I figured this would happen.
REKKA SHI NEN!
Genro, the leader of the bandits...
...was revealed to be the fifth member of the Suzaku Seven.
However, the Lady Miaka was stricken with...
...an incurable illness called Shikkonki...
...which will leave her in agony until she dies.
There's only one thing to do. You must kill her at once.
If I revive her immediately, I can restore her full health.
We can't do that!
It's okay. I...
Please...
Would you all please step outside?
- What? - Hey!
I'm going to kill her.
Forgive me, Hotohori.
For giving you such a terrible job to do.
Hotohori, who loved the Lady Miaka, drew his sword and raised it...
''Tamahome deeply loved the Priestess of Suzaku...
...and that love moved him to escape...
...from the Kutou palace where he was imprisoned...''
Hang on, Miaka!
If I can just get to her...
...I know there'll be some way to save her.
Tamahome!
Are you going to Miaka?
I can't just stay here and do nothing!
When I think of her in pain...!
I'll come back soon! Please let me go!
No, I won't let you!
You're a hostage! If they find out about this, who knows what'll--
Let me go! Yui!
Tamahome!
I thought he'd try something like this.
Nakago!
It seems you don't understand...
...what it means to offer yourself as tribute.
I'll make sure your body learns that lesson well.
Bring him.
Miaka!
Hotohori?
Hotohori...
Forgive me, Miaka. I just can't kill you.
Hotohori...
You... You have to!
This is for my own good, remember? Now, try it one more time...
Don't you see? Do you think I can kill...
...the one I love most of all with my own hands?!
Hotohori... He's crying...?
I know how much pain you're in, but try to bear it!
What's with this big love scene suddenly?!
Are those two going together or something?
I'll try one more time...
I'll ask that doctor, Myojuan, for help. So, please...
All right, I'll hang on.
You again....
Please! Save Miaka's life!
I beg of you! Please!
I'm asking you, too. Without a doctor...
We just can't do it Miss Shoka's way!
Did... Did you just say ''Shoka''?
Y- Yeah... Miaka's at Miss Shoka's house right now.
Th- That's impossible!
Shoka...
Shoka died a year ago!
Lovely girl...
Even in this agony, she overflows with such life force...
This time, I'LL be the one to kill her.
You're saying that Shoka died of the disease a year ago?!
Exactly. I was the city's doctor then.
But, if that's true...
...then who's that Shoka person Miaka's with right now?!
Oh, no! Nuriko! Tasuki! We have to go back!
Miaka's in danger!
Right!
Shoka... Can it be?
Chocolate!
I'm not chocolate, I swear!
Potato chips...
Is this girl really asleep?!
Miss Shoka...
I know you mean well, but you can't kill me.
I promised Hotohori I'd hang on.
You're awake?
I know it'd be easier to just die and let you bring me back to life...
...but there are two people in Kutou I want to get back.
One is a person I love and want to always be with.
The other has been my best friend since kindergarten...
...who had something terrible happen to her on my account.
This disease makes my body hurt so much...
...but it's nothing when I think about them.
No, I don't have the right to say I'm suffering.
So, no matter what, I have to hang on so I can see them again.
That's what I've decided.
NO!!!
Stop it!
Lady Yui, I've explained already that this is necessary.
He knew what happens to hostages who try to escape.
We must teach his body to...
...avoid letting such foolish thoughts arise again.
Now, swear to Lady Yui that...
...you will never again mention the Priestess of Suzaku.
Like hell!
Tamahome...!
Stop it! You're killing him!
STOP IT!!!
He's fainted. Release him!
Tamahome!
Are we clear now, Tamahome? Remember this.
You will never stand upon the land of Konan again.
And you will never be with the Priestess of Suzaku.
You live only for Lady Yui's sake.
Never forget that!
Miaka...
Tamahome! TAMAHOME!
Tamahome!
Wow, what a nightmare!
I dreamt that blonde-haired guy in Kutou fried Tamahome and ate him!
Well, if he got to eat him, I should get a little, too!
Come to think of it, I'm really hungry.
Miss Shoka, where are you?
Miss Shoka?
Stay back, Miaka! Run! Otherwise, I'll...!
What the hell?!
What's with these guys?!
The whole town seems to be covered with a strange atmosphere.
Be careful!
What are you doing?! Let go!
Cut it out! You guys want me to burn you down?!
Tasuki! Don't use that spell!
Easy for you to say! Then what should we do?!
Your Highness! Leave this to us!
But...!
Never mind! Just go!
Thank you!
Hold on! I'm coming, too!
Wh- Who the hell are you?
What's wrong? Miss Shoka?
Come on, where are you?
Miaka! Get away from that woman!
Huh? Hotohori?
Shoka died a year ago!
It's too late. I won't give her back.
I'll eat every part of her, down to her bone marrow!
Ow, ow, ow, ow!
Don't eat my bone marrow, Miss Shoka!
If you eat me, your brain'll turn into an appendix...
...and your lungs'll get athlete's foot!
Maybe you can do it some other day.
Silence!
Damn you, demon! I'll destroy you!
Wait!
Tasuki! Nuriko! You're all right!
But, who's this man?
He just suddenly appeared.
Juan...
Juan?
It is! It's Mr. Myojuan!
You mean that guy's THIS young?!
Shoka... Are you the one spreading the disease through the city?
You mean you've become a monster who feeds on human souls?!
'Scuse me... Look...
Creepy! What's going on here?!
Who are all those guys?!
I think they're all the people Shoka ''brought back to life''.
But, while they seem to be alive...
...they're just corpses which she controls!
Corpses?! I shoulda toasted them before, with this!
Come on! Don't just ignore me!
I'm right, aren't I, Shoka? Why?
What right do you have to talk to me like that?!
One year ago, when I was sick and on the verge of death...
...I waited for you, but you never came!
I believed in my heart that you'd come...
No matter how much I suffered...
...I held on to the very end. But, despite that...
...you never came!
These two were...!
Well? Do you have any right to question what I do?!
First I'll kill this girl and then I'll kill you!
- Tasuki! - Right!
No! Don't kill Miss Shoka!
Miaka! That thing's a demon! We have to destroy it!
Miss Shoka isn't a demon!
You came back to see him, didn't you? To see Mr.Juan...
He's your lover, isn't he?! It hurt to die without him being there.
There was nothing he could do about that!
You came back to see him. To see Mr.Juan...
He's your lover, isn't he?!
It hurt to die without him being there.
There was nothing he could do about that!
But you can't fight someone you love just because you're sad!
Miaka...
Miss Shoka!
It's true,Juan... I was waiting for you...
Please...
Please, help me...
Miss...Sho...ka...
Juan, please! Your power can destroy this monster!
If you don't, it'll kill Miaka!
Shoka... You...
That's a sickness demon!
You've been possessed by a sickness demon?!
Forgive me...!
The demon possessed me...
...drawn by the pain I felt that even death couldn't end!
We'll kill that demon!
Juan, hurry! Kill me now and the demon will vanish!
If you do that, the demon's spell will be broken...
...and the people in town will be saved! Hurry...!
Hurry and kill me now!
Miaka, thank you.
It's all right now. You will be cured soon...
...and you will be reunited with the ones you love.
Farewell...
Great healing power...
DEMON, BEGONE!!!
MISS SHOKA!!!
I missed you... I missed you so much...
Farewell,Juan...
The house! It was an illusion!
The townsfolk are returning to normal!
The demon's spell has been broken!
Now Miaka will get better!
There were a lot of innocent people among them.
It's a good thing you didn't burn them all down, Tasuki.
Miaka! Speak to me!
Miaka!
What's wrong?
She'll be all right.
She just spent too much time being close to the demon.
I feel warm...
The mark of Suzaku?!
I'd say she's better now.
Are you...?
I am...the member of the Suzaku Seven known as Mitsukake.
Mitsukake!
And that power that killed the demon and cured Miaka is...?
The great healing power.
Miss Shoka...
That's why I became a doctor.
I wanted to help a lot of people with my healing power.
But, when Shoka suddenly developed a high fever...
Juan...! Juan...!
I had been called away to a distant village to treat someone.
But I didn't make it in time.
Shoka...
SHOKA!!!
The one person I wanted to save most of all...
...was the one I didn't save!
How dare I call myself a ''great physician!''
This power of mine... was useless in the end...!
And that's why you turned your back on other people.
But this time you saved her.
Saved her?
Yeah. Look. You see? Miss Shoka is so...
She looks so happy...
It's because of Miss Shoka...
...that we found the sixth member of the Suzaku Seven.
I'll keep trying, Miss Shoka...
''As Mitsukake embraced Shoka, the Priestess of Suzaku...''
''...gazed at her lovely face and made a solemn vow...''
''...as night gave way to dawn.''
I swear I'll get Tamahome and Yui back!
We only need to find one more member of the Suzaku Seven!
The beautiful sounds of a flute...
...which are carried into the Lady Miaka's heart.
The melody, which seems to gently embrace her...
...saves the Lady Miaka from a Kutou assassin.
The player of the flute is a boy named Chiriko...
...the long-sought final member of the Suzaku Seven.
Next time, '' Magic Flute''.
Momentary joy is the prelude to a dangerous trap...