Wow, alright. Jesus. Okay, so Aoi misses Ichigo, but they stay in regular contact, so it's okay, if a little strained. Ichigo eventually stops responding to Aoi, who misses her so much she starts confusing other people for Ichigo, and eventually starts full-blown hallucinating Ichigo's presence, including when she's masturbating, where she thinks Ichigo is right there having sex with her. Fortunately, she snaps out of it pretty easily, although it's not clear if she understands she hallucinated, if she thinks she just "forgot" Ichigo wasn't there, or if she blanks out those episodes entirely.
Eventually, she gets so bad that she wakes up in the night, doesn't understand why Ichigo isn't next to her, and goes looking for her, eventually finding a very concerned Ran. Aoi, still in the middle of a hallucinatory episode, believes that Ran is Ichigo, and then... It's not clear, because we only see Aoi's hallucination of events, but in reality, it seems that Ran has sex with Aoi while she's being mistaken for Ichigo. Whether Ran actively took advantage of Aoi, pretended to be Ichigo in order to make the frenzied Aoi feel better, or did not resist her confused advances, is not made clear. In the end, Aoi rationalises it the same way she rationalises the rest of her hallucinations, and doesn't realise that Ran was involved this time.
Ran, feeling guilty, keeps it a secret, but confesses everything to Ichigo when she comes back. Ichigo, apparently completely unconcerned that she'd driven her girlfriend into a mental breakdown through neglect, or the fact that another girl had sex with her while she was having one of those breakdowns, cheerfully thanks Ran for taking care of Aoi while she was away, invites her to a threesome sometime, and walks off.
Is that right? Is that seriously what happened here? Is Ichigo supposed to seem like that much of a monster? I'm very confused.
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