Episode Title:
Into the Darkness
Episode Description:
Shinpei announces they need to head back to the old clinic. A police officer named Miura approaches Mio and her friend Tokiko to ask about Shiori's family. At the clinic Sou finds old bottles of Mercuric Chloride, a toxic medicine. He also discovers a wooden statue of Ebisu, God of Fishermen, but as this statue is female Shinpei realises it actually depicts Ebisu when he was born as a leech like creature believed to be both male and female. They locate a secret door but no key. Shinpei realises the statue depicts Hiruko as pregnant, causing Shadow-Ushio to discover the key inside the stomach. Inside they find a tunnel Shadows could be using to move around unseen. They find a Shadow with the body of a deformed baby and manage to kill it when it attacks. Shadow-Ushio starts bleeding and realises the injury given to her by Shadow-Mio wasn't actually healed; just temporarily hidden, meaning her Shadow body is still badly injured. They hear a sudden gunshot and follow the noise from the tunnel into a natural underground cave. Shadow-Ushio panics as they realise the cave is filled with hundreds of Shadow-Babies who quickly surround them.
