“Those Who Rend Asunder (Part 3)” “Kiri saku mono tachi (III)” (斬り裂く者たち(III))

As the four Claymores recover from their injuries, Miria suggests that the Organization has purposely sent them on a suicide mission, since she discovers that they are all troublemakers who may have partially awakened. Deneve proves this theory by intentionally exceeding her limits in order to heal her wounds. To the Claymores’ surprise, she does not awaken from the process. Miria warns the group to avoid top five Claymores: Alicia, Beth Galatea, Ophelia, and Rafaela. She advises the group to avoid fighting them due to their power.

“Those Who Rend Asunder (Part 2)” “Kiri saku mono tachi (II)” (斬り裂く者たち(II))

The battle against the male Awakened Being seems hopeless, despite Helen, Deneve, and Miria demonstrating use of their extraordinary skills. However, Clare refuses to give up, and uses her Yoki-reading skill to dodge the enemy’s attacks. Together with Miria, Clare attacks the Awakened Being and kills him. Throughout the entirety of the battle, Galatea, an “eye” for the Organization, reads the Yoki of the four Claymores from a great distance and informs her overseer Ermita of the progression of the battle.

“Those Who Rend Asunder (Part 1)” “Kiri saku mono tachi (I)” (斬り裂く者たち(I))

After Teresa’s death, Clare brings her head to Rubel and asks to become a Claymore. Back in the present, Clare is assigned to a party that will be hunting an Awakened Being. After leaving Raki behind at an inn, Clare departs on the mission with her comrades, Miria, Helen, and Deneve. Once they engage the Awakened Being, they are surprised to find that he is male and far stronger than they had expected.

“Awakening” “Kakusei” (覚醒)

Teresa easily defeats the other Claymores, but spares their lives. Priscilla, incensed by her defeat, pursues Teresa and releases too much of her Yoki during the ensuing battle. She awakens, killing Teresa and her former comrades. Clare is left cradling Teresa’s severed head.

“Marked for Death” “Shisha no rakuin” (死者の烙印)

Claymores number two through five, Priscilla, Irene, Noel, and Sophia gather together before departing to kill Teresa. Teresa and Clare find lodgings in a village, where shortly after her pursuers find them. Priscilla engages Teresa in single combat, but she is outmatched despite briefly having the upper hand. The other three Claymore pursuers decide that they must assist, and the members of the team begin to release their Yoki in preparation for the combined attack against Teresa.

“Teresa and Clare” “Teresa to Kurea” (テレサとクレア)

Teresa and Clare approach the next small town, and Clare still refuses to leave Teresa. In the forest at night, the bandit whose hand she cut off the last time they met returns and tries to rape Teresa, but Clare hits him with a thick branch, infuriating him. He begins to stomp on Clare, angering Teresa and making her threaten him while assuring him that while his knowledge about the rule prohibiting Claymores to kill humans is not misinformed, her choice to obey that rule is entirely her own. He flees at her warning, and Clare cries because she feels sorry for Teresa, whom, Clare says, always looks to be in so much pain even when she’s wearing her smile. This deeply moves Teresa. When they arrive in the village and Teresa complete another job, she asks the head of the village to give Clare a home and a caretaker, but Clare refuses with pleas and tears, but Teresa leaves anyway with an unspoken apology and a wish that Clare will grow up a human, live a human life and die a human. Not long after, Clare sees a troop of bandits on their way to the village she just left, and heads back to find the entire village in razed. When she sees Clare is in danger, she kills every one of the bandits. A hooded figure working for the organization watches, and soon after organizes a group of Claymore to execute her. After Teresa escapes the initial execution attempt, her overseer, Orsay, dispatches the second- through fifth-strongest Claymores to deal with her.

“Teresa of the Faint Smile” “Bishou no Teresa” (微笑みのテレサ)

This is the beginning of a flashback arc. Teresa, the most powerful Claymore of her era, is hired to kill a group of six Yoma in a village, and easily kills them, and one extra, who is one that had been abusing a young, human, and mute Clare. Since she has no one else to care for her, Clare follows Teresa through the wilderness, despite Teresa’s best efforts to abandon her until Teresa decides to accept taking Clare under her wing.

“Clare’s Awakening” “Kurea no kakusei” (クレアの覚醒)

Clare comes close to awakening when she uses too much of her Yoki (demon energy) in the battle against the Yoma, the Voracious Eater. She intends to commit suicide before her awakening is complete in order to find peace through dying while she is still human, but Raki pleads and begs her not to do it, saying that him meeting her was the best thing to happen to him. His pleas halt Clares awakening transformation, and one of the two knights fighting in the battle later gives Raki a sword in appreciation for what he and Clare have done for them while the other wishes for Raki to grow strong.

“The Darkness in Paradise” “Mahoroba no yami” (まほろばの闇)

Clare is hired to kill a “Voracious Eater” in a holy city where Claymores are not allowed. Forced to use a special drug to disguise her Claymore-specific characteristics, she has difficulty sensing where the Yoma is hiding. She poses as a human in order to infiltrate the church and meet her organization’s client. At night, she makes her way to the church again and is caught fighting two suspicious knights, but escapes. The next day, the same two knights barge into the inn room she and Raki are staying at and accuse her of being a Claymore. Raki comes to her defense saying he believes that she is more kind than anyone and doesn’t deserve being accused as a monster. After the two knights leave when they find no proof of Clare being a Claymore, she tells him to give up searching for kindness within her as he will ultimately end up disappointed. At night she goes back into the church to look for the Voracious Eater, but the two knights interfere and when it shows up they only complicate the fight between it and Clare. Ultimately, as it is about to kill them, Clare does everything she can to protect them, including jump into the path of it’s deadly claws.

“The Black Card” “Kuro no sho” (黒の書)

Clare receives a black card from mysterious man who seems to be working with the organization she works for. Raki witnesses as Clare confronts another Claymore named Elena. Clare explains that when Claymores use too much Yoma power, they eventually succumb to the influence of their Yoma half. Once this occurs, Claymores, knowing they will have to die, often make the choice of dying with human hearts, so as they feel their humanity beginning to slip away they send a black card bearing their individualized insignia to the Claymore that they want to be slain by. Clare’s closest friend, Elena, was on the verge of succumbing to her demonic nature and becoming a Yoma, a process called “awakening”. Despite Raki’s protests, Clare slays Elena, granting her the solace of dying as a human.

“Great Sword” “Taiken -KUREIMOA-” (大剣 -クレイモア-)

A young boy, Raki’s whole family was killed by a Yoma (demon), so a Claymore (half-demon, half-human hybrid) is hired to kill the Yoma. Raki interacts with the Claymore when she arrives. Raki later goes to his uncle’s house and is met by the Yoma, who had taken the form of his brother, but is subsequently saved by the Claymore. After the attack, Raki is banished from the village by the frightened villagers and left to die in the deserts before he is saved by a Claymore, and subsequently attacked by another Yoma when he goes searching for her, believing her to be the one who saved him from the first. After the Yoma attacks him, the Claymore who saved him before does so again, and as she leaves, she gives him permission to join her in her travels as a cook, along with her name; Clare.

“Canon at the End of the Dream” “Yume no Hate no Tsuifukukyoku kanon” (夢の果ての追復曲 〜kanon〜)

A miracle occurs and everyone is healed of their illness or injury. Mai, Sayuri and Shiori return to school, while Akiko comes home. In a startling discovery, Akiko reveals to Yuichi on the events after Ayu’s accident and Yuichi finally finds her, lying comatose in the hospital. As time goes on, everyone moves on with their lives, but Yuichi still clings to the hope that she will eventually wake up. However, he is still missing a final piece of his puzzle, before Ayu can truly end living in a dream. In the end, Ayu wakes up and is still together with Yuichi. Just before the closing credits, a familiar fox can be seen walking just beyond the stump, slightly blurred into the background.

“The Scarlet Red Finale” “Akane-iro no Shūkyoku finale” (茜色の終曲 〜finale〜)

Waking up in an apartment, Yuichi meets an old acquaintance who he admired as a child named Makoto Sawatari. Back at their promised place, Yuichi sees Ayu again, and she asks for her third and final wish to be for Yuichi to forget about her, but Yuichi is unwilling to grant it. Ayu then makes a different wish, and disappears soon after in Yuichi’s arms. Nayuki comes out of her depression, and she attempts to get her cousin out of his own.

“Symphony of Recollections” “Tsuisō no Kōkyōgaku symphony” (追想の交響楽 〜symphony〜)

As Akiko lies in the intensive care unit, Nayuki becomes deeply depressed. Locking herself in her bedroom, she refuses to leave. When she accidentally leaves her door unlocked, Yuichi uses the opportunity to talk with her, but she simply pushes him away. As Yuichi attempts to sleep it off, he dreams and remembers what happened to Ayu seven years ago. He leaves during a snow storm and heads for the woods, but soon collapses, and Makoto appears. When she kneels down to Yuichi’s unconscious body, a bright light suddenly shines at them.

“The Rondo Without You” “Kimi no Inai Rinbukyoku ronde” (君のいない輪舞曲 〜ronde〜)

Ayu still has not come back, and Yuichi continues to search for her and her lost item. In the meantime, Nayuki tries to cheer Yuichi up while trying to jog his memory about what happened between them seven years ago. However, Akiko becomes the victim of a car accident, which could lead to devastating results.

“The Nocturne of Farewell” “Wakare no Yasōkyoku nocturn” (別れの夜想曲 〜nocturn〜)

As Yuichi and Ayu grow closer, Nayuki feels that she is being neglected by him. Ayu finally leads Yuichi to where her “school” is in the woods, but all they find is a large clearing with a tree stump in the center. The realization is too much for Ayu, and the unexpected happens right before Yuichi, in that she disappears.

“The Étude of Contact” “Fureai no Renshūkyoku étude” (ふれあいの練習曲 〜étude〜)

The annual track meet tournament has come up, and Nayuki competes to win along with the rest of her teammates. A few days later, Yuichi again helps Ayu to try to find what she has been searching for, but they still cannot find it. Their time together in this endeavor brings the two of them closer than ever.

“The Disappearing Adagio” “Kiesari Yuku Kanjogakushō adagio” (消え去りゆく緩徐楽章 〜adagio〜)

Shiori’s birthday is days away and Yuichi wants to throw her a birthday party at a local café. He invites many students and classmates from school, along with Nayuki, Ayu, and even attempts to invite Kaori, who is reluctant to attend. As the minutes count down to midnight on her birthday, Yuichi and Shiori spend what could be their last moments together.

“Lieder ohne Worte of an Elder Sister and a Younger Sister” “Ane to Imōto no Mugonka Lieder ohne worte” (姉と妹の無言歌 〜Lieder ohne worte〜)

With Shiori’s birthday coming, Yuichi decides that he will try to do as much as he can for her, while she still has time. A week before her birthday, Shiori gets permission from her doctor to attend school for the remaining week, just like a regular student. Meanwhile, Kaori still insists on avoiding her, and warns Yuichi that Shiori might not survive long after her birthday passes.

“Midnight Oratorio” “Mayonaka no Seitankyoku oratorio” (真夜中の聖譚曲 〜oratorio〜)

Keeping his promise to Shiori, Yuichi offers to take her around town for the day to some of Shiori’s favorite places. During the night, Shiori’s older sister Kaori meets with Yuichi, explaining why she denies her sibling relationship, and the mystery behind Shiori’s illness.