So this is Rina Shioi.
I have to do this.
Fake
Nice to meet you.
I'm Aya's friend, Nijimi Anazawa.
Nijimin...
Nijimin.
Who are you meeting with this late?
She tricked me, saying she was my friend.
I'll make her pay for that.
Is Aya home?
Hey there.
Are you okay?
S-So hot.
N-Nijimin!
Okay, got it.
You're still at the hospital?
Yeah, that's right.
Sorry to keep you waiting.
So this is your home?
You eat here every day?
Um.
Ms. Anazawa, was it?
Please call me Nijimin, Big Brother!
I just talked to my parents at the hospital, and Aya's going to be okay.
That's great!
I'm relieved too.
Relieved I haven't lost my precious punching bag.
I see, so she's okay.
But I'm going to make her pay for betraying me
with my magic panty stick.
By the way,
how did someone famous like you become friends with Aya?
Gosh, me, famous?
Oh, that's right. You quit singing, didn't you?
Yes, I wanted to focus on my studies!
So after I transferred to a new school,
I met Aya, and we became friends quickly!
Oh, really?
I'm a little jealous of Aya becoming friends with someone so cute.
C-Cute?
This has to be a lie.
There's no way a piece of trash like Aya
could quickly become friends with a pop music icon.
C-Cute?
Big Brother said I was cute.
What I really want to do is kill Ayapi!
But, but, but, but!
That would make her wonderful, handsome, and kind brother sad.
I'm so lost. What should I do?
Aya's new friend.
And the Magical Girl Site.
Could she be one too?
I might be able to use her.
Goodbye then!
Why don't you take this?
I-Is this yours?
Being so late, I'd normally offer to walk you home.
Oh, no, that's okay.
So easy.
Now I have an excuse to see her again.
All that's left is...
How dare he do that to my angel!
He defiled her.
He defiled my Nijimin!
Isn't that...?
Your daughter suffered some lacerations on her arms and legs,
but nothing life-threatening.
Luckily, her friend is out of the woods as well.
You two should be able to head home now.
Wake up.
What happened? My head hurts.
You're finally awake.
Who are you?!
Kosame Amagai.
I hate making introductions.
Hold on a second.
I can't even process--
That's right.
I'm starting to remember.
You've been unconscious ever since you collapsed
after using your stick too much.
And so I fixed you.
Fixed me?
Who the hell are you?
I told you I was Kosame Amagai.
Don't make me repeat--
I'm not asking for your damn name!
Stop yelling at me.
Please, don't raise your voice at me!
That's right, I remember now.
She's Kosame Amagai.
Her jurisdiction is...
I'm sorry, I get a little overwhelmed when I don't take my medication.
Don't tell me, you're a magical girl too?
An alphabet letter?
I've never seen an emblem like that.
Yes.
I was also granted magical abilities from the site.
My stick's power...
is healing.
-Healing? -Yes.
When I use my stick to cut myself,
I can heal someone by feeding my blood to them.
Wait, did you pour your blood in my mouth?
Luckily, I was already practicing self-harm
so using the stick isn't hard for me at all.
Someone who was normal might hesitate
before using a stick like this.
Don't just put gross stuff in people's mouths,
you little emo kid.
Why did you help me?
Why do you know about me?
What are you after?
Hey!
Oh, you poor, unfortunate soul.
Oh.
I'm not dead yet.
When that happened,
I thought I lost all reasons to live.
But if it's possible...
I think I might...
Want to live just a little longer.
Ms. Yatsumura.
You're awake.
I just woke up too.
I see.
Yo, you two are finally awake.
I wanted to thank you for the other day.
-Shiori! -Ms. Shiori!
How?
I'm all better, thanks to her.
This girl here fixed me up good.
Kosame Amagai.
Nice to meet you.
This little emo kid here went and patched all of us up.
Don't call me an emo kid.
My injuries...
And nothing hurts.
Pretty amazing magic, right?
Magic? Wait...
Yup, exactly.
Oh, you poor, unfortunate soul.
I am a magical girl from a different Magical Girl Site.
A different...
Magical Girl Site?
I came to ask for your help.
We would like you to
join our fight.
Oh, you poor, unfortunate soul.
This is the other Magical Girl Site?
I never knew there were other administrators.
Right? I was totally surprised too.
And I never imagined there'd be a stick that worked like this.
We've been naive.
Nana taught me how to reconnect to the site,
but these guys are amazing.
They're not even Magical Hunters, and they figured out what the Tempest was on their own!
The Tempest?
But how did a magical girl from another site
know about us?
No matter how well you hide, secrets will eventually be discovered.
Everyone can easily be connected to someone they don't know.
Especially in this day and age.
Besides,
we have...
Allies who know each other's secrets...
Want to hang out with me?
Just for a bit. Hey, don't blow me off!
And fight against a common enemy.
Allies?
Then are you saying there are other magical girls who know about this?
Yes.
There are many others who've become magical girls
after receiving a stick from the site.
And there isn't just one Magical Girl Site.
There are several that exist,
each with its own administrator.
But every site leads to the same revelation.
This is the backdoor.
Oh, not there.
UNTIL THE TEMPEST
Look carefully now.
This is the information you wanted so badly.
At 7:23 p.m. on August 11th,
the Tempest will arrive.
The Tempest will bring an end to this godforsaken world
and open a doorway to a new world.
But in the process,
most of humanity will be lost.
The Tempest's arrival may be inevitable,
but there is one way you can survive.
That is to satiate the king's hunger.
The king feeds on humanity's negative energy,
and offering it to him
will allow you to avoid death during the Tempest.
Negative energy
can be collected and stored inside the magic sticks
you received from the Magical Girl Site.
Only the one who uses their stick
to gather the most negative energy to offer
will be unscathed by the coming Tempest.
If you wish to survive,
please deliver a magic stick fully charged with negative energy
to the Magical Girl Site on the day of the Tempest.
Until then, have a pleasant apocalypse.
My goodness,
what a fine mess this has become.
Maybe you guys need to do a better job.
Well, these girls aren't dummies after all.
We anticipated that they may start questioning our site.
Yes, that's true.
So, what shall we do?
It goes without saying, those who know too much must be eliminated.
ABOUT THE TEMPEST
That's what the Tempest is?
Yes.
It seems that this negative energy
refers to jealousy, hatred, and the desire for death.
Or perhaps personal revenge.
Anything that one might consider as a negative thought.
Does that mean...?
To put it generally, misfortune.
Misfortune?
They hand sticks to girls who've led unfortunate lives,
and collect their negative energy to begin with.
Then they reveal the Tempest,
and make us kill each other in order to survive.
As a result, the girls are forced to use their sticks frequently,
so they can better collect more negative energy.
So we get played by this damn site?
Hold on.
How can we survive if...
That's right.
That's the puzzling thing about the Tempest.
The more you use your stick to gather negative energy,
the more it consumes the magical girl's life.
It's how Ms. Shioi ended up here.
Which means from the very beginning, the site...
No... How?
Nosy little girls
get themselves killed!
They never intended any of us to survive.
Then if the site is lying,
what's the truth behind the Tempest? What's their goal?
We don't know yet. That's why...
We need your help.
Our help? What specifically?
Well, first of all
we need to capture a site administrator.
Capture...
A site administrator?
We nab one of them and make them spill about the Tempest.
Then we try to figure out a way to survive.
It's the only reason I didn't kill you both in your sleep.
We have invited every magical girl we know to our cause.
We need as many allies as we can get.
So, what'll you do?
Are you in or are you out?
Yes, just a little longer.
We're in, of course.
Okay, that's good,
but we don't know when a site administrator is going to show up.
And we can't do anything with our magic sticks missing.
How about you help out a little?
You guys are the ones who lost all the sticks I worked hard to gather
and that super-useful murder book.
So you get to work.
It seems magic couldn't cure her personality.
Let's keep looking.
-All right, looks like you got it covered! -Hold on!
See you!
Get back here!
I'm beat.
We've been through a lot tonight.
Too much.
You know, Ms. Yatsumura...
What is it?
About the man in your room.
Ms. Yatsumura, did you...?
Yes, I caught him with my stick's power
and kept him confined for my revenge.
I'd make him suffer
a fate worse than death
until he atoned for his crimes.
That was my life's goal.
At least it was.
But now he's gone.
Ms. Yatsumura...
Thank you, Ms. Asagiri.
For protecting me with your life when I needed you.
I never thought you could be that defiant.
What, you were listening?
Yes, I heard.
It made me happy.
Thank you.
If I can still go on living,
it won't be for revenge.
It won't be long now. Not long at all.
A-Aya?
How were you discharged from the hospital?
Well, um...
Hello.
But what about your injuries?
How could they have healed?
Wounds don't just magically disappear!
Oh, but they have. That's so strange.
So, you know,
since Ms. Yatsumura lost her home,
I thought maybe she could stay with us.
-Is that okay? -That's fine, but...
Magic, huh?
Why are you being so nosy?
After everything I did
to make you a magical girl.
Oh, well.
Useless girls...
Will just have to be killed!
Because, you know,
the world is filled with so much misfortune.
Nijimi Anazawa came to our home today.
I might be able to use this little tramp.
Welcome, Nijimin.
I'll welcome you with my special smile.
Look, she's fallen for me already.
But that's not your fault.
You are a bottom-feeder,
and I have been blessed by the gods.
We are on fundamentally different levels.
The next episode is "Joint Strategy."
See you then.