Garo

Season 2

Episode 10: Secret

While Kouga patiently sits in wait for a dangerous Horror, Reo examines a ceremonial Makai Sword at the Saezima estate. Kaoru learns Reo is searching for a Spirit Beast, not to hunt for its pelt but rather just to see it. Reo explains that seeing a Spirit Beast up close will mean you are blessed. Kaoru convinces a Reo to let her follow and he gives her an elixir to heighten her senses. As he shows her the world as the Makai Priests see it Kaoru encounters all the sights of both the beautiful light qi and the nightmarish dark qi within the city. As they travel Kaoru learns Reo wishes to have the Spirit Beast help him decorate a Makai Brush in his possession. The brush had lost its power and Reo cannot bring himself to dispose it. Kaoru, having figured out that the brush once belonged to somebody close to Reo, desires to have her paintbrush blessed too, Reo eventually agrees and tells her that if she made a beautiful painting of the beast with the paintbrush she should give it to somebody important to her. At the end of the path Reo creates a ritual to make time synch with the time flow of the beast itself and both Reo and Kaoru receive visions of their loved ones (in her case she sees Kouga) while being blessed. However on the way back an Origs, a vicious protector of the Spirit Beast, attacks them and Reo expertly defeats it using the ceremonial blade, much like a Makai Knight. Since Makai Priests are forbidden from learning swordsmanship, Reo swears Kaoru to secrecy, not wanting anyone (particularly Kouga), to know that he can fight with a blade. Kouga, having defeated the Horror and returned home slumps in his study due to the seal making him weak. Once he sees a picture of a Spirit Beast drawn by Kaoru left in his study he looks at it, smiling contentedly.