We still seem to mostly do a series of vignettes. Honestly, the meat is little enough that double features may be required.
So, over the course of these two episodes we have, essentially, six little vignettes. Three don’t connect to much of anything.
One has Kaya make a friend over “seeing a ghost” in a window staring at the kindergartners as they pass. There is a ghost in the area, but when Chie sees it as well, we actually find out that the staring person that the friend saw is a different urban legend: the idea of seeing someone from afar repeatedly only to learn they were dead the whole time (usually from hanging, in front of a window)
A second has a boy crayon over a “scary” mirror. A jerk of a teacher ends up being the one to wash it down and is attacked by a mirror specter. Kaya helps separate them, but it’s strongly implied that the teacher who thereafter acts extremely nice is the spook, having swapped places (given that the words on their clothing are backwards, much as her personality).
The third is fun times at the pool, where Kaya saves a boy who was bullying her from a specter that would drown him, despite the fact that Kaya herself can’t swim. That’s nice of her, at least.
The other three vignettes (yes, there are six across two episodes) concern something of an addition to the plot. In the first, there are rumors of a creeper as well as disappearing children, right as the class is scheduled to go to the park. Kaya and her friend encounter a spook, but by the time Chie catches up, there’s instead a kind of creepy fat guy who she over-the-shoulder throws before escaping with the kids.
Second movement, the parent-imitating spook tries to pick Kaya up from school, and Kaya actually falls for it a little as it imitates first her dad, then her mom. Fat guy jumps in with an “exorcism spray” that at least forces the spook to recoil and reveal its true form, which gets to Kaya punching it out. Chie arrives and Kaya mediates the two of them talking a little, not that Chie really wants to hear from the dude.
Finally, he shows up again, specifically trying to talk to Chie, and we get his tragic backstory. This guy is “Uncle Mob”, paranormal reporter, and he owes a lot to Kaya. Apparently, his daughter was killed in your typical isekai-causing accident, but her spirit lingered, and Mob could see it the whole time. This drove his wife away, and then the daughter started to degenerate. As she became a malevolent ghost, promising to take daddy and mommy with her to the other side, Kaya, aged 1, dispersed her and thus saved Mob’s family. Thus, he feels a debt to her that has now come back around as his work (recall: paranormal reporter) has led him to rumors of a certain house and the thing on the upper floor. Namely, Kaya’s house and whatever it was we saw in her mother’s room.
These episodes are… pretty sparse. It’s an enjoyable show, to be sure, but it’s not one that really lends itself to these episode-by-episode write-ups, so there may or may not be some change of format for the season going forward.
Until next time, um, avoid cursed mirrors?