Episode Title:
Fragile Armor.
Episode Description:
Miyu reluctantly turns to Himiko to help her save Larva, who has been kidnapped by a shinma, in exchange for information regarding the shinma. Himiko faces the soul of an armored samurai standing in their way, performing a ritual spell to defeat it. Miyu is impressed and then she explains that Larva came to her as a shinma, intending to kill her before she realized her purpose as a vampire, but she awoke to her powers as they spoke; then she bit him, and he became the first living being whose blood she drank. After this, Larva was punished by the other Shinma by having his face and voice sealed away with a mask, tying him as Miyu's servant. To fulfill her part of the deal Himiko, first unaware for being used as bait, looks everywhere in town to find the whereabouts of the armored samurai, only to run into a shinma named Lemures, who captures her and says he believes that Larva should not fall into the hands of Miyu. Miyu appears and releases Himiko, only to be captured by the armored samurai that Himiko confronted, and then Larva frees himself and saves Miyu. Then Miyu burns Lemures to cinders, instead of sending him into the darkness, as punishment for what he did to Larva. Soon after, Miyu reveals to the armored samurai that he was once a human, but he was placed in a suit of armor after using his wife as a sacrifice. Anguished by this, the armored samurai raids the town, only to be gunned down by the police department. Himiko asks why she didn't let the armor believe that he was a Shinma from the start, and Miyu says she cannot just let others forget their humanity since she cannot do that herself.
