After last week's massive cliffhanger, I was chomping at the bit to get my hands on the next episode. I'm happy to say that I wasn't disappointed by this episode; in fact, I was blown away by it! We get a fair amount of action as always, but we also learn some things about Gai that no one would have suspected as well as a theory about Inori's origin. Intrigued yet? Let's get to it! The episode picks up where we left off last week; Gai was attacked at Point Delta by the Leucocyte and is surrounded by burning rubble. Tsumugi is able to establish an audio connection with Gai and we find out that he's okay, but the rest of his team wasn't so lucky and all of the supplies are beyond saving. Tsumugi asks if he wants to delay their attack, but he says that they shouldn't delay it any further. The last thing we see before a minor time skip is Gai looking at the young girl's body in the burning rubble as he disconnects his audio device. After Gai is able to make it out of the affected area, we see that everyone has set up camp and is preparing for their assault on the Leucocyte. Inori is bandaging up Gai's injury, but as soon as she's done, he stands up and addresses his team. He informs them that their main goal is to get to the control core of the Leucocyte and then hands the reigns over to Kenji, who explains the procedure to everyone. It turns out, the Leucocyte is, in fact, a satellite and that it has three control panels in total. When all three points align with one another, it fires wherever it is directed to and with devastating results. Their objective is to disarm one of the control cores, because without it, there's no way for the device to work. The tricky part is that you can't touch it at all because it will trigger an automatic self-destruct function, which causes the Leucocyte to fire at their location. Gai then takes over again and says that both Shu and Kenji will be at the center of this operation because of Shu's King's Mark and Kenji's anti-gravity Void. He goes on to explain that the plan is still viable, though without their reinforcement, total casualties for the even have risen from 5% to 35%.
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