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Okay so while X-Swordsman is cool, let me say this to start! I loved all of this episode but I absolutely adored the Daishinji vs. Touma segment! It's my favorite part of this episode!

This was the episode that fully sold me on Daishinji and Kamen Rider Slash!

Just... man, this episode does a lot of things and it really reiterates my earlier points about the prior episodes. The King Megid Two-Parter was very mundane and almost boring outside a few instances, like we were doing a repeat... and I feel like that was on purpose and the revelations this episode basically reoriented my opinion on them.

I don't find them spectacular obviously, but I appreciate them a lot more now. Last time we got another Human turned Megid plot and there was just a needless amount of padding in universe to where it took Touma forever to actually deal with the issue. Like say had everyone been on the same side, and coordinating, they would've dealt with the King Megid in like... the span of one fight scene.

But no, because everyone is splintered... it took a lot longer. And in the time it took, more people got turned into Megid's and their books actually got completed. That pile of red books in the Megid base? All victims and people Touma failed to save and might've had the Northern Base crew not been splintered.

And we get a very much defeated Touma, realizing that he couldn't save everyone being confronted by Daishinji and Ogami and begging them to come back. But of course Daishinji's not going to come back with begging, he wants a fight. And this time we get a true duel between the two, one that's very spectacular in that we also get the burning sword prop back! It's such a very highly emotional sword fight between the two and the ending where Daishinji just says "I heard a small echo" or something along those lines as he does a cool sword wipe is really great.

Then you've got Ogami being like "Hey man, follow your heart!" and not being hung up about Daishinji leaving to fight alongside Touma. It's a good scene between the older members as they choose to part ways.

I also found the structure rather interesting in that we have the Daishinji subplot go across three episodes. While it definitely made this episode a bit more packed, it definitely let that subplot breathe for a bit.

Anyway X-Swordsman! Pretty cool and I love the panel changing gimmick of going to the arm, etc. It's cool. Also Charybdis is an interesting Megid for the fact that it uses an entirely new mold for its design instead of just being top armor for the standard Megid suit.

But yeah... what a great episode. Probably one of my favorites in Saber if I'm being honest.

As for your story... I got goosebumps and chills from that! It was such a nice inner monologue this random nobody we've got no idea on is saying before it turns into absolute dread at the very end. You definitely captured a good creepy vibe with it, and I like that a lot.

===Zero Presents: Desast Walk===

Desast Walk #3:







"Hello, humans.

I'm Dessert.

It feels good to lie down on the grass and look up at the open sky.

It's like I've got the whole world to myself.

What do you think?

Would you like to be a resident of my world?"