The episode starts out with two kids playing outside and then a Virus appears. Back at the playground, Sumire returns a book to the guy she met in the previous episode to return a book to him. She is terribly infatuated by him. Here he identifies himself as Yoshiki Kusanagi. He loans Sumire another book. At the Venus Vanguard, the girl from the beginning of the episode appears. She browses around at the items in the shop and one of the items catches her attention. Lucia quickly realizes the situation and the girl (Tsukuyo) pulls out the Venus Vanguard brochure.

There is no sense of time between what happened in the last episode and the time of this episode. To me though, it feels like SUmire has quickly befriended Yoshiki in very short time, and obviously is starting to have feelings for him.

She explains that recently, her twin brother has locked himself inside his room and wouldn’t let her in. Lucia decides to go and investigate. Outside the shop, we have the two siblings from the first episode camping outside so that Riku can ask Sumire out on a date. Unfortunately, they end up missing her. over at the house, Lucia convinces the brother, Youji, to let her in. Meanwhile, Lucia tells Sumire to stay in front of the door and not move away no matter what. While Lucia is in Youji’s room, Tsukuyo talks Sumire into going downstairs for food. The moment Sumire moves from the spot, we notice that she just walked off a protective barrier.

Well, I take it that those two siblings are going to be the comic relief for the show. It feels like comic relief in an anime is usually a sign that the series is going to last a while. Which is about time for me anyway, because I haven’t had a chance to see a relatively long series in a long time (besides D.Gray-man and Bleach). Anyway, it’s pretty obvious that Lucia already had an idea that Tsukuyo had something wrong with her. And Sumire is quite ditsy to be tricked into leaving the safety area. But that was Lucia’s fault too, for not telling Sumire about the dangers.

After a loud bang erupts, Lucia bursts out the room and finds Sumire and Tsukuyo gone. Tsukuyo is the Virus and is on the attack against Sumire. Sumire protects herself with a special dagger designed to protect her for the time being until she learns how to fight back with it. Sumire attempts to fight back, but she doesn’t have it in her to hurt Tsukuyo. Lucia rescues Sumire from harm. Youji shows up to try to help out Tsukuyo, but the Virus in her wants to attack him. She tries to hold back the Virus in her body, but is unsuccessful. At that moment, Lucia shoots her down killing her.

Though I skipped most of the details in the above summary, the episode unfolds as to how all of this happened beginning with the two playing and a Virus feeding on Tsukuyo’s soul, leading all the way to Youji locking his room to protect himself from the Virus within Tsukuyo. Kind of creepy if you think about it.

The next day, Sumire is hanging out with Yoshiki again discussing Lucia’s personality. Sumire thinks Lucia is a cold person. At the store, Youji shows up at the Venus Vanguard. Lucia gives him the pendant that Tsukuyo was looking at the day before. The pendant had the image of the sun and the moon on a circular ring to represent that the two always chasing each other. Sumire catches Lucia seeing off Youji in the street. Inside, she notices Lucia blushing.

That was nice of Lucia to give him the pendant. I didn’t even expect the boy to show up either since I already dropped that event as just another weekly situation without any real content. And there really was no content. I didn’t read the manga, so I’m not sure if it’s a filler or not, but sure feels like it. Wait, they did introduce that dagger that Sumire used in the first episode. But that’s about it. The preview for the next episode looks like it will finally get things rolling on this show.