Episode 11

**Illusory Love** (まぼろしの愛, *Maboroshi no Ai*) is the 11th episode of *Gibiate* anime series.

## Synopsis

The Gallients joined forces and the people spent a pleasant evening together, but what awaited them was an attack by Meteora... Dr. Yoshinaga aims to complete the vaccine for Gibia in the lab. But his past is about to be revealed...

## Summary

Kathleen interviews Dr. Yoshinaga, and asks him about his love life. Yoshinaga explains he used to have a lover, who was the daughter of his mentor and he truly loved her. Kathleen wonders why they broke up, but Yoshinaga tells her they didn't.

Renjiro dreams of how young Ayame was bullied for being a child of a criminal, he tries to protect her, but she stops. Ayame wakes him up, telling him that Meteora is there. Sensui's group go out to fight it. He tells them that he and Kenroku will fight it, while the rest provide support. Kathleen notices that Meteora is not fighting seriously and is not even interested in fighting them and heads towards the second floor. They manage to stop her and thew explosives at her, sending her outside the building, where Meteora collapses and dies. Meanwhile, Yoshinaga finishes the serum, commenting that she will at least have human intelligence, but then feels something happened and runs down.

He sees the dead Meteora and gets angry. He then explains he and Meteora are not from this planet. On his planet, if you drink the blood of the god, Soma, you will gain special powers, however anyone incompatible with it will become a failure, a monster. Meteora's father was conducting research to create artificial Soma to replace the god's blood. Dr. Yoshinaga was his apprentice and Meteora's fiance. One day, Meteora mistakenly imbibed the artificial Soma and they had to put her in a cryo-capsule and began searching for a treatment. Around the same time, the ruler of that planet dies, which causes chaotic fighting over Soma's blood. Yoshinaga collected blood samples from the failures and fled the planet. However, he flew too close to the Sun and his spaceship was damaged, separating Meteora's cryo-capsule from the ship. The vessel with Meteora and the blood samples fell down in Europe, where late Meteora had turned into a complete failure. He later landed in Japan and began his research to see if he could at least restore intelligence to Gibia. Since they come from different planets, Meteora was following his brainwaves. With Meteora gone, Yoshinaga has no reason to continue his research or leave them alive. He injects Ayame with a serum, explaining that he completed a virus that transforms humans into an even deadlier type of Gibia. Yoshinaga takes out a second serum, stating that he will be using it on himself and turn into Gibia and consciously kill them to avenge Meteora. Renjiro begs him to give him that vaccine as even if Ayame is Gibia, she will be at least herself. Yoshinaga injects himself, while Ayame turns into Gibia. Ayame attacks Katsunori and stings him. He immediately starts to turn, however Guren shoots him, before he can fully turn. Isao attempts to fight her, but is easily killed along with Hidenori. Yoshinaga transforms and attempts to attack Kathleen, but Kenroku and Sensui protect her. Ayame then attacks Renjiro, however Guren sacrifices himself, getting stung instead of Renjiro and shoots Ayame in the head with Sensui then cutting her head. Guren says his farewells with Renjiro, happy that he was able to serve him and hopes he was able to repay him.

## Characters

* Dr. Yoshinaga
* Kathleen Funada
* Renjiro Hatonami
* Ayame Hatonami
* Guren Soshigaya
* Sensui Kanzaki
* Kenroku Sanada
* Katsunori Hamuro
* Hidenori Sakuma
* Isao Mikimoto