Vampire Miyu Episode 4 Synopsis

Episode 4: Frozen Time
Released: 1989, April 21
Duration: 30min

Himiko is visiting Kamakura again, to trace back her childhood memory. She remembers that when she was 3, she went into an eerie house on top of a hill, and saw some strange things flying around. She also remembers that she ran away from that house frightened, but can't remember what exactly she happened in between. She arrives to the place where she think she saw the house, and sees no house. So, she dismisses the memory as a dream, and starts to go back, when that exact house appears in front of her. Inside the house, she sees two people sealed upside down. Miyu appears out of nowhere, as usual, and informs Himiko that they are the girl's parents. Himiko, as usual starts to talk to Miyu in scorn way. Looking at her, Miyu seems to noticed something. "There are people who don't change by having their blood drank once. They continue to grow normal, and one day, suddenly their blood, like mine, wake up." Himiko rejects those words, violently. Miyu adds that the way Himiko is talking, she is trying to hard claim that she is human. Miyu knows something about Himiko. Himiko demands to know the past of Miyu. She starts talking. The house they are in, used to be the house that Miyu and her parents lived. She always thought that her parents are different from most people. Once she talked about her future dream to her father, but he denied her future. He was a collector of paintings. Miyu often saw him staring at painting for a long time, making her worry. Then, came the day her blood as vampire woke up, after meeting Larva. She tried to seek counsel of her parents, but she couldn't find a way to start talking about it. "Painting is great, because it can capture the beauty forever." To those father's words, Miyu fired back. " An instant that's different from others, is beautiful." She always liked to stare at the sea, but she was scared of sea at night, because she felt something might take her away, she confessed to her mother. She couldn't talk to her parents at all. She tried to forget about the incident, convincing herself that it was just a dream. But once herblood that has woken up it was hard to keep control. Miyu couldn't control her blood as a vampire. One day one of her schoolmates became the second victim. Her mind sank with the guilt of killing innocent people, and the fear of her transformation into something unknown. Her friend, Akiko, asked depressed and frightened Miyu "do you know something?" Akiko, who romanticized by the idea of eternal life, saw the murder, and asked to check. That night, Larva comforts Miyu who was guilt driven by the murder she had committed. Later, she tried to convince herself that she is human, by holding a cross, and standing in front of mirror. During those turmoils, her eyes changed back and forth between brown and gold, as her blood as human and vampire switched. One day Akiko visits Miyu's house. Akiko knew that Miyu was vampire, and asked Miyu to drink her blood. For Akiko, who dreams of immortal life, Miyu looked like some sort of wizard. Miyu claimed she is human, but Akiko didn't take her seriously, and exposed her neck. Though her mind didn't want to, her blood and body, as vampire couldn't resist the temptation. She drew her lip toward Akiko's neck. "A.. are you serious?" For a moment Akiko showed surprise. Just then, mother cut in, and stops her daughter. That night, Miyu is given a glass of blood, from her mother. Just as she finished drinking the blood, her father entered the room. "They had come..." Chief of Shinma appeared behind father, and sealed the space around. Mother started talking about the true purpose of her people. "We are Shinma. We, who were once feared as both god and demon, left the ground for human, and lived in the bottom of deep darkness. And only one family left behind on the ground, as an observer to ensure that their people's sleep in the darkness go undisturbed. That's us.. " Those Shinma with this duty, handed down the duty from generation to generation. "Tonight, is the night that darkness and Shinma gather. You have to succeed the duty according to the rule of your blood...." Mother told Miyu sadly of her fate. Miyu refused to recognize herself as Shinma, but her body already remembered the feeling of drinking blood. Chief told "your family is not immortal, You grow old and die. So the succession is necessary. In return, you will be free of all the restraint as a vampire, and will given a power to give humans immortality. Not take away life, but to give. That is Shinma." Then he tried to proceed with baptism of Miyu, extending his tentacles. Frightened girl clung onto her mother. Mother ran with her daughter, to get away from the tentacles. Larva assisted the escape, making a way for his master and her mother an escape route. Miyu's father kept on standing where he was when the chief appeared. Miyu and her mother ran through a forest, in darkness. Even though she is Shinma, Miyu's mother couldn't stand to see the fate of her daughter. She begged Miyu not to drink blood again. Miyu asked back "Don't all humans want eternal life?" Her mother of the man she loved and drunk his blood because she loved him.. He is Miyu's father. He had became soulless doll as the result. "Because humans have death, they have the beauty of life. Giving eternal life is in essence would giving them misfortune. I'll rescue Miyu from the destiny, even at the cost of my life.." But the vampire in Miyu couldn't control the thirst for blood. She put her fangs on her own mother. She realized that the glassful of blood was her mother's blood. As she cried over her mother's cold body, Shinma caught up with her. Her parents' soul were sealed. As a punishment, Chief gave a task for Miyu. In order to unseal her parents' soul, she must hunt Shinma that escaped from darkness, and return them. Miyu received a restraint. "So, my time was stopped. To accomplish the task even if it takes several hundred years." Though the task is cruel, Miyu's expression is not heavy. Himiko asks if Miyu finishes her task, and her parents' seal breaks, can she go back to original task as an observer.. She answers she will, but she mumbles that she has one thing to say to her mother. Once Miyu's mother gambled her life to prevent Miyu from leading a regrect-filled life which gives immortality to humans by drinking blood. Right now, Miyu is taking the path, contradictory to her mother's wish. Himiko asks what it is that she wants to say to her mother. But without answering, Miyu disappears into darkness.. Then, Himiko wakes up at the roof of hill that the house was located. Was she dreaming? She walks up the hill and sees no house, but then, she recalls what she saw in that eerie house. There was a girl who approached to terrified little Himiko. That was Miyu. She looked exactly like as Himiko saw right now. She can't tell when Miyu got the task, but she saw the vampire girl, long ago. "There are people who don't change by having their blood drank once. They continue to grow normal, and one day, suddenly their blood, like mine, wake up." She recalls what Miyu said. Himiko continued to deny Miyu who drank human blood, to survive, the way Miyu said, insinuated that Himiko, too, has the blood of vampire, just like Miyu. Himiko looks up in the sky, to recall what exactly happened after she saw Miyu in that house. As though enjoying Himiko's confusion, Miyu's giggling echos.

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