Keisuke and Tetsuya finally arrive in Morioka. Miaka asks Tamahome to meet her in the tower that Xing told her the legend about. Tokaki reminds Tamahome that he and Miaka will be split up when Suzaku is summoned. While waiting at the tower, Miaka sees Yui and Nakago. After checking the police station and library, a taxi driver introduces Keisuke and Tetsuya to a friend with old newspapers on microfilm. They find the article regarding the Okuda murder and where it took place. Tamahome goes to the tower and finds Miaka’s hair tie. The rest of the Suzaku Seven join him, and Tasuki fries a monster about to eat him. Tokaki and his wife, Subaru, tell them that Tatara, the guardian of the Shinzaho of Byakko has been taken. Nakago finds Miaka sneaking into where he and Yui are staying. Miboshi, one of the Seiryu Seven, steals Miaka’s voice and Nakago knocks her unconscious. The Suzaku Seven follow Miaka. Keisuke and Testuya arrive at the location where the Okuda murder took place and find it is called Genbu Grotto. Miaka wakes up in a cell with Tatara and Yui enters.
巫女と七星士が結ばれることはない……。2人の愛が決して報われることが無いと知った鬼宿は美朱に辛くあたる。しかし鬼宿の言葉を信じることのできない美朱は、日が沈むと同時にその塔の上で唇を重ねあった男女は何があっても離れる事はないと言う伝説の塔へと鬼宿を誘うのだった。塔の上でひとり鬼宿を待つ美朱。いつか必ず来る別れを知っている奎宿は、美朱の元へ向かおうとする鬼宿を引きとめる。しかし、たとえ傷つくことになっても、鬼宿の美朱への想いを止めることはできないのだった……。
