“Lullabies of the Lost (Verse 1)” “Idling One’s Life Away, first verse / Suiseimushi hito yume” (酔生夢死 ひと夢)

Mugen, Jin and Fuu get into a quarrel and separate, and have unexpected encounters; new opponents appear, old grievances return, and Mugen and Fuu meet a mysterious archer.

風と共に Kaze to Tomo ni Along with the Wind

Makoto and Hikari are saved somehow and now Hikari is remembering her meetings with Minamo’s mother and the others. All the pieces are starting to fall into place. Makoto tells Hikari what he said to Minamo when they were kids and Hikari realizes what she needs to do. She tells Makoto how things have changed since she met all of them and then performs the Doukatai on herself. She disappears and the next day things seem to continue as normal. Makoto sees a girl that resembles Hikari (possibly the real Hikari herself), who later vanishes.

嚆矢 Kōshi The Beginning ~ Beginn (lit. Beginning)

As a result of living her entire life inside the facility, Nana is found to be naive and sensitive about the events surrounding her. Mayu discovers the real Lucy behind Nyu as Nana tells her of their diclonius powers. As Lucy is recovering from being hit in the face by Nana, she goes through a flashback of her childhood, where she was raised in an orphanage all her life where her peers constantly bullied her. Feeling lonely and ignored, she begins to develop her hatred for humans. When her peers discover that she has made friends with a stray dog, (discovered when a girl pretended to be Lucy’s friend) they force her to watch as they beat it to death with a vase, and in her despair, Lucy activates her vectors and commits her first murders against her schoolmates.

“Bogus Booty” “Through and Through / Tettō Tetsubi” (徹頭徹尾)

The shogun’s prettiest ninja ends up giving Mugen an evening that he will never forget. Meanwhile, Fuu gets large from eating too much.

古からの運命 Inishie kara no Unmei Destiny from the Ancient Times

Makoto finds Hikari at the temple and she decides to tell him everything when he says he wants to find a way for everyone to be happy. Apparently, in ancient times Hikari was just a normal priestess. When she saw the ritual sacrifice being done she could not handle it and so set the temple on fire. When she was about to kill the man she thought responsible (her own brother), he said he was free from the curse but that Hikari would have to take over. And so she has been killing to protect the town ever since. Makoto still believes everyone can be happy though and follows Hikari when she runs off. She asks him to save her and then jumps off the edge of a cliff, he follows her to catch her.

際会 Saikai Confrontation ~ Zufällige Begegnung (lit. Coincidental Meeting)

Nana is released with brand-new artificial limbs and enough money to last her for a while on her own. Kurama, his second-in-command Shirakawa, and his assistant are all reprimanded by Kakuzawa for letting her escape and letting Kohta enter the facility to find Lucy. Meanwhile Nana, not knowing of anything outside the facility, does not know what to do with the money and begins to burn some. Soon, she is found by Mayu at the cemetery where she was almost killed by Lucy and they become friends with each other. Nana is then brought back to Kohta’s home. Discovering that Lucy (actually Nyu) is in the home, Nana attacks her.

“Misguided Miscreants (Part 2)” “Dark Night’s Road 2 / An’ya Kōro sono ni” (暗夜行路 其之弐)

When Mugen finds out what the pirate was planning to do, he gets his revenge.

同化体 Doukatai The Assimilating Body

衷情 Chūjō Innermost Feelings ~ Herzenswärme (lit. Heart Warmth)

Bando escapes from the hospital, still trying to find Lucy to satisfy his grudge against her. Professor Kakuzawa Yū’s decapitated body is found by his assistant and Kohta. While searching for Lucy, Kohta and Yuka develop a fondness for each other as displayed through a kiss. Finally, Lucy is found by Kohta and Yuka and taken back home.

“Misguided Miscreants (Part 1)” “Dark Night’s Road 1 / An’ya Kōro sono ichi” (暗夜行路 其之壱)

Mugen’s past memories lure him back into his violent past; a pirate makes secret plans. And the lust for gold brings betrayal.

風音の咆吼 Kazune no Kouhou Roar of Kazune

落掌 Rakushō Receipt ~ Empfang (lit. Reception)

Mayu’s past and why she ran away from home are revealed. Mayu’s mother remarried, and her new stepfather repeatedly molested her. When her mother refused to offer her any help, she ran away from home, where she encountered a stray dog, whom she named “Wanta”. As Kohta and Yuka enter university and take Nyu with them, Professor Kakuzawa, the son of Kurama’s boss (and, by coincidence, the university lecturer) discovers Nyu and she is taken from Kohta and Yuka. Kakuzawa is revealed to be partly diclonius, and intends to breed with Lucy. However she simply kills him, claiming that he is worthless in the evolution towards a diclonius-populated world. Kohta finds out it is also Mayu’s 14th birthday, and invites her to stay permanently with them, where she finally feels that she has a family who cares for her.

風と夜空と Kaze to Yozora to Wind and Night Sky

触撃 Shokugeki Attack ~ Aufeinandertreffen (lit. Encounter)

Nana, using the telepathic powers of diclonii to find Lucy, fights her in a local cemetery, and Mayu encounters them in the middle of the battle. Before long, Nana has all her limbs ripped off, nearly dead. Kurama is ordered by his boss, Kakuzawa, to put Nana down, however Kurama does not kill her. Yuka discovers that Mayu is homeless and invites her to stay with them.

“The Disorder Diaries” “Learning from the Past / Onkochishin” (温故知新)

Mugen steals Fuu’s diary that she has been keeping since they first started on their journey to find the sunflower samurai. The episode is a humorous recap on what has happened so far in ‘Samurai Champloo’ as seen through Fuu’s viewpoint, which is in turn criticised by Jin and Mugen. In the end, they find a note written by Fuu herself saying that she knew they would try and snoop into her diary, which enrages Mugen.

青い空の優しさ Aoi Sora no Yasashisa The Kindness of the Blue Sky

胸裡 Kyōri Deep Feelings ~ Im Innersten (lit. At Heart)

Yuka, who has been in love with Kohta since childhood, caught him in several awkward situations with Nyu (such as changing her clothes for her after the last episode because her other clothes are wet), causing her to become increasingly jealous of Kohta’s concern for Nyu. Mayu, a 13 year old girl and her dog Wanta, who witnessed the incidents in episode 2, return an umbrella left by Kohta on the beach to him, where she is interrogated about the events. Meanwhile, Nana, codenamed “No. 7”, another diclonius, is released from her confinement in order to track down Lucy and bring her back to the facility.

“Gamblers and Gallantry” “Fallen Angel / Daraku Tenshi” (堕落天使)

Jin comes to the rescue of a lady in distress. He falls in love and tries to rescue this woman from the hard life she has come to face. Will he save her and himself? In the meantime, Mugen trains a rhinoceros beetle for a bug fighting tournament in which he expects to win money.

一歩を踏み出す勇気 Ippo o Fumidasu Yuuki Courage to take the step

掃討 Sōtō Annihilation ~ Vernichtung (lit. Annihilation)

The offshore facility, headed by the scientist Kurama, sends a special task force, headed by the ruthless, cold-hearted assassin Bando, to hunt down Lucy at a beach in Kamakura. However, they only encounter her in her innocent “Nyu” state. She is hit over the head by Bando. Bando then tells his partner to finish Nyu off, but the hit reverts Nyu back to Lucy, who kills Bando’s partner, and goes after Bando. Lucy uses a firearm to shoot and injure Bando. In the end, Bando has been dismembered and blinded. Lucy reverts to Nyu before she is able to kill Bando. It is seen here that Lucy and Nyu switch between each other depending on the events surrounding them. After being injured by Bando, Kohta is put in the hospital, but is not severely injured, and is released hours later while Yuka goes looking for Lucy. He encounters her back at the house and forgives her.