Episode Title:
Asako
Episode Description:
Hikaru hosts a sleepover with Yoshiki, Asako, Maki, and Yuki as Tanaka’s impurity begins searching. Yoshiki finds Hikaru’s father’s hat and a strange note, while Asako and Hikaru go out for a lighter, where she questions his identity and recalls her family’s sensitivity to spirits. Hikaru nearly kills Asako before Yoshiki intervenes, then admits to Yoshiki that he doesn’t understand life and death and that he murdered Ms. Matsuura, making Yoshiki sick. When Asako wakes, she accuses Hikaru of possession but senses his protectiveness toward Yoshiki; Yoshiki comforts her, leaves coldly, and the next day Hikaru is stunned when Yoshiki arrives to walk to school as if nothing changed.