Zu leaped through the air, as it were, in slow motion, eyeing the blades that would slash her neck. But somehow, she missed. By a miracle, the noose swung, seemingly on its own power, evading Zu's outstretched neck, and Zu fell to the floor panting hard, bruised and weakened as she was. She was on her face, but soon became aware of an ethereal light behind her back. A hushed voice beckoned her to turn around. "Yuzu," it spoke.

Zu looked behind her, recognizing Mei's voice. "Yuzu," she whispered, "I'm not letting you go. I was the one who moved that noose before you could slaughter yourself." She was drawn once again to that beautiful vision of her sister's bared body. Mei's voluptuous form was not to be ignored, and Zu could feel her wicked heart becoming heavy as her old self began to stir within her. Mei continued. "I came here to heal you from your fatal wound." Yuzu felt herself resurfacing again. "M-mei?" she stammered, her tentacles and claws withering. She was so transfixed on her sister's pulchritude that she was struck speechless with wonder and longing for the goddess who looked into her eyes. Mei approached her as though to fondle her cheek, before Yuzu realized that she wasn't actually there in person. "But, Mei," she said, "are you not here?" "I wish I were," said Mei, bowing her head. Yuzu was silent. Although Zu had been endlessly tormenting her poor soul, her mind had not changed about her love for Mei. She reached out as though to caress her sister's luscious marble breasts, although it really was into thin air. Mei stared at her in pleased surprise, knowing their desires were one and the same. "If only we were really together again, Yuzu," Mei lamented in a mournful tone, "because your hardness to me breaks my heart. I don't know why you're pushing me away whenever I try to tell you my feelings. I just don't know why..." Here both their eyes welled up with emotion as they looked one another in the eye with love and longing. Neither one of them spoke for a full two minutes, and at the end of it, Yuzu spoke with deep sorrow. "It's because you left me, Mei," Yuzu said, taking as it were Mei's hand and laying it on her breast, before breaking down into tears and kissing it. "My love for you has never changed, though, even after you broke my heart." (Here the tears flowed down Mei's own face as Yuzu confessed her feelings.) "But in place of the Yuzu you left, Mei," she continued, "you established a monster in her place, and even were you to heal my fatal wound in my heart, Zu will not leave me." Here Zu returned to her in full force, but before she was swept away, Yuzu's last words to Mei in that brief encounter were these: "You saved me, Mei. Now I will save you!" Immediately, Zu made herself fully manifest and cut off this moment of love that her former self and Mei had shared. "I will have nothing to do with you!" she venomously whispered as Mei left. Yuzu really does love me, said Mei to herself in her room. If only this monster who torments her will go away. I can be with her for life, and we would never have this pain again... She broke a hopeful smile through her tears as she saw a chance for them to be together once again. Only this time, she hoped, it will be for good.

Harumin and Matsuri had already said good-bye to Nene, who was still incredibly rattled that her fantasized world had been shaken to its very foundations. The two were alone again, their instruments packed up, when Matsuri spoke up. "I got hungry when I saw your cweavie this morning," she said, flirting with a deeply flushed Harumin again, "and as badly as I wanted some STEAK AND CHEESE, I just opted out of the wank and decided to give you the receiving end of it," she continued with an alluring smile. "But I think it would be quite courteous of you to return the favor..."