The silent battle between Akagi and Yagi ensues and nothing else matters except whose judgement in their own actions wavers first. Yagi knows that he cannot beat Akagi fair so he uses a form of cheating called the "caterpillar" in order to utilize the genius Akagi's weakness. As soon as Akagi learns this fatal mistake he decides to counter by taking them for all they've got.

After leaving the town of robots, Casshern meets the first human being of his travels, a man called Akos. Upon learning that the robot community wasn't there anymore, he starts following Casshern around. Akos teaches Casshern about the fragility of humans, and reveals that he is currently under the same situation as he is, running away from his problems. Later, Casshern re-encounters Friender, who wants revenge on him for killing his owners. After being injured by the dog, Casshern decides to give his life to Friender, but the latter spares him and instead joins him in his travels. Akos decides to leave Casshern and Friender, succumbing to a prolonging illness moments later, and dies in the sand. His last words to Casshern are that he is not a Grim Reaper, because he didn't die traveling with him.

A flashback shows when Takumi was a little boy. He couldn't go on a field trip so he wished that no one could go. He drew a picture of a school bus and then he ripped it in half. His mother then receives a call informing her that on the way to the field trip the bus got in an accident and was ripped in half. Takumi thought his wish came true. For days he didn't talk so his mum took him to the doctor. (The flashback now ends.) Takumi goes to the hospital to see the doctor he saw before. He claims that he is sleepwalking so they have him sleep for three hours to see if he gets up. The nurse says that he was not sleepwalking and so Takumi goes home. Rimi goes to the library and meets a strange student. Back at home, Takumi receives an image of him running from the murder while holding a stake. He believes that Shogun took a picture of the future. Misumi brings Takumi to a live concert to see the band Phantasm and their lead singer FES. Takumi notices that FES is looking at him and hallucinates that she is walking towards him. Takumi leaves the concert early and the scene goes to a girl and her mother preparing to move to a new house. Nanami takes Takumi to go buy him a cell phone and then they go eat. At home Takumi goes on the chat room and clicks on a link saying "fourth incident". When he clicks on it, it leads to an auction called Vampire.

Kotaro begins his tests on Chinami. Sonomi notices them together and begins to get jealous.

Elizabeth, Ciel's fiancee, arrives at the Phantomhive Estate for a visit and Ciel learns to dance with her.

Michiko steals some tennis shoes for Hatchin to wear, but Hatchin decides to work in a Chinese restaurant to pay for them. Meanwhile, Michiko looks for clues about Hiroshi's whereabouts.