Thread:Enchanteddragons/@comment-32460917-20190318225056/@comment-32460917-20190319015019

Before the last chapter of the manga, most of the people who knew about Yaki thought that she wasn't Ayano, she just looked like her to make sure Shin didn't forget

Now for some manga details:

-The manga ended on its second route, which is commonly referred to as 'Route M'

-Several notable changes happened in this route!

-Haruka seems to have been too sick to ever go to school

-Haruka meets Takane in the hospital and she's much more open; she reaches out to him and they bond over video games

-Takane is eventually discharged from the hospital, but she promises to come visit him

-Shintaro meets Haruka after being admitted into the hospital for breaking his wrists

-Takane comes to visit, but she leaves after she sees Haruka with Shintaro, reasoning that he wouldn't need her now that he had a new friend

-Overall, Shintaro is much closer to Momo. There's a scene where he rips up a bunch of letters from creeps that were drawn to Momo because of her eyepower. He did not meet Ayano as a child in this timeline, and has spent more time with his sister. He also never went through his "mean jerkface" phase and seems more grumpy than anything.

-Shintaro is discharged as well and Haruka is alone

-Soon after, both Takane and Shintaro receive the news that Haruka has committed suicide

-Shintaro becomes a NEET, and Takane tries to take her own life as well

Present Time:

-Shintaro spills his coke into Tono (his pet rabbit)'s food and he goes with Momo to buy new food

-Somewhere along the way, they read the news and see that a terrorist attack on a mall was successfully thwarted by a mysterious group. The newspaper's picture is of Konoha

-Again along the way, Momo and Shintaro meet Hiyori and Hibiya.

-Another note: in the previous route, the manga didn't show Konoha, Hiyori, or Hibiya at all

gonna skip a bit

-Seto finds Marry much earlier in this timeline: before Ayano's death

-Marry becomes an honorary 4th sibling. Ayaka and Kenjirou realize that she has relevance to their research, and through eavesdropping, Ayano realizes it as well

-Ayano, Marry, Ayaka, and Kenjirou travel through a storm. A landslide comes and kills all four of them

-Ayaka and Kenjirou simply die, Marry is allowed to walk back out because she already has a snake, and Ayano is given Favoring Eyes

-Before giving Ayano a snake, Azami uses it to show Ayano everything that has happened to her and why her siblings are the way they are

-When they return to the real world, Ayano has a reason to resent Marry

-The mekatrio (Kido, Kano, Seto) abandon her after she suggests killing Marry

-So she's basically been living alone until she runs into Shintaro and Hibiya

-A little before this, Hibiya texted Momo telling her that Hiyori went missing after a traffic accident, so the Kisaragi siblings stormed out to try and find her

-Shintaro finds Hibiya, while Momo runs into Kano and Kido who unsuccessfully try and recruit her to the Mekakushi Dan

-Ayano then meets them and, after a quick introduction, tells them about Azami's past and what has happened using her eye power

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So the main twists of the route are all the shifts in character relations. Hiyori gets Focusing Eyes (Hibiya's power) and Momo and Shintaro never join the MekaDan. Additionally, instead of Kenjirou, Hibiya is the one who gets Clearing Eyes. He stabs Kido and pushes Momo off a roof before the rest of the Dan realize. He then jumps to Konoha and repeats the process, except this time he uses Awakening Eyes to kill himself a new look! So he isn't Kuroha in this timeline. Marry awakens her Queen powers after Kido's death but, despite her efforts, Seto and Kano are killed while trying to run. Takane became Ene like before, but she was much more downtrodden than before. Near the end, she tells Shintaro that she regretted never visiting Haruka, and now she can't return to her body since she's been in a coma ever since her suicide attempt. She disappears when the nurses pull the life support from her body.

In the end, only Ayano, Shintaro, and Marry are left. Marry successfully defeats Saeru, but he's still triumphant, since he knows that Marry will reset everything again now that most of her friends are dead. [In an earlier chapter, Ayano has already apologized to Marry for before] Ayano then tells Marry that, if a snake can bring someone back to life, a human life should be able to be exchanged for a snake. She tells Marry to make her into a snake that will never forget the tragedy that came upon them. And then she tells Marry to give her to Shintaro since she has a feeling that he can save them all [Oh she also confesses her love at this point so yeah]

And that's how Yakiterasu came to be!

The chapter negated the earlier idea that Yaki only looked like Ayano. Nope! It is Ayano, but from a drastically different timeline. Possibly the first timeline actually

And now this is theory but: Someone named Rochi thought that, since Ayano chose to die/become a snake in the first timeline, that might have caused her to die in the following timelines because she wasn't supposed to exist

Anyway yeah that's it! Sorry for the essay fwihrhwr