Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-27818776-20151120044358/@comment-27818776-20151120232146

Okay, just finished watching EP XI. First things first, while Nafumi killing Yuuki was somewhat of an accident, she is disgustingly apathetic about the ordeal. She didn't care if Yuuki truly loved her; she only saw him as her plaything/personal servant/muse (whatever you want to call Yuuki).

Like I mentioned before, Shintani was a child molester who would drug her pupils, and then torture them, because she was obsessed with the idea of corrupting their innocence by making them feel despair. When Yuuki was alive, he let his teacher abuse his body if it meant that she would reciprocate his feelings. By the time that he died, he had cigarette burns all over his body, as well as cut wounds from the palette knife that Nafumi uses. Something eventually popped into Yuuki's mind, and he told her to stop, infuriating her. He then tried to run out of the room, and she grabbed him by the arm, but he fell backward, and the heavy bust fell onto his head. As I have mentioned before, Yuuki wasn't Shintani's only victim--there are literally dozens of sketches of abused boys that Nafumi keeps in her desk that were shown when the tables started to turn on her.

Anyway, a week after Yuuki died, she gets met by a young boy whom she drugs, intending to use him to finish the painting that she started with Yuuki. However, she gets met by a young girl whom she quickly suspects to be Renoir of the Art Room. You see, Renoir is a youkai that was said to hunt the art room of the school. There were rules that you had to abide by if you encounter him; they were: 1)never accept a paintbrush from Renoir, 2)if Renoir were to ask you a question, you could not lie, 3)you had to correctly identify a painting. If you failed any of the rules, you would be dragged into one of the paintings in the art room.

Shintani seemingly answered each question flawlessly, but it's revealed that Higanbana was actually Renoir. It had been a long time since Renoir himself (Renoir is a boy, he just appeared to look like a girl due to the year in which the painting was created), which meant that he didn't have his full power, so Higanbana herself was filling in for him. It's also revealed that he was actually the boy that Nafumi drugged earlier. Naturally, Renoir was pissed once he learned that Shintani had no regrets for being partially responsible for his friend's death (an oddity for a youkai to form a friendship with a human, I know, but they became friends largely because Yuuki was the first person who had talked to Renoir in years), vowing to hunt her.

When Nafumi believed that he was getting the upperhand, Renoir pointed out that, during one of their previous conversations earlier, she slipped up by saying that she didn't know what happened on the day that Yuuki died, thus breaking the second rule. Horrified, she tries to flee for her life, but she gets trapped in a painting known as "Ascending and Descending," in which she had to run up and down an endless staircase for eternity.