10 Second Anime - Monogatari Series Second Season - Episode 13

Monogatari Series Second Season - Episode 13

The snake tells Nadeko that he wants her to find his scattered corpse. She's got other problems related to her personality and what the class has been through. And Araragi comes to the rescue, of course.

We start to get more information on what this snake spirit wants, and how it has latched onto Nadeko. Firstly, it wants Nadeko to find its scattered corpse from the fight they had earlier at the abandoned temple. He claims that he could have done this without her help, but the energy there was used up in some foolish thing done by the vampire, but she ended up fixing it in the end, but still, the energy's gone. Nice reference to the Route X time travel adventure there.

Nadeko's quiet personality also makes people think she's helpless, or always a victim. It also kept her out of trouble with the fake, but real, but fake magician last year that sold these special charms to middle schoolers that ended up letting people know all sorts of terrible things about their supposed friends. Because she was not involved with the charms, people didn't know anything bad about her, and she was chosen to be the class representative, and help the homeroom teacher fix the bad atmosphere among her classmates. She has no idea how to do this, but the teacher pressures her all the same.

Nadeko bargains with the snake to let her do her corpse finding at night, but even with the snake acting as a detector, her first lead goes nowhere, and Araragi goes looking for her when her parents find her missing. Under the cover of her sleeping over night at the Araragi house because she's friends with the youngest sister, Araragi tries to get some answers from her, like if she's gotten involved with an oddity. Again, Nadeko's personality doesn't allow her to ask for help, and even the snake stays quiet. Shinobu pops out to calm down Araragi from excessively teasing her, and she lets her know she's watching, and proudly proclaims Nadeko to be "the next cutest thing to me." Humble brag, much? But Shinobu also lets Nadeko know she has the measure of her unintended victimhood personality trait. Now we see that Nadeko is definitely to be used as "bait, a decoy, a lure," but to what purpose? Shinobu also let the snake know she's watching with this little visit too. "Ka ka ka." What a charming, and to those intending evil, frightening laugh.