Sorry I missed yesterday. It got busy. So today I have two episodes for your pleasure:)
The first episode is: The Second Hardship.
The next world our heroes visit is actually one they have already been to: Chu’nyang’s world. It seems the towns people are rather agitated: the witch’s people have been attacking humans and turning them into stones by taking their souls. Sorata is a chief rouser, but Chu’nyang thinks they shouldn’t fight. Fortunately, our heroes show up and keep anything from happening. Our heroes and Chu’nyang find the witch, who has been injured while trying to stop her own people. She changes into a small comb like shape to conserve energy while she heals. However, Arashi, who has care of those turned to stone, sees this. The next day Kurogane is fixing Chu’nyang’s roof again with Fai as manager while the others go into the village. However, few people seem to want much to do with Chu’nyang. Arashi talks with Chu’nyang, but she can’t deceive Mokona who senses her conflicted heart. Arashi then tells them to hurry home before the others go to destroy the witch. Fortunately, Fai and Kurogane are there. Unfortunately, other users of the secret arts are there with the mob. Chu’nyang and the others arrive, and before things escalate too far, the witch turns normal again and takes Syaoran, Kurogane, Chu’nyang, and Sorata with her into the world she is from.
The second episode is: The Secret Arts’ Main Point.
Mokona figures out Chu’nyang’s world is a mirror of the witch’s world. In the other world, the witch explains how after she had killed the lord and was going to kill the lord’s son, but then one of Sakura’s feathers appeared and the lord’s son used it to stop the witch. He then used the feather to gather the souls of humans which he used to control the witch’s people. Add talk about humans attacking, and it’s rather a wonder the witch survived. Kurogane and Syaoran go attack the castle, freeing those under the spell of the lord’s son. Sakura meanwhile uses Chu’nyang’s magic mirror with her own power to take herself, Mokona, and Fai to the witch’s world and she gives Chu’nyang back her mirror. Chu’nyang doesn’t use the secret arts but rather persuasion and a touch of recklessness to convince the witch’s people (who aren’t under the spell) that they are there to help. Syaoran finds the lord’s son a bit difficult to deal with, but in the end he is no match. Kurogane keeps him from escaping and all the witch’s people have now been freed from his spell. Sakura’s father is safely retrieved. Chu’nyang agrees to act as mediator between the two worlds, and Sorata is a convert, ready to tell everyone in his village how much like them the witch’s people are. Our heroes are off to another world:)
