Episode 3

**Episode 3** is the 3rd episode of Vampire in the Garden anime series.

## Synopsis

Fine and Momo hit the road, making a pit stop at a hotel in a desolate city. All is well, until there is a gradual change in Fine.

## Summary

Fine and Momo start traveling. Fine plays a song from a cassette and asks Momo to sing with it. Momo doesn't know the lyrics, but Fine tells her to just sing what comes from within. The two then continue their journey visiting various places and having fun.

At the human town, the deputy commander states that Nobara's daughter had aligned herself with the vampires and is currently running away with a vampire. He provides pictures of proof and wants Nobara to take responsibility for Momo's treacherous actions.

Fine and Momo reach a vampire checkpoint. Fine explains she wish to enter the town so she can repair their car and the human, Momo, is her blood bag. She needs to pay 5000 and bottle of blood per person. As she pays the entry fee, they tell her that under no circumstances the human can enter the island, and after she drains the human, she can throw it out onto the humans' island. As they approach the town, Momo guesses that humans and vampires doesn't live happily here. Fine confirms, and explains that the humans control the right side, while the vampires the left side of the town and are separated by a canal. The humans supply blood, while the vampires money, and they live by bartering with each other. Fine takes them to a hotel she knows and tells Momo to not leave the room. Seeing Momo, the hotel owner vampire tells her that she can't have a human there, since they are bit short on blood and that could cause a fight. Fine pays him four bottles of blood and he decides to close his eyes. After taking her to their room, Fine asks Momo if she wants to play on a piano and starts teaching her.

Kaede asks Kubo why he thinks Momo is with a vampire and he explains she is misled, thinking that there is a paradise out there, where humans and vampires live happily together.

At night, Fine dreams of Aria and drops her glass. Momo wakes up and wonders what is going on. Fine starts carving for blood and almost loses her sense and attacks Momo, but manages to hold herself before biting her. Momo guesses she needs blood, but as there are no more bottles with blood on Fine's back, she cuts her arm and tried feeding her, but Fine refuses, stating that she no longer drinks blood. As she barely holds her bloodlust, Fine tells Momo to get back to her mother and throws her out of the room. Momo goes outside and recognizes a mark as military facility on the human side, guessing they must have blood banks. Some vampires notice her, but she manages to escape them.

She approaches the military facility, but they notice her. Momo explains she needs blood for her friend, but they chase her away. Momo doesn't give up and managed to sneak in. She finds the blood bank and takes some, but is found out and starts running. They start shooting at Momo and eventually cause an explosion, which Allegro notices and finds Momo running. Meanwhile, the vampires who found Momo, saw she came out of the hotel and decide to check if there are more humans in it. As they force they way in, they take all the blood the owner had stored, who ends up telling them that the vampire who took the human is on the last door on the third floor. The vampires then decide to go punish the traitor and push away the owner, who as he falls knocks out some candles and starts a fire.

Allegro captures Momo and asks her where Fine is. As she refuses, Allegro explains that there was once a human who got close to Fine and manipulated her feelings. However, the human betrayed Fine and it took Fine a long time to heal from the betrayal. Momo refuses to say where Fine is as she promised her to teach her to play piano. She manages to free herself from Allegro and causes them to fall from a building. As she gets up, she takes the blood and runs towards Fine. Meanwhile, the vampires are searching the hotel. Unable to find more blood in Fine's room, they end up throwing the music box in the fire and leave. As the hotel burns, Fine lies weakened on the ground. Momo returns and takes Fine to their car. The hotel owner blames Momo and Fine for everything he lost, telling them there can't run as there is no place for them to go.

Leaving the town, Momo finds a small house in the woods and there transfuses some blood to Fine. When Fine wakes up, Momo tells her to not give up so easily and wonders why she took her with her if she is giving up so easily. As Momo cries, she says she know there is no place for her to go. Fine hugs her and apologizes. The next day, the two find a boat and continue their journey on the river and then the sea. Sometimes they reach frozen water and they have to pull the boat. One day, while pulling the boat and Fine sleeping in it, Momo collapses. She wakes up in a cabin and sees a girl and the music box picture as a large painting on the wall. Wondering where she is, the girl tells her this must be the paradise they were searching for.

## Characters

* Fine
* Momo
* Kubo
* Kaede
* Nobara
* Allegro
* Conny
* Aria
* Elisha