Kaoru-sama, please explain this.
Can't you just believe in Kaoru-sama?
Kaoru-sama, please, don't say it...
Kaoru-sama!
Ever since that day, it's been a secret only you and I shared.
Nadeshiko, please, don't tell anyone.
Don't worry, I'll never tell anyone. Never.
As I promised, I never told anyone, because it was a secret that only Kaoru-sama and I shared.
I've caused trouble for all of you.
Kaoru-sama...
I'll tell you everything.
What?
I'm not the Kawahira Kaoru you think I am.
Kaoru-sama...
Truly a beautiful sight.
And the wind blowing through here feels so good.
I've got Dai Youko's energy, and Daisakkai's power has reached its maximum!
Daisakkai is a repository of all my magical power...
If I use its power, it can grant any wish.
My dream is a world of absolute freedom, where no one needs to feel inhibited about how they live.
A wonderful world, free of all rules!
And it's not just a dream anymore!
Stupid, perverted magician, causing trouble!
But I never thought that he'd gain the power of Dai Youko as well.
Don't worry, Hake. We'll stop him with all our power!
Kaoru's secret?
What is that?
You aren't Kaoru-sama?
What do you mean?
What? I don't understand at all.
Please explain.
Kaoru-sama!
Yes.
I'm not the real Kawahira Kaoru.
To be precise, this body isn't Kawahira Kaoru's.
From a young age, I was raised by a certain mage.
He taught me everything and took everything away from me.
Listen well, Kaoru.
The most important thing in a person's life is love.
Love?
He was a magician that had lived for over a thousand years.
He'd lost his body in several magical experiments, but he lived on as a spirit.
He taught me many things.
To me he was a father and a teacher.
How to study, how to play a piano, how to use magic...
So when I heard that he used his magic to help the sick and the poor, I was happy.
Back then, I thought that saving people was what he did.
Shortly afterwards, his life came to an end.
I wanted to do something.
But it wasn't something that could be solved with magic or medicine.
There was something that was his food source, the source of his energy.
According to him, there was a hunter who hated people.
He lived alone and would have nothing to do with anyone from the village.
The villagers hated him too, and he was always alone.
The mage visited the hunter, spoke of the virtues of friendship,
and suggested that he get along with the villagers.
But the man didn't listen.
Even so, the mage continued to preach eloquently.
It was then... The man fell from a cliff and was badly injured.
Nobody came to save the hated man.
But...
The man changed.
He became friends with the villagers and began to work for the benefit of the village.
And eventually they came to accept him as well.
The man knew love.
And then several years later... he married the girl who saved him.
Oh my, Keita-chan. Are you hungwy?
Want some milk?
Idiot!
What are you saying?
Pay attention!
I am!
He's a nice person, that mage!
No, there's still more.
It was all a carefully prepared plan.
The couple had a child and lived happily.
Then one day he heard that a bear that had awoken early from its hibernation was attacking people,
and he volunteered to hunt it down.
I see that you're working for the good of the people. I'm glad to see that.
Isn't that the bear you're after?
Now, shoot!
For everyone!
For love!
Now!
No!
That's impossible!
Why?
Why is she here?
Oh, right.
It seems after you left home to help everyone, your son was eaten by a bear.
I heard that she's been looking all over for you.
What wonderful despair.
It was delicious.
It was worth waiting these long years... This is my feast!
His name was Jasei, and he was the most evil and powerful of magicians.
Jasei's source of food was despair.
He would create a chain of events to take people from happiness to the depths of sorrow.
He loved that moment of despair more than anything.
Why?
Because I want to live!
Because it's fun!
I love their expression when their pure, white souls are tainted black!
I love turning the future they'd anticipated on its head!
There's nothing more delicious than their cries when they've been betrayed
by something that they believed in from the bottom of their heart.
When they realize that what they valued more than their own life is gone forever...
No way... Then the reason you raised me this way...
Indeed... It was to teach you, who were all alone, about love and all that is good,
and to make your heart beautiful and clean, and then to taste that pure despair!
Well?
How does it feel to be denied by the one who raised you, who taught you everything,
whom you respected more than anyone else?
That despair will be the food that keeps me alive!
I won't cry.
Instead I'll take pity on you.
You were the one who taught me to do that.
Even now you won't despair?
As a final word, let me say this.
In the end, those you treasure will turn their backs on you and throw rocks at you, and then you will despair.
That is how you will be erased from this world.
That is your unavoidable fate.
May your future be filled with an endless curse!
This is... me?
Yes, this is your real body.
Using my magic, I transferred your soul to a fake body.
Only I know how to return it.
No...
Suffer! Rage!
And when you realize that you can never return to how you were, you will taste real despair!
But I never despaired.
That day, my battle began.
Then the body in the villa... was your real body?
This body is a false one. It was created by Jasei to move and grow like a real body.
But in the end, it's just a fake.
See?
My life is nearing its end.
So I needed to return to my original body, but I didn't know how.
So you decided to seek help from Sekidousai?
Nadeshiko, did you know this?
It was really a coincidence that she found out.
Why?
Why didn't you say anything?
We can't use magic like Sekidousai, but maybe we could've done something!
But even so you kept hiding it...
I'm sorry, Tayune.
I couldn't help it.
That was the curse.
I could not tell anyone of my secret.
If I did, I could never return to my body.
That was his last curse.
Then the fact that you told us...
That doesn't matter.
But, I was scared...
Of losing you all...
Because nothing happened after Nadeshiko found out, there may have been no curse at all.
But when I fought Keita, I thought... "Why am I fighting?"
Even if I protect Sekidousai and return to my body, I'll lose everything else.
I realized that that would be far more painful.
Even if I lose my body, I won't despair.
But if I lose you all, I couldn't go on.
So I wanted you all to hear the truth.
This is what I heard from Sekidousai.
He investigated Kawahira Kaoru's past using Daisakkai.
What?
Is that it?
Keita?
That's not much.
Blood of the Sekidou, rage!
Haja Kekkai - Nishiki: Shikokuchuu!
I order you in the name of Hazan Shoukun!
Shining light and pitch-black darkness, together destroy everything!
I'd expect no less from the head of the Kawahira family.
I want that power.
Mass Petrification!
Watch out!
Hake.
You're mine!
Youko, head back to town.
Stop Sekidousai.
But what about you?
I hate to say it, but I can't fight with this body.
But, I'll be there soon.
So take care of it until then.
Okay, I'll see you later.
Kaoru-sama, where are you going?
It's my fault that this happened.
So I will defeat Sekidousai.
You stay here.
I cannot involve you in my personal battle.
And I deceived you all.
I'm an inukami tsukai who prides himself on the virtues of Haja Kenshou,
yet I joined forces with an evil mage.
I don't have the right to be your master.
Sendan.
Yes?
Igusa,
Tayune,
Gokyouya,
Tensou,
Furano,
Imari,
Sayoka,
Tomohane,
and Nadeshiko.
Thank you for following me up until now.
What should we do, everyone?
I don't know!
It's too much to take in at once.
What are you all hesitating for?
Yeah, really!
It just turns out that Kaoru-sama... isn't Kaoru-sama.
I never thought I'd hear the way things are from the twins.
That's right.
Kaoru-sama is Kaoru-sama!
The Kaoru-sama we know is...
Let's go!
Behold my six-inch cannon!
Farewell, Kawahira Kaoru!
Kaoru-sama!
Imari, Sayoka!
Impudent fools!
Why, you?
Kaoru-sama, we inukami will follow you anywhere!
Kaoru-sama!
Everyone...
Um... we...
It's okay!
Kaoru-sama!
Thank you, everyone.
Thanks to you, part of my despair has been lifted.
Oh my, how heartfelt.
What do you think that group of bitches can do?
Sekidousai.
You shouldn't think that I'm the same way I was before.
All of my inukami are here.
I'm an inukami tsukai.
Inukami... Tsukai?
Now, let's go everyone!
Yes, Kaoru-sama!
I order you in the name of Tousan Shinkun! Wind, play a symphony!
Blood of the Sekidou, rage!
Imari, Sayoka.
Leave the thieving to us!
What?
Why you...
Gokyouya, Tensou, Furano!
Hey, you're doing well.
Youko... Where's Keita-san?
He's safe, if nothing else.
He told me to save you, but it looks like you don't need it.
No, you'll be a great help.
Don't underestimate me!
I've lost it all.
I was truly happy to be Kaoru-sama's Inukami.
Everyone was so nice to me.
Every day was so fun.
But all I wanted was one thing... that secret that Kaoru-sama and I had.
But it's all gone!
It's all gone!
I never thought that I would be attacked by a gang of beasts.
Daisakkai!
With Dai Youko and the blood of the Sekidou, and Daisakkai's power which has reached its maximum,
I am invincible!
I won't let you!
Everyone!
Right!
Dai Jaen!
Haja Soukou - Hatsuro x 9: Rengoku!
Why you, Kawahira Kaoru...
Is this Dai Youko's power?
Nadeshiko, go to Daisakkai!
Right now, its power can grant any wish!
Wish to nullify Dai Youko's power!
Quickly!
Right!
I won't let you!
Nadeshiko, quickly!
Nadeshiko, hurry!
We can't hold out any longer!
If I use this, my wish will come true.
My wish is...
Nadeshiko!
Kaoru-sama!
Nadeshiko...
No! No!
Now will you despair?
I'm satisfied, Kawahira Kaoru.
With her emotions withered, and the one she loves most lost, the young girl returns to her past self.
A town turning to rubble, and cheerful voices lost. She can no longer hear anything.
Nothing reaches her.
Everything is rushing toward a conclusion longed for by only one man.
Next time on Inukami:
Banquet of Despair.
The darkness covers everything, and despair fills the land.