Continuing from the last episode, Eleonore and Cattleya both end up at Louise’s academy. Eleonore because she’s the tutor engaged after the students wanted to learn more about battle magic. Cattleya…. well, she can’t just let Eleonore steal the lime light right.

Obligatory scene of Siesta trying to seduce Saito. This time offering to try out Louise’s panties. Unfortunately they are interrupted by Lousie, who is looking for her familiar. Fortunately for Saito, they are interrupted by a large explosion.

Seems that there was a thief who got into Osman’s room, who stole the wind and water rubies that he was safe keeping for Osman. Of all places, Osman imprints a seal on the thief’s breast. And since there were no signs of entry or exit from the academy, the thief must have been an insider. You just need to check everybody’s breast right?

Saito gets assigned to check out Louise’s sisters, since they know earth magic, which was what the thief used. He somehow decides that sneaking is the best way to do it. Of course Eleonore catches him in the act, and gives him some well deserved whipping.

 Cattleya catches Saito too, but this time so does Louise. But just as she’s about to whip him using a new whip, an explosion is heard from Cattleya’s room.

Cutting a long story short. Cattleya is initially suspected, since she knew earth magic, and she coincidentally had an injury to her breast. But Eleonore steps in, and the thieve is revealed to be Michelle, Agnes’ vice captain.

In fact, Agnes had already suspected that it was there was a traitor in her midst. After some questioning, Michelle reveals that her parents had committed suicide after her father was falsely accused of corruption. It was Richemont who had taken her in after that, and who had asked her to steal the rubies. But Agnes reveals that it was in fact Richemont who had caused Michelle’s father to be falsely accused in the first place.

Thoughts

I loved the humour in this episode, especially the scene where Louise was asking Saito if he knew what she was thinking, just before whipping him. (of course… Louise asking Saito to strip first just adds to it)

Siesta is getting to be just extra. Her scenes are not that funny, and seem to be an utter waste of time. -shrugs-

I think the blend of traditional saito x louise humor and action was very good here. Keep it up!

*touch touch* *nothing felt*

Just as Louise is leaving foot prints on Saito’s face, her older sister Eleonore barges in, asking Louise to go home. She ends up dragging Louise along, who drags Saito. To complete the set, Eleonore drags Siesta along too, for no good reason. Yup, nothing like Siesta to make Louise all jealous.

At home, Louise gets to meet her oldest sis Cattleya, who is as gentle as Eleonore is fierce. Anyway, Louise has been dragged home since she’s seen as lousy in magic, and should be married off instead.

Of course, the fact that Louise has somebody she loves already does not escape Cattleya’s notice.

Meanwhile, Siesta decides that she’s on par with Louise in every way. Looking into the mirror and her chest, she decides that she’s way better infact, and decides to sneak into Saito’s room.

Anyway, Cattleya asks Louise to seek out the one she loves. Louise ends up going to Saito’s room, all the while trying to think of how to explain away the fact that she went to her room.

Sneaking under the blankets there, she starts to kiss, and is kissed back.

Then she feels breast. HORROR. It’s Siesta!
That sneak Siesta even lies that it was Saito who had invited her into the room.

Meanwhile, Saito is off looking for Louise, but ends up in Eleonor’s room by mistake. Eleonor in her dreamy state, starts to hug him, thinking it’s her ex-fiance. Saito meanwhile is thinking that something’s wrong, sensing that the breast size that he is feeling is not quite right. This wakes Eleonor up, earning Saito the spanking he deserves.

Louise is one lousy liar though, and cannot hide the fact that there’s somebody she loves. In fact, the family is horrified that it might even not be a noble. Louise can only run off, denying that she has a lover.

Meanwhile, the loving Cattleya looks for Saito, telling him where Louise ran off to. Cattleya tells him to take Louise away, knowing that he is the one she loves.

Saito does succeed in finding Louise in the bed, who immediately questions him about the MAID. After much ranting and frustration though, Saito finally blurts out that he loves her.

A blushing Louise grants Saito permission to touch her anywhere without repercussions.

Of course, they have to get caught by Louise’s parents just as they are about to get even more intimate. Just as he is about to get decapitated, Saito draws Derfflinger and clears a path through! Grabbing Louise and whisking her off under her parent’s noses, she goes out to the carriage outside that’s waiting, aided by a little help from Cattleya.

All’s back to normal in the carriage, with Louise getting all mad after Saito makes mention about intimacy with Eleonore. Outside the carriage, Siesta remains confident of her win.

Thoughts

Focusing back to the winning recipe of the show, the relationship between Saito and Louise. I think most people enjoy seeing them argue yet love each other so tenderly.

Lots of fun added in by many kisses and intimate touching too. Too bad Siesta remains such a side character.

Looks like the next episode gets back to the war, which according to those who read the novel, is quite exciting.

The country is recruiting all male mages to join its army. Perfect opportunity for Saito right? After all, he’ll be the only guy left, being a familiar and not a mage.

WRONG. A handsome Julio arrives on the scene, having escaped the call up being a shinto priest as well. Even worse for Saito, he seems very interested in Louise. PLUS he has all the attention of the girls.

Suddenly though, agnes and her squad arrives at the academy, saying that all the female mages need physical combat training as well. At the same time, Saito gets challenged by one of the subordinates, and promptly gets trashed, since he is only using a wooden sword. (he can only use weapons meant for battle)

Things get problematic when Julio decides to choose Louise as his sparring partner. Of course, Saito gets jealous. Cut a long story short, both end up having a duel the next morning using wooden swords. A kiss from Louise acts as the prize.

Saito ends up getting intensive training from Agnes that night. Saito learns nothing though, except to taunt his opponent and take advantage of openings.

As a side story, Louise mistakes what the 2 of them are doing as flirting, and ends up scolding and beating Saito up the whole night.

The fight is hear, but the taunting does not work. Instead, Saito gets taunted. However, surprisingly Julio loses the fight.

However, Saito is pissed off though, and stomps off without his kiss, knowing full well that Julio let him win.

Suddenly they are called to gather by the queen, and find out that actually Julio and Agnes and the duo Zeros are to work together. Seems like Julio was there just to test them out only after all!

Thoughts

Totally boring. Only good part was seeing Louise stutter and clamoring to give Saito the kiss that he didn’t particularly want. Otherwise utterly boring.

Either the action or the humour better come soon. And Louise should be the lead of any plot.

Flashback to 3 years ago, where Henrietta and Wales makes vows of love together. Fast forward, Wales appears just as Henrietta is thinking of her, asking her to follow him to Albion

Thus the princess is declared princess, and our heroic zero duo is sent to the rescue. They take off in their zero, now equipped with jet boosters. Only problem is that maintainence ain’t finish, and lots of spare parts are still lying around.

 Meanwhile Agnes and company are after the princess on foot. But they just prove that bullets are no match for wales’ magic.

Flying a broken plane is just asking for trouble. Lucky for them, kaypoh kirche and tabithe are around to save the day. The end up confronting wales and herientta, who now have arrived at the lake where they made their vow 3 years ago.

(scolding the pilot baka while pilot is attempting crash landing is not the smartest thing to do)

Tabithe doesn’t waste time trying to convince Henrietta that Wales is a fake. But she and Kirche are quickly defeated.

Henrietta would do everything for love. Combining her spell and wales’s spell, and by virtue of being of royal blood, they casts a hexagon spell at the zero duo. Saito blocks it, although he doesn’t look like he can hold out for long.

Suddenly, words appear in Louise’s void spell book, a dispel spell! She finally uses it to dispel the resurrection spell used to control Wales.

Ends with a lovey dovey touching scene between Henrietta and the now-dying-but-original Wales about love forever.

Thoughts

Low on humour, High on plot and pace.

But I didn’t like it that much. ZnT was never much about plot nor storyline. But with this episode, we pretty much set the setting for Louise’s and Saito’s power. (levelled up!)

I wonder what Herientta’s fans would say of this episode. She fell pretty low here, and way below expectations. I thought she would be able to resist the Wales more than that. I mean, he was so obviously fake

ZnT starts off with a bang, showing Saito flying his zero through modern japan. That’s what everybody wants to see, how life would be is Louise turned up in modern japan instead.

But nope. Just a dream. Continued from the previous season, Saito had chosen to stay with Louise over returning to modern japan. This earns him Louise’s everlasting tsundere love.

Free glasses for Saito, as a love gift from Louise. What better thing to give as a love gift than magical classes that blink when thinking of perverted thoughts looking at other girls.

Heeeee. Explosive situation.

Of course, Saito had to have perverted thoughts at the queen, causing Louise to explode right as Queen Henrietta was passing through, causing Saito to get arrested.

In the dungeon though, we see Henrietta visiting Saito. amidst all of Saito’s perverted dreams, Henrietta is seen asking Saito for help in preventing a war from breaking out.

Classic scenes of what ZnT is about.

Whipping of Saito by Louise after Agnes mentions something about Saito thinking perverted stuff with Henrietta

And of course, Agnes stumbling onto Louise and Saito in the midst of some heavy S & M action.

Thoughts

Something felt wrong, and the voicing sounded a little lacking. And some of the humour felt a little over the top to me. But I’m just being over critical. It’s still a great thing to have season 2 finally showing.

We’re rushing straight to the action already. The bad guys have resurfaced, war is about the break out, and the ZEROs (new nick for the pair) are being rushed into action.

And the classic things that made ZnT so great are still there. So it’s a lovely thing indeed.

p.s. Agnes looks like a total winner already.

oops. biased screenshots. But couldn’t help it.

Louise tearfully returns to Princess Henrietta, reporting about all that went on, but the princess does not blame her. Later, when reporting to the School’s headmaster, Colbert is seen asking for permission for an expedition to look for the dragon in Tarbes, which he is granted. Explaining all that had happened, Louise also asks about what the void is, which Osmond explains to her.

Later Louise is dressing in her room, pondering that Saito can’t possibly be legendary, when Saito walks in with his laundry. Louise gets all flustered, but Saito is his basic old self. Louise can’t understand why things seem to go back to normal after that kiss they had last episode, when suddenly her panties elastic band snaps and falls.

Whipping time! Saito gets the sudden memory of a panties band going “snap” while washing long ago, but whipping still awaits him. Pissed, Saito walks out and vents his anger on his bathing pot. There, he meets Siesta, who is all dressed to go home. There she recounts the story of two dragons, and how one of them is kept somewhere. Saito is of course interested and asks to follow her back. Meanwhile Kirche, Tabitha and Guiche overhears, and of course their interest is aroused.

Of course Louise misses Saito, and comes looking for him. Instead, she finds Saito leaving on horseback with Siesta instead. Stunned, she learns from the cook that siesta is going home to Tarbes. Louise is pissed… but recalls hearing the name Tarbes somewhere before….

Arriving at the village, Siesta and Saito end up meeting Kirche and gang. Together, they go into a cave in search for the dragon, where they seemingly come under attack. But actually it’s just colbert. And surprise! Louise is with him.

Away from the rest of the group, Saito and Louise spends some time together, with Louise insisting that she was just herer with Colbert, not following Saito. Lover’s spat.

Finally reaching what looks like a hanger, colbert starts to open it up. Saito goes over to read a nearby stone monument, which is inscribed in japanese. Surprised by the inscription, Saito is further surprised by what’s found inside the hanger, a ZERO.

Saito then surmises that Siesta’s black hair is because of her japanese ancestry. Colbert recalls that one of the zero had flown into a solar-eclipse, and concludes that the other didn’t because it missed the timing. Colbert suggests that Saito would thus be able to go home by flying into the next solar eclipse.

Meanwhile, Grand Duchess Marianne, Henrietta’s mother talks to her about the stolen letter, and reveals that because of it, Henrieta’s engagement is off. Henrietta blames herself, but Marianne comforts her, knowing the pain of losing the one you love.

Back at the school grounds with the Zero, Saito obtains gasolene from the professor, who declares that it’s undoubtly the dragon’s blood. With his rune shining, Saito seems to have no problems controlling the aircraft, something that was designed as a weapon. Meanwhile, Louise is looking from a distance, but walks away when Saito looks back at her.

But news comes that Albion, now Reconquista, has declared war on Tristein. Cromwell, Forquet and Waldo discuss that they’ll invade in 3 days, when Albion is closest to Tristein, and the day of the Solar Eclipse.

Saito is moping around how he cannot protect Louise because he lost to Ward. Louise comes to comfort him, be he basically spurns all her attempts. Finally, Louise leaves, but not before telling Saito that she’s going to marry Ward.

Meanwhile, Guiche has arrived to tell Saito to hurry up, cause the ship is going to leave. But suddenly, Fouquet appears together with her golem. At the same time, Ward is telling Louise that Guiche and Saito have opted to turn back. But regardlessly, the two of them will still complete their mission.

Saito starts with cutting the golem’s arm with ease. But surrounded by rock formations, the golem is able to regenerate almost immediately. Guiche is an earth mage as well, and summons up his own mini golems, but is not a match at all. Luckily for them though, Tabitha and Kirche arrive on Slypth, and together, manage to turn Fouquet back.

Looking at the departing airship, Saito can only shout out Louise’s name in vain. Well…. the shout carries itself all the way to Louise, who’s not sure, but thinks she heard Saito calling her. On the ship, Ward once again reiterates that he’ll protect her. Louise remembers what Saito said as well, but after remembering that he asked her to shut up too, she calls him a liar in her heart, and turns to Ward telling him that she’ll marry him. Well…. Fouquet’s role is to delay Saito. After finding out from the inn keeper what Ward told Louise, it’s not hard to see that Fouquet and Ward are together.

Louise and Ward arrive at the prince’s hiding place, but are immediately surrounded by a bunch of knights. However, Louise identifies herself with the water ruby, which is paired with the wind ruby that the prince wears. In a private room, Louise passes the letter to the prince, in exchange, the prince gives her a letter meant for princess henrietta as well. Louise enquires if the princess’ letter wasn’t asking if he would go to their kingdom to seek assylum. The prince replies that there’s a group called Reconquista who is the one behind the scenes manipulating the rebelling nobles. As a prince, it would not be right for him to leave the country as such.

Just as Louise leaves the room, Ward catches her outside. After comfirming that Louise has the letter that the prince gave her, he insists that he marry her. In fact, Ward reveals that he’s part of the reconquista, and that she is crucial to them. Louise’s resistance becomes futile when another man arrives and calls her the descendent of the void, and basically casts a spell on her controlling her body. A marriage ceremony is immediately held with Prince Wales presiding over it.

As Louise’s inner self tries to break free from the spell, Saito appears in the chapel, and his scream of Louise’s name breaks the spell. Thanks to Guiche’s familar, they managed to track Louise down, since it doesn’t forget the smell of jewellery. Even as the guards rush towards Saito, and Louise tries to clear up the misunderstanding, Ward stabs Prince Wales.

But hey! what’s a show without the bad guy taunting the hero. Ward tells Saito that he is foolish, for being a commoner falling in love with a noble. With his rune shining, Saito responds that he is not a commoner or a noble, nor does he have familr or home. He is just Louise’s familar! Saito runes shines more and more, and even derflingger gets an upgrade into a shiny sword. Even Ward is surprised and backs away.

This time Saito owns Ward, and cuts through his magic, scoring a hit on Ward. Ward declares that he has achieved 2/3 of his objective. Killing Prince Wales, getting his letter, the last objective being getting Louise, but too bad. As a final move, he destroys the church they are in. However, Lousie and Saito are saved by Kirche and Tabitha.

Louise’s flashback of the childhood scene on a boat with Ward, turns into one with Saito instead. Opening her eyes, she sees Saito leaning forward to kiss her, which she does not resist at all.

Thoughts

Let’s NOT talk about the storyline shall we. haha. Just enjoy the episode!

Score 1 for Saito! I guess this means LouisexSaito is pretty much settled.

I assume the blonde guy to be Cromwell, and the ring he used to be the one that Saito needs to get back. Next ep looks interesting! with Louise looking real cute, and the appearance of the “dragons”

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