You break the circle with the heel of your shoe, which is, it turns out, all it ever needed.
She does not stop you. She watches you do it with her chin on her hand and something in her face that is almost gratitude.
VesperGood. Now you hold it. It is heavier than it looks and it never, ever lets you sleep.
The village is yours. The week is yours. Mio keeps sweeping and Aoi keeps her list and neither of them ever finds out what you did.
A woman comes up the shrine steps in six days and asks you to stop the bell, and you find that you already know exactly what to say.