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Originally Posted by margafred

Seems like storyline were divided into 2 parts, first one which was about Haru trying to help Akira to find her pendant given by her mother, and the 2nd one about Haru trying to help Akira to find her mother, which he thought might still be alive and live somewhere, though i believe that Akira knew the truth about it, since she kept with her a notebook (or a medical record?) which i think might be related to her mother.

It looks to be the 26th book that was missing when Haruka went flipping through the records at the clinic. Akira probably has it partly as a confirmation of her parentage, and possibly to cover it up in case someone else went poking around.

Spoiler for Preview speculation:

It's pretty clearly foreshadowed that Hiro-neechan from the store below the temple is related to Akira — Yahiro's very defensive about anyone poking around in Akira's history, Akira went down to her place to make dinner in episode 3, and the two of them have pretty similar ahoge going on (as do Haruka and Sora). Now she's showing up in the preview... she looks a bit too young to be Akira's mother, so I'm leaning towards another half-sister, but appearances lie sometimes.