Fushigi Yuugi: Dai Ni Bu EP2 - Child of Silence

Just before a massive earthquake caused by Tenkou brings down Mt. Taikyou, Taiitsukun explains the memory orbs; Miaka and her friends must find the orbs and return them to Taka before the enemy gets his hands on them, or else Taka/Tamahome would disappear forever. As Mt. Taikyoku collapses, Taiitskun uses her power to protect everyone, but Miaka falls. Tasuki attempts to save her, and wakes up in a lake holding an unconscious Miaka. Despite not being a good swimmer, Tasuki manages to pull himself and Miaka to the shore of the lake, and resuscitates her with mouth-to-mouth. Upon reuniting with Chichiri and Taka, Miaka decides they should head to the palace to find their other friends or the orbs. Back in the real world, Yui asks Shigyou why he made her vice president. Unsatisfied by his answer, she leaves. As Yui heads down stairs, a glass window explodes, injuring her. Shigyou then reveals himself as a demon named Renkou, and declares Miaka his enemy. In the world of the book, Miaka and the group arrive at the palace. After explaining their situation to the prime minister, the group are taken to Empress Houki, who is revealed to have fallen ill after giving birth to her son, and has gone mute, seemingly deliberately/by choice. Hotohori, trapped in his spirit form and sent back to the palace by Taiitsukun's power, mourns the fact that he isn't capable of comforting his widow, who cannot see, hear or feel him. Leaving him with Houki, the group encounters Boushin, Hotohori's toddler son, and the future emperor of Kounan. They attempt to speak with him, but the prime minister reveals that he has not spoken a single word since birth, rendering him mute like his mother. To make matters worse, Boushin also cannot see or hear Hotohori, although he seems aware of his presence. They are suddenly attacked by a terrible monster hiding in the teddy bear that Boushin has been carrying around. The creature traps the mortals, who are hesitant to use their powers to attack the monster for fear of hurting the toddler. Fortunately, before the monster can hurt Boushin, Hotohori's spirit enters him and uses his body to defeat the creature. Realizing he now has a physical form, albeit that of a child, Hotohori runs to Houki, who recognizes him when he greets her, and speaks for the first time in a year and a half. Now reunited with her husband, Houki reveals that a warm stone entered her body while in labor, and feeling the warmth leave her body when the baby is born; they all realize that Boushin is in possession of Hotohori's memory orb. A second assassin creature, disguised as a servant preparing to feed Boushin, attacks the toddler. With the help of Tasuki and Nyan-Nyan, Hotohori is able to defeat the monster. This heroic act seems to reveal Hotohori's spirit to his widow and son, but when they attempt to embrace, Boushin merely passes right through Hotohori. Seeing the family's pain, Taka offers Hotohori the use of his body. With Taka's help, Hotohori is able to hold his son for the first time, and hears him speak his first word - "Papa." This in turn gives Taka access to Hotohori's memory orb, and as he sees Tamahome's memories of Hotohori, Hotohori reminds him that Tamahome and Miaka's love has always been so strong that not even the world's most potent controlling potion could tear them apart. The touching reunion and moment is disturbed again, but this time by Suzaku's red light suddenly engulfing Miaka and Taka, taking them back to the real world. Meanwhile, somewhere else in Kounan, a young man with a familiar resemblance to another Suzaku warrior prays at an altar bearing a glass orb.