Continuing off from the previous episode, Yoshida is bandaging Shana’s arm when Yuji appears out from the sewers. Yuji asks that Yoshida bandage Shana’s injuries with Wilhelmina’s bandages. Back at the fight with Sabrac, Wilhelmina is fighting a losing battle and Sabrac powers up to prepare for a killing blow. He charges in but is interrupted by Shana. Sabrac can’t believe that Shana is still mobile after being hit with Stigma. Wilhelmina explains that Johan was able to find away to defeat Stigma, and at that point, both she and Shana rid themselves of their injuries to the surprise of Sabrac. Shana also gives Wilhelmina a communicator card where Yuji explains to her a plan that he, Shana, and Margery devised to top Sabrac.

It’s an interesting trump card that Wilhelmina pulled off against Sabrac, but if you think about the time that was spent running away from Sabrac and giving the special bandages to Shana and Margery Daw, would it not be more efficient for Wilhelmina to have healed her own wounds from the start? That and maybe keep some blood stained bandages to not let Sabrac catch on. Another thing I don’t understand is why their clothing restored itself. I guess I shouldn’t question the power of magic.

Yuji further explains that before Sabrac appeared, he sensed a faint energy source around the city. At first he believed it was Zarovee or the Wanderer, but it didn’t disappear after the two were defeated, and he felt the presence was stronger while he was in the sewers running towards Shana. Yuji believes that Sabrac is a large Tomogara that encompasses the entire city, and only manifests only a piece of his total self into a human form for convenience’s sake. Wilhelmina makes the connection as to how Sabrac seemingly does not take any damage despite receiving direct hits. Yuji explains his plan to Wilhelmina, but it’s not revealed what it is, but Yoshida and Sato are directing Wilhelmina and Margery where to go. Wilhelmina agrees while Margery goes around the city casting spell insignias.

Well, all of this explaining actually does seem to make some sense. But Sabrac is actually under the entire city? That was something I never expected. But why doesn’t Sabrac just make himself bigger to become a more imposing figure? Or smaller to be more annoying? Doesn’t seem to be a really well thought out character all of a sudden. Anyway, back to the episode.

The plot thickens as the plan takes shape. Margery is placing spells in a very organized manner while Wilhelmina is luring Sabrac to a certain location. During the fight, Shana exits the fight leaving Wilhelmina to deal with Sabrac. In a quick flashback, it details more of what Yuji explained to the group on how to possibly defeat Sabrac. He explains that Sabrac has a huge body, but really only has enough energy as any normal Tomogara, which is the reason why he only deals with whoever’s in the vicinity of his visible form. Back to the present, Shana sits down to regain all her energy. Elsewhere, while Margery is planting spells, Sato tells her that he can’t think of what happens after Margery dies, and instead prefers to focus his energies on keeping her alive.

After seeing the flashback, I now understand why in the previous episode Wilhelmina spent a good amount of time describing the pros and cons of Sabrac. I thought it was just to introduce Sabrac, not actually something to be recycled to strategize against Sabrac.

Back at the fight, Sabrac goes in for the kill, again, but at that point Margery casts off her spell, which reveals that her insignias create a circular surrounding area with Sabrac in the center. For some reason, the anime’s first opening song (”Joint”) starts playing. Then the area within the spell is lifted off the ground, revealing the existence energy strands that connected to Sabrac breaking off. Shana gets up and before heading off, is ready to tell Yuji something, but changes her mind and heads off to Sabrac. Alastor tells Shana that he’s impressed by Yuji’s contributions during this situation. Shana powers up and charges straight at Sabrac. Sabrac blocks the attack, but without the connection to his power, he’s overwhelemd and defeated. The next day, Yuji’s mom is fine again, and Yuji apologizes to Yoshida for what he said to her. He then asks Shana what she was going to tell him before she defeated Sabrac. Shana is embarrassed and tells him it was nothing, leading to her patented triple Urusais.

After some serious episodes, it’s somewhat nice to see that this arc ended on a light atmosphere. I’m a little surprised that Sabrac, having been hyped up since the appearance of Pheles, was defeated so quickly. I truly believed that Sabrac was going to combine forces with Bal Masque to create an ultimate final battle for this season. But no. Two episodes and the Sabrac threat is neutralized. Oh well. At this point, with only three episodes left, there’s only one more big event left for everyone to deal with. It’s going to be Bal Masque and the underlying plot that has been going on since the appearance of Konoe.