Haruka: Beyond the Stream of Time – A Tale of the Eight Guardians

Behind the Hated Heart (1x15)

Air date: Jan 11, 2005

Shimon befriends a demon, Sefuru. Sefuru thinks that Shimon is a demon and befriends him. When Sefuru realizes that Shimon is living at Princess Fuji's palace, he becomes jealous of the special treatment that Shimon gets as a demon. He later spies on him to see that Shimon is in an alliance with Akane and he thinks up a plan to use him to lure Akane out. Sefuru's plan leads to the people of Kyou hunting down Shimon. After inori (who believes shimon is a demon) witnesses shimon hurting a child (sefuru actually hurts the child but because he is hiding the people of kyou think shimon did it). inori takes the child from shimon and runs to ayane to remove the impurity. ayane then goes to where shimon is and sefuru attacks her, shimon and yorihisa. shimon wishes to become friends with sefuru again but sefuru thinks shimon has deceived him. shimon wishes from the gaps between them to disappear and uses his earth powers to defeat the onryo.