Spoiler
Decim receives Chiyuki’s memories. Nona takes a stand on behalf of the arbiters and human emotions, but Oculus is against it. However, he will let her have her way and see the truth for herself. Decim takes the sleeping Chiyuki into the elevator and instructs Clavis to take them to the lowest level.
Chiyuki awakens to her mother’s voice calling for her and finds herself in her own room, in her own house. Impossible! Then she sees her decaying self and knows nothing has really changed. Decim enters and tells her that it’s been three months since her death. After a chat, they go downstairs. The house is empty, but Chiyuki fills it with her happy memories.
As Chiyuki sees her own shrine, her mom comes home. Decim tells her that they cannot be seen or heard. Nor can they make any type of contact with the living. Chiyuki wonders why he’s doing this to her. Then he gives her the game controller. He tells her that if she presses the button, she can be brought back to life. However, the price is another life, and her memories of everything that happened after her death will be erased. Just press the button to live again. The choice is her to make, but she must decide quickly.
Chiyuki watches her mom take care of her shrine and cry, saying that she failed as a mother. Seeing how upset her mother is and how much she misses her daughter, Chiyuki is almost ready to accept Decim’s terms and take her life back. She struggles with her decision and almost presses the button, but something stops her. It’s the memories and regrets of the people that came to the bar to be judged. Chiyuki lets the controller drop to the ground, telling Decim that she can’t do it.
Decim doesn’t understand. With tears in her eyes, she tries to explain that it’s wrong and why. With a jolt, it looks like Decim is finally getting it. He clutches the place where his heart should be. As he deals with these emotions, Chiyuki cries out for her mother, apologizing over and over again. When she looks up, she sees her mom crying over the doll that she had made Chiyuki from the picture book. This only makes Chiyuki cry harder.
Decim looks like he’s about to have a heart attack. Chiyuki grabs the controller and shoves it at Decim, telling him to press the button. Now Decim is crying as the world cracks around them. I think Nona has succeeded! Decim’s eyes change as he apologizes to Chiyuki. He screams and the world around them falls apart. Apparently it was all an illusion. Decim admits as much to Chiyuki and apologizes to her again. Chiyuki wants to know why he did it and wonders if it was part of her judgment. It was, but Decim feels nothing but sorrow as he continues to cry.
He keeps apologizing even as Chiyuki goes over to hug him, telling him to stop. Decim just keeps on crying as he hugs her back. Nona and Oculus are watching! Nona then explains why she’s done all this. Oculus is still against her and Nona tells him that he’s wrong as she walks away from him. It seems that Decim has calmed down. As he and Chiyuki walk through a field of dummies, he tells her that this is a disposal ground for the dummies once the souls are removed. Chiyuki guesses that she will also end up there, but Decim says that she won’t. I see Decim has the dolls in his vest pockets.
They return to Clavis and the elevator. Back at the bar, Decim walks Chiyuki to the elevator and asks her a final question about being alive. Her answer pleases him and he hopes that because of this, he will be a better arbiter in the future. Chiyuki makes a suggestion that he should smile more, but his first attempt doesn’t quite work. She bids him goodbye as the doors close and Decim thinks of her, remembering her time as his assistant. Just before the doors close completely, Decim smiles and with tears in her eyes, Chiyuki smiles in return. She will be reincarnated.
Others wonder what will happen with the arbiters now. I think Ginti could use some of those emotions! And it looks as if he keeps his own collection of souls that he’s met. Nona begins to recite the rules and Oculus finishes them. Meanwhile, new guests arrive at the bar and are greeted by a smiling Decim. And the Chiyuki dummy sits on a chair forever watching, along with the rest of Decim’s collection and Chiyuki is holding her dolls from the picture book. I’m afraid that I am going to have to add this anime on my ever growing favorites list. I don’t think I could have liked it more!
