At Hitagi Senj?gahara's home Hitagi contemplates her past as she showers, Koyomi Araragi waits for her. Earlier Hitagi was told to wash and change her clothes by Meme Osino, who arranges for all of them to meet at midnight. Back at Hitagi's home, Koyomi argues with Hitagi while she gets dressed in front of him. Later that evening they meet Osino, he explains that there are not going to attack the crab god but instead pray to it. They go before an alter, Osino instructs her to relax, he then asks her a series of questions. His final question results in Hitagi retelling about how her mother joined a cult when Hitagi was sick, and that one night her mother brought a higher up, from the cult, home. Hitagi injured him as he attempted to sexually assault her, her mother watching without aiding her. As a result her family was broken apart; Hitagi feels that she is responsible. She opens her eyes to find a crab facing her. Koyomi and Osino are unable to see the glowing yellow eyed, red word-bound form of the giant crab. When Hitagi is the attacked by crab god, Osino is forced to intervene - this allows her to beg the crab for her feeling and memories - and they are returned. In a flashback it is explained how her mother joined the cult, and how the attack on Hitagi resulted in a broken family; that she met a crab which took her feelings(weight) and memories of her mother. Hitagi now has her memories and feeling of her mother back, but she has forever lost her mother. In the morning Koyomi finds that his weight has also been increased by the crab god.
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