Episode Title:
Suspicion
Episode Description:
Tanaka arrives to investigate the elderly woman's death, and surmises that an entity from the mountains has found its way into the village, and has found a way to hide in plain sight. Hikaru and Yoshiki, along with their friends Maki, Yuki and Asako, take a frightening shortcut through the woods to reach Maki's house, and Yoshiki and Hikaru become separated from the other two on their way back. Yoshiki catches sight of a strange entity with an elongated neck that seeks to latch onto him, but is protected by Hikaru at the last moment who "devours" it. Asako questions what happened, having heard the struggle, causing Hikaru to briefly consider killing her. The following day at school, Yoshiki inquires about what happened to the spirit. Hikaru allows Yoshiki to reach within his skin and feel what he really is within. Later, Yoshiki is confronted by a local, Rie Kurebayashi, who has the ability to sense supernatural occurrences; she recognizes that Yoshiki is spending time around something supernatural, but is unaware that the source is Hikaru, and warns him about staying close to such phenomena, stating that doing so will result in him becoming "mixed".
