The audacity of that son of a bitch.
Duuuude, if not for Esemori's call, he would have never cared in the slightest.
Wtf??
I have to make sure she is alive, it's my duty! I told her to live!
Either it's that superstituous shit i saw people on social media discuss about... or Mao is paying a debt to the entertainment industry yakuzas and has to make sure his source of easy income is alive and well.
I am just like Reiji rn. Can't get anything of the gibberish Mao is saying.
Whatever, it seems Mao is doing an ironic thing... break Reiji's last chain by bringing Esemori with him. That wom't spare him from death tbh, unless Mao starts to speak his abyss on the path to The Town's hospital and Reiji just sympathizes, even if he doesn't have to. A reminder Reiji didn't want any help from Shino'oka until she revealed her abyss.
Whatever, with the awaited happening of Yuuko and Akira's deaths on the horizon, the final boss ended up being Yuri after all.