Mai-HiME #18 Bullet Summary

Mikoto saves Mai from The Crow, but it runs away when Mai questions it. Nao saw the whole thing from behind a tree.
Akira talks with an unknown on a rooftop. She wonders if her father knew about all this crap. The unknown doesn't know, but tells her to fight and win, which is the message their master told him to deliver to her. Akira says "tell my father I understand."
Mikoto has a dream about her brother. Then her necklace warms up.
Mai is pumped up about Takumi's operation, but Takumi wants a little time to reflect on the matter. (Hint: Because he sucks.)
Midori calls a meeting and tells everyone it'd be bad if they started fighting, and also tells Nao to chill with her man hating exploits. Nao asks if they're just supposed to ignore the whole strongest hime thing, but says it's too late either way since there's already a hime coming after them, which makes Mai spill the beans about The Crow.
Nao asks everyone if they've thought about what would happen if Mai ever got the urge to kill some children. She calls her a "monster that can even go into space" and warns everyone to watch their backs. Yukino freaks out.
Sakomizu tells Natsuki to stop thinking about revenge and focus on winning the current fight. She leaves, then Ishigami walks up to Sakomizu and they rag on each other about leaking hime information.
Mai and Natsuki have a chitchat. Natsuki reveals she's 17. She missed a year of school because of her mother's accident. Natsuki thinks her mother knew about the destiny of hime and double crossed First District to get Natsuki away.
Natsuki says she has no important person, and is therefore not afraid of anything. The only thing she'll take action against is First District(if she finds out they're in on the whole hime thing), meaning she has no intention of fighting the girls.
The two of them hear Yukariko scream, then find her down and hurt. She says it was Nao and her child.
Natsuki turns Dhuran into a speeder bike and looks for Nao, who's sitting at the base of a tree minding her own business. An unknown takes a shot at her (wasn't Natsuki) and she gets up and starts running. She runs into Natsuki and gets asked about Yukariko. Nao knows nothing about it. This of course leads to a fight.
Mashiro asks Nagi if the Kokuyou dude woke up yet. Nagi says who he is or if he's awake is none of her business, then asks her "Why the long face? Did you remember something from your past?"
During the Natsuki/Nao battle, Dhuran shoots a piece of Julia off and it goes flying into Nao's face and cuts her. Midori arrives to stop the fun. Nao's quite pissed at everyone and flies away.
Midori visits Mashiro and shows her the documents Sasaki sent her. In them there's an article about a girl named Mashiro Kazahana that died from an accident during an excavation. Mashiro said public records about that should have been disposed of. But Midori could care less. She just wants to know who Mashiro is, her role in everything, and if there's a way to stop all the child killing. Mashiro says she's one of the ones that has to make this "matsuri" continue by any means neccessary. Midori says she'll get info out of her by force, then. Mashiro says fine, then Fumi materializes a scythe and they have a stand off. No solid indication that Fumi is really a hime, unless you count the materializing scythe.
Yukariko is in the church using Vrus to heal her wounds(or so it seems, it could have just been making the illusion of her being hurt, judging by what she says next). She says to herself "A lie...an illusion...as if...I..." then Ishigami walks in. He says he made her lie. He wants her to force all her impurities and faults on him. He wants her to hate him. He says HE'S going to get the power of the star. Then he forces a kiss on her. Kikuko Inoue is hot.