Protected by a charm from Shun, Saki manages to defeat the Impure Cat before finding him. Shun explains that his entire village was destroyed because his powers went out of control. She also learns from him that the drastic alteration in the world's fauna and flora seen in the last 1,000 years was due to the residual Cantus which flows out of humans who are not in full control. The safehouse where he is being kept is bizarrely warped and his pet bulldog Subaru is mutated into a monstrous form by the leakage of his Cantus which causes him to become a Karmic Demon. A second Impure Cat arrives to kill Shun, and Subaru is killed protecting him. Shun kills the cat, but as he is killed by his own uncontrolled power, he reveals to Saki that he always loved her.