Episode 22

Homecoming (帰省, Kikan) is the 22nd episode of the Summer Time Rendering anime.

Synopsis
Holding the necklace left behind by Shadow Ushio, the "first Ushio" inherited all the memories. As Shinpei had planned, Ushio has made a complete comeback. Ushio tries to make a head-on breakthrough against the oncoming Masahito. However, Shinpei calmly stopped her. Shinpei asks Masahito and Haine, who confronted him from where do he think he came from? Haine and the others are astonished when they realize Shinpei's true "conviction". Shinpei points a gun at his head preparing to defeat Hiruko!

Summary
Ushio returns and attacks the shadows. Shide notices that his armor isn't recovering and realizes that Ushio had evolved again and she hacks you the moment her hair touches you. Ushio decide to take out Shide and jumps at him, who is prepared for him, but Shinpei call shadow Mio, who stops Ushio and shares Shinpei's plan. Shinpei asks Shide if he knows from where he came. As Shide isn't aware, Shinpei guesses that the handprint can't track him while he is in the stray shadow. He then places a gun on his head to restart the loop. Haine tells Shide to stop him, but with Ryunosuke's power, Shinpei sees that Shide shoots his arm and dodges it and still shoots himself.

Earlier, Tokiko shows Shinpei on how to summon the stray shadow Guil. As he test it, the shadow falls on Sou, who ends up in the shadow. Sou explains that while inside, he couldn't see anything and Tokiko states its because Guil doesn't have eyes, but because of that his hearing is improved.

While the group waits inside of Guil, Shinpei loops back with Ushio. As they step out of the stray, Haine realizes they are in the Hiruko cave and that Shinpei planned to get Ushio and loop back to the cave. While they head towards Haine's main body, Shinpei is sure that Haine will make them their primal target and won't kill anyone on the surface until they deal with Shinpei's group. Shinpei's group then encounter a shadow, who is missing its top of the head and can shoot teeth. As the shadow had noticed Guil, it shoots two of its teeth in attempt to pin Guil. Tokiko controls Guil and breaks part of the cave, making a wall from the debris and tells the group to proceed without her as she stays with Guil to fight the shadow.

Shinpei's group reach a black wall and Ushio realizes its the black mud. Ginjiro shoots it, but it just regenerates. Ushio decides to hack it, but seeing a bit into the future, Shinpei tells her to not touch it. The wall reverse Ushio's hacking and she loses 2 of her fingers, and makes Ushio realize the wall is part of Haine's main body. Shinpei had made Mio copy some fireworks and calls her, stating they will be blowing up the wall. After blowing it up, the group proceeds as the wall slowly closes up. Shinpei then notices Shide and tells Ginjiro to get down and they start shooting at Shide. The wall is almost closed, but Shide manages to get his head inside and Ginjiro shoots it with his shotgun. He tells Shinpei to proceed as he stays behind. A small part of Shide managed to get inside, but Ginjiro shoots it.

Shinpei's group get closer to Haine's main body. Shinpei then hears a loud noise that causes him to feel his head will split. Ushio notes that he can sense shadows now. Mio explains that Haine is constantly emitting her shadow controlling signal. Before it felt like a smooth voice, but after Ushio hacked her, the voice is now awful, but she can easily turn off the sensation, however, since Shinpei is human, he can't ignore the signal. Ushio tells Shinpei to focus on her and as she glows, the banishes Haine's signal from the area. Proceeding, they are attacked by Shide from above, but by spinning her hair, Ushio creates a barrier and protects them. Haine shows up and notices that Shinpei feels off and as he closes his left eye, she senses Ryunosuke inside of him. Haine realizes this is why he is so confident as he now can fight them on his own. While Ushio and Shide fight, Shinpei doesn't use Ryunosuke's power to guide Ushio as either way Haine will warn Shide, and attempts to lure Haine into their "kill zone" trap. While dodging, Haine feels Mio behind her, but senses her and dodges, noting that she can feel all shadows in the area and feels a copied nailgun, which she takes out, however as it was a distraction, Sou appears on her side and shoots the nail gun at her shadow. Haine realizes that Sou had Ginjiro's original gun and she attacked the printed gun, which was a trap. Mio then attacks and slashes her, but Haine tries to focus to warn Shide of what will happen in the next two seconds. She is unable to and Ushio punches Shide, smashing his head. However, a second Shide then comes in. Ushio heads towards Haine's main body, feeling her pain and sadness, knowing she wants to go home with her loved ones. Haine yells Ushio to stop, who recalls her teacher telling her that her hands are not for hurting, but helping others. Ushio proceeds and punches Haine's main body. Shide's mud armor immediately dissolves, making him realize Haine was defeated. Mio then immediately stabs him in the head, saying that if Haine dies, so will she and then starts disappearing.

Ushio states she can't stop crying and Shinpei sees that her right eye turned red. A red light appears and Shinpei's right eye starts to hurt. Mio is still alive and states that Haine must be alive too and that Ushio probably held herself back. Another Shide then appears.

Characters

 * Shinpei Ajiro
 * Ushio Kofune
 * Shide
 * Haine
 * Masahito Karikiri
 * Mio Kofune
 * Tokiko Hishigata
 * Sou Hishigata
 * Ginjiro Nezu