Even after Shinobu's recollection of her first encounter with the "darkness", neither Koyomi nor Shinobu discover anything about the threat looming over them and Mayoi. However, Shinobu urges that something must be done regardless, and Koyomi understands this, as a similar scenario where the people in town, especially his friends, would be "spirited away" by the mysterious entity remains a possibility. Suddenly, Koyomi and the three girls are discovered by the "darkness". Koyomi manages to gather around Yotsugi once again, and they leap away to the nearby mountains.