Episode 4

### Animation Direction

Tomoaki Kado (Chief), Noriyuki Imaoka (Chief), Mayumi Hidaka, Kyouko Yufu, Gin Kugumiya

**I Wish I Was Someone Else** (変身願望, *Henshin ganbō*) is the 4th episode of *Gleipnir* anime series.

After encoutering Elena, Shuichi and Clair are guided to the source of all the mysterious happenings.

## Short Summary

Clair and Shuichi encounter Elena. Overwhelmed by her power, they are defeated and Shuichi's head is ripped of. In order to fix Shuichi, they visit the abandoned love hotel, where they meet the Alien. The Alien, explains what the coins are and the secret of Shuichi's transformation.

## Long Summary

Elena rips Shuichi's head in anger, realizing what she did, she starts to apology and calls Shuichi to see if he is still alive. Clair Aoki pulls Shuichi's gun and shoots at Elena, but the bullets go through Elena, who then easily defeats Clair. As Elena calms, she realizes its Clair and wonders why is she inside of Shuichi. Clair explains its to kill her and wonders why Elena killed their parents. Elana tells her that their father was legislator, who had done bad things behind the scene, and their mother had an affair with younger man, and that even Clair had said she will kill them one day, so Elena done it for her. Elena tells her she is not weak anymore and she will protect her now. She asks her if she kept the coin she gave her and as Clair said she didn't, Elena gave her another and tells her about the abandoned motel. Elena then receives a phone call and needs to leave.

As it was getting dark, Clair tells Shuichi that she will keep her promise and points his gun at her head, but Shuichi then speaks, telling her not to do it. Later Clair and Shuichi go to the abandoned hotel and they meet the Alien. Clair wants him to fix Shuichi and after he looks at Shuichi, he tells them he can, but needs the coin. He uses the coin at the vending machine and give Shuichi a drink. While waiting for Shuichi to heal, Clair comes out and the Alien comments she had nice body. Normally his species don't have a physical body, but as he currently have taken a male human body, he feels attracted to Clair, but she hits him as he tries to touch her. To prove he is not bad, the Alien wants a pubic hair, but as Clair refuses, he brings out a hair he snatched from her head. He then eats the hair and turns into complete copy of Clair. The Alien explains he changed Shuichi's body with similar medicine to the one he drank few mins ago and that he isn't a monster, but he is his ideal form, the one he desired. Shuichi has no memories of drinking medicine and states he never wanted to take that form. Clair accepts that he is an alien and tells him to change his appearance.

When Shuichi is fully heals, Clair hugs him. The Alien then explains that his species turned their minds and knowledge into data, the coins, as physical forms became nuisance during long space travel. Their ship broke and crashed on Earth, spreading the coins. As he doesn't have the expertise to repair the ship and find his friends, he wants people to become "Collectors" and gather them for him. As compensation, when they get one coin, they can use the medicine and transform. And when they gather 100 coins, they can do something amazing, suggesting they can turn into overpowered comics character. Clair wants information on her sister, the one that gave Shuichi the medicine, but the Alien acts he doesn't know anything as he doesn't want to reveal personal information about anyone.

Going back home, Clair comments it will be hard to find the connection between Shuichi and Elena. But Shuichi then stops her, telling her she can't use the coin and as things get worse, she will eventually die. Clair tells him that her life is better now, even before her parents died. She was at her worst when her parents died and her sister disappeared, as no one had believed her, but as she met Shuichi, everything changed and she found her place inside of him.

At school, Shuichi bumps into some other students, who want apology from him, but Shuichi then grabs the student's arm almost breaking it. Abukawa shows up, greeting Shuichi and diffuses the situation. On the roof, Shuichi smells Nana Mifune coming up, who wants to return his notebook. Shuichi asks her what she will do if the world was going to end today, as someone bad gets so much power that he can destroy the planet. Nana explains she will be worried about her family and friends, so she will try to stop the bad guy. Shuichi confirms that's the normal thing to do and then leaves.

## Characters

* Shuichi Kagaya
* Elena Aoki
* Clair Aoki
* Alien
* Abukawa
* Nana Mifune
* Subaru