Vampire Miyu Episode 3 Synopsis

Episode 3: Fragile Armor
Released: 1988, December 21
Duration: 30min

Himiko is in snowing Kamakura, because Miyu asked her for a help. Miyu appears alone. Himiko agrees to help if Miyu talks about her past. "That's it?" A giant armour appears in front of the two, when Miyu tries to take Himiko somewhere.

Miyu: I can't deal with this guy. Please take care of him, Himiko-san.
She flies away.
Himiko: What?!!

She takes out a double bladed dagger, but the monster's swing breaks a blade. "I guess I can't act like somebody in a manga..." She manages to chase the monster away by chanting sutra. Miyu reappears again. She leads Himiko to a temple, where Larva is sealed on the wall. She tells Himiko that Larva is the only friend she has. She didn't know a thing about Shinma before she met Larva. On the day she met him, she was looking at the beach. He appeared in front of startled Miyu, saying that he crossed the ocean to have her blood to become the chief of Shinma. When he prepared to drink her blood, Miyu's blood as vampire woke up, and Larva was victimized in return. (notice that up to that point, Miyu had brown eyes, but when she became a vampire, her eyes became gold?) Since Larva failed his mission, his face and voice were sealed by the mask that stayed on his face since then. After telling all this, Miyu gives Himiko a picture of the armor they just saw. The girl claims that it is the only clue she has. Himiko immediately starts the search, because she started to feel sorry for Miyu since the last encounter. She traces the path of the armor from antique shops to a house where a husband died and his wife followed him. The house was burnt down the night before, and the police is suspecting an arson. Overhead, unknown to Himiko, some bat-like creature is flying, as though it is keeping Himiko under surveillance. That night, when Himiko is taking a train, a young man approaches to her. Himiko lies that she's a university student, doing a research on armors, when the man shows the exact photo of the armor. The man claims to know the whereabout of the armor. She follows the man to an isolated shrine. The armor appears in front of her. When she tries to chant a sutra, the man covers her mouth, and starts strangling her. He already knew who Himiko is. Just before Himiko looses her consciousness, a fireball hits the man's hand. It's Miyu. She knew Lemures was the one who sealed Larva, but she was having trouble locating him. Himiko realizes what Miyu was doing with her. "YOU USED ME, DIDN'T YOU ??!!." Miyu doesn't answer back. She just smiles to the enraged medium. The armor challenges Miyu. "If you're a Shinma hunter, see if you can hunt me!" Instead of doing so, Miyu shows the armor a fire ball, that shows his memory as human. He was the husband who died in the house Himiko traced to. He was revived by Lemures, with a false memory that he is Shinma. Confused by two contradicting memories, the armor passes out. Miyu looks at Lemures coldly. "In your case, I will not return you to the darkness. I'll burn you down to ashes." Lemures was very close friend of Larva, actually more than friend. He came to Japan to get his friend back. Lemures tries to attack the girl, but she easily evades Lemures's attack. She in return shoots out fire balls, that surround Lemures and engulves him. Just as his body is consumed by fire, Lemures shouts " Larva! How come you got deceived by that girl!" Sealed Larva's eyes grow red, again. "Lemures, Can't you see the sadness in that girl?" While Miyu and Himiko's attentions are paid to dying Lemures, they don't notice that the armor woke up again. It grabs Miyu and starts to crush her body. When Himiko tries cast a spell to the armor, a very familiar black figure flies in, and slashes arms off the armor. Larva's seal was broken. Miyu cuddles to her only friend and servant, who she can open her heart to. She tries to force the armor to remember the memory he forgot. He refuses to admit that he was once a human. He starts walking into the town of Kamakura. Police immediately set up a road block. Larva continuously slashes the body of the armor. Miyu wants the armor to be punished by the law of human, not of Shinma, because he is human. When he sees the red lump, he finally recalls what happened. Miyu explains to Himiko. When the husband of that house died, his wife asked Lemures for his revival. For Lemures to perform the black magic of revival, he needed a soul and a body of living human. The wife donated her body, and the man's soul was revived, using the armor as the new body. Just as he finished recalling his memory, the police squad opens fire to the monster that terrorized the town. "Stop I'm human!!" The armor shouts, as he falls.

Himiko: Why didn't you let him die as Shinma?! There are things that people want to forget!
Miyu: I can't forgive anybody who forgets their sad memories.... Because I never did...
Himiko: Miyu?

Miyu disappears, before Himiko can ask anything more. The snow, that just started to come down, starts covering the body of tragic man..

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