Missing?
Missing: Kumashiro Maya
I haven't been able to reach her since last night.
And she's been missing for several days.
Missing: Naruse Kozue
Naruse-kun's parents said she was absent because she was sick.
And she sometimes vanishes, saying she's going on "spiritual training."
Her parents weren't worried.
But if she doesn't come home after a few days...
So please, Abe-sensei...
Help me look for the missing principal and student!
W-We should split up, I think...
That principal is sticking her head in things again.
Curiosity killed the cat.
But what's the point of seducing him?
I...
Is it wrong for me to fall in love with someone?
Not at all...
Missing Persons Search Group
What's going on...
Oh, you're a teacher at Occult Academy!
I heard you've got problems there, too.
One of your students vanished?
Y-Yes...
We're doing all we can to find her.
I'm sure she'll turn up.
Th-Thank you.
I guess even that weird-ass academy is a part of the local culture.
Abe-sensei?
Mikaze-san?
You're helping out here?
I was thinking that there's not much for me to do, but I should try to help...
Would you like to look for them in the car?
Um...
Let's go to Nagano City.
I see. Understood.
Someone said they saw a person like that at Minakamiyama.
At Minakamiyama...
They've been right under our noses the whole time.
What's wrong?
I felt like I saw someone back there.
Amato Shrine?
Let's go check it out.
An old tomb?
No one's here.
You're right.
I guess I imagined it!
I-I'm sorry!
No! I am.
I can hear the wind.
I'm scared.
I-It's okay!
Maybe inside here...
The missing people could be in here, waiting for us to save them.
But what a shame!
If I had a light, I could go rescue them.
If only I had a light...
Where'd you get those?
There it is!
Well, you think you can find the new principal?
I can feel a faint presence.
This way.
Sensei...
It's all right.
I'm with you.
I'm sorry!
You're always so kind to me.
I'll always be kind to you.
Then, could we hold hands?
I might trip again...
Y-Yeah.
I-I wonder who made this.
They say Minakamiyama is a pyramid.
I heard that, geologically, it's a strange mountain.
And it was the epicenter of the Matsushiro Earthquake swarm.
U-Uh...
Some unknown power may be at work here.
A-An unknown power?
Yes! Like a spiritual power!
Spirits, huh?
"His legs are as the wind."
"His eyes are clear."
"His voice softly dances on the wind."
"And he takes my hand and gently dances with me."
"We dance... We dance on forever,
a dance that makes the very angels jealous."
Ow...
Mikaze-san?
Mikaze-san!
Oh, man... She got left behind...
Which way did I come from?
Mikaze-san!
Mikaze-san, where are you?
There she is.
You scared me...
May-
What was that for?
Don't say my name. It creeps me out!
Everyone's looking for you!
What are you doing down here?
I was attacked by a monster and ran down here.
A monster?
In the Zouzan Bunker.
No way... An occul-
I'm sorry.
But what do you mean, a monster?
Is this cave part of the bunker?
It's not. It's older.
Then maybe it's a pyramid?
Oh, you mean the Minakamiya Pyramid theory?
That was Tayama Omoikane's theory.
At first, before the war,
it was Sakai Katsutoki who claimed
that there were pyramids in Japan, too.
He said they were recorded in the Takeuchi Scrolls,
and the Japanese word "hiramitsuto" was the origin of the word.
He said that Ashitake Mountain was one of them...
Wh-What?
I'm just saying that there is such a theory!
So...
Yes?
Which way is the exit?
Are you maybe-
Shut up and just tell me!
I got lost, too.
Which way's the exit?
I said I don't know.
And are you sure you should be leaving this Mikaze-san alone?
That's not what's happening.
What's that?
Wh-What is this?
What is this?
The World Tree?
World Tree?
It's called the World Tree or the Universal Tree.
Every mythology in the world has a tale about a gigantic tree.
The Yggdrasil of Northern Europe.
The Saxon's Irminsul.
The Fusang of Chinese myth.
Even Japanese mythology talks about a massive tree,
of which it's said, when the morning sun strikes it, its shadow
stretches to Awaji Island. And when the evening sun hits it,
its shadow reaches past Takayasu Mountain.
It's the tree at the center of the world,
the tree upon which the very universe hangs!
This is the source of Minakamiyama's power.
The pyramid was built to protect it!
Could this be Nostradamus's Key?
I'm sure of it!
No good.
In 2012, this whole mountain's blown up.
Where is Nostradamus's Key?
Bunmei?
What are you doing?
Are you all-
What is this?
It stinks!
It's crap!
It's a massive pile of crap!
Why is there a massive pile of crap here?
Number 5?
This is what the guy before me use-
Stay back!
You stink, and you're not getting within a three-meter radius of me!
No!
This belonged to the guy before me!
No one eats cell phones!
N-No. He was eaten along with it...
What was that sound?
It's that monster.
Be careful.
Stay three meters away!
The signal's gotten stronger.
There's something around here.
...three meters...
Did we imagine that?
I guess we're okay now.
Don't find out by kicking people!
What if it were still around here?
You're a guy. Stop being a wuss!
Humanity depends on you, right?
Isn't your mission to save the future?!
Don't you have any futuristic weapons?
Isn't this what your psychic abilities are for?
If you're a top-class psychokinetic,
then do something about that stupid monster!
Sorry.
That was a lie.
It was a lie.
A lie.
What?
I saw you press it on the ground.
What?
It was a fraud.
Donations... Donations.
I'm sorry!
I don't have any protection money for you!
Please don't take my money!
Are you Uchida Bunmei?
N-No. I'm Fumiaki.
It doesn't matter.
From now on, you're #6.
What is your mission?
Stopping the Nostradamus Prophecies.
If we find Nostradamus's Key and destroy it, you can save humanity.
But we've underestimated Occult Academy.
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!
No!
I don't want to go where there's a monster!
You don't have a choice!
No! No!
Nor do we, #6!
You're all we have left!
Then take better care of me!
We're counting on you.
...is how it really was.
Hey... Don't leave me here.
Three meters!
You can't use any psychic powers, and you get lost in caves.
You're a worthless time agent.
And you stink.
Hey, what was that monster?
The tengu.
Most likely, that's a mothman,
a type of UMA.
It was first recorded in America.
It's a mysterious animal that resembles a human with giant wings.
The tengu was actually a mothman.
A tengu that eats people, huh?
This book contains defensive spells to protect you from attacks by all of my enemies.
Is there a spell to protect against a mothman?
Wh-What? What?
This is awful...
What's that?
Hey!
Kozue?!
What?
What happened?
Shut up!
I said, what happened?
What? What's going on?
No...
No! No!
No!
No! No! No!
No!
But... I'm alive...
I'm alive.
I'm... I'm...
I'm saved!
Spell... Spell...
Smile!
The SDF is here.
I'm the one who found her.
JK!
They're not it, either, huh?
There's no end to them.
Do they have a particular weakness?
I guess I'll try it.
Why did you bring that?
Music is my life.
Real moths don't like sound made at a certain frequency.
Okay!
Now's our chance!
It's so wonderful to be alive...
Are you trying to kill me?
Were they sealed in?
Let's get back to the academy.
W-Wait a second!
Why don't you apologize?
I almost die...
Coward.
Sensei!
Mikaze-san!
I was just about to look for you.
I'm sorry I worried you.
If you're safe, that's all that matters.
I didn't see you when I took out the tengu, so I was concerned.
You got rid of the tengu?
Yeah. I saved the missing student and sent her back to the academy just now.
Wow!
You can do anything!
No. It was nothing.
Come in.
The caves are sealed.
I see.
Good work.
Anyway...
That principal is a lot of trouble.
Yes.
I was a liar.
"A prince on a white horse, riding down on a sunbeam!"
I lost my psychic powers ages ago,
Minorun-chi
and I was forced, against my will, to go into the past!
"In an instant, my heart was his."
I thought I'd fallen in love at first sight with Mikaze-san.
"Don't look at anyone but me!"
And then I ran away... Leaving her, Maya, and Naruse behind!
"Don't blame yourself!"
I'm...
"The person I'm destined to be with forever!"
Next time on Occult Academy...
A poem of lov-
No!
KOZUE in the summer.
The occult is just lies!
This program is a work of fiction. Departed spirits, psychic abilities, aliens, UMAs, etc., do not exist.
Unless you believe in them...