Garo 4: DINNER

At a rural, countryside hospital a recovering patient talks to Doctor Tategami. He is awestruck with how the doctor has cured him. He puts a present on an in-table and says goodnight. As the patient walks towards the door the doctor sprouts hoses and tubes from the back of his head. Each is tipped with a pair of scissors, a scalpel or various other sharp surgical instruments. The tentacles grab the hapless patient and tear him to shreds. The doctor's tubes suck up the blood from the carnage. Two nurses arrive and finish off the scraps in a frenzied, bloody feast. Outside of the hospital Salva tells Kouga that he cannot detect the Horror within, he feels there is something very wrong about the place. They will come back tonight.

Since being thrown out of her old apartment for lack of rent, Kaoru Mitsuki has moved into her friend Asami's condo, but all is not going well. Her paint supplies have taken over the whole place. She offers Asami some soup for dinner and says she'll find a room soon. Asami takes a bite of Kaoru's meal, her expression turns to shock. Asami is being wheeled on a gurney through the halls of the hospital suffering from severe stomach pains. On another floor Kouga is wandering the halls, looking for the Horror he knows must be here. Salva tells him there must be a special force influencing the whole hospital, and blocking his powers. As Kouga walks up a flight of stairs he passes the doctor and two nurses, feeling something when passing them. He turns and tries to use his lighter to detect the Horror, but the flame dissipates in an unusable wisp. A nurse runs up and tells him he must not smoke in the hospital.

As Dr. Tategami walks away a woman confronts him, saying that her husband had been cured by him, and had come by to thank him but never came home. The doctor denies knowing what she's talking about. As he leaves Kouga walks up the woman and talks to her. She says the doctor saved her husband's life. "His operations are said to be 'God-like'. He works alone and no one is allowed to watch him as he operates". But she has heard a rumor that those who Tategami saves later die mysteriously.

In an operating room a body lies on a table as Dr. Tategami stands over it. As the tentacle-like tubes and hoses spring from the back of his head so he can operate, Kouga steps into the room. He confronts Tategami with his sword drawn, accusing him of eating people. But the doctor retorts that he is offering lost causes some time of happiness. But goes on to say that these people are now so happy to be alive that their bodies are full of life and vitality, which is of the finest delicacy, full of the greatest flavor.

With that Kouga attacks, but is held back by the nurses. He knocks them away long enough to spin his Makai Blade in the air in order to become GARO... but it does not work. The rift fades and vanishes with Kouga still standing there in astonishment. Tategami jokes, "smoking and summoning armor is not allowed in the hospital". The Horror shows its true demonic form, clashing with Kouga and sending him through a window to the lawn outside. Kouga tries to summon his armor again to no avail. Salva says the barrier is preventing his transformation. As Kouga fights off the nurses Salva scans the area, finding that a weather vane on top of the building is the source of the barrier's power. Kouga jumps to the roof but is hit by bolts of electricity and knocked back to the ground by a protective barrier around the weather vane. Tategami tells him that a Makai Knight cannot go near his totems. Salva talks Kouga into making a strategic withdrawal. At the black hall of the three fairies they taunt Kouga relentlessly for running away from such a weak enemy. While they talk the butler upgrades his Madou Flame lighter with a stronger green fire. Salva asks how he will attack the doctor and he says the totems will have to come down. Since a Makai Knight can't approach them, there's no way a human could either. But Kouga knows of someone who might be able to, someone who isn't a normal human. In a public park Kouga sees the woman from the hospital trying to comfort her son about his father disappearing. Kouga has a flashback to a little boy calling out for his Dad. He then walks over to the woman's son, telling him to be strong, then turns and marches off in earnest. Kaoru is talking to Asami in her hospital room when she accidentally cuts her finger. She runs out to look for a bandage but then runs into Dr. Tategami, who sucks on the cut. He senses that she is bathed in the blood of a Horror and then asks her to come with him. As he bandages her finger he says she is a very important patient for him. He says she is looking a little pale and offers to give her an examination. In a hallway Kaoru runs into Kouga who grabs her hand and leads her outside. He tells her that because she has been bathed in the blood of a Horror that she is the only one who can remove the totems from the weather vane. But as they talk the doctor shows up. He tells Kouga to hand over the exquisite meal. Kouga draws his sword and tells Kaoru to go quickly. The fight starts as she runs for the stairs leading to the roof. As Kouga grapples with the Tategami, the doctor asks if Saejima Tairo is Kouga's father. He says that Horrors devoured that last Golden Knight, and that it was a slow death. Tategami turns into the demonic Horror that he actually is, attacking Kouga with his surgical tentacles as the nurses attack him as well. Meanwhile Kaoru is struggling at the weather vane to get the paper totems off, but a nurse is grabbing her foot and trying to pull her down. She is able to knock the demon away and remove the totems. As the barrier goes down Kouga very quickly dispatches the nurses and swings the Makai Blade above his head, transforming into GARO. Now in his GARO armor Kouga smashes into the Horror. But it tells him that he brings joy to his patients. Their lives are heightened and they die at the climax of their happiness. Again Kouga has a flashback to a child calling out to his father. Enraged he shouts, "People who are killed do not feel joy!". As they clash Kouga ignites the upgraded Madou Flame under his sword. The green fire envelopes the blade, which he flashes through the air in an X pattern, creating a cross of green fire that flies through the air, smashing into the Horror. The green X flame then returns to GARO, enveloping him in a green flaming aura. GARO sweeps the GARO Blade towards the Horror, shooting the green flame in a tidal wave at it and cutting the demon in half. It turns human again, Doctor Tategami dragging himself towards Kaoru, asking to eat her as his last meal. Kouga curses him and cuts the Horror down.

As the GARO armor dematerializes Kouga falls to the ground. Kaoru runs to him asking if he is ok. He says "yeah... I'm starved."

"There are still many mysteries concerning the man, Saejima Kouga, but I'm sure of this much... He continues to fight to protect humanity. And that explosion of emotion, 'People who are killed do not feel joy!' ... it was a mix of sadness and anger. Those emotions made him seem very human."