Sea Slugs! Anime Blog

An Albion force of 7 million men is closing in on the city, and Henrietta stubbornly decides to board the very last airship. The head priest wants Louise to use some Void magic mumbo jumbo to buy some time. Louise decides that someone has to protect the lives of Henrietta and the maids, and prevent the Albion soldiers from molesting Scarron. Before she goes off on her suicide mission, however, she buys a pair of magical Ekulerudamuru flowers for her impromptu wedding ceremony with Saito.

As they take their vows, the flowers bloom and begin to glow, signifying the bond between Saito and Louise. Louise is pretty lightweight, and passes out after one glass of wine (ok, it was the sleeping potion). Julio offers to give them an escape ride on his sweet dragon, but Saito just leaves Louise in Julio’s care, and goes off to Albion’s army base. In the attack, Saito is very badly wounded, and it looks like he meets his end in a massive volley of arrows and fireballs. Fortunately, a busty fairy who likes cute boys saves Saito just as she saved Guiche, in exchange for more screentime in season 3.

This was actually a pretty awesome episode, with a lot of emotion packed in. Even Julio was GAR for Saito by the end, and Saito clearly has some kind of incredibly powerful imba AOE aggro-lock move, because not one single commander in Albion’s army thought to go for the squishies fleeing the docks. I was also surprised at how few people Saito was able to take out. That couldn’t have been more than 150 soldiers, so the Albion commanders should have just left the Spartans and taken off with the other 6,999,700 soldiers to intercept the last airship. Although the Albion commanders were retarded, I take back what I said about Governor Sheffield’s plan, because it was really quite brilliant.

I didn’t mind having Saito survive, because that’s the sort of thing that fits in perfectly with the mood of Zero no Tsukaima. Of course with Saito safe, Louise is back to tsun tsun mode, and can’t believe that Saito was shacked up with busty Tiffania showing her how he got the nickname “Gandaflr, the Left Hand of God.” Hmm, I wonder what the right hand was doing. On a completely different note, it looked like Scarron was humping Louise over the railing while he was restraining her on the airship.