Touma and company try to catch Oriana but aren't having much luck. Should listen to your mother Mikoto. It appears Touma is like his dad and prefer girls with larger bosoms. Summary: Touma has lunch with Index, his parents, Mikoto and Misuzu, and during the meal Index complains about all the attractive females around Touma, Misuzu teases Mikoto about her lack of growth in the chest area and Shiina catches Touya peeking at Misuzu's bosom once again. Meanwhile, Oriana is still wandering about the city waiting for the right moment to go ahead with the plan and chatting with her boss Lidvia using spell tags. Mikoto finally learns the proper way to handle Touma. After the lunch, Kuroko catches up to Mikoto, and the two misinterpret a scene between Index and Touma (Touma was hugging Index by the waist to see if she got fatter) and Touma is chased away. Touma manage to shake Mikoto and Kuroko, but she is then met by Aisa who wants him to help Komoe who is having trouble stopping Stiyl from smoking. Suddenly Touma gets a phone call from Motoharu asking help to track Oriana down, and Touma and Stiyl run off, leaving Aisa to deal with Komoe. Stiyl demonstrates a variation of Monkey in the Middle that involves juggling. Motoharu to Oriana: Your leg is so soft and smooth. What kind of moisturizer do you use? Since Stiyl doesn't know how to set up a tracking spell on his own, Motoharu is left with the task and directs Touma and Stiyl via cell phone. Touma and Stiyl close in on Oriana, but suddenly Oriana changes directions and heads right towards Motoharu, and Stiyl and Touma don't know where Motoharu is. Oriana locates Motoahru and after brief battle Motoharu is wounded, but he managed to take down Oriana's barrier and tells Oriana that he had used magic to call for Kaori's help. The prospect of fighting a saint takes Oriana aback a bit, and this allows Motoharu to create a smoke screen to make the getaway. Motoharu is too hurt to use the tracking spell, but he does give Stiyl his current location using the cell phone and reveals that he lied Oriana about calling for help. Another of Touma's harem candidates goes down. Touma is now understandably pissed. Oriana flees from the scene of the battle with Motoharu and wanders into a park where she bumps in Komoe and Aisa, causing Komoe to spill water onto Aisa's shirt. Oriana spots the cross Aisa is wearing and thinks Aisa is a Necessarius magician, and thus Oriana uses a spell that badly wounds Aisa. Touma and Stiyl are on their way to Motoharu's location when they spot the commotion around Aisa who is lying a pool of blood. Stiyl uses a spell to drive the onlookers away and tells Touma that the only thing they can do is stop Oriana, but Stiyl then spots Komoe trying to use the healing spell Index taught her. Stiyl then decides to stay and help Komoe with the spell, and Touma, now with even more motivation, is tasked with stopping Oriana. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Wasn't expecting much this week after the seeing the preview that seemed all over the place, but this episode turned out to be alright even though it was still a bit all over the place, especially with Aisa randomly receiving a blood-letting from Oriana. There was also Stiyl calling Orsola and Sherry Cromwell about some sort of coded message and I'm not really sure what that was either. Despite this, things weren't too bad after Touma shook off the girls and the chase started again, because at least the atmosphere of the chase is there and Touma now has even more motivation to punch Oriana some more. There was plenty of things to nitpick on though. Firstly, it was somewhat strange that both Touma and Stiyl wandered off after the action of the previous episode and left Motoharu himself to try to spot Oriana. Touma had an excuse because he went to meet his parents for lunch, but why did Stiyl wander off on his own? Just for some smokes and a phone call? Anyways, the trio isn't very well organized this episode as the team also didn't bother to communicate Motoharu's location and Motoharu ended up having to take on Oriana by himself. Motoharu has better fighting skills than Touma, but without the Imagine Breaker he didn't stand much of a chance. I did like how this fight started sans a speech from either party, and that's probably one of the benefits of not having Touma in a fight. The brief battle between Motoharu and Oriana was decent, but it was weird how during one sequence where Oriana sat down on the floor for what looked like a low kick, but then Motoharu went and grabbed her leg and ended up getting kicked in the face. No idea what Motoharu was trying to do there... unless all he wanted to do was give Oriana's leg a feel. At least Motoharu managed to lie his way to safety though. Overall, not much progress from the good guy's perspective. Oriana is still free, and now Aisa is hurt and Motoharu is more hurt. The only thing this can lead to is Touma saving the day by punching Oriana (and perhaps her boss too?) some more in the face at the last possible moment before Academy City is turned into Roman Catholic territory. As long as the series cut down on the speeches and focus more on the chase and the fighting then things should be alright. From the feed of A Product of Wasted Time
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