>>845679
From what I gathered it was something like
>Tsukumogami don't tend to run away from owners and owners typically don't ditch them unless they decide they don't need them anymore
>thus the runaway story was suspect of being made up from the start
>ditching/losing a family heirloom is symbolic and probably was considered a bad omen for the marriage
>from the gossip and the samurai saying so, MC knew that the samurai and the girl weren't particularly interested in getting married because they both liked other people
>the shit with the samurai's brother was explained in the episode
>the bat recognized the person who had the tsukumogami as someone who showed up with samurai's brother
<so the samurai's brother was trying to sabotage the marriage by having someone steal the heirloom, but the samurai, not wanting the marriage, let him have it and made up a story about losing it
and then out of I don't know where
>turns out the samurai and the girl were both anonymously(?) mailing each other and the person they were in love with were each other
>happy end