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Sanctuary is the thirty-second episode of the anime.
Synopsis[]
Lotte has a chance encounter with Nina and discovers that they are both researching Schuwald.
Summary[]
Lotte Frank meets Nina, who is researching on the late Margot Langer, at the university library. Nina tells Lotte that she is also investigating recent unresolved murder cases in Bavaria.
Lotte asks Karl out to a dance, but Karl politely rejects her, saying he has to attend an important meeting involving his father. Lotte instead invites Nina to the club. During the night, a drunken Constantine grabs Lotte admits that Karl paid him to dance with her. Nine subdues him and the two leave the club. Lotte tells Nina that she helped Karl find his father because she likes him, but ever since he started living with Schuman, Karl has been acting arrogantly. The next morning, Lotte realizes that Nina looks exactly like Johan.
Tenma practices shooting with the sniper rifle and watches Johan, Schuwald and Karl while they take a walk in the woods. An old man finds Tenma and mentions that he has visited the forest several days in a row, the old man also asks Tenma if he is there for bird watching.
Tenma follows Johan for several days, but is unable to shoot him. After another walk with Schuwald and Karl, Tenma decides that the best place to shoot Johan is in the woods. That same day, Tenma finds the old man from the other day wounded. Tenma treats him.
The old man tells him a story of how, when he was young, he used to come to those woods and birds would always perch on his shoulder. He became a police officer during the Nazi regime and was asked to chase a criminal in the forest because he was familiar with the area. The old man chased the criminal, but found out that it was only a foreigner; nevertheless, he shot him. From that day, he has been coming to the forest to apologize, but birds have not perched on his shoulder again
A bird perches on Tenma's shoulder and the old man says that blood will never be shed in that forest again.