S01E02 — Nervous Nervous Sweat Sweat - Finals Are Scarier Than the Enemy!?

A starkly lit, black and white scene depicts two men being throw headlong to the ground. Their enemy, Kijima Touta, turns and looks at the tremendous flight of stairs leading up to the Gateway. A girl is running up the stairs towards Kairei and yelling his name. "Please don't do it! Don't die!" He prepares to close the Gate. Kijima begins running, but the girl stops him with her sword. The Gate closes catastrophically, crushing the vessels of the Dark Forces. Too late, the girl turns and runs for Kairei again. Then the blinding flash of the Gate exploding blots out everything.