[Nokination]

I'll admit I was also quite surprised by this pacing, for Saber to put the main betrayal plot to the side and instead focusing on developing Yuri and the MOTW, that surprises me quite a bit. Yuri is just a great character, and I love the idea of actually giving the MOTW some development, it was honestly probably my favorite part of the first arc of Zero-One, because even knowing that the Humagear of the episode would almost certainly become a Magia, the character development they got really shined.

However, I won't lie, I didn't care for Yuki (I only just noticed the pun, whyyyyyyy Toei) all that much, she's fine, but she doesn't get to do much, hopefully by next episode, her character will get some more development.

Besides that, this was a fine episode, I like it slowing down the pacing a notch, but the MOTW plot definitley feels unneccasary when compared to the over-arching betrayal plotline, but it's alright enough, a pretty good episode even if I did have a few complaints about it.