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Love rivalry.

Summary:

While walking through the streets at night, Mubyo sees a tall woman with long white hair in the distance. Before she can learn her name, the woman disappears from the area. Of course, this woman is none other than Shiro. In class the next day, Toru can only think about the questions he had asked Shiro previously. On the rooftops close by, Enju’s followers observe Toru due to their orders. Waking from a dream at home, Ko senses a danger not too far away. She loses her tension soon after, however, only greeting Tenko who has returned from a walk. In other places, Sakura has her usual misunderstandings with Noboru who happens to be wearing glasses for a change. Tenko later finds Enju’s spies while they watch Toru, and when they refuse to state their reason for watching him, he threatens them with his abilities. Back at the high school, Momiji approaches Sakura and asks her if Noboru has a girlfriend. Sakura suggests that he doesn’t, but she panics when Momiji seems glad for her own reasons. After their failed resistance against Tenko, Enju’s followers see Shiro standing on the rooftop only a short distance from them.

Enju wakes from her dream of previous events, where Shiro had escaped her by simply draining her followers of their energy. She worries when she learns how long she has actually been asleep, but after learning that observation of Shiro has continued despite her condition, she doesn’t give up hope. When Noboru returns home from grocery shopping, Ko attempts to tell him about what she saw earlier. Noboru puts this off as nothing when Ko states that it did not seem like a threat, then asking if she would help him make dinner. To Noboru’s surprise, Ko puts on a smile after hearing this offer. Elsewhere, the man known as Inamochi approaches Enju in her office about Shiro’s escape. Toru is surprised when he meets Shiro in his classroom, but he does not have much time to think about this when Enju’s followers storm the room. Watching this from outside, Bekira and Tsukuyomi meet Tenko. Tenko expresses that she has no intentions on fighting Shiro, but she has no choice but to cooperate with the two when she realizes that they know much more about the situation than she does. As Shiro takes down those going after her outside the school, Toru attempts to reach her. Believing that she had run away for a reason, Toru declares that he will to whatever he can to help Shiro.

Preview: DBZ explosions.

Impression:

You know, I’m really disturbed at how the past three or four episodes have had nothing to do with their previews from each previous episode. Where were the transformations we saw from last week? Today’s episode seemed to be full of filler, only barely advancing the plot that was established in the last episode. I wouldn’t say I was completely disappointed, since things like Sakura’s delusions were funny as usual, but it really makes me wonder. There’s not much to talk about either, since not much happened. I do laugh at how creatively fanservice is used in this show though, with it coming from places like Sakura’s head. The possible conflict dealing with Momiji seems fairly interesting too, and we finally got to see the female version of Gyokuyou after the credits. Next week, maybe we’ll finally get to the battle that’s been hinted at for the past two episodes. It might start feeling a bit anticlimactic now that it’s not shown up when I’ve been expecting it though…