Date A Live III

シトはナツミによる、彼に近しい12人を標的とした偽装工作に直面する。

After having a hot pot party with the spirits, Shido and the crew of the Fraxinus depart to meet a new spirit who appeared. Introducing herself as Natsumi, the spirit appears to be friendly to Shido at first, until she suddenly changes her behavior and without further explanation, declares that she will destroy Shido's life before making her leave. Back at school, Shido is surprised when his classmates and teacher accuse him of committing multiple offenses against them, until he learns that the true culprit is Natsumi, who disguised as him to destroy his reputation, but before Natsumi attacks Shido, Touka and Origami intervene and easily distinguish the true Shido from the false, forcing her to retreat. Some days later, Kotori approaches Shido with a letter from Natsumi containing pictures of twelve people close to him. According to the letter, Natsumi disguised herself as one of them and is challenging Shido to identify the imposter before all of them are disappeared. (Source: Wikipedia)

柚鶴の失踪後、夏美の正体隠しについて友人を調査するシト

To find out who among his friends was replaced by Natsumi, Shido starts having individual meetings with each of them. After meeting Touka, Yoshino, Hiroto, and Yuzuru, Shido decides that none of them could be Natsumi in disguise. However, in the next day, just before having a date with Kotori, Shido learns that Yuzuru was attacked by Natsumi and disappeared, prompting Shido to move fast in order to expose Natsumi before more disappearances occur. (Source: Wikipedia)

篝と折紙が消えた後、士道は夏海がヨシノンの正体だと推測する

Shido goes on a date with Kotori, Kaguya, Miku, Ai Mai Me, Tama sensei and Origami but is still unable to determine who Natsumi is disguising as. As a result, Natsumi causes more people to disappear and only Kotori, Kaguya, Miku and Origami is left. The 4 remaining girls and Shido gather together to brainstorm on the identity of Natsumi. Natsumi appears and informs them that they only have 3 guesses left. During the brainstorming, they discuss the possibility that Natsumi might actually be one of those that have already disappeared. Origami also comments that Natsumi might not actually be a person literally. She stabs a knife through the photos to ensure that Natsumi is not hiding herself as a photo. The group guess wrongly twice and both Kaguya and Origami is sucked up by <Haniel> as a result. Miku loses hope and passes her hair ornament to Shido and comments that she doesn't want the hairpin to disappear together with her and wants something for Shido to remember her by. Triggered by Miku's comments on "things disappearing together", as well as the earlier discussion, Shido realizes that Yoshinon the puppet was able to catch his handphone despite Yoshino not being able to see it. Thus Shido is able to guess that Natsumi is disguising herself as Yoshinon the puppet. Natsumi is shocked that she has lost and momentarily loses control of <Haniel>. All the missing people reappears and Natsumi's true form of a little girl is revealed. Natsumi, angry that her true appearance has been seen again, transforms the spirits into a younger version of themselves. Shido is shocked beyond words. (Source: Wikipedia)

シトがナツミをDEMから救出し、彼女が過去のトラウマと向き合う中、オリガミが情報引き換えの交渉を行う

Shido has his hands full dealing with the spirits in child form, much to Natsumi's joy, as she is determined to make him suffer. Meanwhile, the top executives of DEM Industries are eager to get their revenge on Westcott and make plans to kill him no matter the cost. When Natsumi is attacked by a DEM platoon led by Ellen, Shido and the other spirits appear to rescue her. Weakened from the battle, Natsumi becomes unable to summon her angel and is confined by Kotori. Shido then confronts Natsumi and learns that she loathes him because he saw her true form as a child, and that she believes he would never care about her because of that. Meanwhile, Origami is being hunted down by her former employees until she accepts working for DEM in exchange for information about a fire that happened five years ago. To cheer Natsumi up, Shido and the spirits take her to a full course of activities involving relaxing, buying clothes and make up, to show her that she can become pretty even as a child, when DEM interferes. (Source: Wikipedia)

絶望が襲いかかる

倒錯した霊力を求める Origami に Shido が捕らえられ、Kotori が Ellen と戦う

Shido learns that Origami left the school and looks for her at her apartment, where she captures him. While Kotori starts looking for him, Origami tells Shido that despite knowing that the spirits are not a threat once sealed, she must uphold the promise she made to wipe them all out in revenge for her parents' death. She then leaves to fight Tohka and the others while the Fraxinus is intercepted by Ellen, piloting one of DEM's ships. Despite the enemy ship being better equipped, Kotori refuses to surrender, and both ships fight, while a restrained Shido begs for Origami to stop. (Source: Wikipedia)

倒れた後、オリガミがメタトロン力を得て、シトが争いに介入する。

As Origami fights against the other Spirits, Natsumi and Yoshino rescue Shido. The Fraxinus continues to battle against Ellen and her ship while Tohka struggles to protect the others from Origami's attacks, until she manages to regain her lost power and defeat her. Having lost the battle Origami accepts Phantom's offer of more power and transforms into a Spirit herself equipped with <Metatron>, vowing kill all Spirits before committing suicide to ensure that no one can be harmed by them anymore. When she resumes the fight against Tohka, Shido appears to stay on her way, leading her to retreat. Later, as the other Spirits are recuperating and Shido prepares to seal Tohka again, Origami appears before Kurumi. (Source: Wikipedia)

オリガミがファントムを殺すために過去へ旅立つが、両親の死の原因が自分自身であることを知る

Origami persuades Kurumi to send her to the past to prevent her parents' death using her untested Twelfth Bullet: Yud Bet. Once there, she confronts Phantom and attempt to kill her, just to later discover that it was one of her attacks that killed her parents, and the Spirit that was the source of her revenge was no other than herself, much to her despair. Returning to the present, fallen to her Inverse form <Devil>, an emotionless Origami attacks the hospital where Shido and the other Spirits were recuperating. Despite the Spirits and Fraxinus' backup, Shido finds his voice can no longer reach Origami, until Kurumi appears and also sends Shido five years earlier hoping that he could change the past. (Source: Wikipedia)

シトとクルトミは過去を変えるために五年前の天狗市へ旅する

Kurumi syncing with Shido directs him to the spot where Kotori received her Spirit powers. Using Natsumi's magic to disguise as his 10-year-old self, Shido is force to witness the events that took place when future Origami arrives and attacks. He found Origami's parents getting unintentionally killed. Shido comforts past Origami; however, she claims Shido should carry her emotions and vows to avenge her parents, causing Shido and Kurumi to grasp that their actions is what influenced Origami's behavior in the future. Not giving up, Kurumi leads Shido to meet her past self with the method to alter history. Both Kurumis communicate and reach an agreement. Considering the facts, Shido interacts with Phantom who in turn seems to know him and uncensored into a pink-haired girl. She refuses to hide and just when history is about to repeat itself, Shido pushes Origami's parents out of the way and takes the hit. He then awakens in his bedroom. (Source: Wikipedia)

シトドはオリガミと謎のスピリットデビルに関わるタイムラインの変化を発見する

Shido finds the world is different but nobody really recounts Origami. The girls notice that something is troubling Shido, because he wishes to see Origami once more. Natsumi proposes Kotori and Yoshino to cheer Shido up in embarrassing maid outfits. Shido then discovers what's different in this new timeline when Kotori mentions an unidentified Spirit called "Devil," and in footage, Shido recognizes her to be Origami. The next day, Origami reappears as a new student in Shido's class, who has a completely changed of personality. Shido calls Kotori for information, and learns Origami was a still a member of the AST until she retired for unknown reasons. At lunchbreak, Shido talks with Origami and summarizes that her associating with the AST were not so dramatic, Origami believes the guy who saved her parents and "died" could have been Shido's brother, and her parents gave her so much sweetest but ironically still died due to a car accident four years ago. Shido feels tired and sleeps on the rooftop. Kurumi later wakes him up and reveals she remembers everything from the old timeline. When Origami discovers the both of them together, she suddenly transforms into her Inverse Spirit form and attacks. She goes back to normal after Kurumi retreats, but does not recall what just happened. (Source: Wikipedia)

シトウとクルミはタイムラインの記憶を保持し、シトウは Origami を封印する

Shido illuminates how he and Kurumi are the only ones who retain knowledge of the previous timeline. Reine analyzed footage from Origami's Inverse form and theories that despite the alteration of space-time continuum Origami possesses both personas of her current and old self, which the latter acts as a self-defense mechanism whenever she comes across a Spirit. He'd already preschedule the usual plan to have Origami fall for Shido and seal her powers. The two developed genuine moods on their date, although Shido refuses to oblige to Ratatoskr's three-way choice, wanting to advance Origami's previous aspects that catches her attention. Later, when Shido rescued Origami from falling off the cliff edge, she notice Efreet's flame healing Shido's wound, and transforms into Devil. Tohka and the Spirit Team sense the dreadful danger and intercept the Devil's Satan with Fraxinus shoot down. Within Origami's subconscious she comes into conflict with her old self, Shido breaks through and grabs her hand. Even though Origami didn't have real affections for Shido before, he reasons that she no longer has to carry her burdens alone and he kisses her, reverting to her true Astral Dress. Kotori and the Fraxinus crew have survived. Shido is at school while Origami and Tohka resume to their previous status quo. (Source: Wikipedia)

シドウの不安定なスピリットリンクが競争的な恋愛チャレンジへと繋がる

Shido is exhibiting unusual physics, and after careful analysis, Reine asserts that the link between Shido and all Spirits he has imprinted is merging in an unstable circulation causing overheat his body with absurd powers. To deal with this problem, the Spirits have to kiss Shido to make the link flow inside him secure, but before they could Shido rampaged out of the infirmary. A flirtatious Shido ignites Yoshino and Miku's powers on the townspeople (including Ellen) to his amusement. Everyone catches up to him and declares he will only cooperate if they can make him fall for them. A competition is held in a manor, the girls dress in swimsuits to charm Shido. Although Origami suggests nudity, change the idea to simply strip to seduce Shido. Kannazuki began to take things too far so Fraxinus shuts off communication. Initially unfazed by their advances, Yuzuru, Kaguya, Natsumi, Yoshino, Kotori, Miku, and Origami spontaneously got Shido to feel lust. Tohka is the final; however, Shido collapse and develops abnormal Spirit signs and a spatial quake is about to emerge from him that could be more disastrous than 30 years ago. The Spirit Team race against time, except Kotori had prepared a weapon for this occasion but Origami stops her. Kurumi led a hand, as the girls take turns in kissing the berserk Shido. Both Tohka and Shido's Sandalphon clash; a defenseless Tohka walks up and comes to the realization of love, and kisses him. His body and personality is cured, while Shido and Tohka share a moment alone. (Source: Wikipedia)