From the end of the previous episode, this episode starts out with Pheles impaled by a silver-armored arm. The arm is draining all of Pheles’ energy while she continues to summon out Johan. As she’s distracted Wilhelmina uses her ribbon to grab a hold of Pheles leg and pulls her down. Shana and Margery then head out to save YUji who still has the mysterious arm sticking out of his chest. Margery casts spells over Yuji to find out more information on the Silver. More of the armored being pulls its way out of Yuji. Meanwhile, Konoe and her butler are headed up towards the rooftop of the school.

Finally, shit’s starting to go down. It’s like 14 episodes in the making, and the storyline is finally starting to come to fruition. Ironically enough, Pheles seems to never get a moment’s break to summon forth Johan. The first time Shana interrupted her. This time, it’s some mysterious arm coming out of Yuji. Just not meant to be, I guess.

At Bal Masque, there is a similar looking piece of armor strapped in a science lab. The left arm and the headpiece are missing, with a black essence fuming out of those missing areas. The character Fecor examines the armor and is shocked at what’s happening. The mad scientist, Dantalion, says it’s impossible for “him” to teleport. He assumes it’s a certain ability calling it out, but Bel Peol believes that the armored being has appeared due to the appearance of the original owner of the Reiji Maigo, Pheles. Fecor points out that Pheles might discover they are up to something. Bel Peol points out that the faux vessel they sent out has completed her job and that it’s time to bail out.

So apparently at this point, we find out that this armored thing is restrained over at Bal Masque, but somehow found a way to teleport itself out via the Reiji Maigo. And apparently, it sensed the appearance of Pheles and is going after her. As for the faux vessel, it’s obviously Konoe who has been pointed out countless times that she looks exactly like Hecate.

As Margery Daw manages to grab a hold of the armored person coming out of Yuji, Konoe and her butler show up. Bel Peol brakes her chain, which breaks the bracelet off Konoe and her butler. Konoe flies over to Yuji, summons out Hecate’s trigon staff Hougu, and breaks the spells that Margery casted. She instructs the armored being back into Yuji and then she impales Yuji with her staff to seal the Reiji Maigo. Shana and Margery go on the attack, but are kept at bay by Fecor’s sudden appearance, whose ability is to rain down blocks of metal. Shana and Margery are unable to reach Yuji as the storm of metal is too thick to get past. Hecate appears during this time and consumes Konoe, including all of her memories and experiences. So far, Fecor explains that they’ve managed to prevent the armored being from materializing and also placed a seal on the Reiji Maigo. All that’s left is to disassembling the container, which means destroying Yuji.

At least the annoying Konoe is gone for good. And again, it’s no surprise that Konoe’s part of the bad guys. Just too easy not to be. Anyway, as for sealing the Reiji Maigo, not sure what that has to do with anything, but it might be a precaution on behalf of Bal Masque to prevent the armored being from using the Reiji Maigo to escape Bal Masque. They obviously do not want whatever is sealed within the armor to get out.

Shana and Margery make another attempt at saving Yuji. This time, Fecor is distracted by Wilhelmina and Margery, while Shana goes straight for Hecate. They clash weapons while yuji passes out and falls towards the ground. Hecate casts an attack on Yuji, seemingly destroying the body, but instead the body transforms into Johan. Pheles and Johan meet up and create a tornado to surround themselves. Neither Fecor’s or Hecate’s attacks can penetrate the tornado. They fly high over the Fuzetsu with Shana chasing after them. Johan starts releasing out all the power of existence from the Reiji Maigo. Shana, with tears in her eyes, starts to charge in thinking Yuji will disappear in the process. On her way in, the tornado explodes knocking Shana away. Pheles follows Shana down, but drops Johan. While falling Johan turns back into Yuji and a emotional Shana manages to catch him, and hugs him tightly. All this time, Hecate and Fecor already make a break for Bal Masque. Yoshida, on the other hand, looks up at Shana embracing Yuji, and is envious that she could not be up there with Yuji.

The last time this anime series showed Shana this emotional was back in episode 16 of the first season when she had to part ways with Wilhelmina to become a Flame Haze and battle Tomogaras. This time, she’s downright scared that she could lose Yuji’s existence with Pheles hooking back up with Johan. And at the scene where she finally gets Yuji back, she grabs a hold of him and doesn’t want to let go. At this point, one would be drawn into the drama and the emotion, as I was, after going through all the character development between these two characters and having the episode show more openly Shana at her most vulnerable. It’s something you would see normally as the hero/heroine usually carries with them some thick skin. Here, Shana is displayed as simply a normal person with some real personal feelings.

At the end of the day, after all the fighting, Pheles explains that Johan asked her to not summon him out ever again. He also told her to do a favor for him, a favor that she cannot reveal to anyone. She heads off immediately. The world returns to normal with Shana and Yuji confused as to everything that went down just now. Yoshida stands alone clutching onto a cross-like memento. Others like Wilhelmina and Margery Daw are all in a state of shock and alert as well.

Now that was an amazing episode. Almost every part of the episode had something important mentioned or something important hinted at. The only part that I felt seemed out of place was Hecate’s assimmilation with Konoe. It took too long, although it was probably to show newer audiences what kind of power Hecate has. In regards to Pheles, judging from episode 16’s new intro, it would seem that the armored being is none other than Sabrac, who Pheles mentioned back in episode 13.