Sayako is invited to interview Tosaku Arai, the leader of the religious group Sonen, who has gained fame for claiming to be Buddha's reincarnation and demonstrating psychic powers.

Yuki explains that Arai is a false prophet and that the real Buddha is Master Taiyou Sorano, the leader of the TSI group of which he is a member.

As they argue, Sayako's younger brother Shunta falls deeply ill as a result of demon possession, with Dr. Amanokawa, their father, being unable to cure him.

Sayako meets the rest of the TSI group, which to her delight includes Mari Kimura, herself a former follower of Arai until she was saved by Sorano, who is finally introduced to her family.

Sorano performs an exorcism on Shunta, revealing that the demon works for Arai and that Sayako has been endowed with spirit vision to fulfill an important mission.

While Sayako, Yuki and Shunta attend a festival to celebrate the boy's recovery, Arai uses his psychic powers to induce a collective hallucination of an alien invasion.

Witness accounts and video footage turn her into a national hero, making the public skeptical of allegations from Sonen that it was Arai who thwarted the invasion.