List of Xxx Holic Episodes - xxxHolic: Kei

While walking home from school together, Himawari gives Watanuki a book to loan to Doumeki. When Watanuki arrives at the temple, something strange happens to him; Doumeki comes upon him and Watanuki gives him Himawari's book and sees that Doumeki is carrying a large number of old looking books. Doumeki has been studying the occult books in his family temple's vast storeroom, looking for a way to restore Watanuki's sight. Later that evening, Watanuki unexpectedly drops in on Doumeki's storeroom with a bento and miso soup, which he insists are simply leftovers. Doumeki is irreverent, causing Watanuki to flare up. When Doumeki tells Watanuki to go home due to the late hour and to the increased risk of Watanuki encountering a ghost, Watanuki insists on staying and helping Doumeki with his research. Through an accident on Watanuki's part, Doumeki finds a hidden book written by his grandfather in writing so complicated that Watanuki can't read it (though Doumeki can). Doumeki finds a spell for getting back an eye stolen by a spider, but before he can read it fully, a book on the table comes alive. The kanji on the page form a snake-like creature, which jumps onto Doumeki's grandfather's book.

On a hot summer's day, Yuuko, Maru and Moro are bathing in the garden with a shower faucet hand-operated by Watanuki, who is irked by the work. The Neko-Musume (cat-girl) appears and makes a request of Yuuko, giving her an egg in exchange for Watanuki collecting water for her from a well. On his first visit to the well, Watanuki is forced to trespass into a private garden of a house and notices a woman sitting at a high window. She does not move, but the sight perturbs Watanuki. When he returns for more water with Doumeki, the woman is in the same place in the same clothes. Watanuki establishes that the woman is not a spirit, because Doumeki can see him with his normal eye, but Doumeki later says that she reminds him of something he's seen before. Himawari and Watanuki both comment that Doumeki is being cryptic, unlike his usual self, but he doesn't reply.