
And the snake does leave, headed somewhere undesirable. She tells him to stay still and wait for the snake to leave. Just as it’s about to take his head off, Suruga jumps in and holds Koyomi down.

He loses sight of it, as it is invisible and hard to track. Koyomi runs in and pulls the snake off of Nadeko, and then begins to fight it. During the ritual one of them reached Nadeko’s neck and began to strangle her. However, Koyomi had made a mistake – there were multiple Jagirinawas wrapped around Nadeko. She does this, and the Jagirinawa appears to be leaving her body. There Koyomi gives Nadeko a charm to hold, and tells her to pray. Koyomi and Suruga Kanbaru gather up some supplies and then head back to the abandoned snake shrine with Nadeko. Meaning the scales we see is actually an imprint of the snake on Nadeko’s skin. In Nadeko’s case, it has taken on the form of an invisible snake and is constricting her body. An aberration that moves according to one’s ill will. There Oshino puts a name to the snake – Jagirinawa.


Koyomi visits Oshino Meme to find out about Nadeko’s snake problem.
