Suspecting Mimori may be somewhere behind the wall, Sonoko brings together everyone's transformation cellphones, containing a new Hero System that won't affect their body functions but instead ties the barrier that protects the Heroes to the Mankai Gauge. The more the barrier is used, the lower the Mankai gauge becomes. If the Mankai gauge empties completely the barrier will be lost, and entering Mankai will instantly empty the gauge.
Once again transforming into heroes, the girls venture beyond the wall and detect Mimori's signal coming from a mysterious black hole. Using Sonoko's Mankai form as a ship, Yuna ventures into the black hole while the others hold off the pursuing Vertex. Expending her barrier to survive the hole's gravity, Yuna's spirit becomes separated from her body, during which she discovers fragments of Mimori's memories. Due to her actions causing flames to leak out of the hole in the boundary she left, Mimori agreed to be a ritual sacrifice in order to suppress the flames, having Shinju rewrite the memories of Yuna and the others so they wouldn't go after her. Yuna soon finds Mimori trapped in a construct with a sprit surrounded in flames. Despite the risk to her own spirit and body, Yuna pulls Mimori out of the construct, taking on the full extent of her curse. As Mimori is safely returned to the real world with the flames stabilized, Yuna keeps secret the marks now embedded in her body.
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