As the foot-soldiers of both respective army's continue brawling it out, we're brought to the attention of Sophie, and her team of who the fuck knows, nor cares. Sophie, along with the other two men, express concern over The God of Creation's revival, with one of the men, Centerhill, even sensing the beast's presence within the dimensional portal. And his senses are correct, as the beast is nearing its debut into the real world, with Shana and Yuji riding upon the God itself.
The series moves on with the start of Sabrac and Khamsin's battle. As Carmel and Rebecca are both injured and vulnerable, due to Sabrac's unrestricted spell, Stigma, which swells whatever wounds inflicted, they've left Khamsin to take on Sabrac. Personally, Khamsin is my favorite flame haze. His cool, yet aloof demeanor brings about a certain air of mystery. Not to mention, his abilities are quite something; being able to turn into a giant made of rock with, above all, rocket feet. If that doesn't qualify as badass, then you don't know what badass is, because that IS badass. Getting back on track, Khamsin and Sabrac begin to go at it, with Khamsin appearing as if he's in the lead. As he swings his mighty rod about, slapping Sabrac all over, you can just tell Khamsin knows his shit. However, Sabrac doesn't take kindly to Khamsin flaunting his badassery around, and explodes in a fiery rage, pushing Khamsin further down his territory. Little does he know that this entire time, Khamsin's been goading Sabrac into attacking him. Doing so has allowed Khamsin to separate some of the territory's rock — Sabrac's body — from Sabrac himself, ensuring Khamsin an opportunity to collect the leftover boulders, and form a giant made of them. It's unfortunate that this clever plan of dear Khamsin doesn't work. Sabrac isn't an opponent you can defeat with rocks, regardless of how badass the proponent of those rocks is. Sabrac easily blows the rock giant down to size and manages to land a blow upon Khamsin's left hand, downsizing Khamsin to the same level as his two partner's, Rebecca and Carmel. Of course, these kinds of conditions, even if fatal, won't pressure a flame haze into giving up. The two women return to the battlefield in order to now aid an equally injured Khamsin. Alas, their efforts are of no use to Sabrac, who appears to never receive any long-standing injury.
As The God of Creation swims through the devoid space, breathing in the O2 foreign, barren dimensions not related to humans in any way possess, Sabrac's palace of rock begins to chip away. Sabrac, who's in utter awe at the presence of this god, has begun falling deep into this dimensional hole. You could say he purposely allowed himself to, since the flame haze's were successfully able to latch upon The God of Creation's body. Sabrac's motive for letting himself fall is revealed soon after, though. The thought of Mare, the Tomogara/Mystes girl who we saw in the beginning of the second Shakugan No Shana series, someone who seemingly meant a lot to Sabrac, races through his mind. Mare left Sabrac to obtain the Reiji Meigo... to increase her small existence; to stand on a more equal footing to Sabrac, whose existence utterly drowned hers. An episode ago we saw Sabrac reminiscing Mare, questioning her motive to strive for something such as that. But now, in the presence of a god, Sabrac finally realizes why she left, why she couldn't stand being so inferior. Sabrac's thoughts burn away with his body (earlier, Rebecca threw her own flame at him). Sad as this scene is, we're straddled right back into action.
As the previous episode strongly hinted, Yuji and Shana have now begun swinging their swords at each other. It's at this point that I can take an encounter of the two seriously. There's no unrestricted spell known as "love" on this battlefield, but a fierce determination to stop the other from succeeding with their plan. Even though Yuji has repeatedly informed Shana, and us viewers ~blushes~, that he's serious, I still have a strong suspicion that Yuji's consciousness was, in some way, warped. The Yuji we were introduced to in the first two Shakugan No Shana series' didn't appear to share the same mentality this Yuji does. What this Yuji is striving for may be of a philanthropist nature, but it's eerie, and depends far too much on destruction to achieve its fruition. Not to mention, Yuji was fiercely dependent on Shana in the previous series', as if her every thought on Tomogara, on the world, was from a philosophical God itself. And I'm not ignoring Yuji's issues with Shana's social behavior; I'm talking about Yuji's admiration of Shana's life behavior, her thoughts and actions in general. And to now see Yuji rebel against Shana, to continue to mock her with the plight of walking along his gait; it doesn't seem like the Yuji I came to know prior to this final series. Shana and Yuji's fight continues until both obtain injury's from the other; Shana with a gash on the right side of her torso, Yuji with a gash in the middle of his forehead. And it's at this point that the fighting stops. Shana informs Yuji that she'll never follow him in the state he's in; that she'll defeat him and The God of Creation, helping Yuji search for a path more appropriate afterwards.
Since the other anime's I planned to blog haven't aired yet, I decided to start now. Like right nao. And with a series I've been watching from the getgo. Whether I continue to blog this series depends on how much time other series' take out of my life.
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