Understood.
All right.
The day after tomorrow, yes?
No, you can get rid of it all.
Yes.
Thank you.
Um, it's me.
Come in.
I'd like you to stamp these.
What?
This time it's ice cream sales?
Mikaze-san said one of the shopping district guys requested it.
Our school's not a market for the shopping district.
I think the students would enjoy ice cream.
You just want to impress Mikaze-san, right?
Please!
Accepted
Thanks!
What's this?
Real estate sale documents?
Hey, don't look at those!
Sorry.
I see.
They're tearing it down tomorrow.
Yeah.
I liked your house.
We'd go to play there, on the way home from school.
It's kind of a shame.
Yeah. You're losing the house you grew up in.
It can't be helped.
No one lives there, and they wanted the land.
Want someone to go with you when they tear it down?
I can go.
It's fine.
Spiritualism, originally the practice of speaking with the dead through séances,
was very popular in the West in the 19th-century.
Communication now is generally done via a medium.
The ouija board and kokkuri-san are both examples of spiritualism.
We've covered this in earlier classes, yes?
And so today, I'm going to summon a spirit.
This time, we're going to have the spirit materialize through ectoplasm.
Materialize?
Is it that simple?
Actually, what's ectoplasm?
It was on the last test, remember?
It's human life energy.
When a spirit uses it, you can see - or in some cases - touch it.
But it's extremely difficult for a spirit to take material form.
The famous 19th-century medium, Helen Duncan,
died while attempting to materialize a spirit.
Does anyone have any suggestions for whom we should summon?
My granny died last year. How about her?
Can it be a celebrity?
Then I'd like to see the pro wrestler...
I want to see Spot!
I think we should summon the principal!
He knows everyone here, and I'm a big fan!
What the hell's wrong with you?
Glasses... My glasses...
Think about Maya!
It's fine, really.
It'll make things easier for everyone.
Then turn off the air-conditioner.
During the summoning, the temperature will sink.
I summon here the soul of the Waldstein Academy principal,
Kumashiro Jun'ichiro.
Use my body to come down to this Earth!
That's not the principal!
I saw it!
Where am I?
Snow?
Who's this girl?
Come here.
She's gone.
Yeah.
Did you see the principal?
Man, why was it a girl, not the principal?
It's just that difficult.
She must've been on the same wavelength as the vice-principal.
I see.
Hey, Maya.
What?
Would you do something with her?
That's that girl.
I was out back, working on my bike, when she just jumped on me.
She won't get off my back.
She's really asleep.
Aw, I want to give a ghost a piggy-back ride.
You can't see it?
Not at all!
I can!
Even Kozue?
But I can tell where it is.
Same as always.
Do something.
Where am I?
Where is my home?
I want to go home!
I'll look for it with you.
Really?
Yeah.
Wait...
Where are you?
Okamoto Akari, age seven.
She was a first grader at elementary school.
She appeared during the spirit-summoning ceremony.
So she's a ghost?
She says she wants to go home.
If we knew her elementary school, we could find her house.
We're all going to help her.
That's strange.
What is?
It's clearly unrelated to Nostradamus's Key,
but you're really getting involved.
Even I wouldn't ignore a crying little girl.
And...
If we find her house, maybe we can send back her soul.
I'm not doing much.
I can help you after school.
Maya?
No, it's nothing.
Abe-sensei!
Mikaze-san!
Thank you so much for the thing with the ice cream!
I knew I could count on you!
Oh, no.
Um, after school, do you have some time?
After school?
Um, there's something I'd like to ask you.
Um...
Abe-sensei?
Yes, fine.
Great.
See you later.
Why me?
Your knees are the most stable!
Right?
Something happen, Maya?
No, nothing.
There are six Matsushiro elementary schools.
We could hit them up, one by one, but that's kind of a pain.
What's at your school?
A gate and a yard?
The gate's at the entrance?
Every school's got one of these.
Does that mean it's gotta have a memorable gate and yard?
What's wrong?
Sorry. I just figured it out.
Do you think she meant...
The Sanada Mansion?
I'm pretty sure that next to it...
Thank you.
My intuition's brilliant, isn't it?
I guess even you must be useful sometimes.
Shut up!
I'm so glad we found Akari-chan's school.
Her teacher was nice.
It's about a ten minute walk to her house.
Home, home, home, home.
She looks happy.
She must've really wanted to go home.
Home...
Here you go.
Omelet curry?
We're going to add it to our menu.
You really like curry, so I thought I'd ask your opinion.
I see...
She was so insistent, I thought it was a date or something more important.
Let's eat.
Well?
That was delicious.
Thank you.
I'm so glad.
I wanted you to eat it first.
I put my heart into making it.
This is it.
Home.
Okamoto
Home.
I'm glad you're home.
It's cold.
Where am I?
A poltergeist?
It's cold.
Watch out!
What is this?
Didn't she want to go home?
Amazing spirit energy...
Maya! Kozue!
Are you okay?
For now, let's get out of here!
Kozue, you alive?
Maya...
Hey, Maya!
What's wrong?
Why do you look so hurt?
What do we do?
Hey!
What are you doing?
It's hard to believe...
Little Akari-chan.
But I believe you.
I know all about the Occult Academy. My nephew went there.
Oh, eat up. Eat up.
Those snacks are good.
Th-thank you.
It feels like she might show up, any minute, just fine.
Um, if you don't mind, could you tell us what happened to her?
It might help us put her spirit to rest.
She was such a good, cheery girl.
She was always so polite.
But she had a sad life.
Just as she entered elementary school, her parents divorced.
Her father looked after her, but it's hard for a single man to raise a child.
She must've been lonely, but she was always smiling.
I'm home, ma'am!
Welcome back.
You alone again today?
Want to eat at my place?
No, I'm fine.
I can take care of myself!
As the landlord, I tried to do what I could,
but I didn't think it was my place to get too involved.
And then it happened.
It?
She froze to death on Christmas Eve.
She was sitting in front of the door the whole snowy night.
Why?
Why was she sitting outside?
I don't really know.
But when I think of how I didn't find her sooner, I just...
We need to do something, yeah.
But if her emotions are that strong, it's hard.
Yeah.
We don't know why it happened.
Maya.
What's wrong?
Maybe... She, too...
What?
Let's look for a few more clues.
Maybe ask her dad.
There's still more here.
Maya.
Right!
Well, I've come this far.
That's right.
Hello?
Hey, it's me.
How'd it go?
It's going well.
I see.
I'll come meet up now.
It's fine, really.
This has nothing to do with the Key. We don't need you.
What?
You mad?
No.
See you.
Hey, wait!
Abe-sensei!
Mikaze-san!
You forgot this.
Oh, thank you.
I thought I could catch up with you.
Hello? Maya?
I'm sorry to interrupt your call...
Not at all.
Thank you for today.
See you tomorrow.
See you tomorrow...
Tomorrow?
Who was that?
Abe?
Nah.
Anyway, let's go see her dad.
But the landlord said she didn't know his address.
Where did he work, again?
I'm pretty sure it was...
He quit?
Okamoto-san, in sales, right?
He quit, just after the new year.
It hit him hard when his daughter died.
Who are you?
His relatives or something?
Actually, Akari-chan's spirit...
Her elementary school teacher asked us to find out where she was buried.
I see.
Do you have a contact address for him?
Since he quit, we haven't spoken to him at all.
Actually, one of my co-workers said he saw him...
Where?
Okamoto-san? You have visitors.
We'd like to talk to you about your daughter.
During a class on spirit summoning,
her spirit appeared.
She's still attached to the place she used to live.
If you don't do something...
Leave.
I don't care if you're from the Occult Academy or whatever,
but don't pull this crap on me.
Leave!
You can't mean...
Leave!
W-Wait!
We're-
You're bothering me.
You don't want to save her?
Maya...
That's a bit far...
Akari...
died because of me.
Hey, Akari-chan.
You made it home. What makes you suffer so?
What about you?
Why are you so nice to me?
Are you waiting, too?
Waiting?
The rods are picking up something again!
Fine!
I'll beat the crap out of-
Pay attention to what's happening, you idiots!
Next time on Occult Academy:
AKARI of fireplace.
Even the occult can heat up.
This program is a work of fiction. Departed spirits, psychic abilities, aliens, UMAs, etc., do not exist.
Unless you believe in them...