S1 • E12 Jun 25, 2006 30m
Unable to accept the prospect of being an only child after Touko sacrifices herself to the despair of her culpability for causing the death of her father Michiaki, Rinko turns her steps toward consulting the dream hall for insight about the nightmare . . . or would have if Hajime had not interjected an injunction about the dangers of such a ritual. Rinko and Hajime resolving their divergent concourse obfuscates Touko reflecting on her prologue with Michiaki as he became absent-minded with his affection for her while he was grieving for the girls' mother; the dysfunctional Electra complex forged by several failed overtures manifested itself into the nightmare whose seduction from which Michiaki fatally protected Touko who became the anemic recluse she is. Wielding the insight of Touko's nightmare, Rinko rushes to the rescue with Hajime and Satoka hot on her heels only to find to her horror that Touko is about to ultimately extinguish her life force along with the nightmare; a refresher course in Michiaki's counsel that dreams are candid but not evil in and of themselves becomes the skeleton key by which Touko leads all the Yume Tsukai in extinguishing her long-standing nightmare along with establishing the practice embracing her dreams for the treasured assets they are.
