Episode 7

* Episode
* Title Card
* End Card

## Episode Guide

**"An Incomplete Map"** (不完全 (ふかんぜん) な地図 (ちず) , *Fukanzen na Chizu*?) is the seventh episode of the *Shadows House* anime series. It aired on May 23, 2021.

## Summary

The members of the 3rd floor ask Aileen to send a message to Edward with her soot power, a soot pigeon. Shaun triggers a pitfall and Lou nearly falls off a cliff cutting a shortcut, surprising Ricky when she suddenly climbs back up the edge. After Ricky tends to a cut on Lou's leg, he states that he's only worried for Patrick who is stuck inside a small box. The Shadow is at first angry at his situation but breaks down into tears as he is terrified being separated from his Doll. Emilico and Rum find the box, which has a hole on top, and after some banter, Emilico gives Patrick some oranges, a daffodil, and a promise to meet him again with Kate. Patrick comments that Emilico's nickname as "Sunshine" fits her since he can't even see the flower in the dark.

Shaun triggered another trap which trapped him behind heavy doors, barely escaping by lifting it then meets with Emilico and Rum. They discuss their routes so far and decide to move together to one of the black dots. The path is blocked by a metal gate with statues of animals that can turn. Taking a seat on a bench, the hedges line up into a shape of a rabbit, showing the answer. Moving into a small forested area, the trio meets John whose clothes has gotten dirty to Shaun's despair. John is angered that he wasn't told of the rule and exclaims he should tell Kate to Emilico's surprise who asks where she is. Before he can explain, John becomes embarrassed over his proposal to Kate, then warns Emilico about the dangers of Kate's cage. Looking at the map again, Emilico deduces the location of every Shadow then finds out that the maps have juice that reveal elevation when burnt by the lamp. John dirtied Shaun's map with soot which reveals a clean hut symbol which may be the key to cleaning John's clothes and the two decide to separate from Emilico and Rum to be able to make it back to the exit in time. The three friends then promise to meet each other again after the Debut while Shirley sits in a chair with threads sewn into her clothes.

## Plot

In the 3rd floor where the adults were, a man, introduced as Gerald, could be seen spying on the ongoing debut using his binoculars from the 3rd floor window. There was also a woman standing behind him.

An adult told Gerald that ''these two" - identified as Rum and Emilico, has stopped moving on the map that was shown with statue pieces that looked like them, The adult told Gerald to not keep his eyes off them and also stated that they were the ones who were going to fail the debut. Gerald apologised and moved the two statue pieces while keeping an eye on what was going on outside. The two statue pieces started moving. Then, a female adult said that they should send Edward a message and told the woman behind Gerald, who was identified as Aileen, to send the message. Aileen breathed out soot onto her palms and all the soot formed into a soot pigeon. Aileen opened the window and the bird flew off.

The bird reached Edward. The soot pigeon landed in front of Edward, causing Edward to cover his ears. The soot pigeon exploded into a pile of soot on the ground and formed words before Edward. Upon seeing the message, Edward complained, asking if it was a must to send inane messages and also complained about why the soot pigeons the 3rd floor adults sent had to be so busy when delivering.

On the map, a statue piece that looked like Shaun was seen moving on the map. The same female adult that told Aileen to send a message to Edward excitedly exclaimed that Shaun was going down while staring out the window with her own pair of binoculars. When she said that, a surprised male adult with curly hair went rushing to where she was.

At where Shaun was, Shaun could be seen walking through the maze. Then, all of the sudden, Shaun steeped onto a particular spot onto the ground and the ground below him crumpled, causing Shaun to fall. Shaun fell and when he landed, a look of surprise was on his face as he looked up to see a hole on the top.

Back to where the 3rd floor adults were, the male adult with curly hair, who was once surprised, said that it was just a pit trap, looking unimpressed. the female adult beside him started laughing aloud, calling Shaun a fool. Another female adult that was beside another male adult questioned if neglecting to show elevation on the map was by design. The male adult beside her said that it seems that Lou will arrive first. The male with curly hair said perhaps not and that it was about to get interesting while the statue pieces of Lou and Ricky started moving.

To where Lou and Ricky were, Lou can be seen cutting the branches of the bushes using a pair of shears. When Lou reaches the end, she falls of the edge of the cliff and Ricky calls out her name in shock and concern. When Ricky looks down, there was no sign of Lou. Looking to his side, he sees Lou's shears on the ground and picked it up. Is Lou out of the picture? Ricky thought. All of a sudden, a hand reaches out and grabs the edge of the cliff. Up came Lou and she pushed Ricky onto the ground, making Ricky drop the spears in the process. Ricky looks up to Lou and tells her that he was not trying to steal her shears. He nervously said that he was glad Lou was alright. Lou's hands grabs Ricky's cheeks and squished them. Lou asks if her face has been harmed. Then, Lou leans closer to Ricky until their faces were centimeters apart. Ricky blushes and turns to the side, saying that he can't see when Lou is that close.

Lou lifts her hair, showing her forehead and Ricky says that she looks fine. Lou then says let's go. Ricky asked if Lou has any feelings at all but Lou ignores him. Ricky runs up to Lou, walking behind her. Ricky tells Lou that was amazed that she didn't fall off the cliff. Lou said that she grabbed a vine and hung on. Ricky realised that Lou was bleeding and decided to help her patch up the wound and says that he was worried for Master Patrick.

In the next scene, Patrick can be seen trapped. Patrick was praying that Ricky would come to his rescue soon. Feeling angry, Patrick bangs his hand against the surface, wanting someone to open it up. He screams that this was not the way to treat a shadow as he cries, calling out Ricky's name.

All of a sudden, a voice called out for him outside where he was trapped in. Patrick looked up and saw blue eyes looking at him through a hole. Another voice said that Patrick is not able to see the person with the person's eye pressed so close. The person lifts her eye from the hole and was seen to be Emilico. Patrick asked if it was Sunshine, Emilico and Emilico said yes while hugging the box- the place where Patrick was trapped in. Emilico says that she never imagined that a shadow master would be confined like this. She also says that she was worried about Mistress Kate and that Ricky was worried about Patrick. Emilico then gave updates on Ricky. Emilico opened the orange that she brought with her, peeled off the skin and dropped the orange slices through the air hole of the box to let Patrick have some. Emilico also gave Patrick a flower that she picked along the way. After that, she along with Rum left.

Shaun was struggling to carry a heavy door. Once it was wide enough for him to escape, he jumped out, letting the heavy door fall back onto the ground. Shaun said that carrying a heavy door is some pretty plain-vanilla abuse. Rum and Emilico was on the bridge near him and Emilico called out his name and waved to him. Shaun saw her and called her name. On the map that was with the 3rd floor adults, an adult said that the three dolls have come together. A female adult said that Shaun looks promising. The female adult, identified herself as Dorothy, said that if she were Sunshine, she'd use him to her advantage. The adults were seen discussing about the three dolls that were together.

Emilico was looking at the map with Shaun's magnifying glass while Shaun is pointing on the map, saying that something is written under the dots marking the shadow masters' locations. Shaun and Emilico share their routes. They then decided to pass the labyrinth. The three of them looked for clues, trying to open the gate that was in front of them but not shown on the map. After a while, they solved it and pass through the gates.

Shaun, Emilico and Rum stood before a box that has been exploded. They found soot on the ground. Emilico found footprints. Shaun says that it was Master John's footprints. They followed the footprints and they reached a place where there is a folly. On one of the branches of the folly, there stood John. Shaun was surprised to see John. John told them that he got out of the box he was trapped in using his soot powers and he also encountered Kate and the conversation they had with each other. Emilico shares an orange with John.

John tells Emilico that it won't be easy saving Kate in a her frightening predicament. Emilico asks Shaun to lend her his magnifying glass and asks Rum to lend Emilico her lantern, then Emilico starts to look in the map. Emilico finds out that the dashes below the dots are the representation of the rankings they received in the debut hall. Emilico held the map too close that it started to burn but on the map, they found a pattern. Rum gives Shaun her map and Shaun places the map near the lantern and finds out that there were dark areas. He said that it would help figure out how the paths are connected.

Towards the end, Shaun says that may the three of them (Emilico, Shaun and Rum) make it through the debut and meet once more. The episode ends with Shirley sitting on a chair with wires attached to her clothes.

## Characters

1. Dorothy
2. Ryan
3. Sophie
4. Joseph
5. Gerald
6. Aileen
7. Edward
8. Shaun
9. Lou
10. Ricky
11. Patrick
12. Emilico
13. Rum
14. John
15. Kate
16. Shirley