Episode Title:
The Fire that Destroys the World.
Episode Description:
Kaburagi declares war on the Queerats, promising to eliminate them from Japan. But the Fiend approaches, killing many humans and Saki is shocked by its resemblance to Maria. Though Kaburagi manages to evade the Fiend's first attack, the Fiend kills him. Saki, Satoru and Niimi escape through a tunnel and encounter a wounded Queerat who tells them that the Queerat race will now be the new rulers, and that their "Messiah", the Fiend, was sent from the heavens to save them. Niimis leave them to warn the others at the Town Hall and he sends Saki and Satoru to the Temple of Purity. They arrive and learn that Saki's parents left to release the remaining Impure Cats upon the Fiend. They also meet up with Inui, who tells them about his group's failed mission to dispose of the Robber Fly colony and his first encounter with the Fiend and death of his group. When he returned to the hospital he found all the human infants had been stolen. Saki realizes that Yakomaru killed Maria and Mamoru, took their child, and then raised it to become a Fiend. He plans to do the same with the stolen infants, creating an army of Fiends that will wipe the humans off the face of the Earth and bring rise to a Queerat empire.
