As Margery is out of the picture, Shana and Wilhelmina fight 2-on-2 with Hecate and Sydonay. The two Bal-Masque Lords proved to be formidable opponents, even Hecate can hold her own against Shana and Wilhelmina.
Soon, the Flame Hazes are in a disadvantage, though they quickly realize that the two Lords hesitated when their backs were faced towards the clock tower/statue, so they used that as an advantage to buy time and make an opening.
Inside, Yuji retrieves the Blutsauger, declaring his intent to protect Shana. (Lame and cliched as his proclamation sounds though, Yuji at least sounds like a decent male protagonist once again.
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though his PoE is running out fast, and he becomes semi-transparent. Wilhelmina creates a diversion for Shana to enter the statue, and she meets up with Yuji. Though this means Wilhelmina has to fight two.
As Shana and Yuji head towards the "heart" of the statue, it is activated by the Professor and breaks out of its blue egg shell. Before it can cause widespread panic, Margery manages to open up her Fuuzetsu while still badly wounded. But time is running short, as the statue begins to grow wings in an attempt to fly out of the Fuuzetsu.
Yuji and Shana finally reach the inner chamber of the statue, where they come face to face with "Silver". A fight ensues, Yuji realizes the Reiji Maigo is inside Silver's "heart", though neither he nor Shana are able to overpower Silver, who seems to be "remote controlled" by Hecate outside.
As Hecate/Silver is about to deal a finishing blow to Yuji, for some reason, the shot missed completely, causing Hecate to look confused. Yuji is able to take advantage of the lapse to retrieve the Reiji Maigo, allowing Shana to finish Silver off, for now at least.
Without the Reiji Maigo and Silver to power it, the statue collapses. Watching from afar, Bel-Peol, typical of the villain mastermind, sort of expected something like this could happen (concerning Hecate's hesitation). Bal-Masque decides to retreat for now. Before leaving, Hecate is further surprised that she is crying.
All this time Yoshida never really used the Hougu Pheles gave her, since she decides to place her trust in Yuji being able to survive this. Thus this plot device is completely wasted and legions of Yoshida-haters are disappointed she survived till the end.
As the credits roll, a special ED "sense" by Kawada Mami plays, showing the various characters and what they're doing. It shows Shana and Yoshida once again waiting for Yuji to make his choice.
From Yoshida standing and on the verge of tears and Shana turning around and looking delighted, it's highly implied that Yuji chose Shana, thus hopefully making some of the more moderate Yoshida-haters more or less satisfied.
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