A Feeling of Distance Between Them

Not placing Sanjome as anyone from school, Momo challenges his claim to serve as advisor to their History and Culture Research Club, accusing him of lying. He concedes she may not recall him yet insists he knows precisely who she is, then, as she moves past, stops her to hand over a crime prevention whistle for emergencies, admitting he isn't sure how useful it will prove. In class, Momo quizzes Miko and Kei about Sanjome, doubting he has been around as long as her friends, who grow skeptical of her given how little she remembers, especially about Okarun.

Confessing she no longer feels the old bond with Okarun and feels cut off by the holes in her memory, Momo is urged by Miko and Kei to date him; the pair then haul her along to view a Mummy Man, ending up at the museum at Okarun's side. The mummies fascinate Momo as Okarun details how ancient royals preserved corpses for rebirth in the afterlife and floats a theory tying mummies to aliens who borrow human bodies to live on Earth and store them for their return to space. Charmed, she compliments him into a blush, then fumes on realizing Miko and Kei slipped away to leave them alone as they exit.

Outside, Okarun insists on walking her home for her safety, which leads Momo to ask if he likes her; his honest yes leaves her flustered, and she scolds his bluntness only to be reminded she asked first. He suggests she probably returns the feeling, and as she protests his presumptions he admits her words wound him and confirm she has truly forgotten. Momo denies any romance even while Okarun stays certain she cares, and she gets physical, pressing him on why Aira got his name when she did not, which he takes as further proof. When she stops and notices night has fallen, the two spot a katana-wielding mummy on a bicycle and the Serpo bearing down on them.

Issued October 28, 2025 and not yet in tankobon form, this twenty-one-page chapter belongs to the Six Curses Arc within the Ultimate Yokai Saga and lies between Chapter 214 and Chapter 216. Its turning points are Sanjome's whistle, the forced museum trip, Momo grasping Okarun's feelings, and the ambush by the Serpo and the bike-riding mummy in Empty Space.