Episode 22: Chii Motomeru (Chii Hopes)
Shown: August 27, 2002
Chii is thinking and Black Chii comes to her, then she starts glowing. Yoshiyuki walks in and says they’re going to find out everything about Chii. Minoru gets a file, which he sends to Hideki. It’s from the same person that sent the pictures and it looks like a map. Shinbo comes back to help and Hideki tells him that he doesn’t want Chii to get hurt, because even if she doesn’t want to remember he will. Yoshiyuki has pulled all the wires out of Chii’s ears and has hooked her up to all of his persocons, and has them all working at once. Hibiya worries about who sent the pictures and the map-like thing. She feels bad because she can do nothing more than write about what Chii has lost in the past. (Insert picture of the cover of one of the picture books that Chii reads). Yuzuki and Minoru narrow down the place that the map could be showing to a few places and figure out that “Dragonfly” was the one who took Chii. (He posted on the message board Minoru was at and liked to start arguments.) Supposedly he has 20 persocons so Hideki and Shinbo look for a big house with a security sticker on it. Chii starts glowing trying to block out all the persocons. After an hour Yoshiyuki still hasn’t gotten anywhere. He tries to touch Chii in “that place” but she wakes from her trance and the wires from her ears grab Yoshiyuki and elevate him in the air. Hideki and Shinbo find 2 houses that match the description. Chii looks different and is glowing very brightly. She tells Yoshiyuki he is not her one and then Hideki sees a window blow outward. All the persons are in a trance again, saying they hear a familiar voice. Hideki goes to Chii and she acts all weird and tells Hideki that only he can touch her there, then asks what is Hideki’s most valuable thing. She is about to kiss him but finally her power gets too much and she passes out. She wakes up and acts like her normal self, saying that she’s glad that Hideki came to get her. She falls unconscious and Shinbo runs to Yoshiyuki to get a confession from him. Because Kotoko has the whole thing recorded on her Shinbo takes her for evidence. The man in black on top of the building says that something was dangerous but won’t tell the girl what. He then says he wants a bit more time. The next morning Chii still hasn’t woken up and Hideki thinks about what happened the night before. All the persocons wake up and Kotoko is scared by the morning exercises they all do. Chii and Hideki go to thank Ueda and pay for the book Chii took.