Yuzuki realizes that nobody at school or in her neighborhood knows who she is. Ultimately, it is only Tsugumi Shibata who still recognizes her. Tsugumi has given up her hope of stopping Hell Girl and the cycle of hatred. She concludes that Yuzuki is not a person of this world anymore after realizing that all this time, Yuzuki's life was an illusion. When Yuzuki returns home, she finds her apartment in abandoned state with a corpse of a girl lying next to a stuff animal. Ai Enma appears and tells Yuzuki that the latter had died a long time ago.