[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Cold opens don't come much colder than this. A high school student lies in a hospital bed, reduced to hysteria at the thought of what someone told him four days ago. He's going to die today, and he knows it, because the same thing has already happened to many of his classmates. He's surrounded by his family, who try to assure him everything will be okay, but there's nothing they, or anyone else can do, and sure enough, his life is cut short right there in that bed, to the horror of his family, as well as Ichijou, who was in the adjacent hallway, unaware as the person responsible for all of this passes by him without notice. These are going to be some pretty heavy episodes.

I was thinking about it being somebody else with the scene played out in lengths, but is actually just a victim scene. And totally didn't know at first what was he talking about. Both parts ended when I saw Ichijou and Jaraji outside.

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

They aren't entirely without their moments of levity, though. This is chiefly provided by Yuusuke.

Why Yusuke just claim he borrows the bike... And now Nana has imitated Yusuke's thumbs-up, but hasn't used it with its true purpose yet. Yusuke should teach her to use that for good. That kid is just selfish to fight over something that doesn't meet what he wants. But yeah... no scolding involved here. That moment usually would make the kids be scolded for what they do.

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Back on Ichijou's end, it's a much more grim situation.

So it's hopeless compared to the previous ones of sudden deaths, that the objects killing them are never occured outside, unlike the needles before. For this time though... only the doctor side (Tsubaki) can properly decipher the reasons of the deaths. Even if it's a problem for the cops, I wonder why none of the mysterious Grongi killing here scares people as worse as this before.... I guess because Jaraji focuses on one place (the high school) instead of random civilians?

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Sakurako is helping out on that front by heading over to Nagano to take a look at something relating to a massacre that recently happened there.

So this time Ichijou asks Sakurako's help... in investigating instead of the translations. Can't say anything else other than her meeting Sakurai. I usually can't get the Grongi scenes because of the different language, except for the scenery like the rose tattoo one here.

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Ichijou and Yuusuke head off to protect Kazuya, the sole suspected target of the recent killings who hasn't had any contact with the mysterious perpetrator yet, currently held up in a house in the middle of nowhere with his parents, hoping to avoid his notice. It's obviously not that simple, though, and he gets to the family before the heroes can. It's a very tense sequence straight out of a horror movie, and yet, what's most horrifying of all is this monster's response when asked why he's doing all this. His name is Go-Jaraji-Da, his motif is a porcupine, and his goal is to make people suffer as much as possible, because it's fun.

Kuuga manages to get there before he can do the family any (physical) harm, which leads to some great bike action, including a bit where he changes to Dragon Form and breaks off a random branch from a tree to use as his weapon. It's barely over a minute of action before the episode is over, but it's a cool way to close out the first part.

I really thought this time Kazuya's family would be killed, like many of the victims in the previous episodes, but not this time. Kazuya's father somehow can legally own a gun... but alas, he never know how ineffective it is against Grongis like what we saw from the cops. And yeah Kuuga's ability to turn things into weapon is versatile as shown here with picking any objects near you to use. I wonder if (Rising) Dragon can use 2 Dragon Rods too.