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Glad to hear you enjoyed this episode! It's a nice cap off to the two-parter and I especially enjoyed it as our starting two episodes for our new arc of Saber.

I know some people groaned at Yuri technically misinforming Touma of how exactly things worked with the human-hybrid Megid and how it could've been easily solved. But Yuri is one of those dude's who will be extremely literal and vague about a point because he assumes that people would have guessed from those few words.

The argument and discussion between Yuri and Touma too was definitely one of my favorites. Touma is a very emotional guy, more recently to his detriment (given how he acted on his feelings during the whole SoL betrayal and look where that got him). But despite that setback he still keeps hold of what makes him, him. And that allows him to get through to Yuri in some fashion, and it's also just a nice way to sort of reorient the story's direction from a larger stakes war that had been going on prior to low stakes battles where the individuals are more important than the goals.

Still, Touma has a much more solid way to save people turned into Megid now, though his plan (and realization via a toy toaster) was pretty solid all things considered. It also ended in a nice stylish dual wielding fight where Touma gets to wield two Seiken at once again. Touma dual wielding is cool, and I'm glad that Yuri as Saikou allows more opportunities for that.

Speaking of Saikou! We basically get his full debut out of the way these episodes. The sword itself is cool, but the most interesting aspect is the Shadow feature. Which funnily enough gets a special filter for the suit only for that to be completely forgotten about the literal next episode. Though even then Shadow's properties of nothing being able to hit it still ends up coming into play even with the lack of a filter.

But yeah, solid end to a two parter and I absolutely adored your story. It's fun to see you sort of try and get into the minds of the characters to pick at. And you choosing Daishinji as the main viewpoint character this time was pleasantly surprising.