Episode 8

Real Me / The real me (リアル・ミー, Riaru Mī) is the eighth episode of LISTENERS. The ending theme is by Jin sung by µ (Rie Takahashi).

Synopsis
Echo and Mu continue their journey to find Jimi and end up in Londinium. In Londinium, Mu is asked to participate in their plans for Christmas, which is one week away.

Summary
Leaving for Londinium, Echo comments it will take them a week with AC30 to reach it, but it will be faster if they have a plane or something. In that moment, helicopters arrive and a man refers to Mu as "Princess" tells her they came for her.

The man, Tommy Walker, takes them to Londinium Watchtower, their stronghold. He explains that Mu is Jimi's sister, and that's why he calls her Princess. Mu asks what happened to Jimi after he was brought here ten years ago. A man in a wheelchair Ace appears and explains he was a pilot ten years ago. He witnessed Jimi's final gig, he was their trump card, but during the battle he suddenly stopped attacking and faced an Earless in the gate and disappeared. Ace still believes Jimi isn't dead and roams somewhere beyond the gate. They inform Mu that they are preparing for a performance in a week during Christmas, where they want to pay homeage to Jimi and recreate his scene with the gate and wish Mu to play Jimi. They will artificially recreate the gate and hope that Jimi will be back.

After discussing it with Echo and confirming he wants to meet Jimi and learn about Mu, Mu agrees to perform and they spend the week rehearsing. She hears kids humming a song she also hums and asks one of them from where he knows it. The kid explains that according to Tommy, every Player knows it since birth.

On Christmas, Mu starts performing. When the last part comes, Tommy sprays her and explains that Jimi isn't coming back and their aim is to make Mu the next Jimi. He then plugs her to Jimi's old Equipment and let her face a large mass of Earless. In that moment she realizes that Jimi realized he was an Earless who was selected as a human, a Player. Mu then destroys all Earless along with Lyde and Ritchie.

Ace faces Tommy, stating that the plan was to bring Jimi back, however Tommy explains they got him back in a new vessel and more powerful than before.

Characters

 * Echo Rec
 * Mu
 * Roz
 * Tommy Walker
 * Sally Simpson
 * Ein Neubauten
 * Stür Neubauten
 * Zende Neubauten
 * Nir