Quote Originally Posted by DarthEnderX View Post
Now that you say that, I think there's a strong possibility that, if Ariel destroyed her body at the end of last episode as she appeared to, maybe Kumoko jumped all the REST of her minds into Ariel as well. Body is already there, so that gives her the connection she could follow.
Then who is the pale lady? She has to be someone revelant, being a relatively central character after killing Julius and everything. She also possesses the corruption power, which we know Kumoko has. There's no way she's a totally unrelated character. There has to be some twist, which made her personality so much unlike Kumoko. Of course we don't know about the birth of the vestiges yet, either. You know, they had to be created at some point, so if Kumoko was indeed annihilated at the end of the previous ep, where did those vestiges come from? I feel like there's still a big part of Kumoko's development missing between the end of the previous ep and the situation we are seeing now in the 15 years later scenes.

Also, the pale lady wanted to go check on the reincarnators. If she has got nothing to do with them, she obviously wouldn't care. Dunno, maybe she's Kumoko who grew up and thus changed.