MUSHISHI-EPISODE 2-LIGHT OF THE EYELID-3 STARS

Okay, this episode is about a girl, named Sui, who can’t see because of mushi. What is mushi again you ask? You must not have liked my last definition, so let me try to explain it to you in another way. Mushi is supernatural crap that can come into your home, or body, and mess you up. Now that I’ve given you another detailed definition of what mushi is, let’s move on to our story.

Biki tells the story of his cousin Sui, who’s eyes became extremely sensitive to light 6 months ago. None of the doctors could find anything wrong with her, and sent her home. As the condition got worst, her parents couldn’t deal with her anymore, so they dumped her off on Biki, who has a shed that can block out all light. By this time Sui’s condition is so bad, she needs total darkness at all times, and must wear a blindfold.

One day, Biki and Sui are hanging out, (yes Biki plays with Sui in the dark for hours on end), when Sui reveals that mushi is the cause of her condition, and that she can feel them swimming around in her eyes. “Okay Sui, that’s gross!” She also talks about a second eyelid behind her outer eyelid, and between the two is a river of light where the mushi live. Sui says she closes her second eye in order to have complete darkness fall upon her “Okay, Biki, your cousin sounds like a total weirdo, so please keep her as far away from me as possible.”

Sui also reveals that she can see a man with one eye, who keeps telling her to stay away from that river, and he’s on his way to see her. Hmmmm. So this mushi can cause people to have telepathic powers too? “HEY, somebody bring that mushi mess on over to my house, I want to be special too! Wait, let me think about this for a minute, I don’t think I want that kind of power if I’m gonna be blind as a bat, so just strike what I said earlier.”

Anyway, Biki’s mom is worried that it he keeps hanging around Sei, he may get the same disease, but its too late, Biki is already infected, as his eyes become extremely sensitive to the candle nearby as he tries to read a book. “Well, not to worry, because Ginko is on the case. Ginko arrives just in time to offer Biki some medicine that makes him well again.

Night falls, then Ginko decides to go see Sei to cure her next, but it may be too late. The blindfold falls off her, and a black smoke comes through her eyes, they’re completely gone. Ginko told her stay away from that river of light! Yes, we find out that it was indeed Ginko that was telepathically talking to Sei earlier. You see, Ginko can also see that river of light when he closes his second eye. Is it too late to save Sei’s eyesight? Maybe, and maybe not.

Ginko is ready to get down to business, he puts on a glove, and uses the moonlight to chase out the mushi. He tells Sei to open her eyes, but to keep her second eyelid closed, and all the sudden, a river a mushi comes out, almost drowning Ginko. He then tells her to shut her eyes, but it’s still too late, her eyes are gone, The End.

Well……….not quite. As a last resort, Ginko takes out his eye, “WAIT A MINUTE, you mean to tell me Ginko has a fake eye? Anything else you want to tell me Ginko, like you’re close friends with Michael Jackson, or something like that?” Anyway, Ginko takes out his glass eye, and injects it with the mushi from Sei’s eye, and places it her socket. And now she can see again. Out of one eye of course, but its better not being able to see at all, and on top of that, she doesn’t have to live in a shed anymore, ALL RIGHT!

Awwwwwww, what a sacrifice Ginko made, to give up his glass eye so that someone else can see. ”Okay Ginko, good job, now go get another eye, so that I won’t be grossed out by watching you walk around with a hole in your socket in the next episode.”

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