To summarize: A-ko was a recluse, and her 'outgoing' double won over our sweet little B-ko. B-ko continued killing the doubles that wanted to act on her urge to move the relationship forward, one of whom had escaped and won over the original A-ko. Original B-ko killed double B-ko, then Original A-ko. All future B-ko doubles just went through with original B-ko's urge to kill herself. Eventually a B-ko double kills the original and lives happily ever after with Double A-ko.
Yep, that's the easy to follow part. I'm a bit hung up on the motivations though.
From what I understood in the latter part of the story:
Clone A-ko doesn't reciprocate B-ko's feelings, so that's why she wants to kill herself. The line that the clone says before it killed itself supports this because it said that its reason to kill itself was due to being unable to be clone A-ko's girlfriend, so that's why it doesn't want to replace the original. The clone at the end that ends up killing the original is most likely one of the rarer cases of clones where it "surpasses" the original, or is at least different from them and isn't subject to whatever they particularly desire at the time.
Clone B-ko surpasses the original in two ways, either:
1.) She hasn't given up on clone A-ko and still wants to pursue her despite the rejection
2.) She doesn't have the same desire to be in a romantic relationship with clone A-ko, so she's fine with being gal pals.
(this is what I believe to be the case)
Possibility no. 2 is a bit more supported with page 23, when clone B-ko reassures the original that there is another clone besides her that is already in a romantic relationship with another A-ko clone the entire time. And so she kills original B-ko, becomes pals with the clone A-ko (the one shown in the story since the beginning).
The End.
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