Now is the time... to bring things to an end.
Red Data Book
A book which contains data about species in danger of extinction.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature first published it in 1966.
The ones deemed in gravest danger had their articles printed on red paper.
I go toward your voice as we speak, into the light...
About "Red Data Girl"
She is a girl from an endangered species.
The term originates from a book which contains data about species in danger of extinction,
called the Red Data Book (abbreviated RDB).
Many wish to have control over her, for such is the vast mystery of her power.
Through thin silk I watch the world outside
I can't fly with my wings in that little box
Flowers bloom one after another into a windswept forest,
and I imitate their breathing, and flaps my wings a little
Look,
your voice, though faint as ever,
guides me from where I cowered
The future is so very far away and obscure for me,
but I will abandon my fear of it and find you
We cannot touch each other, but know the other's feelings
That gives me the strength to look ahead
so that I may change
Father!
What is going on? Why would Masumi take him away?
I don't know.
I can't tell where Manatsu is.
Calm down. That can't be true.
I can't! Manatsu won't even look at me.
May I have a word with you, Sagara?
And you too, Suzuhara.
Mayura has told me that you're both able to see Masumi.
Do you know exactly what Masumi has done here?
No...
Are you able to summon Masumi the way those two do?
I don't think that anyone else in the world can do what those two do.
It seems less like a spell and more like an innate gift.
I am personally unable to see Masumi.
It's as though abilities that have long laid dormant have emerged in my children.
No one from our current generation is able to offer them guidance.
Their mother hates it when she hears them speak of "Masumi."
It seems that as their mother, she can sense something ominous in the name.
Inn & Pilgrim Lodging
Shinzui
Well, I'm going to turn in for the night, okay?
I'm worried. Souda seems like the type that could easily get spirited away.
Spirited away...
I'm sorry you had to experience all that.
It's okay.
Manatsu said that you were tough and ought to live a long life,
almost as if that didn't hold true for himself.
He said that, huh?
You see, Manatsu has the same heart condition that took Masumi.
Our current medicine can't do anything to help him.
That's why Mother doesn't want to remember Masumi.
I know that Manatsu is much closer to Masumi than he is to me,
but I never thought the day would come when he'd choose to leave me and join Masumi.
I think that Manatsu is trying too hard to do what's best for you.
Right now, he's just overthinking things.
If he wants what's best for me, then he has to live a long life and stay here with me!
The whole reason I want to be the top student at school is to help Manatsu live a full life!
That's why I've been working for so very, very long!
Why doesn't he get it?
Sagara!
I need your advice.
Earlier, you said that no one else could do what those two could, right?
What of it?
What about the Himegami?
Why are you bringing up the Himegami?
Don't you think the Himegami might know how to summon Masumi?
How could you say that?!
I can't talk to the Himegami or ask her any questions.
But you can!
Stop right there!
Where are you going with this crazy idea?
If Manatsu winds up staying on the other side...
Are you referring to the other plane Masumi made?
I use to think that I was a nuisance who had dragged you into a world
that you would otherwise have had nothing to do with.
But the way you can associate with Masumi as if it were nothing is starting to make me think otherwise.
If I become the Himegami, Sagara, could you talk to her?
Wait! Can you even do that?
I don't know until I try.
Don't make it sound so easy!
The Himegami is dangerous.
She's so dangerous I can't even imagine what'll happen if she does show up!
I'm scared of the Himegami too!
I don't want to become her ever again.
But we have to do everything we can,
otherwise we really will lose Manatsu!
Are you sure? Really?
I'm truly glad to have Mayura as my roommate.
She helped me fit in at school and with the executive committee.
That's why I've been searching for a way to show my gratitude.
In the end, I think this is the only way I can repay her.
All right.
Huh? It didn't happen.
Do we need something else to summon her?
Maybe I'm in a bad location.
She isn't a cell phone.
I felt something... just now...
Episode 8
The First Wish
That's strange...
Suzuhara, did you come to keep your promise?
Masumi?
Why are you wearing that?
After seeing the prez in hers, I thought it'd be fun!
Where's Manatsu?
Further in.
Further where?
Togakushi has a bunch of different layers.
This isn't right! You're making Mayura cry.
Send Manatsu back right now!
I didn't make her cry.
She's really sad.
If we part now, she'll only be a little sad.
If Manatsu and I postpone when we go, it'll only make her grief and despair worse.
Is that what Manatsu thinks?
We're of like mind.
After being Masumi for so long, I don't want to vanish any more.
But Mayura wouldn't hesitate to choose Manatsu over me, you know?
In that case, it'd be best if we became one before it came down to that.
Masumi, are you about to disappear?
Nothing will change for as long as I remain in Togakushi.
But I never expected humans to change so quickly.
Let me talk to Manatsu.
I don't think you can. He's buried in a cave.
In that case, take me to the cave.
The night is deep around there. Are you certain?
I'm sure!
It was night last time we met, and it's nighttime right now!
It looks like you're the type of person who grows stronger when they face hardships on their own.
In that case, do you remember how I asked if you would go out with me?
I do, but right now, Manatsu comes first.
All right. This way.
Suzuhara,
if you were told that between you and Manatsu, only one of the two of you could make it back,
who would you choose?
Neither of us.
Manatsu and I both have people waiting for us on the other side.
This is the entrance.
You'll have to open it up, huh?
Manatsu, are you in there?
Come out!
What is this doing here?!
How did Manatsu get past this huge boulder?
This is Togakushi. The world follows Amaterasu's example.
It never would have happened if Manatsu wasn't perfectly willing.
He entered that cave of his own free will.
The cave...
I would like each and every one of you to realize that just as in the myth of Ame no Uzume no Mikoto,
dance has the power to purify.
Dancing may be the only thing I can do.
Masumi, I want a fan.
I had a feeling you would ask for one.
Manatsu, you shouldn't join this world.
What would make us the happiest would be for you to come back.
Come out, Manatsu!
Heaven and Earth
are one forevermore.
Manatsu! Mayura, your parents, and everyone else is worried about you!
I wished we could be
just as they are.
Don't open the cave!
Masumi's on the other side!
Don't open the cave!
Huh? What do you mean?
But wasn't Masumi the one out here?
Yeah. I think I finally get it.
I never should have considered myself and Masumi to be one and the same.
He wanted to break the boulder and enter the outside world.
But hasn't Masumi already found his way out?
Masumi is only a small part of a greater being.
If his entire body gets outside, he won't be Masumi anymore.
Thank you for coming, Suzuhara.
Huh?
Mayura...
Sorry.
I'm going to let you hear it later, and I might hit you.
But I don't know how much energy you have left, so I'll settle with this for now.
How did you get here? You didn't have Masumi with you.
Sagara brought me.
What? How was Sagara able to do that?!
Explanations can wait until later!
Look behind you.
It's like a snake's...
Snap out of it!
Don't you know how to close the entrance?
I have no idea! All I know is how to dance.
How about you two?
We only know how to summon him...
You gotta be kidding me...
We're in big trouble!
Just run for it!
The real Masumi lives on the other side of that boulder!
Once he's fully out, he could easily devour us!
A staff?
Don't stop! Keep running!
He's going to devour me!
Demons and heretics.
Monsters and malicious spirits.
Poisonous beasts and vile dragons.
Numerous poisonous insects.
Hearken the call of my holy staff.
Bow before me, empty of poison.
Um, Sagara, did you sprout wings?
You must be imagining things.
But I can see them.
They aren't real.
How come you can do that?
The best I can hope to do is protect you.
There is no way I can force that thing back into the cave!
So it would seem.
This task is too great for you.
It wasn't me!
Hand me that staff.
Local deity, you who have suffered long with none able to summon you!
It is not yet time for your awakening.
Great Nine-Headed Dragon,
eventually the day will come when you are released from all that binds you.
For now, return to your slumber.
This is as it should be.
The Great Nine-Headed Dragon left one head before returning to the cave.
You may refer to the dream of that head as "Masumi,"
assuming you can still summon him.
Lady Himegami!
Lady Himegami, can we continue to remain separate like this?
Instead of becoming you,
may I see you like this while remaining me?
You still know nothing.
Take that question to your mother.
But my mother—
Mom, what are you doing here?!
Yukariko?
That wasn't too bright, you two.
What were you thinking, meddling with a powerful being as you are now?
Going by what the Himegami said, does that mean she's with you?
You got it.
That's why we aren't supposed to see each other all that often.
Although I won't be able to detain the Himegami for too much longer.
Mom, were you okay with turning into the Himegami?
Is it wrong of me to want to be a normal girl?
Honestly, it'd be weird if you weren't at least a little hesitant.
Neither of you realize just how unstable you are.
From this point on, you must face the difficult question of how to change yourselves.
It is a deadly question that everyone with spiritual powers must confront.
I settled things here for you this time.
Your real trial has been put off for a while.
I can't... I'm not strong enough...
That's right. I'm strong, Izumiko.
So I'll protect you for as long as I'm around.
But I can't do that forever.
Stay here, and wait for your two friends.
Yukariko is something else, isn't she?
That's why she just doesn't feel like "mom."
She sure was pretty.
You know, you should speak your mind more openly.
Everything always comes out of the blue with you.
You're the one who's abrupt!
You keep far more secrets than me, and always bottle up what you think!
That's because...
Shinkou! Suzuhara!
Thank goodness you made it back!
Are you okay?
I'm fine.
I'm still in one piece.
Before we realized it, we were standing in front of the lion-dog statues at the rear shrine.
I'm starving!
I haven't eaten a bite in two days.
There's a soba noodle stand by the torii gate if you can make it there.
In that case... I'll hang in there!
Nagano's Specialty Sweets
Izumiko, I swear I'll never forget what you did for Manatsu!
Somebody calls me
From somewhere they call me
From far away that gentle sound drifts near and pulls my heart away
Tell me something,
for a premonition pains me
Do the feelings I don't understand yet
start to grow?
I dreamed of freedom
and yet keep hesitating about it
With a tiny voice
I prayed that I could
laugh together with everyone
Miyuki and I returned to Tamakura Shrine for the second half of summer vacation.
Then, Miyuki suddenly asked me to summon Wamiya with a dance.
I figured it wouldn't work.
You did?
He's sulking because you acted all buddy-buddy with Masumi.
Huh? What do you mean?
I thought that Wamiya had vanished too,
but then a talking crow flew into my dorm room one day.
He said that he lacked the power to take human form in Tokyo,
but that voice belonged to Wamiya.
Is that why you got repelled by the student council president's dance at the inn?
And why it looked like you had wings at the cave?
He said that if we want to follow after you, we have to combine our powers.
Come to think of it, how did you feel when Souda said that you transferred in as my exchange partner?
Do you think of me as your partner?
To be honest with you,
in some ways, I think of you as a partner, and in others, I don't.
After all, I always get the feeling that you're with me despite yourself.
I'll admit that I was of two minds.
After seeing Souda and Takayanagi,
I thought it might be best if I simply went on to college.
But then Wamiya showed up, and I began to doubt myself again.
May I ask you something?
Why did Wamiya Satoru resemble Takayanagi Ichijou?
Huh? Why do you ask?
I was just wondering why he had to resemble that jerk.
I'm not really sure why...
Bluntly put...
Guys like Takayanagi turn you on, right?
What?!
Sagara, when you say, "you," do you mean me, or do you mean...
Episode 9
The First Debut
Episode 9
The First Debut