Dark Gathering 1x25

Directed by Kiichi Ueki

Yoshihiro Nakamura as Narrator (voice) • Aino Shimada as Spirit (voice) • Mitsuki Saiga as God (voice) • Saori Hayami as Castle H Ruins spirit (voice) • Shuri Miyumi as Spirit (voice)

They now have 7 Graduates, but fighting a god also requires an ambitious, daring plan. With Ai’s time running out, the trio prepare for their next journey; Kyoto awaits.

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1. Breaking News: Shiga Train Derailment

2. Recovery efforts continue

3. I hope Ai-chan's okay...

4. Oh, right. I can just send her a message.

5. Hey, Ai-chan, how are you feeling?

6. She's bound to reply if she's feeling better.

7. Hey, Ai-chan,

8. how are you feeling?

9. Ai-chan

10. Ai-chan? That was fast!

11. Sensei!

12. Ai-chan, what's wrong? Are you okay?

13. I got knocked out, but I only ended up with a few scratches.

14. I was so worried you were seriously hurt.

15. Talk about lucky.

16. Is it really, though?

17. Because maybe that accident only happened 'cause I was there,

18. and all those people got hurt because I was there.

19. I'm really unlucky.

20. Me and everyone who hangs around me, too.

21. What hospital are you at?

22. Huh?

23. Well, Yayoi-chan, Eiko, and I want to come down and pay you a visit.

24. I think you'll feel better once you get to talk to some friends.

25. Then, you'll see you're just overthinking things, and it's not your fault.

26. Okay, but what if seeing me makes something bad happen again?

27. We'll be okay. Yayoi-chan will be there. God, that sounds so pathetic...

28. And everyone's worried about you, Ai.

29. We all just want to see you smile again!

30. No one's ever said that to me before! Thank you!

31. I'll be here! I can't wait to see you, Sensei!

32. Same. We'll be there soon, okay?

33. See you then.

34. Right! Bye-bye!

35. Gah! I forgot to get the name!

36. Kyoto Central Hospital

37. So hype!

38. So I got the name of the hospital she's staying at.

39. I was so excited to come in here and tell you, too...

40. But now the school's closed because of some crazy ghost incident?

41. And one of your classmates was replaced by a ghost who's in league with other body-snatchers?

42. AND they probably know our addresses?

43. I don't even know where to start...

44. Actually, how about with whatever the hell you're doing, Eiko?

45. I'm putting up spy cameras!

46. Obviously! You mind telling me WHY?

47. To catch a body-snatcher if they break in.

48. Oh, really?

49. KEI-KUN'S

50. ROOM!

51. CAMERA

52. Then why'd you put up this many?

53. You know I wish I didn't have to, but I had to. So I did!

54. Y'know, sometimes, there are things in this world you just can't avoid doing!

55. Why're you so excited about it, then?

56. I'm the only one who can see the feeds,

57. and if things look sketchy, I'll ask Shami-san's team to take care of it!

58. O-okay...

59. I didn't think things would go this far off the rails...

60. In any case, everything's prepared for our trip to Kyoto.

61. Our objective is to visit Ai, then confront her god face-to-face.

62. There's a 90% chance things get ugly, which means we'll need to strategize and prepare before that confrontation.

63. We need a plan...

64. A while back, you said you'd taken on a god before. How'd you do that?

65. Simply put, it's a numbers game, where you batter it with curses to keep weakening it.

66. GOD

67. Ai's god is far more powerful than I thought, however.

68. Not only is it powerful on its own, but it has a spirit to heal it and at least twelve lackies.

69. I've come up with a plan to raise our odds of beating it.

70. I'll spell it out for you two so we can fine-tune it together.

71. Currently, we have seven graduates at our disposal.

72. The High Priest of the Evil Tongue.

73. The Imprisoned Martyr.

74. Otogiri Oiran, the Soul-Sucking Courtesan.

75. The Suicide at Sengon-Kegon Falls.

76. The ghost from the Old Old F Tunnel, The Faceless Fiend.

77. The ghost from the Old I Watergate, The Black Asura in Lunar Umbra.

78. And the ghost that got stronger during the incident at school, the Soul in Transition.

79. Stories tell of an ancient exorcist who placed a protective ward over all of Kyoto.

80. We'll follow suit, reserving the Martyr and the Oiran for their weakening abilities,

81. then placing the other five in a pentagram of Kyoto's most haunted locations.

82. I call it: the Bellflower of Blasphemy.

83. It will be the inverse of a ward,

84. trapping the god inside to shrivel and weaken at the hands of the Martyr and the Oiran.

85. Once weakened enough, we retrieve our Graduates,

86. then use our overwhelming numbers to take it down.

87. So we'd be creating a curse that covers the entire city?

88. Yup.

89. But wouldn't that also affect everyone who lives there?

90. It would, if we let it.

91. But we won't, so we'll need two things:

92. A substitute with the curse drawn onto it, and a substitute for the city of Kyoto itself.

93. Wait, how are we going to do that?

94. We grab soil or something from one part of the city to fashion into the substitute.

95. That transfers the curse away from the city.

96. This substitute is the key.

97. TYPICAL

98. Usually, substitutes take damage intended for a human,

99. REVERSE

100. but this one works in reverse, transferring damage from the city to the god.

101. But how do we turn the god into a substitute?

102. We mark it the same way.

103. Mark it?

104. Oh, with that symbol?

105. Precisely. I came up with this symbol so it's completely unique.

106. We'll carve it into the god's flesh to make a permanent link between it and the substitute.

107. B-but wait, the god can heal itself, can't it?

108. That's from Castle H. The Suicide's curse!

109. That's right. She can inflict wounds that can't be healed, and we can use her obi to strike it from out of range.

110. O-okay, so how do these two things work together?

111. Like this.

112. We place the curse over Kyoto. The effects get channeled into the city's substitute.

113. Those flow through gravity down into to substitute with the mark.

114. That then transfers through the Suicide's markings to the god,

115. afflicting it with a curse powerful enough to level a city.

116. I can't believe she came up with all of this...

117. Got it! So the curse won't affect anyone else except for the god!

118. Yup.

119. That's so cool!

120. Okay, let's draw up what steps we need to take to enact the plan and put it on a schedule.

121. Mhmm.

122. I assume the god will pick a fight with us when we go to visit Ai-chan.

123. So we want to finish most of our prep before we go to see her.

124. May 7: Prep

125. May 8: Drive from

126. Tokyo to Kyoto

127. May 8-10: Clear all five spots,

128. set up Graduates

129. May 10: Finish other prep

130. May 11: Go visit Ai

131. May 11: Confront God

132. May 11-12: WIN

133. How's this look?

134. Good.

135. For prep, then...

136. We'll need to hit five crucial spots to make the pentagram.

137. I've picked out these five.

138. F Park

139. K-zuka Daimyojin Shrine

140. T Tunnel

141. A Dam

142. National Highway Between OW and OT

143. That's Kyoto for you.

144. A place so steeped in haunted history was sure to have top-tier haunts,

145. and none of them are going to be easy.

146. We have to hit all these places before taking on the god?

147. We could end up dead before that.

148. True, but with great risk comes greater rewards.

149. By securing each location for our Graduate, we'll also capture powerful spirits.

150. The god's lackies are less powerful than it, but they'll still be a force to be reckoned with.

151. We can't cut corners when it comes to them.

152. Given the inherent danger of this plan,

153. I want the two of you to really consider whether or not you want to go to Kyoto.

154. Your lives will truly be in danger during the course of this battle.

155. You could very well be throwing away everything for the sake of one friend.

156. You're well within your rights to freak out and run away. That reaction is completely normal.

157. So I want you to think long and hard about it, then make a decision.

158. If you still want to come, then meet me here tomorrow morning.

159. Hey, come on in!

160. Why'd you ask me to bring you a ghost?

161. Cause I want you to see something.

162. What is it?

163. You'll see.

164. I just don't know if it'll attack, so be on your guard.

165. Is that the girl from the F Tunnel?

166. Yep.

167. I upgraded the design, so no matter what damage it takes, it'll always regenerate.

168. I call it the "self-sustaining substitute."

169. Is it too creepy?

170. I can't believe you're already thinking about this, too!

171. Uh, that wasn't the reaction I was expecting...

172. I had the same idea before.

173. But I abandoned it, since I wanted to train them instead.

174. You put this together right after getting a ghost, too. I need to hire you as my assistant.

175. Professor!

176. For now, let me repair the paper substitute.

177. Wait!

178. That would help, but that's not why I asked you to come here.

179. What's in the closet?

180. I did as you said, and thought really hard about Kyoto. And after all that thinking, this is what I came up with.

181. A better, smaller version of the self-sustaining substitute mass-produced with my 3D printer!

182. It doesn't need a spirit, just a substitute placed inside.

183. It doesn't need to last long, so we can use just water instead of gel,

184. and the low viscosity of water makes it repair itself even faster!

185. And with this many substitutes, our chance of surviving has never been higher!

186. been higher!

187. been higher!

188. Yikes...

189. What? I thought you'd be way more excited!

190. Ahem... You have certainly exceeded my expectations.

191. But I can tell from this that you're dead set on fighting by my side.

192. You went to Kishimojin before, trying to get rid of our curse, right?

193. That must mean the curse was set on us by something as powerful as a god.

194. So I'd better be ready to take on something as powerful as a god!

195. Let's do this, Yayoi-chan!

196. Thanks. You already do a lot for me, but I'm gonna need you even more from here on out.

197. The honest truth is I'm terrified. I've been lucky to survive all this time.

198. But things are gonna be way more dangerous from here on out.

199. I know that...

200. but I've already made my decision!

201. I can't believe they're coming down to see me! I can't wait!

202. Wait, is this me? I'm, like, gorgeous!

203. You look amazing, Ai.

204. I knew you'd look wonderful.

205. Mom! Auntie!

206. Auntie?

207. Didn't you die a long time ago?

208. SURGERY

209. The hospital? But why...

210. Ai-chan...

211. Auntie?

212. What the-?

213. Stop!

214. Stop!

215. Please! Help me, Sen-

216. Wait... Who was I going to say?

217. Help me, Li-

218. Who? What...?

219. Wait... Why am I crying?

220. Help me... Help me... Help me...

221. I feel like I'm missing something important...

222. Like I'm turning into... Something else.

223. What? Is that my face? Being taken away?

224. No, it's still here.

225. It's almost your time, Ai.

226. Just a nightmare...

227. Sensei! Little Senpai! Eiko-chan!

228. I'm so scared...

229. Kei-kun!

230. I was gonna go see Ai-chan regardless.

231. That alone puts me in danger of getting killed, so I might as well fight for a chance to survive.

232. I'm not sure if any of these are going to help,

233. but I brought all the charms my Grandma gave me for protection!

234. Keitaro...

235. I also put this together.

236. Three hours later

237. All done! This is my Graduate Deployment Kit!

238. If I work on the range a bit more, we can seal and release our Graduates totally remotely.

239. This'll make recovering them afterwards way easier, too.

240. Ooh, let me help spruce up the electronics!

241. I was hoping you would.

242. This is absolutely something I want to have. Thank you, Keitaro.

243. Sure. We're going to be leaning on you to handle most of the battling,

244. but still, let's go save Ai-chan, together!

245. Yeah!

246. Next up...

247. There we go.

248. I've fulfilled my promise.

249. We will be engaging in battle again in Kyoto.

250. I'd like to entrust a crucial part of our plan to you.

251. Next time, bring friends.

252. I'll bring a different kind of sake next time so we can all learn more.

253. Negotiations and collection complete.

254. Now...

255. So this is your Graduate dorm!

256. There's a man hanging in the doorway, but you can ignore him. He's harmless.

257. O-okay.

258. We'll put a tracker on the right arm.

259. The left arm, we'll take with us to Kyoto.

260. Why the distinction?

261. This one's the one the old lady was carrying.

262. MAY 5TH

263. REPLACED

264. MAY 6TH

265. Right after that, another one of the body-snatchers made contact with me.

266. Since the two of them know each other, they'll probably share information,

267. BODY-SNATCHERS

268. THEY STOLE IT?

269. so they'll likely come to try and take the right arm back.

270. LET'S GET IT BACK!

271. But they don't know we have the left arm.

272. They might not come looking for the right arm, but if they do, all the better for us,

273. because then we'll know more about them.

274. That makes sense.

275. That'll do it.

276. So that grade schooler likely has our arm. Should we not go and take it from her?

277. Though Dorothy says she is our brethren, we do not yet know the truth for certain.

278. We must observe her fully before taking rash action.

279. What are you two talking about in here?

280. Oh, we're discussing the friend you told us about.

281. I knew the two of you would be completely intrigued by her!

282. Well, I'm only interested in the arm. I can't speak for Nankobo-san over here, though.

283. How fares the spirit, then?

284. It's growing steadily, though it is still lacking in strength.

285. That was quite the pinch, there. We could have lost it for good.

286. Should we go and lend it assistance?

287. Would you?

288. Right away.

289. I'd like to come with you!

290. That's the whole reason why I got school put on hold.

291. We can also use it as an opportunity to tour the great city of Kyoto!

292. I am sure you know, but it bears repeating:

293. do not make contact with that god.

294. Of course we won't. I'm not so crazy as to tangle with divinity, knock on wood.

295. The cameras are set up, and we're prepped to deal with any body-snatchers.

296. Now...

297. we're ready.

298. To Kyoto, then.

299. Let's ghooo...

300. ooost!

301. Oh right, Yayoi-chan, did you want to stop by the site of the train accident? It's on the way.

302. The Spectre was there... The spirit that killed her parents. She could learn something from what happened there.

303. Breaking News: Shiga Train Derailment

304. On the way back, yes. Right now, I want to focus on Ai.

305. She's prioritizing her living friend over her dead parents...

306. We're coming, Ai.

307. Next stop: Kyoto...