Goodness, I am amazed by your laziness.
You haven't even given your Eve a weapon...
I suppose that's expected from the Servamp of Sloth.
Huh? A weapon?
Is that something that Kuro is supposed to give me?
What's the point in having a weapon?
Here, you two should just be soothed by my form.
Like hell we would!
I still don't know much about vampires...
...but there are things that I want to protect.
I don't want to regret doing nothing...
Do you need a weapon?
I do if it's the power to protect others!
Close your eyes.
Huh?
W-Wait a second!
Explain things first! What are you planning on—?
Happy birthday.
Episode 3: "About the Future that Never Came"
Happy birthday.
Huh?
This is the inside of Kuro.
This way. This way.
You want a gift, right?
Your very own birthday gift.
My birthday is a ways off, but are you talking about a weapon?
Then, I want one.
Who are you?
I'm a part of Kuro.
I'm in charge of power.
Now comes the fun choice of fate.
Choose whichever one you like.
Among all these?!
Happy birthday, Mahiru.
Now, you'll obtain your very own power.
You can't return here once you choose...
...but you'll become an adult that can protect others.
The end will be the same no matter what you choose.
Though the routes you can take are all different.
Carefully, but boldly.
What's important is that your answer matches who you are.
Then, the simplest looking one.
It's a broom.
A fitting weapon for a commoner.
Come to think of it,
I think you attacked me with a mop when we first met.
Do weapons equal cleaning tools to you?
That's not true...
What the hell? It doesn't disappear?!
This is my weapon?
Will I be able to fight with this?
Now. It's begun. It's begun.
You can't return a plate you have touched, Belkia.
What, really?!
Japanese culture is so nitpicky.
But, Tsubakyun, isn't that liar pretty late?
Just when is he going to get here?
Hm?
Oh, looks like he's here.
Welcom—
Hey...
Hey, looks like you're in a bad mood.
Th-Thanks for the meal!
M-Me, too!
Tsubaki-san, what do you need?
Before that, care to explain that?
Looks like it was sniffing around me.
Someone's subclass?
Who knows?
Wouldn't people find out if someone from school sees you?
That you're a vampire.
Right, Sakuya?
I don't care anymore.
I hate liars.
Awaken, my power!
Why won't it come out?!
You'll have to be able to pull it out whenever you want,
before you can even start learning to fight.
Kuro, is there some kind of trick to this?
Call me once you can pull it out.
Hey!
Mahiru-kun, why not try and create an image of exactly why you wanted power?
Exactly why?
Your Servamp lacks motivation because you lack resolve.
So, Lilly tries to strip because you want to be released from something?
That's just his predisposition!
Exactly why, huh?
Because I want to protect others.
Everyone in my reach... Like my friends.
I've thought of them as family since I was little.
I don't have parents, so the feeling might be stronger than other people.
I'll introduce them to you next time, Misono!
Ryusei and Koyuki.
But first is Sakuya!
He's my childhood friend!
Stop.
Huh?
It'll get them involved.
Tsubaki is the only thing that connects you and I together.
Putting it simply...
...there's no reason friends of friends can't be friends.
Friends and family.
I want to protect those important to me.
No matter who comes, we'll take them down!
Right, Kuro?
Don't turn to me. So troublesome.
I'll just protect and kill whoever you say.
What? Such a lack of independence...
Huh? Just now...
Oh, that's—
Huh, Misono?!
It's already this late.
Misono always falls asleep every night at 9:00 P.M.
Is he a little kid?!
We'll have to wrap up for today.
Yeah, I understand.
Thanks for helping me out.
Misono, too.
Not at all.
Huh? Sakuya didn't come today, either?
It's unusual of him to miss so many days in a row.
Maybe he's caught a bad cold and stuck in bed?
I called him yesterday, but he didn't answer.
And I finished this, too.
Huh? Is that a garcon uniform?!
Did you make that?!
You're so good with your hands!
I'm sure Sakuya would be really happy.
Welcome!
Café
Come on by!
He was really excited about it.
I'll stop by his house after class today.
Thank you very much!
Potato chips?
Nope. This is Sakuya's food.
Sakuya is that joker with the side flare, right?
I don't think he'd get along with "You Bastard"-chan at all...
"You Bastard"-chan? You mean Misono?!
I should have asked him what happened the last time I saw him.
Ever since we were little, he made everything sound like a joke.
When you were little?
I've been with him since elementary school...
Huh? Was it middle school?
Hey?
Sakuya lost both of his parents, like me.
Huh?
How did Sakuya's parents pass away?
Huh?
Where did Sakuya live again?
Huh? No, what am I saying?
I've been there so many times.
Huh? When did I go?
What am I saying?
He's my childhood friend and we were always together.
Huh? Was he my childhood friend?
Mahiru?
My head hurts!
We were always together...
Wait, huh?
Who was... Sakuya?
Mahiru.
Oh, Sakuya?
What's wrong, Mahiru? Standing in a place like this.
Sakuya!
You, too!
Why haven't you come to school?!
I've been worried!
Oh, actually, well, I said vampires appear around here right?
I was attacked recently and...
What?!
I was saved, but I was too scared to leave the house.
Now, just how much of that was a lie?
Ouch!
I thought you'd say that!
Here, some food!
You haven't eaten dinner yet, right?
You always say stuff like that...
A scream?!
Mahiru, this way!
Huh? What?! Where are we going?! Sakuya!
It's all right.
I'm your friend.
I won't betray you.
Huh?
Sakuya?
Do you trust me, Mahiru?
If you trusted me, you wouldn't lie, right?
You're acting weird. Did something happen?
Hey!
Now, Mahiru.
Just how much of our relationship is a lie?
Wh-What is this?!
Kuro?!
Now! Now! Some applause!
The skewering show begins!
That guy?!
Mahiru.
Didn't I tell you that there are vampires around here?
I warned you many many many times!
Mahiru, this guy...
He's Tsubaki's subclass.
Huh? Sakuya? Huh?
Mahiru, ever think the world was only created five minutes ago?
Huh?
"No way"?
"I have the memories of the past"?
What if those memories were also seeded into you five minutes ago?
What if I became your best friend five minutes ago with fake memories?
Can you prove that something like that is impossible?
What are you saying?
When your mom died, what did I say to you?
Was I there?
Huh? Sakuya isn't in any of the memories of my past...
So, Mahiru.
Just how much of our memories are a lie?
Kuro!
He cut and shredded Kuro. Me.
Sakuya was killing people?!
It's a lie that Sakuya is a vampire!
Wouldn't it have been great if that was a lie?
That vampires existed and that I was one of them.
People always try to believe the lie that's most convenient for them.
We take advantage of that feeling and hypnotize humans.
My parents also died and I'm alone.
Come to my house sometime and eat dinner with me!
It was easy.
I mean, you were wishing for it.
Mahiru, why was it you?
If you didn't pick up that cat.
If you didn't lie and say it was a normal cat.
I might have been standing on your side right now.
I could have still been your best friend, today and tomorrow.
The world breaks down around you so easily like this.
I—!
I just didn't want to involve my friends with vampires!
I didn't want to involve you in all of this!
Shut up!
You lied because you didn't trust me, right?!
If I was your best friend, why did you lie to me?!
Are you trying to tell me the lie for was my benefit?!
No!
I hate liars the most.
You lied to me, so I can't believe any of your words anymore.
I feel like I'm falling apart from head to toe.
That's what it feels like to be lied to.
Let me teach you!
90% of the lies that people say are actually noticed by others!
But I knew and pretended like I didn't, which means I was lying, too!
Kuro. I have to tell him.
Like last time, the two of us will do something about this.
That we'll defeat him.
Kuro!
There's no point.
Huh?
There's no point in drinking your blood right now.
Huh?
"You Bastard"-chan told you, didn't he?
The reason I'm so unmotivated has to do with your resolve.
Servamps eat the resolve that's mingled in your blood.
My strength equals the strength of your resolve.
You don't have any right now.
I can't tell if you want to protect him or kill him.
What am I doing?
What am I trying to protect?
Without any kind of resolve at all...
Misono?!
Shirota, stand back.
I'll take care of this.
Wait, Misono!
Sakuya is my friend!
Right! I'm Mahiru's best friend.
What are you going to do with me?
Oh, you're the bastard.
I see. I feel we wouldn't get along.
I'm not very good at fighting, but I'll go all out for you.
Stupid cowlick?
An Eve is planning to fight alone?
Don't get so cocky, rich little brat.
When and for what reason did you get near Shirota Mahiru?
Why are you talking like a guy who was just cheated on?
Why are you so stuck on Mahiru when you just met him—?
Time doesn't matter.
Shirota called me a friend!
Friend?
You believed such a convenient lie?!
It's the lie most often used in the world!
A brat who can't even tell when someone is trying to be polite,
should just stay in their safe garden and read a book.
Like I said.
What can a guy like you do?
Isn't it normal to aim for the human Eve while fighting?
It's stupid for a Servamp to separate from their Eve.
Now! Now! Some applause! I am the duke of skewering, Belkia!
My special skill is to skewer others!
I'll show you!
The Impossible to Escape Skewer BOX
Dead or Dead! Or Dead!
Now! Now! Let's skewer the boy with the stupid cowlick!
Lilly would never separate from me without a reason!
Shirota, I will show you.
This is one of the ways to use my weapon!
If the target is found between Lilly and I, it activates.
The Execution Block of the Red Queen
Good night and sweet dreams.
Wh-What the hell is this chair?!
Could it be that Misono's weapon is that chair?!
Have a good dream
One down.
Huh? His head wasn't chopped off?
I do not destroy the body, but the mind.
It was worth practicing this attack again.
Misono really wanted to show you, Mahiru.
Be quiet, Lilly!
It's too bad.
Shirota wanted to introduce you to me the most.
Mahiru wanted to introduce me?
I see.
I wish we could have stayed friends at least another week.
I was pretty pumped up for the school festival next week.
If only things were just a little different...
Arisuin Misono, you and I might have been friends.
Misono! Do not listen to him!
Mahiru...
...I wonder if your friend wants the two of us to fight.
Misono! No! Don't release—!
I... I am the duke of skewering, Belkia.
Your leg has been skewered!
Moving with strings?
Misono!
Now, just how much of what I said was a lie?
When did I say there were only the two of us here?
So, there's another.
The way Belkia talks is difficult.
It's a problem.
Sakuya!
Why are you doing this?!
This has got to be a lie!
I thought the three of us could be friends.
So, why?
Shirota, did I do something unnecessary?
I wanted to protect my friend.
It wasn't unnecessary!
It wasn't unnecessary at all!
Because!
You don't know, Mahiru.
You don't know how I felt this whole time.
On the way home, after hanging out with everyone.
The more fun it was, the more my throat got dry.
Sakuya.
It got so dry that I wanted to kill.
It can't be helped.
That's the way I'm made.
Vampires exist to hurt people.
No way, saying that hurting people can't be helped!
It's true, Mahiru.
The guilt just feels so good!
That's what it is to be a vampire!
Now, Mahiru.
Try to kill me a little more seriously.
Or else, I might try to kill your friend again.
Liar.
Are you going to do the same thing to him that hurt you so badly?
Sakuya!
Wait, Mahiru.
Kuro?!
You can't fight the way you are now.
Kuro?! What about your wounds?!
I'm already better...
No, we should run for now.
Stand back, Kuro! I'll—
We're running.
We can't run! Misono is hurt!
Do you want to use your power like this?
You haven't done anything yet.
Nothing is your fault.
But I can't just do nothing!
No, Mahiru.
I mean, you're unsure of yourself right now.
Sakuya!
Good. That's good, Mahiru.
You have to kill the liars.
Rain, though the moon is out?
I thought you weren't going to join us today.
Why not, Otogiri.
Let me join.
It's a problem.
So, Shirota Mahiru.
Let me see the shape of your despair.
Will you become the key?
Please.
Please don't get swallowed.
Don't be swayed!
I hit him.
I hit Sakuya...
Don't lose sight.
I don't feel like I'm the one swinging.
It's like I'm the one being swung around.
The blood won't stop.
Is it because of that weapon?
Then, will that be able to kill me properly?
Wait a second!
What do you mean by kill?
I'm going to kill Sakuya?!
You can, Mahiru!
No, don't go that way.
Come on! Come on! Come on!
You have the power to kill things that aren't human now!
No, Mahiru, you won't be able to stay human.
Come on!
I don't want to kill anyone.
But...
This isn't the kind of power I wanted!
What did I want to protect again?
Hey, Mahiru.
I actually had a secret plan.
It was for someone like me, who doesn't age,
to be with you guys and have the best three years of high school.
Mahiru!
And then quietly leave your lives.
That was my plan for a happy future.
Episode 4 "Sakuya"
I'll go all out for you next week, too!
I told you not to strip!