Yuzuki thinks that the skeletal body lying in her room is just an illusion cast by Ai to coerce her into becoming the next Hell Girl and does not believe her words until she shows Yuzuki the world that she grew up in. In the distant past, Yuzuki lived happily with her parents, until her father, a bus driver, died in a bus crash due to faulty brakes. The family of the victims and later the whole town accused the Mikage family of murder and being irresponsible. Yuzuki's mother did her best to keep Yuzuki alive and happy, working at the Oikawa Store, but she was eventually forced to quit. Sick and without a means to support herself and Yuzuki, she decided to leave and does so with Yuzuki. It is implied that close to her death, Yuzuki's mother planned to kill Yuzuki so that she could be spared from suffering any longer, as she appears to be reaching for her neck as she rests in her arms. She stops, however, when a couple of girls show up at the shrine they were staying at. After her mother dies, Yuzuki buries her corpse beneath the full-bloomed cherry blossoms. Yuzuki's eyes turn deep red at that moment. As she walks away, her last moments as a child are seen, lying on the floor embracing the teddy bear her father gave her as an early birthday present. The now older Yuzuki picks up pictures from the floor next to the skeletal body. She now realises that the corpse is hers and accepts her fate as Hell Girl. As Ai disappears, Yuzuki is clothed in a red kimono similar to Ai's. Akie somehow returns and acts as Yuzuki's aid. At the end of the episode, a mail containing Azusa's name arrives onto Yuzuki's personal computer, signaling that someone is summoning her. Yuzuki prepares for her first mission as the new Hell Girl.