I kind of find that hard to swallow because, well, I don’t believe in spirits or souls. I honestly viewed it more as the culmination of the desires of Shiraho and the feather imparting themselves into Kano. The feather was referred to as a “vessel” after all.
But that’s just my opinion
As for @Takafumi I do like your theory. Yeah, they are working but their only reason for working is co-existence. Hijri seems to have given up finding the meat of the Kano’s problem and also seems reluctant to bring her to a specialized psychiatrist. All for the sake of sweeping the problem under the rug. The same thing she did with the bandana; she tries to let Kano forget about her problems instead of fixing them. Gee all this introspection is making me like Hijiri less and less x.x
But there is one part I want to clarify:
This is because of Kano, yes? Because she is guilty about the death of her mother?
I noticed. Actually, I honestly wonder what the vanilla memorial edition is like. Some of the lines were actually voiced! Did you base your editing on what was in the memorial edition script, or did you edit it yourself based on what was important in the story?
I would imagine that the voice actors speak what is written in the dialogue word-for-word. So when the non-voiced dialogue has Kano saying “ne”, they also have the VAs saying that.