Witch Hunter Robin - Episode Thirteen: The Eyes of Truth
Version: 1.0
Date: March 14, 2004
Air Date: September 24, 2002
Summary by: Kala Mekiv (orbo@vauss.com)
Website: http://usuyami.vauss.com/

Distribution of this summary is FORBIDDEN without 
permission from either Kala Mekiv or Shinji 
(csdiaz@edisto.cofc.edu).

Author's Note: Eh... lots of the same ish as from episode 12.  
This is the part where the ball really gets rolling.  And it's 
all leading up into the turning point of the series.  Bwahahaha. 
Again, if there's any differences between what I put here and 
what was said on AS/the third DVD, I apologize.  I'm working 
once again off of Rice-Box fansubs. :P

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Amon sits in his car with Robin late at night, both apparently 
waiting around for someone.  Robin fights to keep herself from 
dozing off, as she looks at still fully-awake Amon sitting in 
the driver's seat. Amon glances over to the dashboard clock, and 
comments that someone is 20 minutes late. He steps out of the 
car as another car approaches and Robin follows him.

Amon opens the door, asking if the older man in the backseat is 
Inquisitor Koushon and introduces himself as a member of STNJ.  
Koushon doesn't seem to pay attention to Amon as he exits the 
car, carrying a strange suitcase with him.  Amon offers to carry 
the Inquisitor's belongings, but once again Koushon pays no mind 
to him.  

"The air feels... heavy..." Inquisitor Koushon murmurs.  Robin 
gives the Inquisitor a funny look before she looks up into the 
pre-dawn sky.  

[OP]

Sakaki and Michael work together on finding information out on 
the Inquisitor who recently came to Japan, while Karasuma sleeps 
nearby.  Their bickering ends up waking her up, and she wonders 
what is going on.  They tell her it's nothing, and Karasuma 
tells them to stop looking at weird websites.  Sakaki says they 
aren't like Kosaka. (AN: :PPPP)  The scene switches over to 
Kosaka's desk, where a letter is taped onto the chief's monitor.

Karasuma looks over Michael's shoulder, wondering why they are 
looking for information on Inquisitors and if it's the same 
inquisitor who is stopping by the office later in the day.  
Sakaki replies that they wanted to do further research on him, 
since they never get information on such things.  Michael 
eventually gives up, unable to gather any information due to the 
security put in place. Karasuma tells them it's due to a Witch 
Inquiry that is going to be conducted--the interviewing and 
observation process that determines whether a witch can be 
trained as a hunter.  Sakaki wonders who it could be, and 
Karasuma tells him to ask the inquisitor himself.  Michael 
mentions that they could find out who is being "inquired" by 
tracing information on a particular witch.  Sakaki wonders if he 
can try, while Karasuma wonders, "Heresy Inquiry, eh?"

Amon and Robin drive towards St. Sebastian Church, where the 
Inquiry will be taking place.  Robin is startled when the 
inquisitor asks Amon to stop after a traffic light.  Amon tries 
to talk him out of leaving the car, but the Inquistior remains 
firm with his decision.  The inquisitor leaves the car, 
examining a stone on the ground and murmuring in an unknown 
language as Robin watches him with confusion.  As the inquisitor 
walks away, she takes a closer look at the stone and notices an 
N-shaped rune carved into it.

Zaizen walks into the STNJ offices, asking Michael if he is the 
only one in the building.  Michael replies that he is, and 
relays information given to him by Amon.  The inquisitor was 
taken to a lodging church and is ready to begin tine inquiry, 
while Karasuma and Sakaki have gone off to gather the witch 
(Masuda Shiro) facing the inquiry--the one whose files currently 
sit on Michael's desk.  Michael wonders by what means the 
inquisitor found the subject.  Zaizen explains that inquisitors 
employ very different methods to find these subjects--something 
similar to what was done during the Middle Ages--and orders the 
witch's files to be sent over to him at once.

"To see if that person can be used as a hunter or not... We can 
determine up to a certain point with AI, but the final decision 
has to be made by a human," Karasuma explains the process of how 
a witch may become one of the STN's feared witch hunters as she 
looks at the picture of Masuda.  "The inquisitors are the ones 
with the power to make the final decision."

"In other words," Sakaki replies. "The way a person thinks 
determines whether we recruit them or hunt them." Karasuma looks 
at a small map on her communicator, and tells Sakaki that this 
is the place where they will find Masuda.

The Inquisitor sets up his inquiring machine, preparing for his 
interview with Masuda.  Robin walks up and watches, as the 
inquisitor says "You came, just as I expected."  He invites her 
to have a closer look at the machine...

Karasuma and Sakaki trick Masuda into coming with them by 
pretending to be magazine salespeople.  Masuda is frightenened 
by the letter Karasuma shows him from STNJ...

The inquisitor explains to Robin that the inquiring machine 
isn't really necessary, and Robin replies that her inquiry only 
consisted of words.  He is amused by her feelings towards her 
own inquiry, asking if she thought of it as nothing more than 
words.  

"Do you remember the symbol I gave you when you were Inquired by 
me?" he asks Robin. "Hagaru's 8 Fruits--a sacred ceremony 
connected to Craft's secret technique.  But, that is also a 
forbidden fruit. By granting them the power of god and the 
allurement to separate lambs into angels and corrupted angels--"

"God's power, Shiva." Robin interjects as the rune scratched 
upon the stone she saw earlier flashes before the screen, then 
scrolls off with several other glowing runes. The inquistor 
proceeds to tell Robin about her inabilty to properly understand 
the true identify of the Fruits of Knowledge (Hagaru's 8 Fruits, 
I assume?), Amon interrupts him to announce the arrival of 
Masuda.  The inquisitor tells him that they will start 
immediately with the inquiry.

Michael calls Zaizen's office to inform him that the inquiry is 
about to begin.  Zaizen acknowledges him, and asks for a 
simultaneous broadcast to be sent to his office.  Zaizen's 
screen lights up with an aerial view of the hallway where the 
Inquisitor holds Masuda's inquiry.

Amon and Robin also watch from a nearby room in the church as 
the Inquisitor fiddles around with the inquiring machine, 
preparing to begin his inquiry.

[Eyecatch]

The inquistor begins by discussing a case the police came across 
two years earlier that involved a crushed corpse found in the 
center of Tokyo.  Masuda's head remains bowed as the inquisitor 
continues, informing him that due to extensive damage inflicted 
upon the corpse the authorities had no choice but to close the 
case, denouncing it as nothing more than an accident.  Masuda 
eventually gets tired of Koushon's diatribe, wanting to know 
what his point is.  Koushon says that Masuda knowns exactly what 
the corpse was crushed with, but Masuda says he has no idea what 
he's talking about.

Koushon slides a card with a rune on it down to Masuda, calling 
it the Stone Axe of Hagaru.  He explains that he used it to free 
his power according to the book of Gematoria.  Masuda begins 
breathing heavily as he begins to panic.  He demands to know who 
Koushon is, but Koushon avoids the question by saying Masuda 
freed the evil which resides in Masuda's heart.  Masuda begins 
to chant "No... no... no..." as Koushon asks him if he enjoyed 
crushing humans with his newly released powers.

"You're wrong!" Masuda yells.  "That wasn't it!" He has 
flashbacks of being attacked by the crushed man moments before 
he accidently used his powers against the human.  "I just wanted 
to protect myself.  I just wanted to run away!" Koushon doesn't 
buy into Masuda's story of killing in self-defense, commenting 
on how convenient words can be at times.  Masuda's flashback 
shows how he crushed his attacker's head, much like one would 
crush an empty soda can, and says that the man wasn't "human."

Koushon replies, "You're allowed to kill because he wasn't 
human.  Was he really trying to kill you?"

"If I didn't kill him, I would have been killed!" Masuda 
retorts, but his words fall on deaf ears.  Koushon tries to 
convince Masuda that he killed the man simply because he could 
and not for self-defense, while Masuda denies it.  "Death was 
always around you, wasn't it?"

"That wasn't me!" Masuda cries out as he has flashbacks from his 
past, where animals who approached him would suddenly fall down 
dead and crushed. "I am not a monster!"

"You demanded God's power," Koushon simply replies.  "And became 
the servant of heresy." Masuda asks the inquisitor if he really 
believes he became a heretic, and Koushon tells him that he did 
it of his own free will.  He begins to demand Masuda to show him 
"[his] true self."  

The voiceover of Masuda chants "I'm not a monster!" over and 
over, while Masuda says aloud, "My power... my true power..." 
Eventually, it becomes too much for Masuda as he struggles with 
himself to keep from lashing out against Koushon, and he loses 
control of himself.  He tries to crush Koushon with his 
powers...

Robin rises from her seat, calling Amon's name.  Amon tells her 
to relax. 

Masuda is sagged in his chair, saying he didn't want to kill the 
man.  Koushon signs, removing a strange pair of glasses that he 
fiddled with throughout the interview and declares the Inquiry 
over.  Amon rises, telling Robin to follow, as Masuda sits 
before Koushon with his head bowed, murmurring "I didn't mean to 
kill anyone..."

Amon and Robin discuss the Inquiry later as they do survelliance 
detail outside of Masuda's apartment complex.  Robin is 
surprised that Masuda put up with the Iniquiry, but Amon replies 
he only did so at the church and it cleared the evil intentions 
from his heart--at least, according to Koushon.

"Everyone has some amount of evil in their heart," Robin 
comments.

"That may be true, but there is a difference between grey evil 
and pitch black evil," Amon answers.  Before Robin can continue, 
Amon spots Masuda leaving his apartment and notifies Michael. 
Michael warns them to be careful while pursuing Masuda.

Masuda wanders around the downtown area while Amon and Robin 
follow him in the car.  As she watches him, Robin has a 
flashback of herself dressed as a nun in Italy, stopped in the 
middle of a dirt road and gazing at something.  

"Overwhelming power will guide people to eternal darkness," 
Koushon tells the young witch during Robin's inquiry.  "That's 
why we need a person with lots of endurance."

"The one whose power awakens must endure any treatment received 
from others?" Robin asks.  

"If that person wants to keep on living in this world, that is." 
Koushon replies.  "But in the end, that's impossible.  When 
asked by Robin what they should do, Koushon tells her, "You 
should already know.  You must throw away everything and entrust 
everything to us."

"I didn't ask for a witch's power," Robin calmly informs 
Koushon.

"Then why do you use that power?" Koushon retorts.  Robin is at 
a loss for words as she murmurs that she doesn't know, looking 
off to one side.  Something catches her eye, and she looks back 
over to where Koushon sat, only to find the chair empty.

Robin snaps back into the present by listening to Michael 
telling Amon that Masuda hasn't had a stable job for nearly two 
years.  Amon is surprised, and comments that Masuda's Craft 
started to appear around that time.  Michael is in disbelief, 
and Amon replied that Solomon purposely made him detached from 
society--and would go that far just to get a new hunter.  

Koushon eats freshly made Ramen at a street vendor's cart.  He 
takes notice of the black car passing by.

Masuda leaves a convenience store after buying some food. As 
luck would have it, he walks by three punks crouched outside of 
the store who are playing with a cell phone.  One is griping 
about how high his phone bill is this month, and comments that 
he wishes he could find a wallet filled with money on the ground 
as he watches Masuda walk away. 

A little while later, the gang jumps Masuda as he eats dinner in 
a park.  They take turns kicking and beathing him, while Masuda 
asks them what he has done to upset them.  Amon notices the 
fight, sensing something isn't right with the situation, and 
stops the car.

The "barrier" set on Masuda's power (from the card Koushon slid 
to him during the Inquiry)  finally breaks as he struggles to 
keep from attacking the gang, murmuring that they drove him to 
use it as he begins to crush the leader.  Robin yells for him to 
stop and tries to tell the others to run away.  The other two 
men start to run after watching their friend get "vaporized" by 
Masuda's power, calling Masuda a monster.  He crushes and 
vaporizes another man after Amon attempts to distract him.

Robin (now wearing her glasses) looks over at Masuda.  
"You're..."

Amon sits up and fires several Orbo bullets towards Masuda, but 
he stops from before they can even scratch him and uses his 
Craft to knock the gun out of Amon's hands.  He starts to crush 
Amon when Robin uses her Craft to light a flame in front of him.

"Is it that much fun to crush people?" Robin asks him. Her mind 
flashes back to the rune Koushon found earlier in the episode.  
"A fallen angel..." she whispers, as she gazes at Masuda.  
Masuda starts to attack Robin, but she deflects it using her own 
Craft.

"I won't forgive you..." she whispers before incinerating Masuda, 
using her Craft with a magnitude that Amon had never seen her 
display before.  A single tear falls down her face as she 
watches Masuda burn.

Koushon turns around to see Robin's work, with a pleased look on 
his face. 

Zaizen explains to Amon later that the stone monument Koushon 
visited before the Inquiry is something left behind from a 
martyr who had been betrayed by his followers--a Witch.  Zaizen 
asks about how Robin is doing, but Amon does not respond.  Amon 
asks if there is something about Robin he should know about, but 
Zaizen says nothing.

Robin walks up to Koushon as he finishes putting away his 
inquiry equipment.  He tells Robin that he is leaving Japan that 
night, and that they will probably never see each other again.

"You seem to have finally awoken as well," Koushon tells Robin 
as he walks away.

Robin takes a few steps forward. "What do you mean?"

Koushon faces Robin quickly for the last time and replies, "The 
pleasures of using the Craft." 

"What are you talking about?" Robin asks silently.  "What are 
you... Inquisitor?"

Amon is shocked by something Zaizen tells him (off-camera).  
"Robin is...?"

[ED]