Basically the episode tells of QT users, players with super human baseball techniques that are destroying the baseball leagues.

But for some reason QT users are disappearing one by one and the rest either stopped or went into hiding.

Then Shigure brought back Akiha, as the Masked Pitcher to trash all baseball leagues one by one. Shigure tells his plan to his father Nerval, telling him that its the end of normal baseball leagues and its the start of QT leagues.

But Tsutsuji convinces Kannagi to counter the Masked Pitcher. And was able to do so but both sides ended in injury.

We then learn that Akiha's 2 elder sisters were both QT users and died mysteriously, that's why she stopped. But she went back to baseball as the Masked Pitcher so she can make money to pay for Nami's medication.

Meanwhile Itsuki is told by Tsutsuji that she can become more powerful by visiting the baseball demon. So Kannagi sets off to find it, which she found out is a shrine called 礼央破流堂, reads 'Reiouparudo', basically Leopard.

Itsuki learns that she needs to train and master her swings before she can pick up the demon bat and gain true powers of a demon QT user. She masters and Leopard says he longed for the moment to take over a player who can wield his bat, but is stopped by Nerval and Tsutsuji who appears to be working together.

Itsuki then takes on Akiha, they clash with full power and Itsuki looks like she's out cold or dead. Then Nerval and Tsutsuji appears and reveals that he was the one who killed all the QT users so he can retain the baseball leagues, Shigure and Akiha were shocked. Shigure now knows who's the real demon of baseball.

Akiha realises her sisters were killed by Nerval and so she uses her QT powers to wipe them or everything out.

Quite a puzzling but entertaining episode, Sakura and Imo-chan were super cute. There was major baseball homages, Dokuro chan's Excaliborg, maybe FLCL or something. Not sure if it really foreshadows anything or the QT displayed in this episode provides us with any real QT info.

Forgot to mention that the QT users were people who loved baseball and played it as a sport they loved with all their heart. But they were too powerful and Nerval wants them to be wiped out.

In the final round, Itsuki and Akiha were tricked into fighting each other. Itsuki was cheered on by the church ophanage she's working to support and Akiha was cheered by Nami who's she's returning as Masked Pitcher to pay for medical fees. They were cheered on to play baseball with their hearts.

Nerval took advantage of their love for baseball to destroy each other. In the end Akiha released all her QT to destroy Nerval, but seems like everything was destroyed as well.

Anyway MAKO made Akiha sound hotblooded, I'm hoping to hear that in the story itself. Hotblooded female mecha leads are my favourite types. Akiha's pink hair and mecha lead status reminded me of Noriko and Nono, that's why I picked her as my waifu very early in the show.