Kannagi (かんなぎ)

Got it!

Whoa, it's huge!

Eew, yuck.

Wait until Tsugumi sees this!

You don't have to tell me

From the first moment we met

Glistening with sweat... baby face

You can't suppress that pounding heart

So you hide behind false pride

Breaking the speed limit... DRIVING

You can't even bring yourself to hold my hand

But you act tough and say "Follow me!"

Always in over your head, that's why I love you!

You're still so bland

The way you kiss is also bland

Why don't you take off those worn trousers

And just take the plunge?

Even so, you're still so bland

So this must be true love!

Wake up and see!

Just for you, I'll show you a hot un... deux... trois!

Gently...

Hard day's night game

I'm going to melt...

Episode One The Shrine Maiden

Episode One The Shrine Maiden It's finished!

It's finished!

Finally, after an all-nighter...

It's done!

I'm going to call it the Sacred Tree Spirit Statue.

All right!

Wait... Oh, crap! I'm gonna be late!

It's heavy...

Can't haul it by foot.

I wonder what Daitetsu will think of it.

I think I kind of understand now.

To carve out what you see inside the wood...

What?!

But what a magnificent human form I've manifested into!

What's going on here?

Why was I summoned into this vessel?

I don't understand.

Oh... This has been a shock for you.

Why, you poor thing!

Just sit still until you calm down.

There, there... Don't be afraid!

That was good.

Even though it was cheap.

Um...

I have a lot of...

...no, tons of questions I'd like to ask you...

Hey, that's my line.

But I suppose you can go first.

After all, I'm generous. You may speak.

Um...

You see, I've always been able to sense spirits.

But this is the first time I've ever seen one so clearly, you know.

Um... By any chance... Would you be a ghost?

Well, no, I mean...

Do you happen to be a Tree Spirit?

Surely it can't have come to this.

To put me in the same class as evil spirits...

Are you out of your mind?!

I never dreamed that my progeny's spirituality was in such shambles...

Fine, then.

It's time for a lesson.

First of all, what do you know of the Guardian Tree?

What do I know? That it's a sacred tree...

A sacred tree, just as it's written, is a tree of the gods.

A divine vessel.

A genius loci has descended into that nagi tree, you see.

The genius loci is the guardian spirit of this land.

All living things, every last of one them, are born form this genius loci.

And that genius loci is none other than I.

You could say I am a mother of the earth, a goddess!

Do goddesses really pop out so randomly?

Now then, my turn to ask questions. Do goddesses really pop out so randomly?

Now then, my turn to ask questions.

Tell me, what was that vessel?

Vessel?

The vessel I manifested into.

That human-shaped receptacle, remember?

Oh...

That was my wood sculpture.

But why would that have been so comfortable?

No idea...

Maybe because I carved it out of the sacred tree?

What?

You'd better be telling the truth!

If you're lying, I'll lay a curse on you!

Okay, but how come you don't know anything about it?

It was cut down recently, you see.

They're re-zoning the area, so this shrine...

...it's going to be merged with a nearby shrine.

A friend of mine gave me the wood from the sacred tree.

I was going to enter my sculpture in the local festival.

I used to play here all the time as a kid,

so it was a shock to me when I found out.

Come to think of it, haven't we met here before, years ago?

You ungrateful little brat!

Heinous... what a heinous act!

To chop down a sacred tree and carve it into a wood sculpture!

That's the same thing as divine dismemberment!

Divine Dismemberment That's the same thing as divine dismemberment!

That's the same thing as divine dismemberment!

Heinous... what a heinous act...

This is no time to be singing nonchalantly!

I had no idea things had come to this while I slept!

How terrifying local administration is!

Sleeping, huh? How terrifying local administration is!

Sleeping, huh?

Don't you remember?

It was here, long ago, that we...

I have no recollection of such a thing!

What do you think will happen if the Guardian Tree is felled?

The sacred land will lose its protection...

What will become of my beloved progeny?

This land will grow unstable, and calamity shall prevail.

Who can hold such disaster at bay?

Oh, the shame!

What am I supposed to do, when I am no more than a split-spirit?

Uh... um... What am I supposed to do, when I am no more than a split-spirit?

A bug! By your feet.

Do you see that, unbeliever?

This is an impurity!

Until now it was suppressed by the sacred tree,

but now it's become active!

It's no use looking at me like that now...

Don't even think of laying a hand on this impurity.

It can't be grasped by a human hand,

and you'll only be tainted anyway, though not as much as me.

Ugh, that's gross!

What in the world?

World... world... world...

Uh...

Do you want something to eat?

I don't have any holy offerings on hand...

I'll go out and get something.

Here I am, a goddess,

and I have no way of countering the impurities of the land.

And I've lost face because an unbeliever had to save me...

A goddess, you say?

That bug just now... I'm the one who got rid of it, remember?

Splat!

That impurity returned to the earth, nothing more.

Given time, it will surely rise again as another impurity.

It's one thing for someone who's undergone training,

but a human can't possibly touch an impurity.

So who are you, exactly?

I can sense spirits, so maybe it's because of that.

I really don't understand this.

The world is full of things I don't understand!

Let me think a bit.

Don't talk to me now.

Hey! I don't like it so quiet.

Do you mind if I turn on the TV?

Did you say TV?

Yes.

Wait! I want to watch! Yes.

Wait! I want to watch!

Huh? But...

Is that it? Huh? But...

Is that it?

Is that it? Hey, but... Hold on a second!

Hey, but... Hold on a second!

Oh, just let me have it.

Hmm... So you press one of these?

Like this... Click!

Magical Girl Lolikko Cutie!

I will uproot all evil!

Ah... So this is what I've been hearing about.

The pictures are moving!

How exactly does this device work?

Go ahead, keep on watching.

In the name of love and justice!

Take that! Magical Funny Stone!

You like that show? Take that! Magical Funny Stone!

The scales have fallen from my eyes! Take that! Magical Funny Stone!