where an old woman is sitting on an armchair. She presents herself to Kei as the Witch, the person who called him four years before: she explains that she is constantly locked inside that room and her only connection with the outside is a phone connected to the Bureau. She also reveals Kei that she called him because she wanted him to come to Sakurada, since she’s able to see the future of other people: that’s why she is so valuable to the Bureau and why she’s kept isolated under surveillance. Her duty is to look into the future and report any possible future problem, in order to prevent it: she wanted to see Kei’s future in order to fulfil her objective, which she refuses to talk about. At the end of the conversation, she reveals Kei that she is going to die soon.
As soon as Kei goes out of the building, he is approached by the red-eye girl, who he recognises as her former classmate Eri Oka: she tells him that she has stolen Sasano’s ability and that her next objectives are the MacGuffin and Haruki’s Reset. In that moment, Haruki comes out of the building and Kei asks her to Reset.

After the Reset, Kei explains to Haruki that Oka Eri is after them: the girl had a violent and oppressive father, but she was helped by Kei and she was able to distance herself from him, renouncing to her original name, Eri Fujikawa, and taking the new one after her mother. In time, the admiration towards Kei has turned into a desire to surpass him, in order to prove her worth. Tsushima tells Kei that recently a member of the Bureau has started collaborating with Oka Eri, but he’s still not sure if the Bureau is directly involved in the sealing of Sasano’s ability.
Murase Yoka is able to track down Oka Eri thanks to her ability: after a brief conversation, Eri uses her ability to hypnotise Yoka and make her believe that she’s followed by a deformed monkey. The girl tries to escape and phones Kei, telling him to go rescue her. Kei leaves Haruki at the tea-room, but when she goes outside, she’s ambushed by Oka Eri, who uses her ability again in order to seal Haruki’s Reset. Meanwhile, at his house Sasano goes into one of his photos to talk to a younger version of the Witch, who confirms him that their plan is going on without problems and that their promise will soon be fulfilled: the only concern is that the Bureau has noticed Sasano’s ability and is sending Oka Eri to take all his photos, but the Witch tells Sasano to play along, since even without the photos their plan will be successful. Before he leaves, she tells him to give Kei certain photos that he will bring to her later.
Eri calls Kei telling him about her success in stealing the Reset: if he wants it back, Kei has to hand over the MacGuffin to her that night. Kei accepts and meets with Haruki to confirm that she can’t use her ability: even trying to use Yoka’s ability in order to cancel Eri’s ability isn’t effective. Meanwhile, Oka Eri is called by a Bureau agent who explains to her that sealing Sasano’s ability wasn’t sufficient: in fact, once he has used his ability on a photograph, it can still be used even if his ability is sealed, so they have to get rid of the photos entirely. Kei contacts Tsushima asking him information about Oka Eri’s ability: he confirms that Eri’s ability consist in adding or subtracting memories to her target. In other words, she can create fake memories to create illusions, like she did with Yoka, or subtract real memories from people, like she did with Haruki. In fact, Haruki can’t remember how to use the Reset, so she’s unable to access to it: Tsushima adds that to use her ability Eri must look in to the eyes of her target for at least five seconds and that she can apply only one effect at time on a single target. The fake memories can be vanished by a simple external intervention, but since Haruki is the only one who knows how to use the Reset, in this case the effect could be permanent.
That night, Kei goes to the lighthouse to meet Oka Eri: he tries to apologize to Eri for the things he made her do two years before, but Eri refuses the apology, since she’s happy to have become Oka Eri. She then threatens Kei to give her the MacGuffin, but once she sees that it is just a simple rock, she decides to change the rules of the game, in order to make Kei play seriously: she traps Kei inside one of Sasano’s photos and proceeds to implant a fake memory into Haruki that she will hate.

The next morning, Kei realises that Sasano had been lying to him, since he really doesn’t need the MacGuffin to use the photographs. At the same time, a letter is sent to his house containing a request for a meeting from the Witch and three of Sasano’s photo: one photo of a young Witch on the shore, a photo of Sasano’s cherry tree and the photo of Souma Sumire. Kei goes to the beach and enters in the first photo: the young Witch is surprised, since she didn’t predict that future. She thinks that another version of her that lives inside one of Sasano’s other photo may have arranged their meeting: her original plan was to escape from the Bureau for the last week of her life in order to see her boyfriend one last time. To do so, she had been using Kei and Eri’s conflict to convince Eri that she could obtain her ability of predicting the future by helping her escape: even her defeat against Kei was meant to speed up the process. Kei is worried since this event could led Eri to enter in conflict with the Bureau. He calls Sasano and he finds out that Oka Eri has visited him again, this time stealing all of his photos: the old man wants to ask the Bureau to let him see the Witch and Kei decides to help him.
That evening, Kei, Haruki, Yoka and Sasano wait for Eri outside the Bureau building: when she arrives, they follow her inside, while Kei asks Sasano to take various picture of the building with his ability. When Eri is about to attack the staff member, Kei stops her and instead has Yoka attack the Bureau members with the photos that Sasano just took: Yoka then jumps out of the building and while she is in mid-air Kei asks Haruki to Reset.
Back to the previous evening, Kei and Haruki go to the Bureau Building where Yoka has appeared after the Reset, since she used her ability to be unaffected by it: she holds two of the photos that Sasano took inside the building.
The next day, the Witch sees a vision where Kei explains to her his plan and asks her to call him as soon as possible. At the same time, Kei meets with Eri to tell her that her plan will fail: realising that she won’t have a fair fight with Kei, Eri decides to leave and postpones their fight for the future. Kei is invited again by the Witch and he gives her the photo of Sasano: they talk briefly before Kei is asked to leave. The Witch escapes the building thanks to the photos and meets Kei outside: he asks her what she is going to do and she tells him that she will leave Sakurada to live off her last week. Before going, she reveals Kei a part of his future: he will be involved in finding her successor, who’s none other than Souma Sumire.

Kei asks the Bureau if they will classify Souma Sumire’s death as related to one of Sakurada’s ability, but they deny that something like that might have happened, since Kei is the only one claiming such a thing. Kei goes on the mountain to visit the place where Souma died and meets a hiker, Sasane Ukawa: they talk briefly about Souma’s death and Sasane understands that Kei was close to her, since he remembers how to write her name in kanji. Kei replies that he knows that just because of his ability. Sasane is building a fence to prevent other people to slip into the river thanks to her ability: she also implies that her ability can do many other things, including making a hole on the Moon. She tells Kei that she hasn’t found places dangerous enough to put a fence on, so she thinks that Souma probably committed suicide on the bridge. She thought Kei was going to do the same thing, so she talked to him in order to stop him. Kei thanks her and goes back home.
The next day, Haruki tells Kei she hasn’t been able to use the Reset, so Kei orders her to do so. Before doing that, Haruki asks Kei if he finds the Reset dangerous, since it led to the death of Souma. Kei tells her that Souma’s death was an accident and that even if the Reset may hurt some people, it can also save others: they cannot totally prevent the negative effects of the Reset, but it’s still better to use it and try to make the world better by saving as many people as possible. Haruki agrees whit his logic and finally uses the Reset.
Back to the day before, Kei refers his professor what happened during the Reset and finishes his first task at the Service club. He then acknowledges his mistake of using the Reset to cancel the memory of their first kiss from Haruki’s memory, which was the real cause of Souma’s death: he decides that he will find a way to bring back Souma, no matter how long it’ll take.

In a flashback, Kei arrives in Sakurada for the first time and at the train station drops his keychain and it breaks. At that moment, a Bureau agent comes to him and by using his ability repairs the keychain. Fascinated by the abilities shown by the inhabitants, Kei discovers that if someone leaves Sakurada, he will forget everything about his ability: that is why nobody outside the city knows of his wonders. He starts to draw a map of the limit beyond which one would lose his ability, but during his research he starts to understand that is memory has improved significantly and that that is his ability now. Shortly after that, he’s contacted by Sakuin, a Bureau agent: she informs Kei that the Bureau has decided that he cannot leave Sakurada, since his ability would let him remember everything and could reveal the existence of Sakurada’s powers to the rest of the world. In order to do so, the Bureau makes Kei sign a contract that won’t allow him to leave in exchange of sustaining his life in Sakurada: at the same time, they will cancel the memory of his existence outside of the city. Kei agrees, but in that moment a Reset happens: the boy has been brought back to the train station, where he recalls what happened and understands that the world has been reset.
In the present, Kei goes to the spot where Souma’s photo has been taken, calls Haruki and asks her to save: by doing so, when they will use the Reset, he’ll be alone on that spot. Kei thinks about a hint that Souma could have given him two years before: at that time, she had asked Tomoki to send a message to herself two years in the future. When Kei asked Tomoki what message she send, he simply said “Can you hear my voice?”.
Two days later, Kei and Haruki go to the photo spot to execute the plan of rescuing Souma: the boy reveals Haruki that the plan is going be a success, because Souma had used her ability to predict the future and set everything up for them from the very beginning. Even the MacGuffin was a just a pretext to make sure Kei would meet the right people to execute the plan, namely Murase, Sasano, Sakagami and of course Haruki. When all of them are reunited, the plan starts: they enter in the photo and find Souma standing on the tetrapods. Sakagami uses his ability to transfer Murase’s ability to Souma and then Kei has Haruki use the Reset.
After that, Kei and Souma find themselves alone on the tetrapods, the same place where they met the first time. Kei asks Souma why she sent a message to herself in the future and why she had to die. To the first question, Souma says that she wanted to confirm if she was still herself: if the message of Tomoki would reach her, then she’d be the same person; if not, she’d be just a copy. To the second question, she doesn’t give a direct answer, but she hints at the fact that her death is part of a bigger plan she still cannot reveal. She also says that in the future she will have Kei do other things, some of which will hurt him: it is all part of the story she’s planning for him, the story of “he who possesses the MacGuffin controls all of the abilities in Sakurada”. When Kei asks her if she was able to listen to her message, she asks him what choice he would prefer, leaving the mystery about her real identity.

The next day, Kei is absent from school because he has a cold: Haruki is wondering if she should go pay him a visit. Minami tells her to go, since this is an opportunity to strengthen their love relationship. Haruki decides to go to Kei’s house and prepare him a soup that could help him get better: on the way to his house, she decides to stop at a supermarket to buy pickled plum for the soup and ice cream. When she’s almost at Kei’s house, she starts having doubts about what she’s doing, since she’s afraid to be a nuisance to Kei, and decides to go back home. Shortly after that, she receives a message from Kei inviting her to bring ice cream: Haruki gets suspicious and when she turns back she discovers that she had been followed by Minami all along. She wanted to see what would happen, but when she saw Haruki leave, she decided to ask Kei to send that message to Haruki. Haruki understands that Minami was just trying to help her and finally decides to go see Kei.

Later on, Kei obtains permission from the Bureau to investigate on Honoka Katagiri’s ability: this girl is able to live inside her dreams like it was the real world. The Bureau is interested in knowing the difference between the dream world and the real world and they think that Kei’s memory could help them spot the difference between the two: Sakuin warns him that he’ll be watched and he shouldn’t’ try anything reckless like two years before. Kei is interested in this ability because it basically gives a person the power to create the world around them, almost like a god: moreover, he plans to use the dream world like a simulation to test what will happen if Souma were to lave town. That same evening, Kei asks Haruki to use the Reset.
Back to the previous day, Kei informs Haruki about what happened and tells her that the next day they are going inside the dream world: the boy also tells Haruki about a promise he made to her about going together to the school festival and that he intends to keep it. Kei asks Eri if she wants to come to the festival too, but she unkindly declines. Back at home, Kei receives an unexpected visit from Nonoo, an event that didn’t happen before the Reset: she asks Kei if she can go inside the dream world with them because she wants to meet the so-called Stray Cat House Man. When Kei asks her who told her about the dream world, she says that a young girl came at the shrine explaining all of that: Kei immediately understands that that girl was Souma. Nonoo also tells him about a message Souma left for him: “Read number 407 in the Script carefully”.
The next day, Kei, Haruki and Nonoo enter the dream world by sleeping next to Honoka: the first two will investigate on their own, while Nonoo will go visit the Stray Cat House Man. When Kei and Haruki wake up inside the dream, they are met by Honoka and her pet bluebird: but when Kei asks the girl if she’s Honoka, she refers to herself as Michiru and that she actually never heard about Honoka Katagiri. She tells them that they can have whatever they want and Chiruchiru will provide for them: he is the hero of Michiru and a person that can make everything happen, like a god. When Kei asks her if he can meet Chiruchiru, she says it’s impossible and that only her can see him freely: she then decides to leave. Kei and Haruki exit from the hospital and they realise that the city is quite different: the horizon is obscured by a mist, the billboards are written backwards and various places of the city are rearranged in a different way. In this condition they cannot carry out the experiment they planned, but Kei thinks that the indication Souma gave Nonoo about the Stray Cat House Man must have some sort of purpose.
Meanwhile, Souma wakes up inside the dream world and meets with Chiruchiru, who’s none other than Michiru’s bluebird. She tells him that she has come to see his future: when he asks her if she intends to help Michiru, she says that that is up to Kei to decide. Kei and Haruki meet Sasane Ukawa, the girl Kei meet on the bridge two years before: she’s working inside the dream for a part-time job from the Bureau. She asks Kei what differences he has noticed in the dream world and, beside the mist and the reversal between the west and east side of town, he says he hasn’t find any. When Kei asks her what she will do after the research is over, she tells him that depending from the circumstances she could destroy the dream world. That night, Kei receives a call from Chiruchiru, warning him not to stay out at night: he then teleports him and Haruki back home. Surprised, Kei asks him why there’s a mist in the city and if he is the real Honoka Katagiri: Chiruchiru says that the white wall is like a cage for a bird and that Michiru is the actual Honoka, but she doesn’t remember that anymore. Kei thinks that Michiru created Chiruchiru in order to have an unbeatable hero on her side, rather than being a lonely god inside the dream world: because of that, Ukawa wants to destroy it. Kei and Haruki start to feel sleepy because they passed almost 6 hours inside the dream: their real bodies are waking up, so their dream personality need to go to sleep. Right before they start sleeping, a big explosion deflagrates and a giant blob-like monster starts destroying the city.

The next day, Nonoo tells Kei and Haruki that she wasn’t able to contact the Stray Cat House Man, since his house has been demolished: she would use her ability to track him, but in order to use it she would have to fall asleep in the dream world, waking up in the real world as a consequence. Kei plans to use Murase’s ability to track the man, but when they go again in the dream world, Chiruchiru phones him to tell him that today they will find the house, that is usually covered by an illusion, and that the Stray Cat House Man has the ability of writing the Script. Meanwhile, Souma meets Michiru at a restaurant and she asks her if she’s going to see the Stray Cat House Man: she says she doesn’t care about the old man and when she goes to the bathroom, Chiruchiru appears to Souma and tells her not to talk about that man to Michiru. Souma is perplexed, since the Stray Cat House Man could save Michiru, but Chiruchiru replies that she’s actually scared by that man.
Kei, Haruki and Nonoo arrive at the Stray Cat House Man’s house and sneak in through a hole in the wall. Once inside, they get to the studio where the old man is writing on a piece of paper: he recognizes Nonoo and greets his new guests. The Stray Cat House Man explains to Kei that he has a particular kind of memory, focused on numbers: he can perfectly remember things like dates or quantities, but not all the other things. He came to the dream world because he was starting to be physically debilitated and wanted to avoid the pain. Kei asks him what is his ability and he responds by saying that he writes down the truth: his hand moves on his own and writes down everything that is true in the notebook, forming the Script. Kei receives permission to read from it, but when he searches for the volume numbered 407, he doesn’t find it. Meanwhile, in a car, Ukawa is talking to the Bureau agent that Kei met two years before: he explains to her that the Script contains all the things that will happen in the future, regardless of any modification caused by abilities like the Reset. It is more powerful than the Witch’s ability because the same prediction she made were recorded in the Script as well. Shortly after that, they arrive at the Stray Cat House Man’s house and find Kei and Haruki flipping trough the notebooks: the Bureau agent tells them that the access to the library is prohibited and only him can consult the books in that particular time that he has established. Kei asks him why some of the notebooks are missing from the library and the agent tells him that everything the old man wrote before coming into the dream world is in the hands of the Bureau. Kei decides to leave, but before that the agent asks him why he was there, since he has to complete his mission for the Bureau: he tells him that he came to pick up his friend Nonoo. When they leave, the agent asks Sakuin if she has spotted any lies with her ability: fortunately for Kei, she only detected a phrase that wasn’t so important. Sakuin warns the agent that the fact that Kei was there is problematic, since if he read the Script he could never forget what it said and could spread information to the outside. The agent thinks that Kei is manoeuvred by someone who gave him some information and that he has to question him further.

Meanwhile, outside the Stray Cat House Man’s house, Kei talks briefly to Ukawa: she explains to him that she wants to destroy the dream world because is a world without connection, where Honoka isolated herself. Kei is against that idea, since the dream world doesn’t hurt anybody, but Ukawa replies that the monster that devastates the city at night could be a sign of Honoka’s true intention of leaving the dream. Kei tries to stop the girl, but she isn’t convinced by his arguments and uses her power to wipe out everything: she also destroys the notebooks containing the Script. After that, the Bureau agents leave the dream world and Kei and Haruki start exploring the now devastated city. Kei has a theory about the configuration of the dream world, which appear as a reverse version of the real one. In his opinion, the world isn’t actually reversed, but is just a copy created by Chiruchiru and reflected upon the ocean part of the original Sakurada: hence, if they where to cross the mist on the western side, they should end up in the original version of the city within the dream world. When they arrive at the edge of the town, Kei asks Chiruchiru if they can go meet him and he lets them go through the fog. Once on the other side, they find themselves in the original version of Sakurada, with a bus waiting for them: they are brought at the school, where they find Chiruchiru. He wants to talk with them, but with is powers he teleports Haruki in another room, leaving him alone with Kei.
Haruki finds herself alone with another copy of Chiruchiru: he starts questioning her about her relationship with Kei and he questions her on how she is actually thorn between the real version of herself, which has a lot of desires, and the idealised version that Kei fell in love with, which she puts on as a façade only to satisfy him. He warns her that by doing so she may end up losing Kei, since the boy has also feelings for Souma: in order to convince her, he transforms into the extroverted version of Haruki and confronts her. Meanwhile, Chiruchiru is also talking with Kei: the boy asks him if he can read the manuscript number 407 of the script, but Chiruchiru tells him that he knows that he only wants that because Souma instructed him to do so. Kei then asks him what would happen if Souma were to leave Sakurada and if he can test his plan in the dream world, which consists of having Eri use her ability to wipe out the memory of the death of Souma from her parents and have the whole family leave the city. Chiruchiru thinks that the plan could succeed, but he’s a little sceptical about using the people of the dream world as guinea pigs. Kei also asks him why there is a monster in the city and tells him that he thinks that the entire dream world is part of Honoka’s personality.
The extroverted Haruki question the real Haruki about her behaviour: she knows that now that Souma is back, the Reset could lose its value to Kei, since the precognition ability makes it obsolete. Because of that, Haruki hates Souma, but she doesn’t want to tell it to Kei because she respects Kei’s decision of bringing her back to life. The extroverted Haruki also says that Haruki was happy about Souma leaving the city, so that she could regain her importance, but at the same time because she knows that Kei likes Souma, if she really desires Kei’s happiness, she could have to prevent Souma from leaving. At this point, Chiruchiru comes back in his true form and asks Haruki again what she really desires: she answers by saying that she wants to grow even more, so to become the most important thing to Kei.
Kei tells Chiruchiru that the monster is necessary in order to make him appear as the hero of the dream world. Chiruchiru confirms that and tells him that Honoka’s ability generated from her desire to speak to people sleeping next to her, since she was very lonely in the real world: when the Bureau isolated her, she had no way to connect to others and so she created Chiruchiru and the monster that he had to defeat, while herself becoming the clueless Michiru. This created a deep contradiction inside Honoka: she wants to connect with others, but at the same time created a lonely world, so in her subconscious she knows that she’s living in an illusion. Kei promises Chiruchiru that he will do everything to help Michiru save herself in exchange for his help with his experiment: he agrees and with a snap of fingers disappears, leaving Kei with the notebook number 407 of the Script. He rapidly flips through it, but when Haruki comes back, he hides the notebook under a desk: shortly after they are reunited, the monster breaks the fog and enters in the original version of Sakurada.

Back to the previous day, Kei explains the situation to Haruki and Nonoo and also asks Souma that, if she’s watching them with her precognition ability, he wants to meet Chiruchiru immediately after entering the dream world. Kei instructs the other two girls to go on with what they had plan without him, while he’ll be looking for Chiruchiru. Once inside the dream, Kei is greeted by Michiru and he reveals to her that the bluebird she has is a false. Michiru is not convinced by what he says, but Kei promises her to help her find the real one: he also says he won’t hurt her, since in that case Chiruchiru would surely come to her aid. Meanwhile, Chiruchiru meets Souma in the dream world again, but this time the girl tells him that he has to meet Kei, since he’s the only one who can prevent Honoka from losing her ability. Kei brings Michiru to the tea-room and asks her if she has ever met the Stray Cat House Man, which the girl says she didn’t. When the girl asks him where he wants to go next, Kei tells her that he actually has other plans somewhere else: Michiru gets offended and leaves, since Kei doesn’t want to stay with her until the evening. Immediately after that, Chiruchiru shows up to Kei and asks him what he wants. Kei tells him about the promise they made to one another before the Reset and asks his help to save the dream world: at the same moment, Nonoo goes to the Stray Cat House Man and asks him for a favour.
That night, Michiru finds herself alone without protection and when Chiruchiru shows up, he tells her that her real name is Honoka. Michiru refuses to be her, but Chiruchiru leaves and the blob monster appears, ready to take her: at that moment, Kei arrives and saves Michiru from the monster. They then start running away from it. Meanwhile, Haruki meets with Souma on a rooftop and asks her what her real objective is: Souma refuses to tell her that, since it is a secret that she didn’t reveal even to Kei. Haruki then asks her if her action will hurt Kei in some way and Souma says that they might, but that this is better than doing nothing: Haruki tells her that in this case she doesn’t want her near Kei, but the other girl tells her that she didn’t want Haruki to be near Kei from the start, but she couldn’t help but let that happen. Haruki finally asks her if she is an enemy of Kei and Souma tells her that she is looking after him.
Kei tells Michiru to remember who she really is and stop the monster who is chasing them: now that she’s not alone anymore, she doesn’t need a saviour, she can save herself on her own. Michiru is not convinced and Kei decides to sacrifice himself by letting the monster take him: the girl is shocked and feels guilty, because she ran away and pretended to be Michiru. At that moment, the Stray Cat House Man comes near her and says he’s been sent there from a friend to help her. He tells her that he remembers that she is the god of this world and that she is a good god, since she smiles for other people and is not selfish. When he asks her to stop the monster that destroyed his house, Michiru accepts her real identity and turns everything back to normal.
The next day, Ukawa visits the dream world and finds it more appealing, so she decides not to destroy it. Kei meets with Souma in the dream world and asks her if she also set up his meeting with Nonoo: she confirms, saying it was a line to connect him with the Script. Kei tells her about his plan to make her leave Sakurada, but Souma refuses to do so, since she wants to stay forever in the city: she also adds that Kei wants to do the experiment only for satisfy Haruki’s wish. When Kei asks her why she doesn’t want to leave, she tells him that she’s staying because of him, since he really likes him. Souma then reveals to him that something has been erased with the last Reset: Haruki had decided to connect with Kei on a level different from the simple use of their abilities, but on a level close to affection and love, like the normal girl Kei wants her to be. By using the Reset to save Honoka, he lost the opportunity to change Haruki.

Some time later, Souma gives an appointment to the Bureau agent to discuss with him. At the high school the students are preparing for the school festival: Haruki is set to act in a play with Kei, where she has to be his lover, but after the events in the dream world she’s avoiding him, because she feels that Souma has a stronger bond to Kei than her. At the same time, Kei fells guilty because he thinks he’s stopping Haruki from moving forward, closing her personality in the boundaries of their relationship. Kei decides to confront Haruki and asks Tomoki to send her a message, asking her to go the rooftop where they used to meet; he also asks him to send the same message to Souma, but with a five-minute delay. Haruki goes to the rooftop and tells Kei that she can’t stand Souma and doesn’t want her around him, because she’s afraid she will lose her value to Kei. The boy tells her that, even if she didn’t have her ability, he would love to see her anyway: Haruki understands that she’s precious to him and, for the first time, she smiles. Meanwhile, Souma received the message, but didn’t show up: everything was already set up to be that way but her previous self, witch she hates, because she’s making her suffer. That evening, Kei asks Haruki to save, in order not to lose the memory of what happened that day. After he leaves her, he receives a mental voice message from Souma: she asks him to go pick up some trash with Haruki at Shikanokami Crossing next morning. She adds that this is one of the last favours she’s going to ask her, since in a few days everything will be over. Kei then calls Tomoki asking him if he had sent any message to him for that night, but his friend doesn’t recall doing so.
That same evening, Souma meets with the Bureau agent and his team. He asks her why she’s going against the Bureau and Souma says that she doesn’t want to live like the Witch. She also tells him she contacted him because she knows that he’s against the Bureau, so they have a common enemy. The Bureau agent discovers that Souma was not able to see the future they’re living in: the reason is she can’t see into his future, since the agent used his ability to cancel out his memories regularly, something Souma needs to predict the future. In order to keep track of his memory, the agent keeps two organizers with him: one is free to use and the other is sealed by Kagaya’s ability, so whenever a Reset happens, the information stored in that organizer are saved. The agent then asks her if his plan will succeed and if she will do something to stop him: Souma says that the plan will succeed and that she won’t hinder it, since she’s actually glad that the abilities will disappear.
The next morning, Kei and Haruki are picking up the trash on the spot Souma told them to be: suddenly, a girl runs down the street, falls over the sidewalk and a car crash happens. Kei and Haruki notice that in the moment of the accident they couldn’t move their heads to face it: Kei calls Tsushima to ask him to look into the case. His supervisor is actually in the car with the Bureau agent, Sakuin and Souma: the young girl is asked if she instructed Kei to be there, but she says she didn’t tell him anything. The Bureau agent then talks with Tsushima and asks him to join in the Bureau Management Office. Meanwhile, Kei receives another mental message from Souma, asking him to go shopping at the supermarket that afternoon.

Kei reflects on the things he read in the notebook number 407 of the Script: inside of it, there were information abut the time the first abilities appeared in Sakurada. In that time, only three people knew about their abilities: these where the Witch and the Urachi couple, Seijiro and Haruko Urachi, the three founding members of the Bureau. The Witch had made a plan to secure the future of the world from the danger of the abilities: even if the other two agreed on it, Seijiro still thought that there could be a possibility to erase the abilities altogether by using his ability of erasing specific information from all over the world. The Witch pointed out to him that even if they used his ability in that way, when he’ll die the effects of it would have ended and everyone in the world would have remembered their abilities: because of this, they needed to find other people with different abilities to help them out. In order to do so, the Witch proposed to use his wife ability of retaining a specific thing to retain the information of the ability in the area of Sakurada, in order to gain new ability users. She also promised him that in twenty years a man with a time-stopping ability will show up and they will realise their plan. When the man told her he only had still two year to live, the Witch revealed to him that with the new abilities that will emerge in the city, he will be able to live much longer and to have a kid.
Kei receives the information he needed from Hitsuchi, who suddenly calls him remembering something: he already knew Souma because he had met her two years before. She used to be the only one knowing about his ability for a while and in exchange for keeping it secret, she had asked him to suck information from a guy he didn’t know, who Kei suspects is Tomoki: by doing so, she planned all the messages he's now receiving without leaving a trace. He also says that Souma talked to him about the accidents and about a shower. After the phone call is over, Kei receives another message from Souma, asking him for a favour. Meanwhile, Souma is in a car with Sakuin and starts asking her about the Bureau and how she feels about it. After a while, Sakuin asks her if she’s talking to her to see her future, but she says she can’t do that anymore, since Eri used her ability on her to erase her precognition ability. When they depart, Sakuin salutes Souma with her real name.
The next morning, Kei delivers a book at Haruki’s house, as Souma told him to do. When she sees him outside, Haruki goes to him and asks him how he is. Kei tells her that he’s having a tough time, so the girl asks him to have some rest, since he never saw him like that, even when Souma died. He reveals her that he discovered that Souma died two years before only to protect him in the future: Haruki had already guessed it and tells him to rest in order to clear his mind. Kei goes to the hospital and sleeps on the rooftop over Honoka’s room, entering the dream world: once inside, he discovers that both Honoka and Chiruchiru dream versions have been locked by Kagaya. Nevertheless, he’s able to speak with the bluebird that Honoka used to keep with her: he tells him that the Bureau locked Honoka ahead of time in the real world in order to block her dream world personality and blackmail Chiruchiru. After that, they entered in the dream world and asked him if he knew the second Witch and who she was: Chiruchiru had to say the truth because of Sakuin ability, but meanwhile he created the bluebird before he was definitively locked. Kei asks who much time had passed since then and the bird says it had been three weeks: the bird also tells him that they went to talk to the dream version of Souma and locked her too. The bird then reveals to him that the name of the Bureau agent who was in charge of the group: his name is Masamune Urachi, the son of the two founders of the Bureau.

Meanwhile, Kei is looking for Ukawa himself: he meets with Murase to search for her with her ability, while also asking Nonoo to use her ability to find her. They finally find her in a car, in front of a coffee shop: when Kei arrives on the scene, a man goes in front of a tree, touches it and the tree starts growing uncontrollably, destroying parts of the road. Kei sees the car Nonoo told him about and rushes to stop Ukawa and Tsushima, who is explaining to her that the cause of the current accident is totally random and therefore that these events cannot be controlled. Ukawa agrees with his logic and decides to use her ability to make the rain stop in the whole town, simulating another accident.
Urachi has so obtained what he wanted: now that Ukawa, considered the most powerful ability user, used her ability involuntarily, the Bureau will have to destroy all the ability as a consequence. He goes to see Kei at his house, who meanwhile has received one last message from Souma telling him that she will go to his place that evening and she will tell him everything she knows. Urachi asks Kei to give him the photos taken by Sasano that he still holds: the boy tells him he destroyed the photo of Souma, but he still has a photo of the Witch, which he gives to him. Then, Urachi asks him, just out of curiosity, how much he understood of the past events: Kei tells him that he thinks that Urachi organized all the accident that happened since the day before. Both the little girl and the boy that caused the first two accident were affected by Urachi’s ability, which consists of recreating a person’s or object’s past: they became suddenly unaware of their abilities and thus they used them unwillingly. Kei then says that the Bureau will now proceed on destroying the abilities by making people forget about them. Urachi confirms this, but he also tells him that he is the only exception to this rule, since he can retain any information in his mind.

When she finishes telling the story, Souma asks Kei if she can take a shower, as she mentioned him that afternoon. While she is in the shower, she tells Kei everything he wanted to know. He reveals to him that she needed to die two years before to make her plan succeed: since she had to pretend to cooperate with Urachi and Sakuin would have spot any lie she would say, she made sure that the old Souma, the one who died two years before, was the one to give Kei instruction via Tomoki’s ability, so that the plan wouldn’t be discovered if they interrogated her. This confirms that the Souma who was brought back from the photo is not the same person that Kei knew in middle school. Souma also adds that she needed Kei to intervene in order to make Urachi hurry up and realise his plan within three days, the maximum amount of time erasable with a Reset. Kei objects Souma that if she wanted to be more efficient, she could have explained all of that ahead of time to him and he would have acted more precisely: because of that, he thinks that Souma did all of that for another reason. In the past few day, he was able to have an important talk with Haruki and to get closer to her: he tells her that he thinks Souma organized her plan with the intention of protecting Kei and his happiness, even if it meant moving him closer to another girl. At that point, Souma burst out in tears and tells Kei how much she hates the original Souma, who gave her the job to suffer in her place.
After dinner, Kei promises Souma that he will protect the abilities of Sakurada and become “the one who controls all the abilities in Sakurada”, as she said for the MacGuffin: Souma tells him that he will succeed, since he is her protagonist. Meanwhile, Urachi and Eri go to Haruki’s house: the agent rewinds her time back to two years before, at a time when she didn’t know Kei. He then asks Eri to accompany Haruki to the hospital and then to cancel her ability: the girl remains alone with Haruki, but is undecided on what to do, because Kei asked her some time before to help him stop Urachi and not to seal away the Reset. Urachi then goes to a Bureau facility with Kagaya and they proceed on unlocking the bodies of Urachi’s parents.

The next day, Haruki finds herself at the hospital, but doesn’t remember what happened the night before. Her mother, who’s come to pick her up, tells her that one of her classmates, Asai Kei, was looking for her and wanted to talk to her: when asked if she knows him. Haruki says that she doesn’t. Anyway, her mother has given him an appointment with her for that evening at their house. In the afternoon, Kei takes a train and goes back to his hometown: he goes back to his old appartement and casually runs into his mother. He discovers that he has a sister called Megumi, but of course all of his family doesn’t remember who he is. Kei talks briefly with his mother and then asks her if she thinks his parents would forgive him, even if he did something wrong to them: she answers by saying that no matter what happened, he needed to apologize and that, even if his parents won’t forgive him, they surely will keep loving him. Kei thanks them and leaves the city.
That evening, Kei goes to see Haruki at her house: she explains to him that he doesn’t remember him, but Kei knows a way to restore her memories. In fact, in her diary Kei hid one of the photos made by Sasano, the one of the cherry tree in his backyard. Even if she’s a little bit sceptical, Haruki decides to follow Kei, since it seems that he really knew her somehow: they go to Sasano’s house and, once they’re next to the tree, they break the photo. Once inside, Haruki is confused by the new memories she’s receiving: by entering the photo, she in fact entered in a world where Sakurada’s ability do exist and she is among the ones who possess one. Kei tries to help her remember what her life was like and how the abilities have all been cancelled, but Haruki is still unsure and confused about what she’s experiencing and if it is the case to use her ability. Kei explains to her how difficult the choice that he’s making is and how cruelly he has been for not opening up to the people close to him: that is why he wants to have the opportunity to make things right all over again. When the young boy starts to cry, Haruki remembers her original rule of using the Reset when people cried and uses her ability.
Kei finds himself back to three days before, when he saved together with Haruki in front of her house: he explains to her that the abilities in Sakurada will disappear the night after the next day, unless they do something about it. Kei tells Haruki that he wants to save the abilities by becoming the one who controls all the abilities in Sakurada.

Meanwhile, Urachi is checking the various places where the accidents have to occur: at the first place, the girl that was supposed to fall and cause a car accident continues her walk without a problem. Together with the fact that Eri didn’t show up to his appointment, Urachi understands that Kei is planning something to stop him and wonders how he’s going to do so. Kei asks Ukawa to help him get a chance to confront with Urachi to try and talk him out of his decision: at that moment, Kei receives a call from Urachi himself, who asks him what he did after the Reset. Kei explains to him that he prevented the accident by putting a flower planter over the crack on the pavement where the girl was supposed to fall over: by doing so, he changed the course of the events. When Urachi tells him that he should’ve contacted the Bureau, instead of acting on his own, Kei replies that he’s the one who made the accident possible, so he should be judged as a criminal by the Bureau. As a proof, Kei reveals to him that he knows the fact that he hid the existence of Souma and of her ability to the Bureau, because he didn’t want them to use her power to hinder his plan of erasing the abilities. Founding themselves in a stalemate, Kei asks Urachi if he can see him in order to talk to him: the agent accepts, but he asks Kei to do it right away, so that the boy won’t have time to prepare any scheme against him.
Urachi, Sakuin and Kagaya arrive at the karaoke where Kei is waiting for them. The boy and Urachi have radically different views on Sakurada’s abilities, but Kei finds that they are similarly trying to control them. Kei then tells Urachi that right now the Bureau controls the abilities like an automatic machine, but this machine cannot save everyone: for instance, the two founders would always have to be sealed in order for the system itself to exist. Urachi tells Kei that he thinks that the boy wants to correct that mistake and become the sole controller of the abilities: Kei confirms that, but he also adds that he needs people to watch over his judgement, and that Urachi could be one of these people. Urachi accepts and as a sign of trust shakes hands with Kei and asks Kagaya to do the same: when he touches Kei, he tries to use his locking ability, but it fails. Kagaya says that he can’t remember how to use his ability and Urachi understands the clever plan of Kei: he has sent his friends in another room next to theirs, then asked Murase to make a hole on the wall where he’s sitting, so that Eri could transfer her memory manipulation ability on Kei trough Sakagami’s ability. Kei originally planned to erase Urachi’s memories, but the agent never looked at Kei in the eye directly, so he couldn’t do that. In fact, Urachi knew exactly what Kei was planning and followed along, just to have an excuse to imprison him: at that moment, various agents enter to room to arrest him. But Kei was prepared as well, because beneath him and Urachi opens up a hole thanks to Ukawa’s ability, that, through a slide, sends them inside a car driven by Tsushima and Tomoki. When his supervisor sees Urachi, he asks Kei what is happening: the agent tells him that Kei has kidnapped him and that now he is an accomplice of him.

Kei questions Urachi about the current state of the system in power in Sakurada: in order to save everyone, the system has disposed for the sacrifice of one man, Urachi’s father, using the ability of Kagaya. Kei thinks that this sacrifice wasn’t a good decision, but Urachi claims that it was done for the better good, so it was a wise choice: he also thinks that Kei’s thinking is naïve and approximative. Kei replies by saying that the real focus of the problem is finding a way that will make such difficult decisions never to be made again: in other words, finding a way to save Urachi’s father. Kei explains that Urachi could use Sakagami’s power to transfer the ability of the father to another person and then lock that person with Kagaya’s ability. Urachi says that this plan would still require the sacrifice of someone, but Kei tells him that they could transfer that power not to a human, but to a cat. Urachi is sceptical, since animal don’t have the possibility to use abilities because they haven’t got the will required to use them: Kei tells him that thanks to Nonoo’s ability, they could give a cat human senses and so transfer the power to him. Cornered by Kei’s reasoning, Urachi is still unwilling to give up, because he thinks that abilities shouldn’t exist and that people should rely only on their strength to overcome their problems. Urachi seems victorious, but Kei tells him that for all that moment, he wasn’t trying to persuade him, but Kagaya. Thanks to Tomoki, all that they have said as been transmitted to him: Haruki tells him that, now that he has the chance to correct his past mistake, he should do that, because abilities are just a part of the real world, not something that should be erased or cleansed. Kagaya, being consumed by feelings of remorse, decides to agree to Kei’s plan and to support him. With this, Urachi is definitively defeated, since his original plan can now never take place. Kei explains that he won because during the time before the Reset, he got a chance to talk to Urachi for a few hours in the world where abilities had been erased: he was able to understand his feelings and so found the right way to deal with him. Kei tells Urachi that he wants to become the controller of Sakurada’s abilities: he will enter in the Bureau and reform it from the inside, so he asks Urachi for is help. Urachi doesn’t believe that Kei will be able to create a perfect world with no problems, but the boy explains to him that he just wants to build a fair world, one that gets closer and closer to perfection with each step. He accepts and, symbolically, gives his organizer to Kei. Meanwhile, Souma is on a train that will lead her back to Sakurada.

In the dream world, Souma asks Chiruchiru to give her his powers, making her able to do whatever she wants in that world. Kei and Haruki also enter the dream world and go to the appartement building where Kei lives: before they go in, Kei asks Haruki to save in front of the door. As soon as Kei opens it, Haruki disappears and the boy finds Souma inside his living room. Kei thanks Souma for the things that she has done for him and for the happiness she was able to set for him: because of that, he wants to return that favour and create a happy life for Souma too. On the other hand, Souma says that she knows that if Kei puts his mind into it, he could make a world where she could be happy: the thing is, she doesn’t want a world where she’s happy without Kei on her side. Because of that, she proposes a game to Kei: if he wins, she will follow his lead, but if she wins, Kei will have to live with her in the dream world. The condition to win is for Kei to say her name correctly.
After a while, Haruki reappears in front of the appartement, where Souma is still present. Souma explains that Kei has lost the game she set up and so she turned him into a stone that has to remain with her forever. Haruki doesn’t believe what she says: she thinks that Souma is just trying to persuade her to leave Kei, by threatening his life and convincing her to give up on him for his own sake. Souma confirms this and asks her to hand her over Kei: Haruki explains to her that long ago she could use her ability on her own, but after she made a mistake resulting with Souma’s death she decided to trust Kei, who remembered everything that had happened, to make the best decisions and avoid hurting him again. Now she thinks that she can use her ability on her own again: she is about to use the Reset, but in that moment she realises that Souma did all of that only for the best of Kei. In the end, she couldn’t transform Kei into a stone, because she couldn’t do something like that to him. Souma bursts in tears and confesses how her feelings stopped her to use her precognitive ability to the extent of finding a way to take Kei from Haruki, since she knew this would hurt him. She also did that to help Haruki and make her become a good support to Kei, since from now on he will have responsibility on all the abilities of Sakurada and will need help. Haruki confesses to her that she always wanted to be like Souma, who was always helpful and supportive to Kei at any time: this is the objective Haruki wants to work towards. Ending their confrontation, the two girls go to sleep and go back in the real world.
In a flashback, we see how Kei was able to defeat Souma at her game: he explains to her that all along she was really the real Souma Sumire, because the messages he sent with Tomoki’s ability actually reached her, so she must really be Souma. Souma knew this, but she didn’t want to accept this until Kei wouldn’t have confirmed that to her. Souma asks Kei to forgive her for all the trouble she caused to him, but Kei says she hasn’t got to worry since by the day she died he knew he would be involved in a lot of things, but he didn’t mind.
After they wake up, Kei and Souma promise one another to continue working together in the future. Shortly after, Haruki wakes up and promises Kei to help him solve the problems they may face in the future.