Two Good People

When Asa speaks to her mother, she and Denji are pulled into a scene from her childhood: a riverbank where her father lies with a shattered leg before a younger Asa. She recounts how the family had been together when a devil struck from the water, and her mother sent the young girl off to fetch Public Safety. The child stumbled along the way, and by the time she returned her father had already died.

The present Asa puzzles over why this is surfacing now, but her younger self spots fresh details: her father's skull is crushed and blood marks a nearby rock that were not there before. Piecing it together, she grasps that her mother was the killer. That night, her mother defends the act, noting that the insurance for a death by devil attack far exceeded what treating a broken leg would have paid, even covering Asa's high school application. She also reveals that her husband was a heavy drinker who had been unfaithful.

Asa concludes that her childhood self wanted her father dead as well, since the trip was deliberate rather than an accident, a stall meant to lower his odds of survival. She asks Denji whether that makes her wicked, and he counters by telling her how he killed his own father and dressed it up as a suicide, yet still considers himself good. The two share a look and dissolve into laughter, an echo of Yoru's own delight at dueling Pochita again.