Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi - Episode 9
Scar's post-partum depression leads to a road trip to the origins of the gravekeepers, some of them anyway. This world that God left behind is truly mysterious.
Another world-building episode, with character development thrown in. Not a bad thing.
Baby Celica knows which way Scar has gone, so Ai's group follow her little hand. Along the way, they reunite Tanya with her parents, and the other students decided to stay there until they can make their own ways home.
While following Scar, Ai and Yuri insist on celebrating Alis's birthday, who seems reluctant about the whole thing, since it's not important to their overall goal of changing this world. Ai, remembering her father, stresses the importance of remaining human, which means focusing on the little things once in a while. Yuri sure knows how to make campfire cake, even if the presentation is a little meh.
Finally, the little van makes it to a highway heavily damaged by craters and littered with purple crystals. The group witnesses the birth of a gravekeeper. This particular one spawns many copies of itself in a big flash of light that uses up the energy stored in the crystals. Yuri explains that there are many different kinds of gravekeepers, and some can be one of a kind, like Ai's mother, and Scar. At this point, Whisper, the ghost who had been following Alis this entire time, abandons the group, seeing how she doesn't have the full share of his attention anymore. I'm sure she'll reappear at some point.
They find Scar in the middle of the crater she was born into, still struggling with her feelings to be a new mother for Celica, or to continue her original mission in seeking out the dead and burying them. Quite possibly the same struggle Ai's mother went through when falling in love with Kizuna Astin. Love and motherhood win out, with Yuri promising to watch over them. The kids take this to be a marriage proposal, but Yuri insists they are all one family now.
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