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Old 2011-01-08, 21:14   Link #88
Himeji
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Age: 43
Overall, a good ending to a rather so-so arc. I give this episode a 9, and the arc overall a 7.5.
Nice fight, although Styl was more comedic relief than anything else, with him tripping like that
Oriana finally gets falcon punched, first by Styl and Touma together, then Styl joins the group of people lying in a pool of their blood (I can see a trend there), and Oriana is falcon-punched once more by Touma, and she's out



She came off far too lightly there. That crazed woman tried to throw all of Academy into damnation (even if she was deluded into thinking she was doing something good), and she's only a little punched and doesn't even have any injuries?

Anyway, with Oriana out cold, Lidvia is revealed to be too far away to still be reached and feels safe enough to reveal her (and the Roman Catholic church's) true sinsister plans, which are just as I predicted: they'll only help anyone if they can profit from it, and they want to create a second Dark Age by supressing science once again and forcing people to abandoning it and convert to be Catholics. Only those who can be forced to convert will be embraced, the others who don't want to give up science and resist the forced conversion would be persecuted by a second Inquisition



In the hospital, we get some funny antics with Index mad at Touma not telling her anything and starting one of her famous biting attacks
Mikoto then appears and is also mad at Touma for dilly-dallying around with Index



Lidvia tries to get away in her private plane, but Linda, the Arcbishop of the Church of England, has other plans for her. She blasts away the plane's door with a magic card and makes frantically grinning Lidvia leave the plane a little prematurely in 8000m height
Linda then talks to Lidvia more though the card, to rile her up some more. Lidvia tries to save herself and the cross with magic, and there was actually a small chance of her doing it, but then there comes the pilot, falling on top of her... that was definitely too much for her. Lidvia's fall ends with a nice, satisfying "splat", telling us that there's now one less religious fanatic we have to worry about
The cross was probably destroyed as well, as it didn't have any special durability and thus couldn't have survived the fall intact.



At the end, we get some foreshadowing of Aleister's blast rod. We'll probably see more of it later.

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