According to urban legend,
kids who call out to Miss Michiko are sent to the "other side".
Me Satchii.
Nice to meet ya!
It spoke?
Follow me!
What on earth was that?!
That was Satchii!
If it hits us, our glasses will shatter!
Me Satchii.
The torii... Where's the torii?!
A torii is the gate at the entrance of a Shinto shrine; it separates the material world from the spiritual.
Over here!
This way.
The light, the light...
Here it is!
Me Satchii.
Me Satchii...
I'm still getting a weak signal.
Strange. It's supposed to fade immediately in normal space.
Where else can an Illegal survive besides an obsolete Space?
Inside a pet!
I guess I'd better call the Mojos.
It hurts...
Are you okay?
Yeah.
Here.
Thank you for rescuing Densuke,
Detective.
Call me Fumie.
Then you can call me Yasako.
Yasako?
The "yu" in Yuko can also be read as the "yasa" from "yasashii".
Yasashii means kindhearted and tender.
So in Kanazawa they used to call me Yasako.
By the way, what happened to that red thing?
Satchii can't enter places such as Shinto shrines, schools or houses.
What exactly is Satchii?
Its full name is Searchmaton.
Satchii for short.
The Cyberspace Administration introduced it in Daikoku City
as a powerful piece of antivirus software.
But he's so stupid that he attacks metatags,
playful items slightly against the rules,
and anything like that without distinction.
He's so annoying.
Shooting beams from your forehead is not what I'd call playful...
Anyway, let's go heal Densuke quickly.
Okay.
What's wrong?
Hey, are there a lot of Shinto shrines around here?
Shrines?
Well, this is an old town, so there are quite a few.
It's easier to run away from Satchii thanks to them.
Is there a place with stairs that have lots of torii on them?
Around here?
I've been living here my whole life,
and I've never heard of it.
Is that so...
Okay, let's go.
Yeah.
The Space is so fragile in this town.
Mojo!
Line up!
Mojo!
Roll call!
Alright.
Find the keyhole.
Move out!
Where do you think we might find it?
At the medicine shop.
But it's a bit creepy.
Is it that Megashi store again?
Bingo!
It's called like that because they sell MEGAne, but it's also a daGASHI store.
Megane means glasses in Japanese.
Hold on... A dagashi store?
What's wrong with that?
Mother!
Why did you put this sign up without asking me first?!
So this is what you were hiding from me the last time I came by!
This is my property!
I'll do as I please!
Mega-baa!
Could you sell me some merchandise?
Fumie! Come over here!
This devil of a daughter-in-law is pestering me!
What are you saying?
You're so embarrassing!
Shut up, you devil of a daughter-in-law!
I'll call the cops!
Yasako, let me introduce you.
We built the addition, not you!
She's Mega-baa.
How could you put such a weird sign on it?!
Yasako?
The new disposition of the house is of bad luck!
This is why I didn't want to move to Granny's place!
Where did she come from?!
What's wrong?
I don't get along well with Granny because she's so cunning.
You think so?
How much does that medicine cost?
Let me see...
I think it's around 400 meta.
How much is 400 meta?
About four million yen.
F-Four million yen?!
This medicine is for removing bugs.
Three million yen.
Do you have the one from last time?
Sure.
Download accelerator: two million yen.
What about mega-be?
Megane-beam,
ten second charge: three million yen.
Do you want a wall?
Brick: three million yen.
Do you have a steel wall?
We're out of stock.
Then I want an accelerator, a mega-be, and...
ten brick walls.
6.2 million yen.
So it's not really four million.
Of course not!
What about the key?
It's the same one we had in Kanazawa.
I'm back.
Come on in.
A voice key isn't safe nowadays.
Hello there!
Be my guest.
Oh, it's a brand-new house!
How beautiful! It's so great!
If only these cardboard boxes weren't here...
Yeah.
Kyoko!
Poop!
It's her current obsession.
She says "Poop," whenever she points at something.
Poop!
Hi, Kyo-chan.
Dinner will be ready soon.
Don't even say it!
The virus scan says...
Good news! You don't appear to be infected by a virus.
Huh?
The restore isn't working.
Let's try with the accelerator.
Welcome.
I'm sorry about the mess earlier.
Hello, ma'am.
I'm glad to see you have a new friend.
Would you like to stay for dinner?
Here you go.
Itadakimasu!
Itadakimasu is an expression of gratitude said before meals.
It was delicious.
Yasako, why don't you get along well with Mega-baa?
When I was eight, she gave me an otoshidama.
An otoshidama is a present given to kids on New Year's day.
It was a really expensive one.
And then?
Then she said, "Let's play hanafuda."
Hanafuda is a Japanese card game.
In the end, she took twice the present's worth from me.
Typical of Mega-baa.
But she's great at kneading metabugs.
Metabugs?
It's beautiful, isn't it?
What exactly is a metabug?
Do you remember the metatag I slapped on Densuke earlier?
Yeah.
It's the raw material for that.
Normal bugs usually damage petmatons or the Space.
But this bug is useful for some reason.
That's what a metabug is.
I've never seen anything like this in Kanazawa.
It's a special product of Daikoku City.
I don't know why, but you can only get it here.
Is that so?
But that Satchii
has been killing them off recently.
Nobody knows where the metabug comes from or how it comes to be,
so their price is on the rise these days.
Oh no! What's this?
It's not stopping.
H-How is he?
What on earth is that?
It's just as I thought,
he's been infected by an Illegal.
An Illegal?
The black thing you said you spotted.
It's a parasitic computer virus that lives at the expense of a petmaton.
It was too big to be a virus...
It was a magnified form of a virus.
That's an Illegal.
There's very little information about it.
This is the first time I've seen one, too.
It's said to be an evolution of a bug,
or something created by a mysterious hacker.
But nobody really knows what it is.
I heard that the infected pets
were all eaten away, little by little.
This is what's believed to be inside a pet after the Illegal infiltrates it.
If it's not removed soon...
Does the host die?
It doesn't say here whether it dies or not.
What happened to that pet then?
It isn't clear.
I'll apply a medicine on 'im.
It's downloadin' sumthin' from somewhere...
I know that.
But what? And from where?
I have no idea.
You're no help.
You fool!
This ain't a common download!
It's downloadin' on its own while Densuke's weight is increasin'.
What?!
Now that you mention it, that page said
that there are things that grow inside the pet.
What can we do?
First of all, we got to stop the download.
Can you do that, Granny?
Leave it to me.
Hey, Granny...
What are you doing?
This isn't the time to be praying!
Don't be so impatient.
Welcome to my cyberstudio.
Where did you steal all this from?
I programmed it myself.
Now we have to read into the eye of the metabug.
What for?
A metabug alone is useless.
But when you put two of them together...
Amazing!
Both the reading of its eye and their kneading are the fruits of mastery.
The only one able to do it is Mega-baa.
She's not your average granny.
Bite your tongue.
So now we have to transform it into a metatag.
Done.
So that's how you make metatags.
Cyberinsecticide!
An insecticide?
A vaccination program.
For dangerous insects you use an insecticide,
so for computer viruses you use a vaccination program.
That's great news!
So Densuke will recover!
I'd do anything for my beloved granddaughter...
Thank you so much, Granny!
...on one condition.
Wh-What's with this eight?
It's your membership number in my investigation agency.
What's that supposed to mean?
I'll apply this medicine for free,
but in exchange,
you'll join my agency.
Mega-baa always increases the membership like this.
She grabs ahold of your weak point and then offers you a solution.
Why?
But once you join, you'll see it's really fun!
C'mon, join us!
Well, if I really have to...
I'm Number Seven.
Nice to meet you!
I'm Number Zero.
Pleased to meet you.
Yasako.
Welcome to the Coil Cyberinvestigation Agency!
What's wrong?
If we remove that black thing, it'll burst in here!
Don't worry.
At this rate, it'll take till tomorrow to complete the analysis.
The quarantine will start once that is done.
Is that so?
If we're shot by Satchii,
all we lose is our data, but we won't die.
But for self-defense, you'd better have a mega-be with you.
By mega-be, do you mean the mega-beam
you mentioned earlier?
I'm not really...
Just take it.
Recovering the lost data would cost the equivalent of two year's otoshidama.
Okay, so give me a call if anything happens.
Thank you!
I finally found her.
The towel, pyjamas...
This is...
This was such a long time ago!
I'm so bad at writing.
4-4-2-3?
What could 4-4-2-3 be?
Maybe April 23rd...
I feel like I'm forgetting something important...
What could it be?
I'm back.
Welcome home, Dad.
Did you get the boxes in order?
Not yet.
Still, you read all those illustrated books.
Yeah...
Hey, Dad...
How many times have I come here?
This should be the third time.
So today is the first time you've seen Granny's store?
I didn't know.
Why didn't you tell me it's a dagashi store?
I was so embarrassed.
Granny said
you were plugging your ears!
Hey!
Why are you naked?!
And in front of your own daughter!
Ouch!
How am I supposed to take a bath with my clothes on?
Geez!
Oh, that's right.
Say, that time when we came here some time ago for Grandpa's...
Yeah, when Grandpa died.
Did I get lost that time by any chance?
Ah, yes, you did!
You remember!
Did I say anything strange?
Something about a keyhole...
Who knows?
You used to say a lot of strange things back then.
Like what?
You kept pointing at things and repeating "poop".
Densuke has grown big...
I'm sorry for getting you in trouble today.
I wish I knew what a cyberpet feels like.
You must be so soft and fluffy...
I wonder if a cyberpet would suffer,
if it broke down.
I remember one time when I was little, Densuke licked a wound I had,
and the pain mysteriously disappeared.
That's right, Densuke.
To thank you for taking care of Kyoko,
I'll cast a magic spell on you.
Pain, pain,
go away!
Yuko...
Yuko!
Who are you?
It's me...
Can't you hear me?
You must not...
You must not open the door.
You must not...
Get close to that.
Who...?
Who are you?
I am...
4-4-2-3.
Your brother...
Honey, it's time!
Leave him alone.
Okay.
But I don't have a brother...
Take care of Kyoko.
I wonder if Granny will be alright.
This is awful!
You need an operation.
Red!
Red.
Yellow!
Yellow.
This is really bad...
I'm back.
Here you go, Dear.
Your meal.
Dear,
are you saying that you can't eat my clay?
You're so mean!
Serves you right!
Poop!
Gotta pee!
Fiends!
Time to pay!
Now where have all the bad guys run off to?
Next time on Dennou Coil.
Yuko and Yuko
See you next time!