Has anyone been able to get their hands on these bonus illustrations? I checked the melonbooks store page for volume 4 but it says the promotion has ended. I'm not sure what the other store he's referring to is.
I feel like the only one who thought it was a cool twist
It seems like Ageha intentionally split herself off. It likely isn't that "Dark Ageha" calls herself that, but Ageha split off what she felt was "Dark Ageha", all due to the trauma surrounding Kiska from previous loops (see ch6).
I'd theorize that Ageha was originally a good natured hero like most heroes in fiction. Only akin to how Kiska's village valued people; even while being the hero, Ageha was tossed into the dungeon because she no longer held value. Any companions she had turned on her. Perhaps she used her reset skill to try and fix the future with her relationships and thus eventually just lost her mind becoming transfixed by Kiska as he was similar to her in being tossed into the dungeon broken. Why she split is beyond my guess however.
Goddamnit NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Not another reset!! When does it end!
On the other hand, I really love the crescent shape smiles these girls sport. Especially Judith's.
I can't really remember everything but I believe this is fairly truncated compared to the novel...though I guess there's not much difference to the plot.
In case someone wants to read the WN version instead, I'll cap this in spoilers:
They actually find Judith already dead in the WN, with her head chopped off and smashed like a watermelon, which is apparently the only way to surely kill a vampire.
They spend another day together or something like that, planning to leave the dungeon because there's nothing for them here.
Just before they're able to finally leave, the Black Agetha shows up and chops off the other Agetha's hand. That's the reason I remember this is how this went. The conversation goes about the same as the manga, minus Judith ofc, then Black uses Reset.
There's not much change to the plot I suppose, but the interlude should have been one of the periods where Kiska gets to know Agetha better and come to care for her.
To be fair to her....she has some actually understandable reasons for being this crazy.
It certainly doesn't....which is why it was Kiska that named her that in the novel.