Phryne and Clain are captured and taken to the temple's underground base. It's hard to deal with a kid on a temper tantrum, especially one that can disappear at will and make electronics explode. Summary: Enri and her bodyguard return their mothership and tells Sundas about what happened. Enri managed to bring Nessa back, but Phryne and Clain were taken away by the temple. Enri mentions that Phryne has a GPS tracker on her and demands that Sundas mount a rescue, but Sundas explain that they simply don't have enough firepower. A little while later, Nessa emerges and throws a fit about wanting to find Clain before disappearing from the ship. Realizing that Nessa probably went to look for Clain, Sundas has no choice but to order an attack on the temple base. Sundas looks to other branches of Lost Millennium for support. Most of the other branches give Sundas the cold shoulder, but Dias agree to help Sundas out. Pedo alert! Fractale also has a Sisters project. Meanwhile, Phryne and Clain have been taken back to the temple's underground base. While Clain is sent to the infirmary, Barrot is hugging Phryne with an indecent look on his face. Barrot then states that they need to check Phryne to make sure she is still eligible to be the "key" and tells Phryne to listen to his commands if she wants Clain to get the medical treatments. Elsewhere in the base, Clain wakes up and finds his gunshot wound has been patched, and he also finds a Nessa look-alike in the room. Clain questions the girl about her connection to Nessa and Phryne, and the girl states that she is also Phryne. Clain states that he is looking for another Phryne, and "Phryne" leads Clain to a room full of her clones housed inside tubes. Clain then remembers the talk about the "key" and asks "Phyrne" about it, and "Phryne" states that sometimes she and the other Phrynes are referred to as such. After leaving the clone chamber, Clain starts feeling woozy and causes himself and "Phyrne" to fall. Clain notices that "Phryne" hurt her hand during the fall and patches her up with a bandage. "Phyrne" then tells Clain to leave through a passage that usually don't have many guards. Nessa has an electrifying temper. Uh, peekaboo? Elsewhere, Barrot takes Phryne to a doctor to be examined, and the exam requires Phryne to spread her legs. Before the exam can begin, an angry Nessa walks into the room and causes all the equipment to short circuit and explode. Barrot and the doctor are knocked out, and Phryne agrees to lead Nessa to Clain. By chance, the two girls bump into Clain and the three escape down the hallways together. Phryne knows some of the hallways because she grew up in the base, but she gets a little lost and leads Clain and Nessa in to a large chamber with a circular conveyor belt. On the belt are Nessa/Phryne clones in tanks, and to Clain and Nessa's shock the clones are dissolved. The traumatic images causes Nessa to fizzle out and go into hiding, and Phryne explains all these girls are younger versions of herself and those that have outlived their usefulness are disposed of in this manner. Clain then notices the Phryne he met before (referred to as bandaged-Phryne from now on) being shipped into the room in a tank and tries to stop the tank from moving, but at this moment Barrot and guards arrive. The guards take Phryne and kick Clain aside. Dias' crew loves to blow things up. Outside the base, Sundas' and Dias' ships come under heavy fire from the base's defenses, and Enri has trouble launching in her airship. Back inside the base, Clain refuses to give up and follows Barrot's group into the hallway, and suddenly the whole base is rocked by an explosion. In the chaos, Clain grabs Phryne and runs away, while Barrot and his guards are crushed by falling debris. The explosion also destroys the disposal compound, and bandaged-Phryne wakes up after falling off the conveyor belt. Outside, the Lost Millennium ships notice that the base is not firing at them anymore, and Dias' ship takes the opportunity to charge right into the base's port despite Sundas' protests. At the port, Dias' ship blasts a way into the hallways and then fire a big barrage of scattering missiles into the base. Inside the base, Phryne and Clain find their way out is blocked, but they see bandaged-Phryne beyond some fire and wreckage and bandaged-Phryne points them towards another exit. At this moment, Dias' missiles find their targets and the whole base is destroyed by one giant explosion. Now that's an explosion. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ More violence, seriousness, and darker plot lines along with the second cliffhanger ending in a row. Fractale is definitely not the light and kiddie type show that its first two episodes had indicated. This episode revealed quite a bit about the connection between Phryne and the "Nessa/Phyrne" clones, but in typical Fractale fashion the revelation raises even more questions. I never thought the clones are actually Phryne at a younger age mostly because of the different hair color, but they do have the same eye color. Now the question becomes why does the temple need so many copies of Phryne, and why do they still need the original Phryne and Nessa? Another fact that was revealed was that Phryne's status as "the key" requires her to have her virginity intact. Despite this rule, it's obvious that Phryne has suffered abuse at the hands of Barrot, and those prior experience may have caused Phryne to become submissive when she was attacked by Gale last week. And also, the explosion near the end of the episode seems to be caused by Phryne seeing Clain getting kicked in the face. Phryne's past and pretty much everything else about her are still mysteries in the series. I'm a little surprised that Barrot seems to have died in this episode. Barrot is one of the clear villains of the series, and he also has an important role in Phryne's back story so it'd be a bit surprising if this was his last appearance. Those falling debris got him pretty good though, and even if he survived that there was Dias' missile barrage. Despite the big explosion, I'm sure Phryne, Clain and Nessa are still alive. The underground base may be destroyed, but the temple probably still has forces in the sky. Sundas' group also may have deal with Dias' group in a battle as well and of course there is all the questions surrounding the main characters and the Fractale system. In other words, the last three episodes should have no shortage of things to cover. The build-up has been decent so far, so let's see if the series stay on track for a big finale. 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