01x07 - Necromancer Part 2

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I may be a m*rder*r,

but at least I let the dead rest in peace.

Ooh, so that's who's beneath the mask.

Yikes. You're pretty scary.

But even if you go berserk,

you can't defeat all of us.

I don't need to defeat all of you.

I'll just explain that I was on night patrol.

What? Cut the crap, sweetie.

Shinji and I both saw everything you did!

Shinji is dead.

You're merely animating him.

Everyone thinks he's alive!

I'll tell them the truth about you two.

If you really are a hulk and not a necromancer,

you should be able to prove that.

But you can't, right?

Then what do you think'll happen?

Humans don't believe the truth.

They believe people.

I'm the class leader,

and you're a crazy necromancer who

screws her dead boyfriend every night.

I wonder who they'll side with?

Regardless, she's taken my poisoned needles.

Even though I have a motive-firewall,

if Kyoya finds my weapon,

he'll have damning proof.

So, I have a proposal.

"Talentless Nana"

You don't want your peers to

know your boyfriend is dead, right?

Episode 7: Necromancer Part 2

No one would guess that the self-proclaimed

necromancer is actually an animated corpse.

What's your proposal?

I promise to keep your secret.

And to spare you and Shinji's lives.

Well, that makes no sense.

I thought I had the upper-hand here.

I'm prepared to earn your cooperation.

I lost this round, after all.

As a sign of goodwill, I will tell you

something your heart is dying to know.

My heart's desire?

Yeah.

I'll tell you what Shinji is

whispering to you right now.

I can also hear the thoughts of the dead.

Got her.

If you release me, I can focus

on Shinji and hear his thoughts.

Do you accept?

From everything she's said,

she's clearly a hopeless romantic.

Don't you want to hear him?

I can deliver a message from Heaven,

from the boy you love.

Thank you.

Well, let's give it a go.

What did he say?

He said, "k*ll Nana."

Don't be stupid, Yuka.

She's right.

If you want to hear my voice,

all you have to do is k*ll her.

When you animate the dead,

you can use their powers, too.

You're right, babe.

I should just k*ll Nana.

Then all my secrets will be kept safe, too.

Good. She took the bait.

And now the hard part.

There she is!

Where did she go?

This way!

k*lling Yuka, the one with

powers, would be ideal.

But her bodyguard is an obstacle.

I need to incapacitate him

somehow but I don't know how.

That was Tsunekichi's necklace.

Why does Yuka have it?

Doesn't make sense.

Let's test my hypothesis.

She went into these bushes, right?

Keep your guard up.

You brought the stuff just in case, right?

Yup.

You're not getting away from me.

What a pretty necklace.

Do you have Shinji's remains in that pendant?

Since you wear it even in your sleep,

it must be quite precious to you.

See, the thing about necromancers,

they need relics--well, basically

anything the corpse touched in life.

Like Tsunekichi's necklace.

Now I see.

So you stole his necklace before the funeral,

then manipulated his corpse so that

you could hype up the class about Shinji?

You really did Tsunekichi dirty.

Says the girl who k*lled him? Please.

So, what happens if I take

that pendant from you?

I'd like to see you try.

Her voice was coming from over here, right?

Shinji!

Oww.

Crap! We'd better hurry before day breaks.

Yuka has to defend herself

while controlling Shinji.

If I keep startling her while retreating

into the dark, I should be safe.

That's odd.

I'm sure I left some tracks behind,

but how is Yuka able to

follow me in the dark like this?

What?!

What was that thing?!

Remember what I said, sweetie?

I always thought this island was off.

I could tell because of my powers,

but there's like, a lot of bodies

buried in the mountains.

I checked their memories and

they all had hella gruesome deaths.

Some of them are former teachers,

some are students with talents.

And one of them had dark-vision.

So I can totally see everything in the dark.

What is all of this?

I know this island has housed

enemies of humanity for a while.

But was there a Talented civil w*r?

Or was this my predecessors' doing?

But the Committee didn't say a word about this.

Scary stuff, right?

Maybe I should have restored

their bodies fully like I did with Shinji.

Well let's play tag.

I don't have time to ponder mysteries now!

I remember, when I looked under Yuka's bed,

I saw other strange objects

besides Tsunekichi's necklace.

Don't tell me those all

belonged to these zombies?

What can I do?

She's got good visibility and countless allies.

It's practically impossible to attack Yu--

Crap!

Ooh! Persistent. I like it.

Seems like I shook them off.

An abandoned cottage

It's broken.

Which means, it only locks from the outside.

Shinji never comes to school during the day.

And when I sneaked into his

room earlier, it was eerily dark.

It's flimsy logic.

But the supernatural powers of the enemies of

humanity can't be easily explained with logic.

My theory is unconfirmed, but maybe

if I can hide from them until sunrise

Or perhaps

run from them?

I can't let myself do that!

My loss here would be an admission that

the Talented can subjugate the Talentless.

If my theory is unconfirmed,

I need to stand my ground until I confirm it.

Okay!

Found you.

You were trying to barricade yourself

in there. Just like a zombie movie.

Nana. Sweetie,

this cottage is like a straw house to Shinji.

Then he's welcome to come in.

So you've got a trap set up, right?

Aw, what should I do?

It's almost morning.

I don't want to risk Nana hurting my Shinji.

Mornings don't work for you?

Then maybe you should hurry up and attack me.

Didn't you check under the bed?

I'm already attacking you.

Oh dear. Ran out of time.

It's sunlight

That's right. I have to keep

them away from the sunlight.

That way, I can animate them

and channel their senses.

I'm impressed.

Any normal person wouldn't have

provoked me to attack like you did.

You've got ba*ls.

I'm gonna be more careful from now on.

So, you're not coming in?

I'm wounded. And the door is unlocked.

Yeah, I'd totally attack you without my army!

No one's here to have my back.

It's much smarter to just lock you

in here and come back for you tonight.

All the tools you could use to

escape are outside, you know?

I'm sure you tried to reinforce

your fortress, but that backfired.

I think I'll take a nice

hot bath and go to school!

God dammit!

Sorry to interrupt your nap,

but is Hiiragi absent?

Oh, you mean Nana?

I'm not sure, but we were

up late last night talking.

Talking? About what.

Oh, just girl-talk. Why?

Never mind. As long as she's okay.

Your necklace is about to come off.

The clasp is wide open.

Ohhh, thanks.

Incidentally, what's "girl-talk"?

Uhh, it's like

I need to get out of here fast.

When the sun sets, the zombies might wake up.

Okay then.

Wonder how she's doing?

Be careful. She might charge at us.

Yeah, the most dangerous

part is opening the door.

Shinji, do your thing.

Hey, Nana?

Ready to give up, sweetie?

She's gone.

Is she under the bed?

Is there any other place she could be hiding?

You locked the door, right?

Yeah.

Maybe she could have broken

the door down from the inside?

Well let's run a simulation and find out.

Well?

I don't think she could've done it.

Not even an adrenaline rush could've helped.

The lattice is still on the window, too.

Maybe she dug through the floor?

Oh, I know!

That was a close call.

I was right. She didn't run away.

What do you mean?

I mean, look. She was lying

in wait, ready to pounce.

Right, Nana?

Wh-What's going on?

Not sure.

So what, she escaped?

Calm down. Animate the

bodies and we'll find her.

How did she escape?

Don't tell me the

mind-reading thing was a lie

Does she have some other power?

What do you think, Shinji?

I'll k*ll that b*tch.

I've done nothing wrong.

If Nana wants to k*ll me,

if she's trying to tear Shinji and me apart

Good morning, sweetie.

Don't!

Wh-What do you want with that thing?

I use this necklace to animate Shinji!

I wondered why you blabbed

so freely about your weakness.

Necromancers need relics.

Relics that the corpses touched in life--

that part is probably true.

I did see you animate Tsunekichi.

And there's often a grain of truth behind a lie.

However I noticed something.

Your necklace falls off too easily.

If it were truly important,

you would have repaired the faulty clasp.

And last night, when I tried to steal it,

you guarded your back pocket, not the necklace.

Your knee-jerk reaction exposed your lie.

But I never imagined it

would be something this pathetic.

I don't want to cause a scene here.

If you want this back, come with me.

Bring Shinji. Get a move on.

What's wrong?

The sun is out. You can't

animate anyone, regardless.

You have no choice but to obey.

What are you going to do to us?

You still don't seem to understand.

This is just like the time you fake-slept

to ambush me except our roles reversed.

What power did you use?

Power?

How did you escape from that cottage?

The doors were locked. You couldn't

have climbed out the window either.

I walked out the front door.

What?! But I rammed that door

and couldn't get it to budge!

I rigged it before you got there

to give myself a fighting chance to win.

You rigged it?

I did see you'd reinforced

the door before I got there, but

I didn't reinforce the door

to barricade myself inside.

It's just as you said,

that cottage wouldn't have withstood

an attack from your hoard of zombies.

No way Then, what did you do?

I could've caught you.

I wanted you to catch me.

To see me cower in terror from the zombies,

and desperately try to reinforce

the door to keep myself safe.

But, though you wouldn't have guessed it,

I was actually unscrewing the hinge.

Nice sleight of hand, right?

When you locked the door,

you thought I was trapped inside.

But the door was never locked.

It was taped.

Opening the door required zero force.

With just a little tap from the inside,

I easily pushed the lock off.

You hid the missing screws with tape?

So that I wouldn't notice?

Since I thought you might stand watch,

I stayed still until class started.

Once outside, I used those tools

to screw the lock back on properly.

Then, after biding my time in the mountains,

I returned to the dorms close to nightfall.

Wait a minute!

So you're saying, you knew

I would lock you in the cottage?

I needed to see if my theory was correct.

If the sunlight hindered your abilities.

If I trapped myself in a cottage

that locks from the outside,

there was a good chance,

I'd get trapped for real.

But there was also a chance,

I could lead you to believe I was trapped.

I figured you would feel uneasy

and angry that you lost me,

and that you would be tired

from all those steep trails.

That's why I feared two possible outcomes:

One, that you would attack

without waiting for morning.

Two, that the sunlight wouldn't

actually stop the zombies.

Theorizing can only take me so far, you know.

You put your life in danger

to test your theories?

To find out how I control corpses,

my weakness everything?

B-But,

so you found out my weakness, okay.

But what if I hadn't gone back

to the dorm this morning?

Or what if I'd come back at

night when Shinji could move?

You're dangerous at night,

but by day, with your relic-dependency,

you're weaker than the Talentless.

So I hid until I had my chance to strike

by any means necessary.

By any means necessary?

I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!

I'll do anything you ask!

And I won't tell anyone about what you're doing.

I'll even help you, however I can!

So please!

Please give that give Shinji back to me!

Do you have my needle case?

Yeah.

Toss it at my feet.

No!

I'm a cat person.

I don't need another dog.

No You're evil You're so evil!

Okay, so I did try to k*ll you,

but you attacked me first! I was just scared!

I just wanted to be with Shinji

That's all I ever wanted!

I don't really care whether your story

is true, so you don't have to answer,

but where did you put your drink?

Huh?!

That tea you bought at concessions.

When you sat down, where was it?

In the arm rest thingie? Why does it matter?!

That's a lie.

The boy to your right spilled

his drink on your skirt.

Shinji angrily jumped up on your left,

spilling his juice on you.

In other words, the boy on your right

used your right armrest,

and the boy on your left used

your left armrest for his drink.

Which means, you had no place to put your tea.

I probably just mis-remembered

Oh! Yeah, I might've held

onto my tea the whole time.

Really? Well, whatever.

You also mentioned clinging onto

Shinji since the opening credits.

But whatever.

Incidentally, did you guys wear your

school uniforms on weekend dates?

When you saw Shinji's corpse,

you said his uniform collar looked tight.

Meaning, the day of the fire,

Shinji was wearing a gakuran uniform.

N-No

That day, we right! It was a weekday!

We went after school.

Really? I don't really care.

Though you did say something

about crepes at a farmer's market.

I always thought farmers

markets were weekend things.

Wh-What are you trying to say?

Shinji's relic was a piece of

the 98% test he ripped up.

That surprised me.

I assumed it'd be something more

romantic like his uniform button.

It was enough to make me suspect

it was a fake, just like the necklace.

But it was real. You picked up that

piece of trash and kept it as a memento.

Hard to believe a test scrap

would be a relic for your boyfriend.

But it really was.

N-No You're lying.

Just who's lying, you filthy stalker?!

Why did you make us believe

your powers were switched?

Why did you make a fake necklace-relic

to conceal how Shinji really died?

No! I didn't You're wrong! You're wrong!

What secret were you so desperate to hide?

No! I didn't k*ll him!

I just started the fire!

It's all that wh*re's fault!

I did nothing wrong.

That pervert stole Shinji from me.

They'd eat crepes together.

She's so stupid she spilled juice on him.

I wanted to rescue Shinji from her.

If he died, I could make him mine.

I would have loved

a different relic, but he hated me.

He wouldn't let me near him.

I should've just stolen

something better from him,

then it would never have come to this

Why did I only pretend to throw this away?

Yuka Sasaki

Potential k*ll Count:

500,000+

If my reasoning had been off

and Yuka was actually innocent,

would I have spared her?

Yeah, right.