OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)Shiro manages to stop Satan for the moment and goes on the run with Yuri, though her time left runs short.OUR TAKEWell, it took nine episodes, but Yuri finally succumbed to her terminal case of prequelitis and died this episode. She had all the telltale signs of a fatal condition: being a mom of one or more main characters with no mom, a love interest connection to another dead character, and having a cute and perky personality in a story that kills people off like it’s scarfing down a bag of Lays potato chips. It’s sad and all, but it was far from unexpected, and now we finally have the answer to the question of what happened to Rin and Yukio’s mom. As far as these kind of prequel deaths go, it’s not UNsatisfying, but it also doesn’t really have much of an impact. Though that has a lot less to do with her than it does the story that she is in. And it’s not helped by the fact that we need to lay on extra thick that Satan is most definitely a terrible and morally reprehensible person who even led to the deaths of the two homeless people who looked after Yuri all the way back at the start of the flashback, AND whose mind has broken down so much that that he is just vomiting incel lines left and right.This is basically where we were heading from the beginning of this: an outcome defined and highlighted by tragedy, loss, and despair, leaving only those alive who would be alive at the start of the story, namely Shiro, even though he doesn’t last for that much longer. And maybe it’s because I expected something like this, or maybe it’s because the execution of it wasn’t that great, but the only real feeling I can pull together for this is…whelmed. Not overwhelmed, not underwhelmed, but just…whelmed. Yep, that happened, check it off the list, moving on. Okay, it’s nice and sad, in theory, to see Shiro and Yuri think about the hypothetical family they could have, even if it would be hard since they’d be on the run from the Order as much as Satan, but I really can’t help but yawn because it feels just like it’s ticking boxes on “sad prequel tragic story”. That said, we do still have three Yuri-less episodes left in this season and end on Shiro facing a Yeti possessed by Satan. First off, there are Yet in this universe? And second, both of these characters have plot armor and the baby Rin and Yukio obviously can’t die, so…what’s the point? What are we doing here? Well, I guess we’ll find out next week.