After having extinguished some Yin Gates, Crow reminds Orva of his duties as the Phantom Knight to act from the shadows. He soon receives a letter from Meme with orders to defeat a large Horror named Duoct. After sunset, Crow encounters a school girl he believes to be Duoct before she summons the actual Horror to her aid. Raiga soon joins him, but the two find themselves powerless against Duoct. Just before dawn, they hear a voice from within Duoct as the Horror and the school girl leave. Crow recognizes that her school uniform is the same as a school he had passed the previous day, and after arriving he discovers a man attempting to find his missing daughter Saki Mizuno. He tells Crow that she mysteriously disappeared three nights ago when she and her friends were having a courage test in the forest. However, Crow wonders how she could possibly be the Horror's host without having an inner darkness. Later, Duoct attacks Mayuri, and during the fight it is revealed that the Saki who is ordering Duoct around is a Horror posing as her while the real Saki is inside Duoct's body. Crow quickly kills the impostor and Duoct escapes Crow believes that Saki is beyond salvation, but Raiga tells him that he has a plan and wants him on stand-by. Having remembered how his father saved his mother in the past, Raiga meets Duoct and allows the Horror to consume him so he can destroy it from the inside while having the Garo armor form around himself and Saki. After explaining that Saki will awaken with no memory of her ordeal, Raiga tells Crow that he deserves thanks for his role in saving Saki. The next day, Crow watches Saki resume her normal life before assuming his duties as the Phantom Knight.
