Episode 71: Big Brother’s Rampage
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Please excuse the French subtitles. I’d done the summary before the screen caps, and by the time I started screen capping it, I’d deleted the original version off of my computer and was too lazy to go download it again, so… yeah… I just sort of went with the one I already had on my computer.
SUMMARY
It’s raining in Shin Makoku, guards are patrolling the halls, and Gunter requests that Shori stay in his room.
Shori does so, filling a cup with water and attempting to control the elements. He manages to lift the water up, immensely pleased with his new found power.
Elsewhere, the others are discussing the situation, and Conrad remarks how he will be leaving the king’s side since he’s the one being targeted. Yuuri thinks it would be better for them all to stick together, but Conrad would rather not put him in danger.
Yozak comes into the room just as Yuuri’s about to protest again. Conrad turns to leave with him, and Yozak tells Yuuri how they’re taking some men and setting up an ambush. They’re using Conrad as bait.
Yuuri wonders if that’ll work, but Yozak is confident.
After Gunter remarks on how they’re counting on the two of them, Greta comes in and tells them how Gwendal won’t let her into his room, saying that it’s too dangerous.
In his room, Gwendal is looking out his window at the falling rain.
At Shinou’s temple, Ulrike is watching over Ondine, who calls for her sister in her sleep. Murata is in the main chamber of the temple, standing in front of the four boxes that are leaking dark power which is barely being contained.
“We don’t have much time left now,” he says.
On Earth, still in Switzerland, Shoma is having his arm bandaged and asks about Shori’s apparent disappearance to Shin Makoku. Bob says that Shinou must have summoned him. When Shoma asks why, he says he doesn’t know.
Shoma isn’t exactly pleased by this, and would like to know what is happening over in the other world. Bob says it’s probably because all of the boxes have been gathered together that something is happening now.
Their attention is distracted by something happening in the hall. Miko comes in wearing a wet suit, as if she’s prepared to go scuba diving. Rodriguez is trying to stop her, but she wants to go see if Yuuri and Shori are alright. “What mother wouldn’t go in my position?!”
Rodriguez tells that her even if she were to go into the lake, she wouldn’t get anywhere. Miko at least wants to try.
Shoma wonders where she got the scuba equipment from, at which point Sharon reveals that scuba diving is her hobby. Shoma ends up running after his wife.
Back in Shin Makoku, the rain still falls. Conrad and Yozak have set up their ambush. Suddenly the door opens, and Gwendal comes in with his own men, asking to be included in their plan. Conrad says he was just about to call him in.
“I’ve known for a while now that we’d have to settle this ourselves,” he tells him.
Meanwhile, Yuuri, Gunter, and Wolfram are walking down one of the hallways. Yuuri wonders if Seraphine can be persuaded to stop what she’s doing. They stop when a small troop of guards pause in their walk down the hall to salute to the king. Wolfram tells them it’s not necessary in a state of emergency. The guards continue their way down the hall.
The other three turn to see Shori approach. Yuuri asks him what’s wrong and begins to warn him about wandering around. Shori tells him that he knows, and that he’ll go back to his room. He turns to leave, but stops to say something to his little brother. “Yuuri, I will be the one to protect your friends.”
Yuuri is confused, but watches Shori walk off.
Walking back to his room, Shori stops at another hallway, smirking as he thinks about how he can protect Yuu-chan now. He concentrates and tries to utilize the powers he’s gained, tapping into the water of a nearby potted plant.
The water goes out of control and he’s unable to stop it. The guards and soldiers assemble on the hall, thinking the enemy has arrived, and despite Gunter calling him and telling him not to, Yuuri arrives on the scene as well.
The water eventually stops and Shori is left in the middle of it. A couple of guards help him up. Yuuri asks if Seraphine attacked him. Shori says, “No. I don’t really know what happened.”
When Gunter asks, they are told that the people of the forest are nowhere to be found.
Shori mumbles to himself, “I must practice more…”
Yuuri looks at him in confusion.
Towards the entrance of the hall, Wolfram looks on with a strange expression on his face.
Back on Earth, Miko is still determined to get to her sons. They’re in the lake, with Bob, Rodriguez and Sharon in a boat looking on. Miko is in full scuba gear, while Shoma has nothing but a snorkel and a pair of goggles.
Shoma would really like to take a break, but Miko thinks she’s found a likely entrance to the other world. Rodriguez and Shoma say that it’s just a breeding reef for fish, and when Shoma wonder why it’s there, Bob reveals that he likes to fish.
Miko goes under once again, and Shoma follows. Sharon comments that “Miko-san is a tough person.”
Bob responds, “Mother was also like that.”
Back at Shinou’s temple, Murata is standing out on one of the open walkways, watching the rain. Suddenly he looks to the side as if he senses something…
… and we see some of the forest people appear outside of the temple. Seraphine has arrived.
In the room that Ondine and Ulrike are in, a window breaks. Ulrike stands to look towards it and Ondine wakes up, saying, “She’s here. Seraphine has come.”
Out of a puddle on the floor that has developed from the rain coming in through the window, Seraphine appears in the room.
“I wish to speak with Shinou,” she says. “The four keys that seal the forbidden boxes… I want to have everything made clear.”
Ondine asks her to stop, but then feels weak. Ulrike moves to help her, telling Seraphine that she can’t allow her to meet with Shinou.
“Destroying the keys is our last chance to protect the seal on the boxes,” Seraphine states.
Ulrike says that it’s no use. “Even if the keys are destroyed, the seal can no longer be protected.” When Seraphine questions her, she continues. “You do not understand what is happening at all.”
Seraphine tries to persuade her again, but Murata comes into the room with the temple’s female guards.
He implores Seraphine to listen to him. Seraphine just laughs at him and says that she will destroy the keys for sure, then disappears from the temple.
Murata is displeased.
At the castle, the windows to the room where Gwendal and Conrad are have broken as well. Yozak tells them to get back as the forest people appear from the water drenching the floor. Seraphine has come as well.
“If you swear loyalty to Shin Makoku, then you should die quietly,” she tells them.
“We can’t do that,” Gwendal replies.
“We must witness His Majesty sealing the boxes,” Conrad adds.
“You are but cowards speaking nonsense,” Seraphine says. “If you cannot take your own lives, then I will take them for you.”
Yuuri, Gunter, and Wolfram rush down the hall towards the room, with Yuuri saying that he can’t just sit around and do nothing. Wolfram tells him to calm down.
Outside, Shori is standing in the pouring rain. He taps into his powers and manipulates the water, smirking to himself all the while.
Inside the room, Seraphine has begun her attack. A magical water dragon strikes Yozak…
…and the forest people attack the assembled soldiers. Yozak gets up to try and fight again, but Yuuri arrives and tells him to stop. He tells Seraphine that she should stop as well.
She is not impressed. “For someone being protected by his retainers, that’s a fine thing to say, Your Majesty.”
Yuuri tries to step foreword, but Gunter and Wolfram stop him.
Yuuri settles with lecturing instead. “Seraphine, it’s wrong for those who want only the best for Shin Makoku to be fighting each other. Believe in me.”
Seraphine thinks he’s speaking nonsense. “Ever since that day,” she begins, “the day I could not serve Shin Makoku as High Priestess, I have ceased to trust anyone!” Someone’s bitter… “If any of you get in my way, I will grant no mercy, not even to Your Majesty!”
She prepares to attack Yuuri, and we see everyone’s varying reactions. As Conrad and the others rush to protect him, a giant water hand bursts into the room, grabbing onto Seraphine, and destroying a good bit of the castle wall.
The others come outside where Seraphine has been taken, and Shori laughs like a maniac at his victory.
“I protected Yuu-chan!” he exclaims. “My power is perfect! I won’t let Yuu-chan ever be sad again! I won’t let anyone lay a finger on Yuu-chan ever again! Mwahahahahahaaa~!”
The others have no idea what the heck is going on with him.
Wolfram, however, is smirking, and looks highly pleased.
Seraphine falls through the water hand and ends up on the ground.
Yuuri tells Shori to stop, but he doesn’t seem as if he intends on doing so. “You were mean to Yuu-chan…” he says. “I’ll make you pay!” And then his powers go crazy.
Ulrike and Murata can see the action from Shinou’s temple. Ulrike wonders if it’s Seraphine’s powers, but Murata says it isn’t, but someone else’s power that has gone out of control. “The invoked power was too strong and has taken over his mind.”
Ulrike wonders who it could be.
Murata’s eyes narrow. “The only one who could’ve had this much hidden power is…” and then he trails off. “At any rate, he’ll use up all of his power if this continues.”
Said powers start destroying the castle.
Yuuri tells Shori to stop, and Gunter would very much not like the king to get so close; it’s dangerous.
Shori is still laughing insanely.
Yuuri eventually transforms…
…releasing his own powers to bind Shori’s and prevent him from causing any more damage.
“Cease this at once,” the Maou orders. “Listen to me.”
Shori looks angry and tries to break his powers free from the Maou’s.
From the temple, Ulrike still wonders what’s happening. Murata says that the powers or the Shibuya brothers are in a deadlock. They look down and see Ondine outside.
“I can feel it,” Ondine says. “A power that gently envelops the two of them… A warm power…”
When Ulrike arrives on the scene, Ondine asks her to lend her her power.
On Earth, Miko is still in the lake, heading to the breeding reef. Shoma is following her and telling her to stop, but she is as determined as ever. One of the cinderblocks (?) that she’s heading for begins to glow.
Back at the castle, Shori is still intent on making the people who are mean to his Yuu-chan pay for their transgressions.
“Foolish Shori,” the Maou speaks. “Even though you are my older brother, for you to take such reckless recourse… I cannot let this go unpunished.”
The others standing by are concerned that Shori will exhaust his powers - and Julia has already taught us what happens when you run out of MP. As they’re lamenting the fact that there’s nothing they can do, they suddenly hear Miko’s voice calling out to her sons. Everyone looks up to see the image of Miko in the sky.
“Oh my,” she says. “What are the two of you doing in the rain? You’ll catch a cold. Playing in the rain, soaking wet… Really, you two never grown up.” Both Shori and the Maou look up. “But thank goodness. You two seem to be doing well. I was worried that you might be having a hard time.”
“How strange…” the Maou remarks. “What is Mother doing in a place like this?”
Miko continues with her ‘Mama Knows Best’ speech. “Sho-chan, look after Yuu-chan, okay? And Yuu-chan, listen to what Sho-chan says.” As she’s saying all this, Yuuri and Shori’s powers dissipate. “And this is something I’ve always been telling you, ever since you were small, but listen… Don’t forget. You mustn’t cause anyone trouble. Do unto others and you would have them do unto you.”
As her image fades away, Shori and Yuuri’s powers fade completely, and Shori collapses to the ground. Yuuri, now back to normal, runs over to him.
Ulrike and Ondine are pleased with their efforts, and Murata comments that Mama’s love is strong.
Gwendal tells the guards to take Seraphine to Shinou’s temple, while Conrad and Gunter run to make sure that Shori is okay. Wolfram stays behind, once again watching the scene with a strange look on his face.
Yuuri has Shori in his arms in a very adorable brotherly moment. “Thank you for protecting me, Big Brother,” he says.
On Earth again, Shoma and Miko are now on Bob’s boat. Shoma is catching his breath and Miko seems to have passed out. She smiles in her sleep.
In Shin Makoku, Seraphine explains herself. “I attempted to locate the four keys by reading the ancient texts. What I learned was that three of them had been inherited by the Weller family, the von Wincott family, and the von Voltaire family.”
“One of those keys is Conrad, right?” Yuuri wonders.
Gwendal says that he’s another one, obviously of the von Voltaire family.
“What about the Wincott family?” Murata asks.
“I don’t know,” Seraphine responds. “I even went to Earth to trace their lineage, but…”
Yuuri is a little startled by the fact that she went to Earth, too.
“I crossed swords with an extraordinarily gifted swordswoman called Jennifer.”
Cue one of Yuuri’s many faces.
“But on Earth, there was no one who could be the key. I may have been mistaken. The time had come long ago - the time to entrust Shin Makoku to a new people.”
Ondine says that while she and her sister had both loved Shin Makoku, they could never unite their powers. “But Your Majesty and your brother are different. The two of you have a strong bond. A bond to which we can entrust the new era.”
MY THOUGHTS
I don’t have many on this episodes, besides squealing over the cute that is brotherly bonding.
But the thing I’ve noticed during this time through the series is that there’s a lot of focus on the importance of mothers. There are a lot of mother roles: Miko, Lady Celi, Nicola, that woman from Svelera and her child Jilta, the mommy dragon, and Greta’s mother was mentioned and named, but not her father. And I swear people have said something along the lines of mothers or a mother's love being strong more than once.
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