What are you doing?
Minai!
It's your job to defeat that Corpse.
Take your pride as Shikabane Hime and give it the final blow!
I'll get scolded by Bishop Tagami for letting a Shikabane Hime that's still regenerating it's body help you.
Above that...
It's forbidden to distance yourself from your Contracted Priest and getting into a fight alone.
Minai!
You'll get hurt if you attack it!
If I can concentrate myself enough, I can defeat it before the curse takes effect.
I have to do it, because I've been ordered to.
Minai!
You monster!
I am justice.
Justice is me.
It's over!
Mitsuyoshi?
Is that you, Mitsuyoshi?
I didn't know you were friends with Oori!
I'm so glad.
Are you doing well?
I was so worried after reading your blog.
Come on, talk to me.
Let's meet up once in a while.
Men!
Note: frontal attack in kendo
Sumitori.
Mitsuyoshi?
Can you hear me?
Mitsuyoshi?
Do you still practice kendo?
Did you get any better?
Did you know they completely renovated our middle school's kendo dojo last year?
Why don't we go and take a look at it.
Sumitori.
Hey?
Mitsuyoshi?
Can you hear me?
Oori?
Oori!
I'm sorry, Sumi.
If you were going to make such a face...
...you didn't have to call him in the first place.
Are you alright, Minai?
Why are you only calling her by her name?
Minai!
We're leaving!
Hey, Minai!
I'm alright.
I don't think of these wounds as a punishment anymore.
A punishment?
Because I'm not a human, I'm a Shikabane Hime, I can keep on fighting getting wounded.
Because I can protect you.
I learned to have pride even not being human.
Sorry for all the trouble.
It’s nothing really.
Are your wounds healing properly?
If there is anything else you need, feel free to ask.
I've gone through a lot of trouble for you.
You can make it up to me by kneeling down and licking the back of my feet.
Why are you saying such sinister things?!
Oh, all right.
I'll just stop telling the truth.
I didn't say or think anything like that!
What are you doing, Shikei?
I was really sorry, so I...
Just let him lick them.
With pleasure!
Please stop it.
I really didn't think any of those things.
I'm sorry to keep you waiting.
Please.
I choose what I wanted to eat myself!
I reported to old man Tagami about the betrayer monk case.
And also about another case.
The one about your brother, Shikei, right?
That guy is just running around on his own intuition.
He's his brother, why don't you let him join the Kougon-cult and let him become a Contracted Priest?
Let him connect with Minai and everything will be fine.
I won’t let him get involved any more than he is already.
But you are Makina-chan's Contracted Priest, Shikei.
Asking not to get him involved at all is impossible.
I know, but I've already made my decision.
I'll keep my promise to Makina.
And I won't let Oori come near us.
Both are very important to me.
You're just acting cool, old man.
You're just afraid what she would do to you if you fail again. Isn't that right, moody?
Note: pika = electricity, probably means her being angry.
I'm not thinking any of that, really!
Oori!
Can you explain to me how you met Mitsuyoshi?
Well, I...
It's difficult to explain.
So what happened to Mitsuyoshi?
Sorry!
I promise you I'll explain it to you next time.
I just hope he's alright.
This cell phone is evidence of that Corpse, because you accessed it's blog with it.
Isn't that Kan-san's job?
Why did you come all the way just for this?
Because I thought it had to be confiscated quickly.
And also because I happened to be in the neighborhood.
I understand you need to confiscate it, but I'm losing my cell phone.
We'll just transfer your number to a new one.
I will pay for the charges.
We could go to the shop after school if you like.
Kagami.
What is it, Sensei?
I'm telling you this as your brother's college, not as your teacher.
I'm sure you understand this, but a Shikabane Hime isn't human.
How much it may look like a cute girl.
What a horrible way to say it.
Damned Minai.
Where have you gone?
I'm different from them.
What is it?!
You guys are...
Let me go!
Damn!
Note: this shop is referring to the Japanese mobile phone operator ‘AU’, popular among students.
Please confiscate it.
I'm sorry to have caused you trouble.
Don't worry about it.
Do you have a cell phone, Minai?
Yes, I need it to stay in contact with my Contracted Priest.
Won't you give me your number?
It has become difficult to ask Hoshimura-san about my brother, you know.
It's alright.
I'll send it, OK?
Minai?
What's wrong, Minai?
Minai?
Are you OK, Minai?
Impossible.
It was just the beginning.
So it is certain.
The information bureau confirms it.
The Contracted Priest, Isaki Shuuji, has been murdered this afternoon.
According to the witnesses, he was quarreling with two youngsters.
And got stabbed with a knife soon after.
Trouble with some brats?
We must check all the surroundings.
Bring a burial cloth for Bishop Isaki.
Yes sir.
What about Isaki's doll?
Doll?
His Shikabane Hime.
Wasn't she near him?
Saki?
I'm sure Itsuki will come alone.
But...
I don't want him to see what we're going to do now.
A Shikabane Hime and her Contracted Priest have a strong bond we call 'the link'.
The Contracted Priest is what keeps the Shikabane Hime something we can call human.
But if a Shikabane Hime lives after the Contracted Pries is dead...
...she's just another Corpse.
So that's why sometimes a Shikabane Hime...
...needs to kill another Shikabane Hime.
Makina?
I'm going to watch.
The way a Shikabane Hime dies.
Why?
Minai?
It just started.
Minai, what’s wrong?
Minai?
Hey, Minai?
Shut up!
I'm sorry.
No.
Oori.
Minai?
I am...
It's alright, Minai.
No, it's not!
It's no use!
I may only be 10 years old.
But my Contracted Priest, Aragami Rika, is a member of one of the Ten Great Holy Families.
They're the descendants of the ten senior disciples of the founder.
You're nothing compared to a Shikabane Hime like me.
No.
You must know it.
No, you must have felt it.
Your Contracted Priest has died.
I heard it was a terrible incident.
You murdered a man and committed suicide.
You became a Shikabane Hime thanks to that attachment to this world.
But that's all over now!
She blocked it.
Why are two of them fighting?
If a Shikabane Hime that has lost her Contracted Priest doesn't get annihilated...
..she'll become a mere Corpse.
I don't want to die.
Did you forget we're all dead already?
I've been told "thank you".
Thank you.
I thought it was just an attachment.
But now it's different.
Even if a Shikabane Hime is a monster, it wasn't a punishment to me.
I can save people.
It's the first time I have felt this way.
I finally understand it.
What I have to do.
Don't speak any more!
Forgive me.
Let's run away.
Oori-kun!
It's not Minai anymore.
It's already a Corpse.
Let's run away!
Oori-kun!
Damn it.
Makina-chan?
A Shikabane Hime is actually a Contracted Priest's shield.
Usually the Corpse Princess dies before the monk.
What a boring life.
It's rare, but things like this happen.
But it's the first time I heard a priest dying after getting stabbed by a few brats.
Are you sure you don't want to go?
It's not our problem.
We would have to annihilate it, if we pass it in town.
but I want to try not getting involved too much.
I don't know what to say about that.
Eh...
I'm sorry to interrupt.
Could you watch over a friend for a while?
Just until this evening.
These two look grumpy, but they'll take care of you.
Where's Minai?
Wait!
Did you hide her somewhere and are you trying to lure us somewhere else?
How admirable.
Why do you want to kill her?
Because a Shikabane Hime that lost her Contracted Priest is just another Corpse.
Minai said she wants to protect people.
Fight for justice you mean?!
Don't you think that's an attachment to this world?
Wanting to protect people...
Wanting to fight for justice...
If Minai is thinking of those things, it means she has become a Corpse with an attachment.
That can't be.
There is no mistake in her being just.
But if she gets focused on something, it is no different from other Corpses.
Where is Minai?
Shikabane Hime's can sense each other, because we're all Corpses.
It's useless to hide her.
Why are you...
Why are you fighting?
You don't have a reason, right?
More than you...
More than you, Minai is...
Do you know who we are?
I think so.
The Kougon-cult has what you would call secret methods.
Although the chance of success is small, there is something we can do.
To find a Contracted Priest to replace the deceased Isaki.
But that should be done immediately.
If you get rid of the link with Isaki and get a new strong one with a new priest...
...you might be able to keep on being a Shikabane Hime.
But the problem is to find a suitable Contracted Priest, right?
Someone who already has a real strong connection with her is difficult to find.
What about Keisei's little brother?
He's worried about you.
You already have a emotional connection.
Are you serious?
He isn't even a priest.
I think it's possible to skip that and continue on to the Contract part.
I...
Yo, Oori.
It's huge!
What happened?
A priest got stabbed at that parking lot.
The suspects are students from our school.
I heard it was someone Sumi knew since his middle school.
A priest got stabbed?
Ouch!
What are you doing?
Don't do that!
Oori?
I am Isaki Shuuji’s Shikabane Hime.
What a distinguished service.
Did you get hurt?
No.
Then I'll remove the body.
Hey?
What about the burial cloth?
That cloth is for priests above the Gon Bishop or died in the line of duty.
So we did not prepare any.
Didn't this one die for the cult?
Did you prepare it?
Yes.
I was told the same thing from Tagami Shikei.
I see.
We could have saved her if we made Oori her Contracted Priest.
After giving her all that hope and information...
You want to die without having any reason?
Passing eternity.
Staying young and beautiful.
Not getting stained by becoming an adult.
Make my chest flutter.