Episode 11

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Noriyuki Imaoka (Chief), Tomoaki Kado (Chief), Minefumi Harada, Michinori Shiga, Miyako Nishida

**The Price of Resolve** (決意の代償, *Ketsui no Daishō*) is the 11th episode of *Gleipnir* anime series.

Everyone returns to town, but they must come to terms with what happened in the mountains.

## Short Summary

Shuichi's group barely escape the Madoka's group. However, Sayaka feels its too dangerous to continue. Clair suggests they need to continue and collect the 100 coins in order to stop all of this, but Sayaka decides they to head back for the day.

Sayaka and her group is mentally affected from killing Madoka's group, but are surprised that Shuichi and Clair were so calm. On the next day, Shuichi continues normally and later visits the Alien wanting to ask him something.

## Long Summary

Elena visits the Alien, who wonders how the coin hunt is going and tells her that her sister and Shuichi visited him recently. Elena though he may had told them about her, but the Alien explains that he would do that and is impressed on how they use their powers. Elena transforms and states that if she kill him now, all this stupid conflict will go away and he agrees that she may kill him as he is human now, but that won't stop the things that already happened.

Clair believes they survived Madoka's group, but comments they don't know if some of them survived and that it may come after them. Sayaka finds it too dangerous to continue and the group returns home for the day. Sayaka later talks with Miku and blames herself for leading the group into such bloodbath. Isao and Yota wonder how Shuichi and Clair were so calm and Isao comments that Shuichi was weird as he definitely wasn't the only student at the cram school. Shuichi tells Clair that its cruel but he wishes that everyone from Madoka's group to be dead as that way they won't live in fear they may get attacked one day. He feels that he needs to keep using his power to fight and that feeling gets stronger with each passing day.

One the next day, Shuichi sees Chihiro at school and they go on the roof to talk. She wonders what someone may wish if they get 100 coins and Shuichi says that at first he though they may want all their wishes granted like with Madoka's group, but now he thinks if its him, he won't use it that way. Few days pass and nothing happens, but Abukawa is absent. Eventually his burn body is found near the riverbed in the mountain and Shuichi realizes he lost a friend.

Shuichi visits the Alien and asks him if he knows why he chose that costume as power and wonders if Elena is stopping him from telling him. The Alien asks him if he wishes to drop from this coin hunt and he can turn him to normal if he has a coin. Shuichi recalls what Sayaka and Madoka said and even though they did things differently, they were aiming for something better. Shuichi tells the Alien that he may look like human, but doesn't have feelings like them and that he will collect 100 coins and end this game. The Alien tells him that he is wrong about one thing, and that the game became something they didn't imagine and he no longer can stop it.

Shuichi realizes he is followed and goes to a car graveyard. Taguchi tells him that he heard what he said, but he doesn't care about collecting coins anymore and is there to avenge Madoka. Taguchi explains that five of them died in the forest and the rest survived only because Madoka sacrificed himself, but now he is the only one left from the group as the rest left. Taguchi thinks that Clair was the one that killed Madoka, but Shuichi tells him he did it. Taguchi engages Shuichi, but Shuichi easily avoids his attacks and defeats him. Shuichi then asks him why Abukawa was with them as he was too kind to be part of their group, but Taguchi says that Shuichi didn't knew the real Abukawa. He was good friends of their and he too died trying to save his friends. Clair calls Shuichi wondering where he is and Taguchi comments it was clear that Clair was the one that killed Madoka. Shuichi says that everything is alright and then shoots Taguchi who was still mumbling about avenging Madoka.

Alien recalls a time he met Honoka. He exlpains that he crashed and she suggest he to look for his friends, but he doesn't really feel like it. For giving him food, he offers her body upgrade or granting her any wish and Honoka then proposes that he asks human to find his friends and offer them a reward like with a vending machine. He likes the idea and wants to grant her a wish as she brought up a coin for him. She shows a picture of her friends, commenting that they are all good and will help him.

Elsewhere, some people find the spaceship. Kaito one of Honoka's friends appear and tells the group to leave as he won't let anyone has those coins. They decide to kill him and he is relieved that they are evil as he still has some issues killing good people. He then summons Honoka which swings her huge sword and kills them.

## Characters

* Alien
* Elena Aoki
* Clair Aoki
* Shuichi Kagaya
* Sayaka Koyanagi
* Chihiro Yoshioka
* Yota Murakami
* Miku Aihara
* Isao Kasuga
* Ikeuchi (mentioned)
* Abukawa (mentioned/flashback)
* Izumi
* Nana Mifune
* Taguchi
* Madoka (flashback)
* Hikawa (flashback)
* Honoka (flashback)
* Kaito