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Episode Summary of Fushigi Yuugi--VIII
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Keisuke (or was it Tetsuya?) informs Miaka that Mitsukake has died and Hotohori is dying. She speaks to Ho-ri-sama through the book and begs him to live. It's here that we discover that Houki is pregnant, and Hotohori promises that he'll live long enough to see his son's birth. But he dies anyway, with fond memories of his time with Miaka and the other seishi.
Yui phones Miaka and tells her to meet her at school. When Miaka does, she confronts Yui about her actions. She tells Yui that Nakago did not rape her but was only manipulating her for his own gains. She shows Yui a letter written by Okuda Einusuke revealing how his daughter, the former Genbu no Miko, was in the process of being consumed by Genbu. Yui is a little shocked by this and insists it's a lie, running off. But after she leaves she notices that her arm has begun to grow blue scales...kind of like a dragon, perhaps...
Tamahome writes Miaka a goodbye note as he prepares to return to the book world. Fortunately she gets back home just as he's about to leave and they have a sappy--er, I mean, sweet goodbye. She shows him two rings she bought earlier that day and Tamahome says that he wants to marry her, the way they do things in her world. So they exchange rings and vow their eternal love for one another; and from that point forward, as far as they're concerned, they're married.
Nakago returns to Kotou and confronts the emperor there. Even though the emperor begs for his life, offering Nakago power, riches, anything he'd like, Nakago makes short work of disposing of him. Finally he goes and buries Soi (he's been carrying around her body this whole time; laying her down while he fights, then picking her back up again when he's finished). Then he travels to Yui and Miaka's world.
Keisuke, reading the Shi Jin Ten Chi Sho outside of Miaka's room, realizes that Big Trouble is afoot, so he informs the two lovebirds and basically they hold their breath and wait.
Nakago approaches Yui, who by now has realized to her dismay that Miaka was right all along. She confronts Nakago about this, blaming him for setting her against her best friend, but Nakago says that all he did was encourage emotions she was already feeling. After all, she did become Seiryuu no Miko of her own free will. Nakago asks for the wish Yui promised him, Yui runs off, and Nakago begins to trash the place.
Here Tamahome confronts Nakago, and Nakago begins to beat up on him. It's not looking good, and Tamahome is pretty much prepared to die. Tokyo is not holding up well under Nakago's attacks; fires have started to blaze and it's difficult for Miaka, Keisuke, and Tetsuya to get to where the action is due to police barricades. Nakago is kicking Tamahome's behind, and finally he sends him flying through a building and...Tamahome doesn't get up.
Miaka and Yui reunite and Nakago tells Miaka of Tamahome's fate. Again, he asks Yui for his wish to be granted; to become a god with eternal life. Otherwise, he'll kill Miaka and destroy their world. Yui says farewell to Miaka, makes her wish, and is consumed by Seiryuu.
Keisuke's crying to see the hero of the book die, and in desperation he calls on their last hope; Tasuki and Chichiri. They are standing over Hotohori's body in his palace paying their last respects when this voice calls to them from the sky. "Hold on to Miaka's backpack and concentrate!" So they do, and they are transported to Miaka and Yui's world. WAI! Action time!
It's still a lopsided battle; Tasuki and Chichiri haven't got their seishi powers and Nakago's convinced he's a god. So he's still tearing into them pretty badly. Suddenly a red glow eminates from Miaka and the three seishi hear the Suzaku summoning spell being chanted. Apparantly Yui's wish was for Miaka to be able to call Suzaku! When she's finished, Tasuki's and Chichiri's powers are restored and they fight Nakago back. But he's *still* way more powerful.
Miaka's first wish: To bring her Yui-chan back. Yui appears from the sky, floating in a bubble, and Tetsuya catches her as she lands.
Nakago starts hurling debris at Miaka but they are
intercepted before they land...by Nuriko! Other debris is deflected by Hotohori, and
Chiriko and Mitsukake also appear to help!
Meanwhile, Tamahome is off in never-never land, having a near-death experience when he's
eventually jolted out of it. So he gets up and starts fighting Nakago again, with all the
seishi offering their chi to help give him power. And still Nakago is more powerful.
Chiriko comes up with the idea to seal Seiryuu into the scroll that Taiitsu-kun gave him, and so Miaka's second wish is to seal Seiryuu (note that at this point she is not consumed by Suzaku, nor does it appear that she will be). Immediately Nakago's seishi symbol disappears, presumably along with his powers. Tamahome races up to punch Nakago and now with his own added strength, he punches straight through Nakago's chest.
This invasion of Nakago causes Tamahome to see glimmers of Nakago's past: the attempted extermination of his race by the Kotou empire; his mother's rape by Kotou's soldiers when he was 11 (10?); her death caused by the violent awakening of his seishi powers; his abuse at the Kotou's emperor's hands; and his vow to gain revenge on the heaven that caused his hell. Nakago is mortified by his defeat and Tamahome's knowing his past, and Tamahome sheds tears of both joy and sorrow for his fallen enemy, as Nakago fades from existance.
The dead seishi, who had possessed the bodies of the Nyan-Nyans in order to fight, leave their hosts and Miaka makes her final wish; to restore the world to normal. At this, everyone begins to fade and Miaka is left alone, with the book lying on the ground in front of her.
Later, Miaka and Yui write their high school entrance exams and both get into Yatsubadsi school (not Jonan Academy as they were aiming for). Yui still has Nakago's stud earring; for some reason it has not disappeared. She keeps it to remind her of past faults...
Keisuke meets up with the high school students and tells Miaka that there is a new student at his university, one who remembers being one of seven destined to protect a girl. One who promised to be reunited with her at any cost. A young man looking eerily like Tamahome comes into view, and he is wearing Tamahome's wedding ring. Miaka begins to cry as he says, "Finally, finally I've found you."
THE END
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