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Episode 11; The Soul Cages: A man staggers down an alleyway. Two men chase him. He trips over a trash can and falls. When he gets up, he notices a woman from the shadows who chants “Wven the eternal lights shine upon him. The inhabitants of the land of the deadare initiating everlasting power.” on the man. delivered form this world soon. He then psychically attacks them using the electricity from above. Sakaki talks to Michael. He’s curious as to why the Factory has moved so quickly on this. Everyone seems to be doing this by the book. Amon investigates. Apparently this case is similar to a previous case where the witch could use microwaves. Robin sniffs some of the blood and notices the light bulbs above. The previous case happened 22 years ago, but the circumstances are almost identical. Michael is confused because there doesn’t seem to be any way the previous witch could have had a child. Meanwhile, Robin sits with the light bulb she found at the crime scene. Doujima can’t believe she took it without permission. They decide to investigate the scene. Michael scouts the area. 150,000 people live in the area. Michael thinks it will be next to impossible to find the witch. Robin sniffs around the scene a bit more. The old woman from the night before notices her and tells her that she won’t be able to find the person by doing that. Robin is interested that the woman knows what she is trying to do. The woman warns that since Robin’s not from around here, she should leave. Robin tells her that she’ll be ok. The woman replies that maybe she will be, but the surrounding people won’t be. Robin receives a call and walks away. When she arrives with the others, they tell her that the victims have been taken away. They also notice that a bunch of people are watching them from various buildings around the area. They decide to wait for reinforcements. Karasuma can’t sense anything, but Robin notices another light bulb on the ground. The man from the previous night is still trying to escape. He remembers using the electricity from the light bulbs above to kill the two men after him. As he gets upset, he blows up a car headlight with that power. The old woman watches from the shadows. Sakaki has been trying to investigate, but none of the people will respond to his questions. Amon asks where Robin and Doujima have gone. He tells them they went to the lab to investigate the light bulbs. Through investigation, they determine that like Robin, the witch they are looking for isn’t in complete control of his powers because he burned his surroundings in the process. Amon calls Michael and asks him to investigate the electricity system around the crime scene to see if there is any place that may be able to discharge more than standard electricity. The man walks through a hallway of electric cables. Amon hypothesizes that the first victims were residents who went after him, but now the witch is paranoid and may believe that everyone is out to get him. Michael calls and gives them the coordinates of the high voltage area in the area. The witch sits alone. Another man comes after him threatening to kill him. The witch uses his electricity power against him and as a shield against the man’s bullets. He begs for his life. Just as he is about to kill the man, Sakaki and Robin show up. Robin engulfs the man in fire, but he is able to shield himself with his electricity. The old woman carves an x on the floor and the electricity in the place goes out. Sakaki and Robin utilize the moment to capture the witch. Amon researches the witch. Robin walks in. She wants to know more about him. The witch was Jyuuzou Narumi. He was 33 years old. He was a distant relative of the witch Michael researched. Robin thinks its weird that his power would have awakened all of the sudden. She then realizes what the old woman may have been warning her about. The woman chants alone that in the end, the power you inherited from the dead was too much for you to handle… She carves a rune into the ground with her cane. Episode 12; Precious Illusions: Robin walks around the area from the previous episode to find the old woman. She asks who the woman is. Robin steps on a rune the woman drawn. The woman disappears and tells her that time is like a prison and has been accumulating in this hellish world since a very long time ago. That is her. Amon identifies the rune as the witch’s crest. It was carved into the body of accused witches in Salem during the witch trials in America. That symbol had been sent repeatedly to STN-J for the last day. Karasuma investigated only to find that they’ve been coming from Robin’s terminal. Michael is investigating, but no one knows what happened to Robin. Robin is still searching out the old woman. She is a witch from Salem with the witches’ crest. She tells Robin that time doesn’t flow the same for everyone... at least to a small group of people. Robin isn’t answering the phone. The group has no idea what happened to her, and but are equally concerned with how someone was able to hack into STN-J’s system. Michael has been working nonstop to find the culprit and has been in a bad mood ever since. Amon and the head chief discuss the crest, calling it a scarlet letter. They trace the hacking incidents back to a week ago when they were hunting Narumi. The chief suspects a connection to a witch that may be able to increase another’s abilities. The witch questions Robin’s decisions about lending her powers to Confraria. What does she do if it isn’t called witchcraft. The woman then asks if she’s a descendant of Satyr. The last witch hunt in England was 1717 AD, in France was 1745 AD, in Germany was 1775 AD, and finally in Poland in 1793 AD. The woman wonders how many innocent people were killed. Some say up to 9 million witches were burned to death. But there are still some who hunt witches. Robin explains that the witches they hunt are those whose hearts were taken over by evil intentions. The woman explains that she’s heard the same explanation for 300 years. She decides to show Robin the truth. At Rabin’s place, all the computers are displaying the witch’s crest. None of the systems will respond to Michael’s security. The witch takes Robin on a tour through history. She shows her a cave drawing of bulls that the devout called god. Robin refutes this claiming that is the devil, not god. She sees a vision of a young girl who explains that while she may want to call the bull the devil, it is the oldest form of god that humans knew about. The first god. Michael has figured out that the hacker is hacking in through the communication system. No one knows where Robin is, but Amon suspects Gold City. Sasaki and Karasumi have found Robin’s vespa there. Meanwhile Robin refutes the witch, saying that the demon was drowned by his own greed and fell from the sky. He cannot be god. The witch asks how she can be sure that the demon was the one who fell? The ones who hunted the witches of ages past were also so-called gods. Robin says that they were doing it to rescue the misguided people who took the wrong path. The witch responds that it wasn’t for in the name of peace but jealousy - they were jealous of those who possessed strong powers. It was for that reason that caused these now so-called gods to kill the same race that they once were. The fallen god became known as a “witch” even though they were once of the same blood. The so-called gods then brainwashed the masses to instill doubt and then killed innocent people. The witch tells Robin that she has the same blood that witches do. Michael asks if Amon happens to know what Methuselah’s witches are. Amon asks if they are the Cow Clan. There is a possibility that they can control other people’s powers. The witch shows Robin the last prayer of a girl who will be burned. The girl has Robin’s face. Robin flashes back to all the witches she’s hunted. She screams that she is not a witch. The woman counters that the truth always has two faces. The history of the witch hunts still continues with Robin and STN-J. The witch returns to her old woman form and then vanishes with fire. At last she has passed on her knowledge of 400 years. Amon enters and explains that Methuselah was a witch who was given eternal life as a duty. She could only be killed with fire. Robin asks if that is why she called her... to end eternity? Amon asks Michael if he’s found any more traces of the attack. He says that it appears that the attack was done solely to call Robin and to find out more about her. Amon explains that in Greek mythology, doubt made the satyr believe that his own child would steal his position. In the end, he killed his own child and ate the body. Those were the words the witch left to Robin. Robin receives a message that the relic that might possibly be the secret of the Craft was recovered. She is awaiting further instructions. |
