Menace starts off the fight with a 5 hit combo.
Shoddy list of highlights:
- Taking advantage of the desert arena, Menace smacks Claudette around with several attacks and a curse, but suddenly there's a torrential downpour and Claudette uses this opportunity to fry Menace, earning the victory. After the fight, Menace (and her staff) is taken to Aldora's collections room and petrified.
The grand finale light show.
- After the match, the remaining participants of the next round are announced. This list includes all the winners plus Risty and Nanael. Nanael is wandering around town and spots a betting ring on the tournament, and she takes all of Melpha's money to put a bet on herself. As a consequence for using the money, Nanael is forced to eat vegetables for dinner as Melpha doesn't have the money to buy meat.
Irma won't be eating anything tonight after this.
- Irma chased around the rooftops by Risty and her assassins. The chase ends up in a bar where Risty hits Irma in the stomach with her mace, but Irma is whisked away by Echidna. The former teacher and student hide out in a haystack warehouse, but they are forced to run again when Risty comes knocking. Echidna eventually tries sneaking Irma out of the city via gondola, but they are met by an ambassador summoning Irma for a Queen's Blade. Echidna doesn't want Irma to die, but Irma refuses to quit and walks into a crystal cave arena to fight against Risty.
Just admit that you are tsundere for Echidna.
- After Menace's defeat, Airi and Rana walk around in the streets and run into Tomoe and Shizuka. Tomoe doesn't want Rana to hang around with Airi, but Rana refuses to leave Airi and Tomoe decides to let it be. The warrior miko is then summoned to Queen's Blade match.
Time for a random staring contest.
- The three Vance sisters are in the process of having a portrait being painted for them when Elina is summoned for the match against Tomoe. The match takes place in a frigid wilderness in the middle of snow storm.
How does Elina wiggle her fake cat ears?
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The Menace vs. Claudette fight was a bit of a letdown. Menace had some nice-looking attacks, but in the end Claudette just fried her and predictably Aldora had Menace added to her collection. The other developments of the episode are more interesting though. It seems that Airi and Rana have really taken a liking to each other and Airi will be Rana's caretaker from now on. With both Mellona and Menace petrified, Airi is the only servant of the Swamp Witch remaining in the competition, but it looks like she's more inclined to hang around with Rana then carry out her orders.
Moving on, we have Irma who manages to escape from Risty thanks to Echidna, but then she gets suckered into fighting Risty in Queen's Blade. Given that there probably will be a Risty vs. Reina showdown, Irma is likely to lose the next fight, but the more important question is whether if she'll survive the encounter with Risty. None of Queen's Blade participants have died so far (just petrified), and I don't really want Irma to get killed. As for Irma's relationship with Echidna, Irma is still tsundere for Echidna, and Echidna showed that she does have some genuine concern for Irma (unlike her attitude about teasing/violating Reina).
Lastly, we have Tomoe vs. Elina. There's no question that Tomoe is going to win since she's the most important character after Reina. It's about time the spoiled Elina get taught a lesson.
Overall, this was an alright episode. Thus far there hasn't been absolutely horrible episode in Heir to the Throne, and if this trend continues this series could actually turn out to be half-decent. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not though...
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