A morning of fun.
List of shoddy highlights:
- Back in Gainos, Reina gets an unique wake-up call from Elina to watch the upcoming match between Risty and Claudette. As the Vance army march out of the fortress, Risty and Claudette face off in the courtyard while the count watches from the balcony. After a back and forth fight around the castle, Claudette hits Risty with a thunder attack, knocking Risty out.
That's got to leave a mark.
- Both Claudette and the count think the fight is over and the count wants Claudette to join his army to invade Gainos. Claudette, however, argues that the count is being tied down by his family name and this was the reason why his wife Maria (Reina's mother) participated in Queen's Blade. Claudette advises the count to call back his army, but the count isn't in a listening mood and tells Claudette to get out of his sight.
The Terminatrix is here.
- Back in Gainos, Aldra works her magic and revives Risty. Risty goes after the count but Claudette fends her off. Claudette shocks Risty a few more times, but Risty seems to be unaffected. Claudette and the count then try to escape from the castle, but Risty destroys the draw bridge. The chase eventually ends in a dome where Claudette once again saves the count from Risty's mace. Risty moves in for the finishing blow, but the dome starts to collapse due to damage from the fight and Risty is forced to bail out. After the tower collapses, Risty is declared the winner and she leaves the castle. In the wreckage of the dome, Claudette is pinned by a wall slab, but the count is okay and he finally calls Claudette by her name instead of her title. Claudette is then teleported back to her hotel room in Gainos where she's patched up by Reina and Elina. After the match, Count Vance calls off his army, and Aldra is satisfied with the development.
Claudette is dying!!! NOOO...
Oh wait, she's just being teleported back to the hotel. Never mind.
- After being knocked out from Queen's Blade, Nyx works as a barmaid and she hears rumors about a horned monster appearing in the outskirts of town. That "monster" turns out to be Tomoe who is wearing Shizuka's horned headband.
There's no way that Melpha didn't see Melona swipe the flask.
- Inside Melpha's church, Melona is secretly trying to steal Nanael's flask of holy milk, but Nanael inadvertently thwarts Melona several times. Melona does reveal that Aldra is neither human nor a magical being, and is also afraid of the holy milk. Based on the information, Nanael seems to have inkling of what Aldra might be, but she refuses to tell Melona. While Nanael is thinking about Aldra, Melona is finally able to swipe the holy milk and quickly leaves the church, and soon after Nanael discovers that she's been robbed.
No wonder Nanael is so distressed. She just got robbed by one of the three stooges.
- Back in her collections room, Aldra and her shadow friend are banking on that Melona will return to save Menace.
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The Queen's Blade tournament is winding down, and the matches are becoming longer and more interesting. As expected, Risty defeats Claudette after a hard fought battle. Claudette put up a decent fight, but she wasn't able to stop Risty after Risty went into Terminator mode. The animation during the action was pretty good, although you still wouldn't mistaken it for any top-of-the-line production. There was some semi-interesting drama thrown into the fight as well with the relationship between Claudette, the count, and Maria. It's funny how nobody except Risty, the count, and Claudette were left in the castle during the match. You'd think someone who's as rich and important as the count would have some bodyguards, although they probably wouldn't last very long against the Terminatrix Risty. At the end, the count resorted to calling back his army and doing absolutely, and that's probably the best thing that could have happened since doing nothing is what the count does best.
In other developments, Melona steals Nanael's holy milk and probably will use it to take on Aldra and/or rescue Menace. Meanwhile, Nanael seems to have figured out what Aldra is, but she doesn't the holy milk anymore. If Nanael were smart (big if), then she would wait near Aldra's collections room for Melona to show up so she can reclaim her holy milk. I wonder if that's going to happen.
Next episode will be the highly anticipated Reina vs. Tomoe. Tomoe has hardened up a bit after Shizuka's "death" (I still refuse to believe Shizuka is dead), and I hope she gives Reina a good beating before Reina inevitably wins via some fluke. It's frustrating to think that someone like Tomoe who's fighting for her country and dead friend will lose to someone like Reina who entered the tournament for no particular reason. I guess this is just an example of "life is unfair" lol.
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