I hate the occult!
A cell phone?
That was bright.
Wait!
Please wait!
No!
Wai-
"Wai"?
The word is actually an anagram, referring to Napoleon.
What a day...
It's all lies!
More like "Nostra-lies-mus," if you ask me!
Supernatural powers like prognostication exist.
Special: The Nostradamus Prophecies
A boy with supernatural powers, here in the studio!
We've invited a guest to the studio today.
Let's have him come in.
The famous spoon-bending boy, Uchida Fumiaki-kun!
Welcome.
Bunmei-kun, how are you doing?
It's not "Bunmei." It's Fumiaki.
I'm doing...
...okay, I guess.
Bunmei-kun! Bunmei-kun!
Let's watch
Uchida Fumiaki-kun's spoon-bending trick!
It's bending!
Enough!
That hard spoon is bending!
Everyone's obsessed with the occult...
Camera mode?
Is something wrong?
With Principal Kumashiro Jun'ichiro gone,
I think it only natural that I, his only living relative,
assume his post.
Is there a problem?
No, but, um...
A will?
I, Kumashiro Jun'ichiro, bequeath my entire fortune, including Waldstein Academy, to my former wife Kanae.
If Kanae cannot inherit this fortune, I leave it to my daughter Maya.
It was written three years ago.
It was kept in a safe deposit box at the bank.
By the way,
security at this school is awful.
A pervert appeared yesterday.
A pervert?
I-I'm terribly sorry!
I shall have security strengthened immediately-
No, it's fine as is.
Having a bunch of problems will make it easier to get rid of this place.
Bring me all of the accounts and a list of your finances for each of the past several years.
Before that, a new teacher has arrived, whom I'd like to introduce.
Come in.
Excuse me.
He'll be teaching sophomore history.
His name is Abe Minoru.
Would you leave us for a moment?
O-Of course!
My name is Abe. I-
I hate the occult.
What are you...
Don't play dumb with me!
You suddenly appear from the sky.
You disappear like the wind.
And then, when I take a picture of myself with your phone,
I see a skull!
You used it?
Who are you?!
Please return my phone.
I...
You?
The future...
The future?
I can't save the future!
I... I'm a time agent.
A time agent?
I've come here, to the past, to protect the future.
In 2012, the Earth...
The Earth is ruled by aliens!
They appeared from another dimension and took over almost the entire world in an instant.
The survivors formed a resistance and waged a guerilla war.
Then we acquired a piece of alien technology!
How many Abe Minorus do we have left?
One.
Let me confirm this.
What's your ability, #6?
Psychokineses.
Your grades at the camp?
Top class.
What's your mission?
To prevent the Nostradamus Prophecies.
Nostradamus...
If only we had understood how accurate he was, we might have avoided this.
In the seventh month of the year 1999,
a Great King of Terror will come from the sky.
He will revive the mighty king of Angol Mois.
His prophecy came true
July 21st, 1999.
Here, in Nagano Prefecture, Matsushiro, at Waldstein Academy,
a rift to another dimension opened, and they appeared.
Several minutes later, the school and everything within a fifty-kilometer radius was a blasted wasteland.
By the way, do you know why this happened?
Even then, Waldstein Academy was a crazy enough place to be called "Occult Academy."
Some item there must have triggered the creation of this dimensional rift.
We call this item "Nostradamus's Key."
If we can find and destroy it,
we can change the future and rescue humanity.
But it seems that we underestimated Occult Academy.
A monster!
I'm being chased by a monster, a monster I've never seen before.
I can't handle it with pyrokinesis.
Forget about the key!
Hurry!
I'm not a screw-up like #5.
This is the information gathered by Abe Minoru #1-#5.
And the complete philosophical works of Gustav Waldstein.
Get all of it into your head.
It'll take one night with the headset.
There's something else.
This is a 1999 high school Japanese history textbook.
Abe Minoru is a Japanese history teacher.
Study it.
This one's analog, huh?
Meddling with the past is a delicate matter.
Depending on your actions, you could erase us from existence altogether.
This may appear to be just a '99 cell phone,
but it's an historical change simulator, built using "their" technology.
If you photograph that, while thinking of what you intend to do with it,
you can see what the results will be in 2012.
If you don't intend to do anything with it, it will simply show the subject, as it exists in 2012.
In other words?
If you see something suspicious, think of destroying it and photograph it.
If you see a peaceful 2012, with no aliens,
it's Nostradamus's Key.
Put another way, this cell phone will let you find the key.
It contains a normal 3D camera, as well.
Send us data of important people with it.
Report in often.
Communications are essentially one-way, from the past to the present.
In the one-in-a-thousand chance of some danger, we'll respond.
That's the only time you'll be able to communicate with us.
Five-in-a-thousand, you mean.
Five people are dead already.
Commander, we're ready.
Watch out for space-time storms.
They'll strip you naked and might knock you off-course.
The fate of humanity rests on your shoulders!
We're counting on you, #6!
We're counting on you, Uchida Fumiaki!
Thus, I...
I said I hate the occult.
Aliens! Psychic powers!
Shut up already!
You made that "space-time storm" thing up just now!
And that Uchida whosits kid was on TV yesterday, bending spoons!
That's me!
That's me ten years ago-
Then bend this.
You're taking too long!
Get out!
What the hell was that?
The Nostradamus Prophecies?
July, 1999. A Great King of Terror will come from the sky...
From the sky...
No way! It's him?
Did you see that Nostradamus thing yesterday?
The pro side sucked, as always.
Seriously, humanity destroyed? No way!
Nostradamus's Final Prophecy: 1999.
You guys sure are taking it easy.
My house already installed a fallout shelter.
I think she's an expert!
Wh-What are you talking about?
Maya-san!
She knew all about the occult, and she fought so valiantly!
She must really love it.
But then she acts like she doesn't...
I don't get it!
I don't think Maya honestly hates it.
Then...
She transferred schools because of her parents' divorce.
It's an adult problem.
But...
Maybe what really wasn't going well was...
This is #6.
Commencing my investigation.
Biology Storage Room
History Storage Room
Parapsychology Storage Room
This place is insane!
It's like some crazy museum of weird stuff.
Any of these things could be Nostradamus's Key.
I don't know if I can find it by the 21st...
What are you doing here?
I-I'm sorry.
I thought I'd walk around the school to get ready for tomorrow.
Fine. I'll be right there.
We will now cremate the body.
I can arrange other living quarters for you.
No.
I want to see how my father lived.
In that case, goodnight.
The principal was cremated, and the evidence is gone.
We're safe now, I guess.
Fool. The daughter is trying to become the next principal.
This is bad.
She might see through us.
Then before that can happen...
Who's there?
don't get in the way
Not this, either.
How many photos have I taken?
This mission is some boring stuff.
Hey. Are you okay-
So it's your doing, Great King?!
Great King? What?!
Don't try and fool me!
In the seventh month of the year 1999!
A Great King of Terror will come from the sky!
And you're the Great King!
What are you talking about?
The day in the prophecy is July 21st!
I'm not the Great King!
What's that, then?
Get away from me!
Hey! Get up, Great King!
You want to die?
Pervert!
Time agent!
#6!
Spoon-bender!
Anything!
Get up!
Looks like an old notebook.
My father's notebook.
He used to record his research results in it.
Of course, none of it was any good.
Thanks to that, we...
"We"?
Nothing.
Is it Kanae reading this?
Or Maya?
Either way, take this notebook and run from here now.
And never come back.
These last few years, as an Occult Researcher, I have investigated the Nostradamus Prophecies.
And I've found that by discovering and destroying the key to the prophecies, I can stop them.
But now, there are those who do not agree with my research, and they're out for my head.
If one of you is reading this, it means their plan has succeeded.
He was killed?
He had Nostradamus's Key?
What this guy said was true?
This book contains defensive spells to protect you from attacks by all of my enemies.
It will keep you safe.
Go, forget everything, and live in peace.
What are you doing?
No... I was thinking that maybe the book itself was the key, but it's not.
If it were the key, you'd see a peaceful future-
Of course!
My father was researching how to prevent the prophecy!
What?
You were the one who said none of it was any good-
It upsets me when other people say it!
Go, forget everything, and live in peace.
I'm your new teacher, Abe Minoru.
I teach Japanese history.
Abe Minoru
It's a normal field of study, with no relationship to the occult,
but take it seriously.
So let's get started.
You're not the principal?
What are you doing in my class?
When I learned my father had died, do you know what I thought?
"That's what you get."
And I took over as principal to destroy the school.
But I changed my mind.
If someone killed my father, then I'm going to find out who!
Find out...
I'm going to find the key.
With you.
Nostradamus's Key.
If they know that, despite killing the principal, his daughter's taking over for him,
they'll come after me again.
I haven't started believing you, and I haven't forgiven you.
But if I work with you, we can exchange information, and it'll make things easier for me.
Don't you think?
Of course, your life will also be at risk.
But you're fine with that, right?
You want to team up?
With me?
Can I ask you something?
You do like the occult, don't you?
I said I hate it!
I'm Uchida Fumiaki, a time agent from the year 2012.
With my psychokinesis, which I used to astound the world with my spoon-bending,
I will find Nostradamus's Key and stop the prophecy!
Even if it's to find the person who killed my father,
I can't believe I'm teaming up with a guy who's the walking personification of the occult.
You really love it.
You're such a tsun-
That word didn't exist in 1999!
Next time on Occult Academy, Episode 3:
MIZAKE blows through.
The occult is so stupid!
This program is a work of fiction. Departed spirits, psychic abilities, aliens, UMAs, etc., do not exist.
Unless you believe in them...