That's a Secret

Tohru comes to understand more about Momiji Sohma and the wall that stands between him and his mother, then gathers her friends to visit Kyoko's grave a year after her passing. The episode balances Momiji's quiet grief against the warmth and unspoken feelings surrounding Tohru.

Tohru asks Shigure for leave to visit her mother's grave on May 1st, and Yuki and Kyo both end up joining her. When Momiji drops by her workplace, she learns his mother is the German parent and that he has a younger sister named Momo, yet also that his mother has no idea he exists. Momiji explains that the sight of her newborn turning into a rabbit drove her to attempt to take her own life, after which she chose to have Hatori wipe away every memory of him. He vows never to erase his own recollections, however cruel, and a tearful Tohru embraces him, saying she too wants to hold on to all her memories.

At the cemetery, Uotani turns up in a biker gang coat, revealing that Kyoko once rode as the Crimson Butterfly. Tohru shares that her father died of a cold when she was small, and Yuki understands at last why she panicked over his own illness. Kyo drifts from the headstone and asks Hana whether she senses spirits; she says no, but that his waves scream with chaos and guilt. Back home, Kyo finds Tohru dozing outside, and as Yuki glimpses her baseball cap and recalls a young Tohru with her mother, Kyo leans close and murmurs an apology in her ear.

This is the 2019 telling of a story the 2001 series covered as "There Are No Memories Its OK to Forget." The title comes from a line of Momiji's, and the episode marks the debut of Momiji's father, Momiji's mother, and Momo Sohma while introducing the second opening and ending themes. Adapting Chapters 23 and 24, it softens or reworks several beats, such as making the mother suicidal where the manga did not and adding Arisa's imagined vision of Kyoko's delinquent years.