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Aono continues to attack Matsuri, as she dodges the paper and runs. Matsuri eventually finds herself cornered, but uses her abilities to create a shield to block the attacks. After running into a tram for cover, she looks up to see that Aono has used her abilities to cause the support beams to break above her. Yorito and Mana hear the crash from a distance, so Yorito runs in the direction of the noise.

Aono prepares to finish Matsuri off, but stops when she sees that she is smiling. Matsuri tells Aono that it is ok, before losing her strength and fainting. Aono then has a flashback of Matsuri holding her hand out to her while she was crying in the cave. Aono throws the paper she has in her hand to finish off Matsuri, but misses after seeing a vision of her younger self screaming not to do it. Aono falls to her knees, asking why as the rain starts to fall. Mayuko then walks in behind Aono, asking who she is.

Takeshi looks into the family returaunt looking for Mayuko, when Sae comes out with an umbrella to cover him from the rain. He says he is fine, and starts to leave, but stops when Sae mentions that she saw Mayuko earlier with Matsuri. Matsuri wakes up in a tram, wondering why she is alive. Mayuko asks if she wanted to die, so Matsuri replies that it would be better if she wasn’t around. Mayuko wonders if that is really so, because two people have been looking for her for quite awhile. Outside, Yorito and Mana cannot find Matsuri. Yorito starts screaming from the pain in his head, while Mana sees that the paper on the ground is the same as Aono’s origami.

Mana gets off the phone with Aono, while Yorito is in bed at her house. Koyori who had been listening, tries to suggest that they call Aono over to eat. However, after seeing that Mana is obviously against it, she give up and walks away. Mayuko brings a bag of food to Matsuri who has been waiting on a bench. Matsuri says she cannot eat all of it, because she has so many things on her mind. The tram arrives and Mayuko gets on, but Matsuri runs back to get the bag of food that she had forgotten. The doors shut, and Mayuko looks out the window to see Takeshi facing Matsuri. After the tram leaves, Takeshi draws his sword and charges toward Matsuri.

Mana answers the door to find Aono waiting outside. She says that Yorito has not returned yet, and calls Matsuri a liar when she tells her that he isn’t at their house. Mana tells Aono that she is even more so for hiding things from Yorito, and shuts Aono out. Mayuko tries to backtrack to Matsuri, as Takeshi continues to go after her. He has a flashback of when he and Mayuko were younger. Mayuko wanted to call him Takeshi, but he thought that Tsujidou sounded cooler. Mayuko finally agrees, but wants him to call her Mayuko in return. However, this just makes him blush as he runs ahead. Mayuko thanks him for bringing her home, and he remembers that her birthday would be soon. Takeshi suggests that he would buy anything she asks for, even though she knows he doesn’t have a lot of money. Takeshi is surprised when she asks for a rabbit doll, because she already has one. However, she gives him a rabbit punch, saying that it would be lonely.

When the two were a bit older, an incident happened in Mayuko’s household where all of her family was killed. Takeshi screamed at the sight of Mayuko lying in blood. Later, he layed the rabit doll he had bought her at the enterance, but is shocked to see Mayuko walk out from behind the trees. He is glad that she is alive, but Mayuko tells him that he is wrong. She tries to tell him that she is a yaka, and finally convinces him by showing him what happens to her skin in the sunlight. Takeshi pushed her back into the shade, promising to bring her back to her previous world.

In the present, Takeshi slashes at Matsuri, but only hits her raincoat. Maturi uses her powers to cause the ground to break, but Takeshi catches back up to her. She tries to stop his sword with her hands, but he confirms that her yaka powers will not work on it. After kicking him, Matsuri attempts to get to higher ground, but Takeshi just continues to attack with his light arrows. After falling to the ground, Takeshi prepares to finish Matsuri off because of his promise with Mayuko. However, Mayuko appears screaming to stop him. He wonders why, because if he killed Matsuri she would be able to return to normal. Mayuko tells him that she would not want to return to normal if it costed another life.

Mayuko tells him that it is fine, because that was not her real wish. We see flashbacks of Mayuko and Takeshi spending time together when they were younger. We then see the two after she had been changed into a yaka, and Takeshi protected her from the snow and sunlight. Takeshi had declared that he would be by her side until he could return her to normal. A tear drops next to Matsuri, and she looks up to see Mayuko embracing Takeshi. Mayuko’s real wish was to have Takeshi at her side. It had not changed from the past. Elsewhere, Yorito looks out of the window to see the night sky.

Impression:

USAGI PUNCH!!! That was awesome both times, and it’s obviously going to be the new catch phrase. I think I have new respect for Mayuko just from that. Well anyways, It’s surprising how close to the end this show is. There’s only a couple of episodes left. Mayuko and Takeshi’s story is pretty much over now, and it was resolved quite well. It was pretty obvious that Mayuko would stop Takeshi from killing Matsuri though. Jeez, she got saved from death twice in this episode. Now all that’s left is for Aono to accept Matsuri, and for Yorito to find a way to cure the yaka of their curse. I’m sure we’ll be seeing a few great episodes until the conclusion of this series.