The series is about a Japanese national who gets kidnapped by an assassin syndicate called Inferno after he personally witnesses an assassination while visiting the United States. Inferno is a criminal organization attempting to unite all known underworld mob gangs into one conglomerate. To achieve their goal, Inferno deploys its assassin operatives, who are codenamed Phantom. Among them is an amnesiac girl named Ein and the Japanese national, who was given the name Zwei as his codename after being brainwashed of his previous memory.
An announcement regarding the show was first announced in the January issue of Kadokawa Shoten's Newtype magazine with Yoshimitsu Yamashita, Mutsumi Sasaki and Yoko Kikuchi being the main animators with Bee Train being in charge of animation.[5] Soon afterwards, a promotional video of Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom was broadcast on Biglobe.[6] Music for the series is created under Masumi Itō, using the alias Hikaru Nanase.[2] For the first 19 episodes, the opening song "Karma" is written and sung by Kokia and arranged by Hikaru Nanase, with the ending song "Jigoku no Mon" (地獄の門, Gates of Hell) is sung by Ali Project with CD singles released.[7] From episode 20 onwards, a 2nd opening song "Senritsu no Kodomotachi" (戦慄の子供たち, Children of Fear) is sung by Ali Project[8] with a 2nd ending song "Transparent" written and sung by Kokia and also arranged by Nanase.[9] In addition, the OST of the show with CD singles by Ayahi Takagaki and Miyu Irino have been released to the public on July 8, 2009.[7]
The Japanese DVD releases of Volume 1 came out on July 24, 2009 with subsequent releases from Volumes 2 to 10 on August 25, 2009, September 25, 2009, October 23, 2009, November 25, 2009, December 22, 2009, January 22, 2010, February 25, 2010, March 25, 2010 and April 23, 2010. FUNimation released the series on Blu-ray and DVD in 2011.[10][11] A manga adaptation of the show was published in tankōbon form on May 23, 2009 by Media Factory and Nitroplus,[12] with the manga being illustrated by Masaki Hiragi under Media Factory's Monthly Comic Alive's February issue.[13]
A teenage boy wakes up to find himself alone in an empty room with no memory of his own identity or past. He surveys the room and discovers he is a Japanese tourist then suddenly realizes the only thing he can remember is that someone was trying to kill him. While he explores the seemingly abandoned building, he is suddenly attacked by the masked person from his memories and is told to fight with everything he has or die. Meanwhile, someone is remotely watching his actions. Deciding that he wants to live, he fights back and momentarily gains an advantage; as he attempts to make a killing blow, the mask cracks and his attacker is revealed to be a girl. He attempts to leave but finds himself surrounded by a desert and the girl, no longer attacking him, introduces as Ein. She tells him he will now either live on as an assassin named Zwei or be killed. These scenes are interspersed with a flash forward of Zwei and Ein working together as "Phantom" on an assassination mission. Ein, poses as a maid, along with Zwei, manage to eliminate an entire household of armed guards and the head of a mafia boss in Las Vegas, once again proving their absolute power and indispensability to a mysterious organization called Inferno.
Ein conducts personal training to Zwei after agreeing to work with Inferno for several days, ranging from sparring in martial arts to small arms use in order to hone his skills as a potential Inferno assassin in upcoming Inferno-approved missions. Claudia enters the complex right after Scythe Master picks up Ein without revealing her presence and tells Zwei about the objectives of Inferno, as well as to give "hope" to Zwei that he can find out who he is before she leaves him with a goodbye. Meanwhile, the Scythe Master deploys Ein in an assassination mission somewhere in the United States to kill a person of interest.
After more training with Ein, Zwei is going to be tested. He has to kill a man named Lieutenant Wallace of the Navy SEALs, who sold weapons to Inferno, but because they weren't his only customers and he sold many weapons to terrorists. Wallace eventually sullied the name of Inferno and put them in danger of being suspected by the FBI after an FBI agent was found dead in Mexico, forcing him to beat Zwei and defeat him in a duel to the death in order to allow Inferno in rebuilding his life all over again. After hesitation of killing Wallace and almost being killed by him, his assassination skills awake because all he wants to do is live and he shoots Wallace in his head after wounding him by using a combat knife to stab him in Wallace's right arm. After the killing, Zwei regrets what he did, and Ein explains how to deal with his inner conflict by completely accepting "Zwei". He refuses and Ein agrees to kill him. He closes his eyes to accept his fate but Ein fires away from him causing "Zwei" to completely awaken since he wants to live.
Ein and Zwei are given the order to kill Don Lucio, the boss of a mafia family based in Dallas, Texas as their first assignment together. Because he never leaves his mansion, the two Phantom assassins have one chance in either making the mission work or not. With the unexpected help of Scythe Master, who drove in to assist the two assassins in making their getaway, Ein and Zwei were able to successfully kill their assigned target and flee for safety. The two were later sent abroad to lay low due to the success of their mission. Zwei then contemplates on how he had been indoctrinated successfully by Inferno as a now skilled hired assassin and killer.
Inferno wishes to acquire Melanie Square, an LA area run by Tony Stone. He's a conservative mafia boss who draws the line at hard drugs, and cares about the people under his protection. Claudia is assigned to deal with him, and she manipulates and orders Zwei into shadowing Tony's wife and son, and to be prepared to kill them if necessary. A meeting is set up between the parties. Claudia demands that Tony yields, and threatens his family. He refuses and has his henchmen attempt to kill Claudia and Lizzie. Ein snipes most of the henchmen from a distance, and the girls escape. Meanwhile, Zwei infiltrates Tony's residence and meets the boy and his mother. His eyes shine murderously and, after killing the mother and hesitating for a moment, the son as well.
The surviving members of Tony's mafia plan revenge against Inferno by planning to release crucial information on certain mobsters who are suspecting of supporting Inferno from behind the scenes to discredit and make the outside world aware of its existence and as a result be eliminated from the inside because Inferno relies on absolute secrecy of its affairs. However Inferno is aware of Tony Stone's plan, and Scythe Master seizes the opportunity with his own secret agenda in mind and proposes a plan to conduct an assassination spree on all anti-Inferno mafia leaders and personnel in the West Coast of the United States with Ein and Zwei being in the forefront working with Lizzie to carry out the assassinations on the orders of its top leaders under insistence from Claudia. During a scene with Ein and Scythe Master, who is taking pictures of Ein for data purposes, he reveals his hidden agenda to change the world to his will instead of Inferno's will and states that he knows God is watching everything that has transpired to lead up to that goal. Thanks to Ein and Zwei's efforts, Inferno is able to plant their own leaders to replace those they assassinated and solidify their influence in the area. The same dog from the previous episode shows up once at the beginning of the episode at Ein and Zwei's apartment and again at the grave where Tony Stone and his family lay.
Ein leaves Zwei to meet Scythe Master, and Zwei decides to practice his driving while she is gone. However, McCunnen appears and begins to move in on Zwei, to which Scythe Master warns Ein not to let the infatuated McCunnen steal Zwei away. Ein is not worried as she believes Zwei is not necessary for the mission; Scythe Master agrees that their pairing was completely random, which is later found out to be false. Meanwhile, Ms. McCunnen starts to form her own plans within Inferno. Later on in the day, Ein has a dream about her past, where she first met the Zwei's original self who witnesses an assassination of an Inferno targeted reporter who had information on the dark organisation. The reporter was shot by Ein after giving the information to a clueless Zwei. Zwei seeing the horror flees from the scene. A scene is shown of Zwei hiding under a cloak, a can is heard falling (identical to that of the time Zwei assassinated the mother and child) and the same strange dog from the previous episodes appears. If watched closely the dog is actually transparent as the building in the back can be seen through it. After fleeing for days, Zwei is caught by Ein and Scythe Master, who seems interested in his innate ability to survive. Ein wakes Zwei up and Zwei asks Ein whether she has had any dreams about her past like him, (some may think the previous dream was Zwei's but that was actually Ein's memory), referring to the dream he had in the first episode. Ein replies that she has. However, she is apathetic and uninterested in finding out her past. Later on, the two are asked to back up a Phantom operation that consists of stealing 500 kilograms of cocaine. Right as they are about to head out, Zwei is asked to switch jobs and protect Ms. McCunnen in Lizzie's place instead. Though hesitant at first, Ein insists that Zwei follow Ms. McCunnen's orders, so Zwei agrees. Meanwhile Ms. McCunnen's plans to get rid of Scythe Master are revealed.
Ein is dispatched to take out Inferno henchmen in a warehouse district as part of Claudia's plan to eliminate Scythe Master and take Zwei for herself. Claudia, in summoning Zwei to her mansion, gives him his Japanese passport and reveals his real name and trueself to be Reiji Azuma. As the memories from his past come flowing back, his original personality is fully reawakened. Reiji regrets and is shocked by everything Zwei has done. Claudia offers him a place alongside her after revealing her feelings to him and states that if he wants he can return to Japan. Reiji contemplates his options stay in America or return to Japan. However, after a phone call to his family, he realizes that he can never return to that life because of all the killing he has done and the duty entrusted to him by a certain someone to take care and protect Ein. He returns to the complex hideout to see Ein wounded after being shot by Lizzie when the two confronted each other. Reiji receives a call from Claudia, telling him that he will be killed if he assists Ein in any way. Refusing to be intimidated, Reiji helps Ein remove the bullet from her wound before he secretly evacuates her from the complex in order to avoid being tracked down by Inferno for refusing to join with Claudia in her plans to take over Inferno and get rid of Scythe Master. During the past episode there are hints of a destiny awaiting Ein and Zwei in the form of a Mongolia brochure which will be revealed eventually.
Reiji, now rejecting his Phantom self Zwei, escapes with Ein while the rest of Inferno gets worked up on finding Scythe Master. Ein had planned to commit suicide by shooting herself as she had no place to call home before Reiji stops her from killing herself. He consoles her and gives her a new name and identity of her own: Eren. Eren encounters Scythe Master in an alley after gunning down an armed man looking for her. Lizzie and Claudia capture Reiji in a parking lot when he is about to hotwire a car. Reiji is subsequently interrogated, being accused of assisting Scythe Master in rebelling against Inferno. Claudia offers Reiji assistance in saving Eren, by releasing his restraints and offering him a pistol for him to use. In return, Reiji promises Claudia that he will take care of Scythe Master.
Reiji in the interrogation room remembers a talk he had with Eren in the car about how she would react to the name Eren. When the flashback we return to the interrogation room. To be able to kill Scythe Master Reiji has to reconnect with his Zwei persona in order to use the latter's assassination skills and power. However he has trouble controlling Zwei and as a result begins acting strangely. Lizzie and her group are dispatched by Claudia upon learning of Scythe Master's whereabouts, in order to fulfill Claudia's plan. Although reluctantly, Claudia insists Lizzie also admits Reiji into the assassination team and are it is dispatched to a wharf in San Francisco, where Scythe Master is being protected by militia of a former acquaintance. As a result of Reiji accepting the gun and agreeing to kill once again, he is also empowering Zwei while simultaneously rejecting him. Reiji's only goal is killing Scythe Master. When he finally makes contact with Scythe Master, Eren is also with him but Reiji realizes that all his efforts to make Eren independent have been undone by Scythe Master. When Lizzie engages in the ensuing fight, Reiji loses track of Scythe Master and Eren. Eren agrees to protect Scythe Master's escape. Reiji get fed up and uses Zwei's true power and is able to track Scythe Master's movements and is able to phantom shift. The strain of using Zwei's power while still mentally rejecting him causes Reiji to go berserk. Eren finds the standoff when Reiji finally corners Scythe Master. When he fires the killing shot Eren at the last second takes the bullet for her master, Reiji looks on in shock as Eren falls into the sea. Reiji drops to his knees, stunned, and Scythe Master shoots him declaring that this was an interesting finale for the battle between him and Ein. All Scythe Master's reinforcements are defeated but Scythe Master himself escapes to Claudia's surprise. As Reiji sinks into the ocean he remembers his promise to make Eren truly smile and live her life as a normal girl. At the end Reiji is seen on a beach lifeless as the sun rises.
A recap is shown of the events leading up to the finale and three months after Reiji's near fatal death at the hands of the Scythe Master in the wharf district of San Francisco, Inferno was able to take control of some of the crime families in the eastern area of the United States and integrate them into Inferno courtesy of Claudia and her phantom Zwei/Reiji. Isaac confides to Raymond that Claudia has been acting suspicious after the conference. Claudia is later seen to visiting the grave of Romero McCunnen. Reiji, now taking the codename of Zwei again after recovering from his wounds, is declared to be Phantom by Raymond after killing off multiple gunmen at an unknown warehouse complex.
Six months later, Reiji has just taken down the No. 2 man in the Gambino family in his latest assignment, leaving Inferno in sole control of the East Coast and spreading fear in the criminal underworld. Reiji by his own will decided to stay and work for Claudia but what he really wants is to protect the innocent from Inferno's rampage. The outside world is aware of the assassinations called phantom assassinations but that's all they know. Claudia as per her plan receives permission from McGuire to directly handle negotiations with the Godo clan in order to control the monopoly of exports to Japan, the Godo being the people she conspired with to set her plans in motion. When she and Reiji go off to meet representatives of the Godo clan in Isaac's territory, they find that all the men, including some of Isaac's, have been killed by a professional assassin. Reiji finds a passerby killed in the crossfire. He removes the cover and it is revealed to be a woman with her arms folded peacefully, and Reiji is moved by the sight. He finds out from Lizzie that the woman was peaceful, with no harmful items in her apartment. He returns later to the scene to mourn, bringing flowers with him (when he first enters the scene there are leafless trees surrounding the area), there he finds a girl named Cal Devens. Reiji calmly stoops down in prayer next to the girl who tells him that it was her sister Judy who was killed. She tells Reiji that she knows who killed Judy and insists on working with him to investigate. Reiji doesn't want to take her but seeing that she is a potential witness and victim of Inferno he takes Cal with him to protect her from Inferno and to avenge Judy.
Isaac orders Randy, his personal assassin, to find out who took the five million dollars from the crime scene, that is Cal. Lizzie who is doing recon for Reiji is found by a suspicious Isaac making her tell him everything. Reiji is accused by Isaac of lying to hide Cal away from him as he wants to interrogate Cal regarding the shootings in his turf and the five million dollars. Isaac hearing a sound in the background of the apartment realizes Reiji is harboring the girl. Reiji decides to protect the girl no matter what but Isaac decides instead of bloodshed let the head of Inferno decide what is going on. Reiji reveals that he knew all along that Cal didn't see who the attacker was and that she was lying but so was he about his assassin friend who was Lizzie. Reiji and Lizzie face McGuire, Isaac and Claudia on whether the former was hiding something from them. He promises to train Cal to be an assassin as he claims she has the potential to be a killer like him. He doesn't want her to be an assassin but states that for her safety a front must be shown to Inferno to make it believable. Before going to the meeting, Cal shows him the $5 million dollars she hid from the scene after Judy was killed by stray gun fire and pleading to him to kill those responsible for Judy's death yesterday. In the end, Reiji is conflicted on how he should avenge Judy's death and train Cal to be a successful assassin but at the same time not let her follow his dark path.
Reiji and Cal go out to get clothes before he starts to train her in firearms when he is told by Lizzie that McGuire wishes to get details on Cal's training. Meanwhile, Claudia tells Reiji that she plans to use Daisuke Godo and his henchmen to smoke out Isaac as she believes that he's the one responsible for the shootings back in Los Angeles. Reiji shadows the Godo group in Las Vegas before he finds one of the group's henchmen killed in his Las Vegas hotel room. Reiji pursues the supposed assassin towards the elevator when he catches a supposed glimpse of the assassin, who he thinks is Eren. However, Reiji thinks that Eren can't be alive since he remembers accidentally shooting her.
Daisuke Godo is furious over the murder of his men once again and demands an explanation with Claudia promising that she'll do everything in her power to smoke out the culprits responsible. Reiji is given the assignment to locate the culprits responsible for killing Godo's subordinates. Accepting the assignment, Reiji brings Cal along to assess the situation and determine the potential sniping locations where the assassins will use to disrupt the meeting between the Godo clan and the executives of Inferno. During the meeting, Reiji is able to gun down one of the armed assassins during his counter-sniping assignment with Cal. He finds out that the sniper he killed is Randy Weber, the right-hand man of Wisemel. However, a second sniper rifle is heard when the meeting is interrupted. Daisuke Godo and his remaining subordinates point their sidearms at the Inferno executives. Reiji again suspects, but cannot bring himself to accept, that Ein survived, and is acting as the second sniper.
To appease Daisuke Godo, Claudia shoots and kills Isaac as the one responsible for the sniper attack. Later, Reiji confides to Lizzie that the sniping occurred after Randy Weber was killed, which means it wasn't part of Isaac's plan. Reiji plants the money that Cal stole at Wisemel's mansion to implicate him further in his treachery. If Wisemel was the one responsible for Judy's death and the crime spree then the money would belong to him. At the apartment Cal offers to help Reiji in his assassinations but he doesn't want her to get involved any further but Cal still wants to help Reiji as she feels isolated with Reiji acting alone in this assassin lifestyle. Reiji explains to Cal that he hates himself for becoming an assassin and that he can't stop killing no matter what he does in this life since as he exists as a part of phantom Zwei. He explains to her that if he wasn't in the world of the living all the people that Zwei killed and by extension him would still be alive. During the conversation with Cal she asks why he kills, if not for duty or anything else what was the reason. Cal realizes that he wasn't killing because he wants to but because he has to. It is his karma, he has a higher purpose set up for him by God, but Cal doesn't want to be separated from him and wants to be together with him. Crying he explains that he wanted to return. When he says return he means to go back to a world of happiness, joy and love. A world where he can truly be together with Cal and he finally says to God to let him go to Cal's world when he dies and is finally free of Zwei. Cal confirms to his plea and says she will come to his world, (his world of darkness). During this scene the locket watch is emphasized. Meanwhile Scythe Master reveals himself (Scythe Master and the second in command of the Godo clan Shiga had their own plans), Scythe Master had Ein frame Reiji making him the killer of one of the Godo clan's men, resulting in them thinking he was responsible for all the killings. Scythe Master smiles as everything is proceeding as planned and he will get his revenge on Claudia. The leader of the Godo clan and his brother force Lizzie to call Reiji and trick him into coming into a trap. Reiji leaves the apartment promising to become his true living self once again.
Claudia remembers the time when Romero was dead in her arms and promises to take her memories of him to heaven, (notice before in previous episodes the reflection of her estate on the pool was normal but it didn't match the reflection and now the reflection was on top and the real world estate was at the bottom, this was the place Godo clan wanted to put Claudia). Upon reaching the rendezvous, Reiji realizes it is a trap by Daisuke Godo and his men. When Reiji tries to convince Godo of the misunderstanding, the Yakuza leader reveals himself to be the one back then who attacked the Inferno Cargo and stole the cocaine to build the Godo clan market, he also reveals to Reiji and Lizzie that it was Claudia who set everything up and they all were being used by her and that Claudia has tricked his gang and wanted to take them over. Shocked by everything said, Reiji stands speechless. Claudia's plan was to get Daisuke's group to join Inferno. Godo tells Reiji that Claudia used all of them as chess pieces to further her own goals. Before anything else can happen, an unknown sniper attacks all of them, killing two Godo men allowing Lizzie to escape while the rest are killed or scattered, Reiji pursues the attacker and comes face to face with Eren. But Eren, now reverting to her Ein persona, warns him that Inferno will kill him before escaping. Reiji couldn't believe what's happening but realizes it all boils down to one man, the reason Eren reverted to Ein and doing all the horrible things, Scythe Master. The Yakuza Daisuke survives the attack and remembers Mio, his sister, who was separated from the family, he remembers that he and Shiga, his brother and second in command were part of a world that Mio can't be a part of because of her innocence and makes Shiga to promise to watch over Mio should anything happen to him. Daisuke wants revenge on Inferno but Shiga has already made plans with Scythe Master. Should this event occur he will kill Daisuke preventing war between Inferno and the Godo clan. He kills him to prove the Godo group's loyalty to Inferno. Lizzie goes to Claudia's mansion but finds it empty. Reiji rushes back to the apartment to Cal, he hears her voice in his head saying to stay alive. He remembers her telling him how she loves him and that he gave her everything she ever wanted. He reaches the apartment and sees a light on thinking Cal is inside but to Reiji's horror the apartment blows up, leaving Reiji to think Cal has died.
Reiji kills Inferno's men who bombed his apartment and killed Cal after which he makes his escape. Scythe Master and Shiga explain the whole situation to McGuire. Scythe Master revealed how she tried to manipulate and kill him using Phantom. Scythe Master understands Inferno will take care of Claudia but insists that Ein face-off against Zwei. Meanwhile, Reiji is in a dumpster alley. Claudia calls Reiji to tell him the reason for her betrayal and needs his help to escape but after she hangs up he tosses away the phone thinking of Cal. Meanwhile, while driving Lizzie remembers a promise made between her and Claudia: to follow Claudia where ever she goes even in death. Claudia already knows that the path of life she takes from that point in time might result in her death but she wants to go to a special place in heaven as a requiem for Romero, since he was unable to make it there. Eren goes to kill Reiji per Scythe's orders, and Scythe while talking to his comrade who helped him escape Inferno reveals the next generation of assassins he's creating: the Zahlen Schwestern based on the data from Ein and Zwei although they are not complete. He reveals that Eren is no longer needed. His comrade mentions mass numbers of assassins to be used but Scythe explains these assassins are a sketch once the sketch is complete the actual end will come, he also talks about the muses twisted prank. The muses he talk about are the two the muses of Comedy and Tragedy but they might play a prank on the final falling curtain. Lizzie finds Claudia and wants to take responsibility for executing her. Claudia and Lizzie drive to the beach, Claudia explains the reason she did everything and that now that her time had come this was what she always wanted but because of the "speed" she took in everything, she left Lizzie behind. Claudia runs on the beach heaven appears before her, she kneels down in satisfaction, Lizzie gets ready to shoot and Claudia tells her until the end, that is, when Lizzie's time comes they will be reunited, Lizzie shoots. Reiji returns to the desert warehouse and Eren arrives to kill him. After he persuades Eren to stop, the girl wants him to end her suffering. Reiji refuses to kill her and since he has a promise he is able to keep he would like to keep it. Eren decides to leave Scythe Master and Inferno and escape with Reiji. Lizzie visits Claudia and her brother Romero's graves. After getting fake Mexican passports, Reiji and Eren prepare to leave America, Reiji stops at a church and remembers the promise made between him and Cal to be together in her world. Still thinking she is dead he says he won't be coming to her world yet as he needs to take care of Eren first and they depart. Cal's gun and the locket watch is shown on a plate hinting a possibility.
This episode is actually a summary of Cal's life with Reiji. There is a new scene revealed in this episode showing Cal's cleaning Reiji's apartment and Reiji entering to see Cal wearing a maid uniform. Coming to the end of the episode Cal fixed the old tape recorder to watch movies and she goes to the video store to buy movies to watch and as she steps out of the video store a poster of a movie called back draft is shown on the glass and coincidentally a back draft is a type of explosion and this exact type of explosion happened to the apartment from the bomb planted. When Cal sees the apartment in flames she rushes to it knowing that Reiji has not come home yet and if he sees the apartment in flames he will think Cal is dead and not come back which is why she screams out his name. When the fire has burnt out, Cal returns to the completely destroyed apartment to wait for Reiji hoping he will come back like he promised, but after a long wait she realizes that he won't be coming and with him gone there will be no way for them to be together since she can't enter his world. As Cal sits she plays the locket watch melody and cries. Little that she knows that this event was part of Claudia's plan against Scythe Master. While she cries there is a broken broom shown with two charms attached to still intact even after the huge explosion, these two charms symbolize Cal and Reiji being together even if a catastrophe happens. Cal cries that Reiji broke his promise that he would never leave and that they would be together, Scythe Master overhears everything she said and pushes the lie that Reiji lied to her and tricked her. She finally asks who he is and at that moment Cal's chance to enter Reiji's world of darkness had come. Meanwhile, Reiji and Eren have headed to the outskirts of Mexico.
2 years have passed since Reiji and Eren escaped America and have settled themselves in a small town in Japan. They try to live out their lives normally and enroll in school. One day, Reiji is dragged by one of his classmates, Sanae, to meet her friend Mio Fujieda, who attempts to confess her feelings for him. After a conversation, both of them agree to go on a date. During their date, Reiji and Mio encounter a biker who does a harmless sneak attack. Reiji goes to a church where Eren is praying. Reiji explains the situation to her, that Inferno has found them. They have a discussion where Eren reveals that during her time with Scythe Master he investigated the Godo clan to use them for his own ends, Mio's real surname is actually Godo, which means she belongs to the Yakuza family, the Godo clan and that she was Daisuke's half sister. They were both from different mothers and because the Godo clan is very important to Inferno and to Shiga the new leader and the one who killed Daisuke, Mio will become a vital trump card for the battle against Inferno. Eren's intention is to be Mio's friend so that she can use her as leverage and encourages Reiji to do the same if the Godo clan and Inferno ever catch up to them. Reiji becomes saddened that everything has come back to the way it was but Eren comforts him, she also mentions that he still hadn't remembered something that had made him even more depressed, but Eren is happy because he forgot since he is happier that way. The pair begin to make plans for their escape. The next day, Reiji goes home from school and encounters the biker again, who produces a familiar pocket watch and plays its tune. To his shock, Reiji instantly recognizes the tune. The biker then reveals herself to be Cal Devens.
At the church Reiji tells Eren that Cal is alive and is working for Inferno as the phantom assassin and expresses his guilt for having introduced her into the darkness of the underworld. Lizzie and Scythe Master begin an operation to kill off a Chinese mafia along with his former comrade who helped him escape Inferno last time but Scythe Master doesn't care about human life. The operation was about Inferno helping the Godo group dispose a rival Chinese mafia from establishing a foothold in the region. As the operatives begin to take action, Scythe Master explains that Phantom can end the operation in ten seconds. Coincidentally Drei appears to crash the mafias' meeting and kill all of them including all of Lizzie's operatives. Lizzie disapproves of the way Scythe handled the situation. She is later told by Scythe that Cal/Drei has problems since she couldn't end her relationship with Reiji, that in order for Drei to become the true phantom she has to kill Reiji with her own hands. Reiji, Eren and their group of friends have lunch together, but Eren is called away after receiving an unknown package. The package is a bullet sent by Drei for a meeting at the church and she departs. Reiji loses track of her and instead encounters Scythe. Scythe Master reveals to Reiji that he has chosen Cal as a tool of revenge against him, and that instead of brainwashing her he has simply played on her feelings for Reiji, fuelling her hatred at his abandonment of her and driving her to become a killer. Scythe thanks Zwei for leaving Cal behind for him to find and hints that Eren is being targeted by her. At the church, Drei introduces herself to Eren.
In the church Drei introduces herself to Ein as the current phantom and refers Ein as the ex-phantom, she explains her meeting with Reiji to Ein and that all she ever wanted these past two years was to track down and kill them both but Ein explains that she will be the one to die, they engage each other but before they fire Reiji enters the church. All three phantoms have finally gathered in the church. Reiji pointing the gun at Cal wants her to stop but after what Cal had to say Reiji realized this person really wasn't the Cal he loved. Drei irritated by the situation was about the pull the trigger on Ein when at last second Lizzie barges in to stop her. Lizzie forces Drei to withdraw and follows after a little reunion speech with Reiji and a warning that Inferno is closing in on them. Ein explains she will organize their escape route and methods of dealing with Inferno using Mio. Reiji calls Shiga reminding him of who he is and warning him about Mio if he makes any suspicious moves. The call came from Reiji who was with Ein on a swing in the park identical to the one Zwei saw in the vision in the very beginning, he tells Ein that he's happy that the innocent Cal is alive but at the same time he let her die meaning that Drei is alive with Cal existing within, Reiji understands what Cal is going through since he had been through the same predicament in the past, him existing within Zwei unable to stop himself from killing. A call from the higher ups of Inferno warns Scythe Master, Drei and Lizzie not to take any action since Mio is being held hostage by Ein and Reiji and should be secured first. Scythe Master looks at a broken cup on the ground with tea spilled since death and blood spill is what Scythe Master exists for. Drei is irritated by the stand off since all she cares about is killing Reiji. Shiga takes action and dispatches some men to watch and protect Mio. Drei and Lizzie have a conversation at a bar about the reason she joined Inferno and how she hates Reiji for abandoning her and running away with another woman, that she will take revenge on him. Little does Lizzie know that the Cal she is with is not the true Cal but the phantom Cal called Drei. Lizzie remembers when Cal first came in for training with Scythe Master but was looking totally spaced out hinting something is wrong. Back at school Reiji and Mio are tricked by Sanae to go see a movie together, he spots Shiga's men and takes action. They settle at a fountain and Mio explains how she realizes how Reiji treasures normal everyday things around them. Reiji doesn't want to tell Mio about the Phantom since he doesn't want her drawn into his world. Mio leaves and Drei appears, to tell Reiji that the game has begun. Reiji understands Cal's anger and agrees to let her kill him and let Ein go, but by him saying this she gets even more irritated. She asks how he could love Ein and abandon her and Reiji, shocked by her question, tries to tell her that he loves her. Before he finishes she punches him. Drei walks through an alley and encounters some street thugs she takes out her pocket watch plays it and quickly defeats all of them, while the song continues to play.
At school, Reiji seems to be out of touch with Mio and her friends. In the meantime, Eren has arranged for a boat to pick her and Reiji up in 5 days. Lizzie notices Drei has disappeared along with some weapons, and although Scythe Master doesn't seem too unhappy with that, she goes to look for her. During her search, Lizzie's memories from Drei training are shown. Lizzie feels obligated to protect Cal, as she is young and being manipulated by Scythe. While on a date, Reiji tells Mio that he is glad that the girl who punched him Cal is still alive, although he doesn't reveal any of the story to her. As Mio gets back home from the date, she is approached by Drei. Drei goes against Inferno and forces Mio to get on her bike at gunpoint, and is soon stopped by Lizzie. During their conversation, Drei mentions her intent to kill Mio so that the bosses can ignore her safety and allow Drei to kill Zwei. Lizzie points her gun at Drei and says she cannot let civilians die, and that both she and Zwei never wanted Cal to become an assassin. Cal gives Lizzie a chance to shoot her while the music from her watch is playing. Lizzie remembers Claudia and Romero and the young Cal, and refuses to shoot. When the music is over Cal pulls out her gun, shoots her, and leaves her to die. As she lays there dying, she feels that the burden of killing was too heavy to bear. Drei takes Mio to an abandoned house, where she plans to keep her for the next few days. While there, she tells her the truth about Reiji, and about who Mio's father really is—the head of the Godo family. Drei calls Reiji and threatens to kill Mio if he escapes. Eren and Reiji decide to act separately—Reiji will go along with Drei's wishes, while Eren goes underground to take her out and rescue Mio. Eren believes that Drei's lack of ability to control her emotions will give her and Reiji the upper hand. Shiga from the Godo family goes to Scythe demanding that Mio be returned immediately, and Scythe assures him that he will take care of things. It is revealed that he will use his newest army of Phantoms for the job, who he claims are highly rational and incapable of losing.
In this episode, Reiji contemplate how to resolve the situation with Eren and Cal. He eventually finds out that without his consent Eren has set out to kill Cal and he sets out to stop her. Meanwhile, Shiga visits the head of the Godo clan to get permission to kill all the phantoms to protect Mio from anymore danger but the head of the Godo tells Shiga to let the Americans handle the situation. Meanwhile Scythe Master makes his final preparations to end his elaborate play using his ultimate phantoms. Drei sits thinking about what she had seen in her dream with Cal in the rain and decides she doesn't want to hold Mio captive anymore and want to end everything and set out to meet Eren for a final duel.
Mio wakes up in her bed and goes to meet her mother who explains how things was with her and her father, that her father was alive and that she is in a similar situation with Reiji. Mio realizes that she doesn't belong in the world Reiji is in and calls and tell him where Cal and Eren intend to meet. Drei is haunted by doubt over her conversion into a killer. Reiji goes to the church to meet Eren where he decides that killing Cal is the best thing he can do for her. Drei eventually arrives at the church to meet Reiji where they duel and before she loses we can hear Cal's voice wishing for the salvation she wanted, that is, a world for both Reiji and her to be together. As she is dying, Cal dreams of what it might have been like if Reiji had not abandoned her. Reiji comforts her while she quietly dies in his arms. Scythe Master then appears accompanied by his newest assassins, prepared for a final confrontation with Ein and Zwei.
Eren and Reiji battle against Scythe Master's Phantoms in school's old building and nearby church. They are able to defeat the assassins. Eren finally gets the courage to kill Scythe Master. Couple of months have passed, Reiji helps to uncover Eren's past by going to Hong Kong and learns that Scythe Master adopts a girl (born in Ulan Bator, Mongolia) in an orphanage who looks like Eren. McGuire receives the message that Scythe Master and Drei lost and with so much evidence left Inferno will eventually be finished, but he has one final task before that happens: to kill Reiji. Reiji and Eren ends up in Mongolia. However, when they finally reach their destination in a field of Oxytropis flowers, an unidentified assassin kills Reiji with a silenced gun, and he collapses silently to the ground. Ein then appears to commit suicide by eating a leaf of the poisonous flower. It is hinted in the lead up to his death that Reiji saw his end coming, and accepted it, having considered his final task complete as can be seen in the previous scene we see the Assassin packing the horse cart in the background. Reiji and Cal can finally be together and Eren is at peace with the sky with her true smile and the flower with missing petal that fell off symbolises that Eren isn't a perfect flower but she will be ok.
Original soundtracks
Phantom Requiem for the Phantom Original Soundtrack
Two original soundtracks featuring Hikaru Nanase's score were released in 2009. Both albums featured the TV cut of the opening and ending themes by Kokia and Ali Project. Koichi Mashimo executive produced the album and Nanase's husband Yoshiyuki Ito acted as the music producer. Album two also features the instrumental version of the Zwei image song "Haitoku no Gajou" written by Tatsuya Kato.[14]
Track List
Volume 1 All tracks by Hikaru Nanase except where noted.
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