The Class Rep's Head

Mai pleads with Aira to mend Rin, revealing that the headless figures tore Rin's head off by dunking her through a basketball hoop. Carrying the head and dodging attacks, Aira notices something seeping from Rin's neck and presses Mai for answers. Mai names the attackers the Severed Head Dribblers, players who use the heads of nighttime trespassers as basketballs. When Aira urges calm and stresses they must find the controlling Power User, Rin's head suddenly speaks, warning that Koki is in danger, and recoils at the sight of her own bodiless form. Mai is relieved Rin lives but explains her head sits in the living world while her body remains in the spirit world, so her leaking life force could leave her adrift forever.

Knocked off balance when a hurled head strikes the wall, Aira is left exposed, and when Mai tries to shield her with her own body, Aira steps in front and takes the blow instead, badly wounding her back. Mai begs her to hold on and calls for Rin to sing, but Rin cannot channel her power without a body. As a Dribbler grabs Aira to dunk her like Rin, a childhood memory surfaces of playing dolls, when a friend pictured a doll as just a head in a tub of water. The image shows Aira that reversing the dunking will undo the damage. She uses her Acrobatic Silky hair to pass Rin's head back under the hoop, reforming her body. Rin appears in her Onbusuman outfit and shoves the Dribblers back with gravity, thanking Aira before getting flustered over her revealing costume. She offers Aira cover, but Aira refuses, asserting her place as leader and standing to fight beside her.

Published March 4, 2025 as the first Volume 22 chapter, this entry continues the Kozuka Knives Arc of the Ultimate Yokai Saga and the ongoing Aira's Group vs. Severed Head Dribblers fight. It explains the mechanics of the Dribblers' decapitation gimmick and restores Rin to the battle.