The Girl from the Other Side 8
Siuil, a Run
by Nagabe
2020
The eighth volume of The Girl from the Other Side ushers in some big changes and brings us to what I think must be the endgame for the series.
After all the excitement with the soldiers in the previous volume, Shiva is briefly missing and Teacher goes searching for her. She had gone out searching too, for his missing locket with the photo he thinks is of his wife and child. Shiva isn't bothered at all by the cold, which is a bad sign. The Curse is spreading across more of her body.
Teacher decides to save Shiva and uses a soldier's sword to pierce his own chest. Inside, instead of a heart, there's a ball of light - a soul. He asks Shiva to reach in and take it. She does, and by the next morning, she's fully cured - but Teacher has lost his memory. He passively accepts her instructions as she tries to walk him through a familiar day, but it becomes clear that without his soul, he's lost whatever was making him different from other cursed people.
Soldiers find them again, and Teacher wanders off rather than try to defend Shiva. They take her to the castle in the capitol city and put her in the dungeon. The king is supposed to perform a ceremony where he sacrifices her on an altar in the central cathedral, but has a heart attack and collapses right before he can kill her.
Shiva is escorted back to the dungeon, and presumably the capitol is in turmoil, although we don't see that. A mysterious stranger, who we can't see, gives Shiva back the locket, and encourages her not to give up hope. She can't escape, and assumes she'll never see Teacher again, but maybe having an ally gives her some will to live.
Meanwhile, back in the forest, Teacher seems to be starting to turn into a tree...
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