Secret Flower Garden
The 21rst Story
And now, news regarding the latest incident at the True Cross Academy.
The captive students were all rescued safely, but the criminal managed to escape.
The True Cross Knights are currently in pursuit of the culprit within the school grounds.
Shiemi,
please turn the furnace down.
I'll be out for a bit.
Okay.
I wonder if everyone at the Academy's all right.
Oh no!
Are you all right?
Such horrible wounds.
I should quickly attend to her.
I can't move her.
What should I do?
Nii-chan?
You're going to help me?
What's wrong? Come, sit.
I hear that boys usually take from their mothers, and you certainly do look like Yuri.
Yuri?
Didn't Fujimoto-kun tell you anything about this?
No, he didn't.
I see.
This is the last photo of her that we have left.
Fujimoto named Principal Pheles as your guardian,
but he just got arrested by the True Cross Knights.
In light of that, I, your grandfather, will now act as your guardian.
We had to draw our mother's potrait for Mothers' Day in kindergarten once.
My brother drew out of his imagination,
but I couldn't draw anything, no matter what I tried.
My feelings right now are somewhat similar to that.
I'm sorry that I've left you all alone for the past fifteen years.
There was nothing I could do, though.
I was imprisoned during all those years, after all.
Imprisoned?
I lost everything I had during the "Blue Night" incident fifteen years ago.
My position, my face, my honor...
And most of all, my only daughter, Yuri.
She died?
So, does that mean Satan killed her?
No. Satan wasn't the one who did it.
It was the very same Vatican that imprisoned me.
On the day Satan murdered all those Exorcists around the world,
Yuri gave birth to the children of a demon.
That's me and my brother.
The Grigory then had Yuri executed as a witch because of that.
No way!
Witch hunts were already abolished back then.
Why was my mother still punished?!
It was done to re-establish the True Cross Knights' position of power.
Yuri was only a mere sacrifice to them.
That's just...
The way they handle things hasn't changed at all for the past 600 years.
I was imprisoned for being the father of a "witch".
Just when I thought everything was lost, I unexpectedly came across a single fragment of hope.
That fragment was...
The photo that Fujimoto-kun gave me.
I kept it with me all this time.
I wanted to hug you, whom Yuri had given birth to at the cost of her life,
with my own two hands.
However, the Vatican wouldn't have taken it lightly if they ever found out about you.
So that's why you couldn't come to claim us.
Correct.
The Grigory's reign has ended now, though.
I'll always be by your side from now on.
Wait a second.
Why are you telling only me something this important?
What about my brother?
Unfortunately, I didn't make any arrangements to take Rin in, as he has already awakened.
What do you mean?
This is...
The Dragoon Laboratory.
It's an anti-demon weaponry research center.
The True Cross Order, which Mephisto has been manipulating all this time, can no longer protect Assiah.
Join me, Yukio.
Won't you start a new era with me,
so that we can ensure a peaceful future for all of humanity?
How are the priests doing?
We were able to get rid of those threads thanks to his flames.
Everyone's fine.
Where's Yukio?
I haven't seen him for a while.
What about Negaus-sensei?
He's being interrogated in the Great Cell.
I see.
Where are you going?
I think I have a right to hear his side of the story as well.
Hey!
Negaus-sensei is included on the Vatican's most wanted list.
Seriously?
And on top of that, our school head got arrested by them as well.
What will become of our school now?
Like I've told you, she's my wife.
However, those threads definitely come from Gehenna, no matter how we look at them.
Does that mean your wife was possessed by a demon?
No.
Didn't you say before...
that Satan killed your beloved family?
How can a dead person still be walking around?!
And why was she after my friends?!
Answer me!
Reanimation.
Reanimation?
It is a technique that brings back the dead.
I'm pretty sure I've taught you that already.
Well, that's...
You were the lead researcher in that artificial life form laboratory, weren't you?
Don't play dumb with us.
You reanimated your dead wife using the technology you had access to in that lab.
I never did that.
I can confirm, however, that I did cryogenically preserve my wife's body,
but I didn't reanimate her.
If I had done that, then Heaven's doors would've been barred from me for all eternity.
So, who did it then?
I don't know.
However, on that day...
When I returned to the lab,
I found her cryogenic capsule open.
Michelle!
Welcome back, darling.
It was obvious to me that she was being possessed by a demon.
However, I just couldn't bring myself to inflict any more pain on my beloved Michelle.
Michelle!
Igor Negaus,
I'm arresting you on the charges of practicing human experimentation by reanimating this woman.
What?!
Incinerate this blasphemous structure.
Michelle!
I escaped with Michelle to Japan by using a dimensional key.
After that though,
something inside her began to change.
No!
It's hot!
Help me!
It's all right!
She probably started to remember
how she was burned to death by those blue flames.
Unforgivable.
I will never forgive anyone's who connected to Satan.
I'll slaughter them all.
She became the "Demon of the Dead" after that.
I wanted to catch her before anyone else did, yet...
Here I am.
Why didn't you tell us this earlier?!
There was nothing you could've done even if I had.
She doesn't have much time left.
Even though she's currently possessed by a demon, she's nothing more than just a corpse.
She'll eventually return to the earth after a few more days.
Hey, Rin!
Where are ya going?
It's obvious where.
I'm going after his wife.
What will ya do after ya get to her?
What can ya do?
I don't know.
I can't just stand here, though!
Yer nothing more than an idiot.
My familiar's on her trail already.
This talisman should lead you to her.
Thank you, Shura!
What happened to the "-san" at the end?!
Anyway, try to contact me as soon as ya find her.
Don't think of doing everything on yer own.
Sure!
But still, I wonder who really revived Negaus' wife.
I ran out here all pumped up and whatnot, but...
How do you use this, anyway?
Maybe I should call her and ask-
Ya really are an idiot, aren't ya?!
She'll definitely kill me.
Yeah, this is Okumura-
Rin?
Shiemi?
What's wrong?
I have something to ask you.
Please hurry.
Gotcha. Be there in a bit.
What...
You shouldn't be moving yet.
But still, I'm relieved that you're awake now.
Where is this place?
Why am I here?
I found you unconscious in my garden.
That one there carried you here.
Who are you?
I'm an Exorcist student.
An Exorcist?
Excuse me...
Man, no one's even here.
I came all this way for nothing.
Hey there! You know where Shiemi is?
You do?
Hey, Shiemi!
What's this?
This wasn't here before.
What the...
It's Shura's familiar.
Don't tell me she's actually here?!
This is a secret flower garden that my grandmother left me behind.
She always told me that...
if you try listening to the voices of your plants, their flowers will definitely bloom all the time.
That wasn't a lie.
She was able to hear these little ones' voices.
She was a great person to have these many fairies all looking up to her.
I'm sorry! I ended up talking all by myself!
This is like the Garden of Amahara.
I've heard of it from my husband.
It's a garden that God created to contain every kind of flower there is.
If it really does exist, then this garden would probably be it.
Umm...
Please be my friend!
This is the first time I've met someone else who knows about the Garden of Amahara!
You're warm.
What's your name?
My name?
I'm Moriyama Shiemi!
I'm Michelle.
Shiemi!
Rin!
Stay away from that!
Stay back!
Stop it!
Who would have thought you were actually an ally of Satan?
She has nothing to do with me.
I've told you before that I'm doing this all for revenge.
Everything that was dear to me were all burned to ashes.
All because of those blue flames of yours.
I'll never forgive you.
Just like how Satan took everything away from me,
I'm going to take everything that matters to you as well...
Shiemi!
Michelle-san!
Wait!
She's injured!
We have to quickly treat her!
It's pointless.
She's already dead.
She was reanimated solely for the purpose of taking revenge on Satan.
Get away from there, Shiemi.
No! She's not a bad person!
She tried to kill Suguro and the priests at my church.
I must protect my friends, all of whom are precious to me!
I called you here because I wanted to help her!
And I came here because I wanted to help you!
I came here to protect you!
No!
I never asked you to do that!
Shiemi.
Look at her.
If she was really a bad person, then all those Nii-chans wouldn't have gotten so attached to her.
Right?
That person is Negaus-sensei's wife.
No signal.
I need to find a signal somewhere.
Stay there for now.
Okay.
Hello.
Rin?
What happened?
I found her.
Really?
Where are you?
At the Exorcist shop.
What was she doing there?
That's what I'd like to know.
Anyway, I'll take Negaus there right now.
Don't let her out of your sight.
There's no need to bring him. Actually, don't come here at all.
What?
What's wrong, Rin?
Did something happen? Hey!
What a fantastic place this is.
How unfitting for the likes of a demon.
Sir Augusto!
We have taken custody of the fugitive.
Rin!
So, you were here after all?
A demon, in the guise of a human.
Reviving the dead is the worst taboo you can ever break in Assiah.
I shall now slay you in the name of the Vatican!
Michelle-san!
St-op...
Out of the way!
I will pay for all her sins in her stead.
So please, at the very least, find it in your heart to let her go.
I beg of you.
What a deep and beautiful relationship you two have.
However...
The dead can only come back to life
when the Angel of Life blows his horn to awaken them!
Stop!
Are you going to protect this demon,
Son of Satan?
I just can't forgive someone like you who tramples all over someone else's garden.
Going against me is going against the Vatican itself.
I've told you, that shit doesn't matter to me!
Rin!
Satan's son is fighting to save us?
Why?
Even though I tried to take away everything dear to him...
Is this all you've got,
Son of Satan?!
Shut the hell up!
Serpent Fang!
What are you doing, Shura?
Calm down!
This'll get ya nowhere!
Get out of the way, Shura!
What did ya really come here to do?
Think about it.
Get out of the way!
Michelle!
No way...
Hold on, Michelle! Michelle!
Damn it!
Who shot her?!
Show yourself!
I told you to show yourself!
Stop it, Rin!
The Garden of Amahara...
It's a paradise where plants from around the world are gathered.
It may not be here, but I'm pretty sure it's out there.
It's a place where we can live in peace.
Let's search for it together.
Darling...
What are you doing?!
Arrest those cretins!
Stop this already!
Greenman fairies? And there's a bunch of 'em, too.
Why, you-
Sir Augusto.
I know.
We're leaving.
What's that bell ringing for?
It's an emergency call from the Vatican.
An emergency call?
Hey, are they going to be fine?
They will be. I'm sure they'll eventually find...
the Garden of Amahara, the one place where they can live in peace.
Arthur Augusto Angel,
reporting in.
Good work, my Paladin.
Where is the Grigory?
He was dismissed.
Impossible!
He is the supreme head of the True Cross Order!
That was in the past.
Starting from today, I, Ernst Frederick Egin, will be in charge around here.
Gentlemen, for most of our history, we have been defending ourselves from our foes.
At long last, we shall finally strike back!
We will eradicate every demon from this world, and restore peace to it!
Okumura Yukio.
Say, Rin...
Next Episode
Is this really what an Exorcist does?
If we keep this up, then we're just like...
Are you kidding me?
Let go of me, Nii-san.
I said let go!
Demon Hunt