Not long after the start of the second school semester,
Yuuji suddenly felt a strong sense of deja vu.
It turned out to be a dream that a small Tomogara showed him.
When Yuuji saw through the act,
Shana appeared, and slashed the Tomogara in two. However...
Alright, we're all set.
Sorry, Chigusa.
For coming so suddenly.
For learning how to make bento, any time at all is fine.
You look so worried...
Did something happen?
Sakai-kun, would you have this for lunch?
Delicious! You really cook very well, Yoshida-san!
I was just irritated.
I don't really know why I was irritated,
but it was because Yuuji was eating the bento.
Could you get the eggs from the fridge for me?
It's just that...
Originally, there was no need to trouble
you, Madam, for a matter like cooking.
That's enough, Wilhelmina, just go and take over Yuuji's training for me!
Originally, I...
Just leave!
Shana-chan, I'm happy to teach you,
but shouldn't you have asked Carmel-san?
That way, Carmel-san would...
Wilhelmina can't cook at all so it would've been pointless.
Surely that's not true...
Carmel-san has her own cooking specialities, doesn't she?
Microwave-reheated stuff, stuff you add hot water to, and raw food.
But those probably couldn't be bento.
Should I break the eggs into here?
Y-Yup, that's right.
H-Hold on a moment!
Sakai Yuuji, even when you open your mouth you should be avoiding attacks.
Read the flows of power of existence.
It's not that simple
Why is an introduction to cooking necessary?
For one who will become a perfect Flame Haze?
Furthermore, the chosen instructor was not me, but Madam.
I-I surrender!
No, but...
Manipulator of Ten Thousand Ribbons,
Surely you are not forgetting that this is a training session.
Moderation is required.
Are you all right, Sakai Yuuji?
Is something the matter, Manipulator of Ten Thousand Ribbons?
Even if it was for the sake of training the Mistes, you went too far.
I was dwelling on something.
That aside, what was that power just now?
For you to have noticed only now, your concentration
is more lacking today than I had imagined.
The power of existence that Sakai Yuuji now possesses
is far greater than he did before.
Seireiden.
Could it be
When the Mistes Sakai Yuuji synchronized
with the Highest Throne, Hecate,
he became part of the fountain of existence that formed.
Her capacity was unlimited,
so the Reiji Maigo filled her with an
overwhelming amount of power of existence.
Some of that immense flow of power of existence
is still residual in Sakai Yuuji.
The Reiji Maigo continually regenerates that power completely.
Beyond prediction.
So the Reiji Maigo has such a function...
Mmm. For that reason, imprudently leaving this town seems unwise.
For the illustrious Bal Masque to be
in temporary residence here is shameful.
The professor is in high spirits,
but the repairs to Seireiden will probably take quite a while.
Well, in the meantime, we'll carry out the things we ought to do.
Right, Shapeshifter?
Indeed. It's about time for me to set out, I think.
It's going to get lonely here, you know?
How insincere.
Anyway, while I'm not around,
Don't do anything strange to my Hecate.
And by strange things you mean?
Strange things are simply strange things.
Like our attempt to create the Blue Temple.
That was all for the sake of our great mission.
Hecate should understand that already.
Great mission, huh.
Anyway, I'm going to begin my work.
Today was really rough, you know.
Why did Carmel-san suddenly take over as my trainer?
No particular reason.
If your opponent in training never changed, you might develop bad habits.
That's why...
More importantly, about the matter of your power of existence increasing...
Yes, that.
In terms of quantity alone, it matches a King of Guze's.
Eh?
I don't have that feeling, but...
It's hard to really know yourself, isn't it.
We are conducting this training to enable you to control that power.
At least to the point where you can invoke a Fuuzetsu.
Me?
You can grow strong, you know.
Ike, want to go get lunch?
Hmm?
What are you talking about? Don't you already have it?
Hey, Sakai-kun.
Today I tried making clubhouse sandwiches...
Wow, that's fantastic!
Yoshida-san, is there anything you can't make?
That's not true...
I also bought a bento set, so let's eat together.
I'll go get some tea.
Stop worrying about me, it's weird.
Oh...sorry.
Here, please enjoy.
Well then, itadakimasu!
Yuuji!
Take this!
This is?
For you.
You made it?
Thanks!
Could this be what you were busy with this morning
There were too many, so I thought I'd just give you some.
I might do this every day from now on.
Thank you, I'll take it then.
It's delicious, but really, the sheer quantity...
And I'm still dead from this morning so I don't have an appetite.
Which one do I leave unfinished...
It...hurts...
Hey, Sakai, what's wrong?
Yuuji!
Sakai-kun!
Yuuji...
Sakai-kun ate all the bento,
but it was really too much.
Exactly. So don't bring him anything any more.
You understand, don't you?
Both Yuuji and I never know when we'll have to fight.
If Yuuji is in this state, it's a real problem!
That's...
I'll reduce the quantity in the bento, so...
Just mine will be fine.
You don't know anything,
but Yuuji isn't simply a Mistes any more.
Don't concern yourself with him!
Dishonest.
That way of putting it is...dishonest.
I might not know anything at all,
but I like Sakai-kun,
so I make bento for him which I put my feelings into.
And I'll continue to do so.
You
This has nothing to do with battles or whatever!
You just don't understand.
At the end of the day, Yoshida Kazumi is merely a human being.
Yuuji thinks of her like that.
A Fuuzetsu?
Yuuji! Wake up, Yuuji!
Shana-chan, is Yuuji well enough...?
This isn't the time to be asking that!
Yuuji, a Tomogara's around, come with me.
I-I got it.
Sakai-kun!
Wait, I...
No, nothing...take care.
The Misago Festival?
Even though it's in the middle of the Fuuzetsu, I don't sense any presence.
Shana...That's the Misago Festival bonfire.
Yuuji, right now that sort of thing doesn't
But it's September now, isn't it?
And the Misago Festival was in August!
That's
I feel something exactly like this has happened before.
Yuuji, are you listening?
Wait.
This feeling, as if events are repeating themselves.
A momentary...and an eternal dream...
Why did I forget?
Shana! This is a dream!
We're in a dream again!
I knew it!
Yuuji, what do you mean?
It's just like what happened yesterday!
When we fought with that small Tomogara!
At that time, I was made to dream!
I forgot what actually happened, but...
...just like now, things from the past happened again,
What? What's wrong?
Shana?
What are you trying to do?
Yeah.
The Shana this time is the real thing.
I see.
So we're within a dream.
For that small Tomogara to possess such a power...
I thought we had defeated her, but the
fact that we're in this situation means...
She's...
Still around.
But it's strange, isn't it.
Last time round, when I realized it was a dream,
I awakened immediately.
Why is it that now, even though we both know it's a dream,
we aren't waking up?
Once we ask, we'll find out.
What's the matter?
Shana.
In this dream's world,
you cannot find out things you don't already know
you cannot find out things you don't already
know I said that earlier, didn't I?
What about it?
The Fuuzetsu became visible while we were in the infirmary.
Which means we were already in the dream at that point.
Therefore,
the Yoshida-san in the infirmary would
not have said anything we did not expect
she should not have been able to.
However...
Sakai-kun, wait! I also...
No, nothing...take care.
I don't know Yoshida-san as she acted back there.
How about you?
She was able to behave in a way we did not expect,
which means...
This dream is also Yoshida Kazumi's dream.
If Yoshida-san also becomes aware that this is a dream,
we'll definitely...
Yoshida-san!
That's the Tomogara who is manipulating this dream.
But it's not that girl!
Quite right.
Perhaps I should introduce myself properly?
I am Gisuikyou Mare.
We are acquainted, are we not?
This is the inside of my Unrestricted Method, Gemeinde.
A world created from your images of the world.
In other words,
what I destroyed yesterday was not your real body.
That was just a Mistes.
It housed this Hougu, Papagena, for the purpose of fighting.
I simply snatched the body, that is all!
The fact that your presence couldn't even be felt
was because you were too small, wasn't it?
A Tomogara like you what are you trying to do?
I'm the only one who needs to know that.
Perhaps I'll have you be my opponent.
Yuuji!
I'm going to fight,
so watch for a chance to wake Yoshida Kazumi up!
It's the only way we can get out of here!
Got it!
In Gemeinde, everything occurs exactly as I wish it, did you know?
This girl will not awake for eternity.
And neither will both of you.
I said it already, did I not?
This world shapes itself to my desire.
Shana!
You shouldn't be distracted...
Because you can die in this dream.
I'm alright here, so wake Yoshida Kazumi
You'd better not look away.
Even given this is a dream, to be able to take Shana's attack
without even sustaining a scratch,
it's as if she has no body.
So what I destroyed yesterday was not your real body.
Maybe...
If that isn't actually the real body either...
Could she be
Looks like you're a bit of a sharp one, eh?
Shana!
Inside me!
Mare is inside me!
While you two have busy horsing around,
my hands are already reaching the Reiji Maigo.
Against me, who is already inside the Mistes,
you can't do a thing.
Yuuji!
Don't tell me
Don't tell me this is...
Kaikin?
That Hougu, which the Bal Masque pursues...
If I had been able to obtain it,
everyone would have known of my existence,
and would have pursued me...
Now that it has come to this, the one who buries that Hougu...
Will be me...
You...
If I die, in that moment Gemeinde will collapse.
But before that,
That girl will absolutely not wake up.
Whatever you do, you all will...!
This is bad!
Yoshida-san!
Wake up! Yoshida-san!
Yoshida-san!!
...-kun...
Sakai-kun...
Yoshida-san.
Sakai-kun.
Why...
That can't be!
Just now...
Yoshida-san, thank you.
Because of you, we were all able to get back.
And awakening so quickly... you were amazing.
Amazing?
All I knew was that you were there,
so even if it was only for a while, I wanted to see you...that's why.
M-More...
Sakai-kun, are you alright?
You must be exhausted.
I...
If something like this happens again, it'll be a lot of trouble,
so be careful with your bento.
If you're giving it to Yuuji.
I'll halve the quantity in my bento.
Mm.
What?
Kaikin?
Mm. The Tomogara that went into Yuuji definitely said that.
A powerful Kaikin has been placed on the Reiji Maigo.
How very...
It couldn't be...
A Kaikin...
Margery-san, you're drinking too much every night, you know.
And...
We can't quite go to school...
Huh?
What is this...
Did you suddenly start loving school?
N-No.
Oi,
Really, haven't you been drinking a bit too much?
My beloved Margery Daw?
Somehow,
I'm having a bad feeling about the future.
Introducing a transfer student...
Konoe Fumina-kun.
Until she gets more familiar with our school, please help her out.
It can't be!
Is it a dream again?
A transfer student joins the class suddenly.
A girl with same face as the Highest Throne, Hecate.
Is this girl, Konoe Fumina, really a human?
Inside a Fuuzetsu, the suspicion-filled Shana
confronts the frozen Fumina with a sword.
Next time on Shakugan no Shana Second:
The suspicious transfer student.