: To avoid a static episode of typing, the show visualizes the forum debate as Kotoko standing in a digital cyberspace, surrounded by floating screens representing the voices of the online "committee".
Kotoko presents the first of four planned solutions to the forum users: 9 : The Committee to Conquer Steel Lady Nanase
: Kotoko sits in the back of a car, engaging in an "internet chess match" on a forum dedicated to Steel Lady Nanase. Since the ghost’s power is derived from public belief, Kotoko’s goal is to overwrite the supernatural narrative with a plausible, non-supernatural "logical fiction". : To avoid a static episode of typing,
: She argues that Detective Terada was not killed by a ghost, but by a human culprit—specifically a female colleague motivated by romantic obsession. : She argues that Detective Terada was not
: She posits that the "steel beam" used in the murder was actually a lighter material, like styrofoam, and that the killer used a complex cinder-block pendulum trap at an abandoned gas station to crush Terada's face.