Touma and company attempt to save Orsola from the Roman Catholics. Hey Stiyl, where the hell were you when me and Index were attacked by those two crazy nuns?! Now that the gig is up, time to behave like normal again. And by normal, I mean crazy. Summary: Touma, Index, Stiyl and Saiji are walking together after the battle. Saiji plans go rescue his comrades and Orsola and separates from the group. Index and Stiyl tell Touma that he shouldn't interfere with Roman Catholic business, but Touma makes an excuse about having the shop for food and leaves on his own to the nearby church where he knew the battle nuns would gather. Those shoes are designed for kicking and stomping people. Touma gave it his best shot, but he didn't get to punch a girl in the face this episode. Maybe next week. Clearing the way... for a future relationship. Inside the church, Aniese kicks Orsola around and insults the Touma's group for helping to capture Orsola, but Orsola is happy that complete strangers are willing to help her which pisses Aniese off. At this moment, Touma strolls in after deactivating the barrier around the church, but he finds himself facing a lot of hostile battle nuns. However, Stiyl, Index, Saiji and his comrades (that he has freed) appear to help out with the numbers. Aniese doesn't understand why Necessarius would interfere in the matter, but Stiyl states that Orsola is under their protection because is wearing a Church of England cross (given to her by Touma last episode). Stiyl is also pissed that the battle nuns attacked Index. The fight starts and Touma snatches Orsola and carries her out of the church with dozens of nuns giving chase, while Index, Stiyl, and the Amakusa battle the rest of the nuns. Touma and Orsola are chased up onto the church roof and then find themselves surrounded by a dozen battle nuns. Get away from me! Can't you see I'm trying to get busy with this hot nun I'm carrying! Isn't it a crime for nuns to blow up affiliated churches? Somewhere not far away, Kaori and Motoharu are talking about the battle and Kaori comments that the Amakusa can find their way without her help. On the grounds outside of the church, Stiyl, Saiji and the Amakusa are hacking/blasting nuns all over the place, while Index sings a special song which stuns people who are devout religious followers. A group of nuns led by Luccia appear on the roof, and the nuns under Luccia's command take out pens and stab into their own ears in order to counter Index's song. What an absolutely awful sound! Some people should never sing. Couldn't you ladies use some earplugs instead? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The episode that sets up and starts the decisive battle of this story arc. As expected, Touma, Stiyl and Index now switch sides to join forces with the Amakusa and they go rescue Orsola. Now that the battle nuns are officially the villains of the arc, they all start acting crazy because being nuns and acting crazy at the same time makes them look more evil. Other than stabbing out their own eardrums, the battle nuns didn't do anything too notable. Their combat mostly consisted of launching explosive projectiles and fighting with clunky weapons, neither of which managed to take down any enemies in this episode. In contrast, the Amakusa fighters are all kicking major butt (especially Itsuwa/ the girl with long spear/trident weapon), and it makes me wonder how did they ever lose so easily to the battle nuns last episode. Anyways, the episode felt a bit off and longer than it should be. The long walk in the beginning was a bit needless, and the action scenes had various issues that made it not very exciting. First of all, Touma and Orsola gets surrounded by nuns on the roof 7 minutes before the end of the episode and they don't appear again. It'd be okay if the two were surrounded just before the end of the episode, but for them to not show up again with a quarter of the show left was a bit of an oversight.They also inserted a long explanation about Index's special song into the middle of the battle. In order to make the exposition more bearable, they had several nuns trying to sneak up on Stiyl and Saiji, but the two just smack the nuns away and continue talking and that was unintentionally hilarious. So it's not a very good start to the final showdown of the story arc, but hopefully the series will get its act together next episode. A straight forward battle without too much talking would be good, but we all know Touma has to give a hero speech. Given that a number of the battle nuns are now permanently deaf though, maybe Touma will finally keep his mouth shut and stick to punching people out, but I doubt it. From the feed of A Product of Wasted Time
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