The Twelve Kingdoms: The chase continues.. The youma chasing them are a pack of Kiki. They attack the man stearing and the wagons tips over. Youko, Sugimoto and Asano are still tied up. One of the guards unties them and tells them to run for it, just as he gets killed, but before the others can run they are surrounded. The hinman takes Youko over once again and makes her kill the Kiki. In a palace near by we see the King of Kou and the mysterious figure from before.. It is a woman named Kourin. King Kou tells her that the kaikyaku are a bad omen to the land and that she must use her shirei to kill them.. Kourin is depressed about this. The next morning Youko and the others are looking for food and they come across a town. They break into a house and look around. A woman named Takki arrives and calls them theives. Sugimoto grabs her from behind and tells Youko to kill her.. Youko can't do it and breaks down in tears.. Takki starts to feel pity for them and offers them to stay the night. During the middle of the night Sugimoto wakes up and tries to escape but her leg was injured earlier with the Kiki. Youko uses her magic ball from her sword to heal her leg. Asano is amazed by it and tells them that they should just stay there for the night. The next morning all four of them head off to a town where Takki is going to get them a job at her mother's inn. During their travel they stop to see a play on the life of the former ruler of Kei. Upon leaving a little girl comes up to Youko and shows her how she can make candy toys. During this Youko gets seperated from the rest. Just then Youko sees visions of her parents telling her how bad of a child she is.. A man appears before her, it's the same strange man she saw in her dreams.. His name is Auzaru and he tells Youko if she was dead there would be no more suffering...

Starring:

Houko Kuwashima, Kate Davis, Mari Devon

Genre:

Adventure, Animation, Drama, Fantasy