I liked Mahina's long hair...
"College was a pretty good place, huh...?"
I'm taking psychic damage from that. Now I'm starting to regret I didn't really have fun back then.
Senior college student Mahina can exorcise ghosts with just a look now? Wait, that kind of powerup does not add up. How? I assume she's a senior college student and not repeating a year or two(?) as an adult. Perhaps whatever occult thing it was that gave Kaoru his power got exorcised last chapter? But wait a minute, he has a RING on the ring finger of his left hand. Kaoru GOT MARRIED!? (I'll headcanon Iruko as his wife, she deserves it)
This was a fun ride with interesting characters and plot points, but damn that inconclusive ending. I guess I called it, but that was an instance where I'd have loved my guess to be wrong. This got axed hard.
Feels like the author gave up on trying to wrap up the story, ironic given the lesson from the previous chapter. But at the very least I can enjoy seeing Mahina's growth as a character. Maybe I'll just adopt some of the interesting theories put forward by more eagle-eyed readers in here.
Like the theory about how Mahina is actually trapped and still looping for her ideal college life. And Kaoru went back for her. Explains the seeming time skip and the ring on his hand. Off to the Completed pile.