Episode 32: The Romance of the Dancing Girls

Akio and Touga convince Nanami to duel Utena again.

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Nanami storms out of breakfast with Akio, Utena, and Himemiya - unable to forget what she saw the previous night, and angry at them all (including Utena, who is unaware) for acting like nothing weird is going on.  She rants to Miki that she hates them all, then eavesdrops on Touga, who is kissing some girl in the rose garden and telling her how he only pretends to be nice to Nanami.  To add insult to injury:  it's Keiko.  Nanami rushes in and attempts to pick a fight, but they just leave.  Nanami realises that now she's just another of the girls who swarm around Touga; if she isn't his sister, she isn't special.

We see Akio feeding Kanae pieces of apple.  She seems to be drugged, disabled, or hypnotized - unresponsive and needing to be fed by hand.  Himemiya, meanwhile, warns Utena not to disturb them; Nanami comments that Himemiya's protectiveness of her brother is scary, and Himemiya thanks her for the compliment.  Later, when Himemiya has left them to go to bed, Nanami grumbles that Himemiya was probably happy to vacate her place in the bed to make room for Nanami, because it gives her an excuse to sleep with Akio; Utena answers, but seems not to comprehend what Nanami just accused them of.  Then Nanami takes another call on Touga's cellphone, demands to know who the caller is - and is shocked that the answer is "End of the World".

She goes home to Touga and informs him that although she still loves him, she knows they can't go back to the way they were, and so she's requested a transfer to another school.  He grins and holds up the transfer form, which he has intercepted.  Then he announces that he'll introduce her to End of the World, and Akio drives his car in, right through the glass of the French windows.  They take her for a drive and show her the End of the World.

The next day, at school, Keiko is very pleased with herself and, with the other two flunkies, warns Nanami that things will be different from now on.  Nanami beats them up, apparently convincing them to stay under her thumb after all, then goes to the rose garden to challenge Utena - capturing and threatening Chu-Chu as an added inducement.  Nanami fights with a curved sword drawn from Touga's body, and loses.  In the last scene, Akio asks Touga if he's going to tell Nanami the truth - that they were both adopted, from the same birth parents, and so are biological siblings after all - and Touga says probably not.  It's more romantic to leave things as they are.

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