Episode Title:
The Memory of the Red Ring.
Episode Description:
Sakura and the rest of the students from the school get a warning from a masked woman in a kimono, telling them to make an offering in the weather-box or be cursed forever. Suspecting Rinne, Sakura questions him but Rinne seems to be innocent. The masked woman, revealed to be Rinne's grandmother, Tamako, arrives to retrieve the students' offerings and is followed by both Rinne and Sakura into the spirit world, where Rinne confronts his grandmother. Sakura, however, gets separated from Rinne and falls to a spirit temple festival, where she meets a suspicious pink rabbit that guides her to the Circle of Reincarnation, a magic red circle suspended in the sky that is where spirits go after they pass on to be reborn. Meanwhile, Tamako helps Rinne find Sakura on the Circle of Reincarnation, where Rinne promptly brings her back and defeat the pink bunny who threatens to stop them. Returning to Tamako's house, she warns Sakura from ever going on the Circle of Reincarnation because she is still a living person, in addition to stay away from creatures like the pink bunny, who are damashigami, shinigami who illegally steal living people to be reborn to fill up their spirit quota. As Rinne takes Sakura home, she remembers encountering the same rabbit on her first trip to the spirit world, where Tamako fed her some candy and allowed her subsequently to see spirits.
