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As I've continued to think about the next Episode, I am speculating that -- given that it will apparently be told from Kirino's perspective -- they might actually have the whole episode sort of bookended or sort of drawn together by her audio recordings to herself. So the flashback to 8 years ago will tie into the first audio recording on her iPod, and it'll go all the way up to the last audio recording on her iPod (where she asks herself what she should do). This is another way of re-telling Volume 11, while also drawing some elements from Volume 12 out in advance to -- as the author suggested he would do -- help draw the story to its ending more smoothly. In the end, I think they are setting up the last three episodes to go more smoothly without so many jumps and cuts in the timeline (and that also explains what they did in Episode 12).
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