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Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit Vol 8

by Motoro Mase

Episode 16: The True Face of First Love

Act 3

Osamu tells Kyogo and his friends to let Ruriko go. They refuse. When Osamu tries to physically pull her away they attack him. He fights back. He gets hit in the face a number of times. Some of the cosmetic surgery is damaged and undone. He beats them up but Ruriko finally recognizes him. 

Ruriko asks Osamu about the surgery, where he got it done. He tells her it wasn’t worth it and explains why. He tells her she needs to learn to be happy with who she is. He encourages her to cry out what ever pain she feels. It take some time but he convinces her that his crush on her goes back to before she started purging.

Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit 16.2

Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit Vol 8

By Motoro Mase

Episode 16: The True Face of First Love

Act 2

Fujimoto is relieved to discover that Osamu has identification to prove his identity. Fujimoto is still worried about Chief Examiner Kaga writing him up. He thinks someone is following him as he heads back to the office. He suspects that it is someone sent by Kaga. 

Osamu isn’t sure how to spend his last 24 hours. He goes to a brothel and is about to have sex with a prostitute when he decides that he can’t. He wants his first time to be with Ruriko.

Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit 16.1

Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit Vol 8

By Motoro Mase

Episode 16: The True Face of First Love

Act 1

Osamu Kimura had a crush on Ruriko when they were in high school. Ruriko thought he was ugly and disgusting. She had no interest in Osamu. She had problems of her own. She was bulimic. She purged to stay thin.

They graduated from high school and went their separate ways. He got a job in sales and got cosmetic surgery. He is now the top salesperson for his employer. His face has changed so much from the surgery that Ruriko doesn’t recognize him when they meet a few years later.

Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit 15.3

Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit Vol 8

By Motoro Mase

Episode 15: Crime and Punishment

Act 3

Masato gets back on his bicycle. Yuki turns her car around and runs him off the road again. Masato decides he’s had enough. He stands in the middle of the road and presents himself as a target, inviting her to hit him with her car. She attempts to but he dives out of the way at the last second.

She gets out of her car. He is still on the ground. She confronts him with tears in her eyes. He makes no attempt to try dissuade her of his guilt in killing her boyfriend. He does suggest that she needs to let go of her feelings of anger towards him. She does not. She quite angrily and tearfully tells him that she never will. He dies on the road. She watches him expire. 

Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit 15.2

Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit Vol 8

By Motoro Mase

Episode 15: Crime and Punishment

Act 2

Masato decides to spend his final hours getting more signatures on the petition to make the intersection safer. Yuki calls Masato’s boss again and discovers that he received an Ikigami. She doesn’t believe it at first. She decides to do what she can to make his final hours painful, once she confirms the fact that he is about to die. 

Masato heads to the office where the petition needs to be submitted after getting some more signatures. He only has 30 minutes left to live. He crosses paths with Yuki on the street. She is in her car and he is on a bicycle. She runs him off the road, turns her car around, and starts speeding towards him once again. 

Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit 15.1

Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit Vol 8

By Motoro Mase

Episode 15: Crime and Punishment

Act 1

Hideki Mitsuya proposed to Yuki, his girlfriend. Yuki fears that his family won’t accept her. Hideki is killed less than an hour later by a truck driven by Masato Kitamura. Yuki’s life is destroyed. Hideki’s family doesn’t accept her when she shows up at the wake. 

Masato is convicted of vehicular manslaughter and sent to prison for 18 months. He tries writing to Hideki’s family while he is in prison but all the letters are returned unopened.