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Episode Title:
Voice of the Roadside Shrine.Episode Description:
Miho overhears a rumour about a roadside shrine filled with moaning voices from a woman on the street, so she asks Rika and Sakura to accompany her to take a look. The shrine appears broken and empty, but there are faint children screams of "Help!" inside that scare Rika and Miho away. Sakura, however, goes to consult Rinne, only to find another man doing so, accompanied by Tsubasa. The man requests Rinne's help as his younger brother Yoshi had begin to injure their faces and develop cat-like traits. From seeing the boy, Rinne finds out that it is actually a cat monster impersonating Yoshi, and has kidnapped him and his two other friends, leaving one more. Uncomfortable that Sakura only asks Rinne for help, Tsubasa attempts to capture the cat monster himself only to be confronted by another, along with the one impersonating Yoshi. He is soon paralysed but Rinne manages to free him. When his scythe breaks and there is no hope left, Sakura and Rokumon consult a cat encyclopedia stating to lure them into the shrine and seal it. Just as Rinne is about to do so with his intriguing staff, the woman from the street appears and pushes Rinne along with the cat monsters into the shrine, releasing the boys, who also reveal that that was the woman that had lured them to open the shrine in the first place. Tsubasa manages to release Rinne and lock the cat monsters away for good using special Holy Ash, and the woman on the street is revealed to be a damashigami, an evil shinigami who takes people to the afterlife whether they are dead or not to fill up their spirit quota. She gets away and it is foreshadowed that the boss of her organisation knows Rinne.
