Also somehow I thought that Yuki's face was a birth mark, but I just went back and read the first chapter and uh... yeah, that combined with this chapter makes it pretty obvious that it was caused by her mum.
I had completely forgotten about Yuki's backstory too, it's been that long. I like the idea of ending the series by going back to our very first protagonist.
Thank you so much for coming back to work on this!
As said above, its really interesting to come back to our first girl and seeing all these characters forming a network of storylines that are finally connecting... can't wait to see how everything develops from now on.