This is the second half of the Margery Daw flashback. It starts out with Alastor telling Yuji he’s ready to go to the next level, which is to cast an unrestricted spell. Yuji starts to channel his energy to cast a Fuzetsu. Margery Daw’s flashback cuts into the scene with her casting of a Fuzetsu. Continuing off from episode 8’s flashback, Margery again meets up with Anna Berg at the Empire State building, while Yuri observes from a distance.

Battle ensues between Margery Daw and Anna Berg. Metamorphosis jumps in to the fray. Yuri explains to his Guze that he wants to help out. Valac tells him that a Flame Haze’s job is to hunt down Tomogaras. Helping and saving others just happens to be a by-product. During the battle, Anna Berg starts talking about his intentions with speeding up the evolution of mankind, and in the process distracts Margery long enough for Metamorphosis to pull off an attack from behind.

The scene involving Anna Berg talking about human evolution was quite confusing. It may have been just the subtitles, but I honestly did not understand his motive at all. Good thing this enemy is irrelevant so it doesn’t matter whatever the fuck he’s talking about.

Yuri decides to go in to assist Margery. He draws in with his power the moths around the town. Fully charged, he becomes a vortex of energy and blasts towards the Fuzetsu. He cuts directly into Metamorphosis and cuts him in half, but that wouldn’t kill him. Yuri goes after Anna Berg, while Margery goes after Metamorphosis. These two always end in a draw. Yuri on the other hand leads Anna Berg into a head-on collision where he is defeated by Yuri’s attack.

I’m not sure what the moths are all about, and I’m not sure if it’s Yuri who’s generating the attack or if he’s drawing his power from Valac, similar to Shana manifesting Alastor. I also can’t believe that cutting Metamorphosis in half didn’t incapacitate him for some time. He just regrew the other half back with little effort; paying tribute to DBZ. And Anna Berg eats it, as expected. Like I said, irrelevant character.

Margery and Metamorphosis are both fatigued, but neither one wants to back off. Metamorphosis decides to use Yuri as a way to end the battle. Margery can’t save Yuri because she needs to stay alive to find the Silver Tomogara to exact her revenge. She lets Metamorphosis strike down Yuri. Marcosius explains that was the only way to end the battle in a draw.

Technically speaking, Margery Daw killed Yuri on purpose so she could let Metamorphosis escape, which would let her escape a potential death match. And the power difference between Yuri and Metamorphosis is evident. He landed his attack on Yuri pretty easily.

Back at Shana and Yuji, Yuji is still struggling with the Fuzetsu. After some words from Alastor, Yuji tries again and manages to cast a Fuzetsu. Unfortunately, his flame color is silver. Exactly what Margery Daw is after. Now that’s a cliffhanger.