[Kinny Riddle]

Time is short, and I was lucky that I can post early. (No prizes for guessing what this cryptic sentence means)

Anyway, on with the episode.

Spoiler for Ep 23 spoiler:

Obtaining the Reiji Maigo, Hecate transports it inside the clock tower, where Professor Dantalion is working on Silver's armour, places it inside him. As Margery opens up her Fuuzetsu, pillars of stone begin protruding across the city, and shoot out rays of PoE into the blue sphere, which acts as a force field and prevents the Flame Haze's entry.

Yoshida receives a message direct from Johann via Pheles' Hougu, as it seems to activate when something happens to the RM. Yoshida then arrives and tells Shana that the RM has been removed from Yuji. With help from Satou, Margery finds a small hole to penetrate the force field, which the Flame Hazes do.

However, upon entering the force field, they are ambushed by Sydonay, who had anticipated the Flame Hazes entering through there, and Margery is badly injured while covering for the other two, causing her Fuuzetsu outside the sphere to disappear.

Meanwhile, rather than sitting around and waiting to fade away, Yuji decides to make himself useful by trying to enter the distorted clock tower and retrieve the Reiji Maigo before midnight strikes while awaiting Shana's arrival. Even without the RM, he can still fight well against the legions of Domino clones sent to pursue him.

Dantalion comes out and explains what's going on, though he speaks too fast for me to catch it. I'll need to watch it again.

Good use of animation space during the credits. From the likes of it, it'll be the three-way duel seen at the end of series one once again: Shana vs Hecate, Wilhelmina vs Bel-Peol or Dantalion, Margery vs Sydonay, and maybe Yuji vs Silver.

Plus we'll see how Yoshida will fare.