For a moment page 6 looked like it had more arms than it should have.
Ok, does anyone understand what's going on? I have a vague idea but if someone thinks they got a better idea, please tell me
I think I've gathered a number of the pieces, but I'm always willing to be wrong.
The main thing that's been repeated is that Ao has become the inheritor of a particular kind of poison that is the method by which the normally immortal yokai of they consume it will die. Think about that final line in this chapter.
Expounding on that, it seems that the town itself is basically a massive yokai that is in a repeating time loop. So the plan, I think coming from the agency outside, is sacrificing Ao to the town itself in order to kill it.