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The second part does not portray Kirino so much as a flawed character as a psychiatric case.
It is one thing if a friend or relative tells you with a straight face to get hit by a car, if they are someone you usually joke around with and you know they live in the same reality as the rest of us, where people don't jump in front of cars. It is terrifyingly different when said by someone who is capable of emptying a bucket of water over her own head in plain sight of a crowd of strangers.
But madness is not the only danger in dreams. There is also the danger that something may be lost which can never be regained.
In this episode, both of these dangers are terrifyingly close at hand. Sure, teenagers are not the most stable of creatures to begin with, but I would really worry about her at this point.
What a contrast to the relaxed and genuinely humorous sixth episode.
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