Yuji has his Reiji Maigo extracted by Hecate, who appeared without warning.
The clock tower goes through a strange deformation before his eyes.
Bal MasquÃ©'s secret power, the Taimei Shihen, was about to take form.
Things are going well for now.
If things go as planned...
...Our ambition will take form.
Well...
We're changing the laws which govern this universe.
You never know if things will go as we would like them to.
Give birth?
You plan on keeping something as large and alien as this as a permanent being?
Have you lost your wits, Seeking Researcher?
Pioneers are never understood!
Ooonly those who are willing to take criticism aaand continue to experiment and evaluate...
...can take a step or two or three!
Excellent, Professor!
This Statue of Pride shall take the unknown step to tomorrow for my sake!
Absolutely prevent.
I know ~de arimasu.
We just need to get the Reiji Maigo back.
We need to save Yuji!
I already said I won't let you.
Yeah... I shouldn't have done things I usually don't do.
I get to do nothing when there's a fight right in front of my eyes.
Just keep your mouth shut!
Damn it, this one takes time to heal.
Yuji...
Sakai-kun...
He won't be able to recover his power of existence.
But of course, the amount he carries now is extraordinarily large.
He shouldn't run out any time soon.
But... if he does run out...
Disappear.
If Shana-chan and others can't save Sakai-kun...
This might be the time to use this.
Since, even if it was only for a moment, I felt I didn't have a chance.
To save Sakai-kun?
No.
To fight with Yuji.
The best that I can do...
This is bad.
He won't attack?
There's no mistake. They're avoiding damaging the clock tower.
Carmel-san.
Then I'm sure Shana's in here, as well.
But I don't sense her at all.
Looks like I can only sense the Silver right now.
Damn it, I can't stop here.
I need to fight my own battle.
Spotted. Spotted.
I thought I was used to being a bodyguard, but if it's this big, I guess it's disadvantageous to the ones guarding.
It's ironic for the enemy's final weapon to become our shield ~de arimasuna.
But what we must do isn't to defeat those two.
It's to inhibit this Tomogara's birth.
We can't fall to the defensive and simply drag out the battle.
Retrieve Reiji Maigo.
I'll find a chance and dive in.
I bet Yuji's there, too.
Pursue. Pursue. Pursue.
Sakai-kun...
If Sakai-kun will be saved...
I...
I'll be back with Yuji.
I'll be back, and we'll redo this.
Shana-chan told me to wait.
She said that we'll redo our match.
And yet, I went admitting defeat myself, thinking of saving Sakai-kun...
To fight with Yuji.
I'm sure Yuji's fighting inside in his own way.
I'll believe in them.
I'll believe in Shana-chan and Sakai-kun.
I'll wait right here.
And I'll say "welcome back" to them.
Pursue. Pursue. Pursue.
Arrest. Arrest. Arrest.
If I use too much power of existence, I'll disappear.
But...
I wonder why. It's scary how little I'm afraid of the situation.
I just want to protect...
...Dad, Mom...
...my coming little brother or sister...
...this city and the people in it...
...and Yoshida-san who's waiting for me, a Mystes.
I want to protect everyone.
Plus...
Shana!
I want to protect Shana!
Why did you go after Yuji?!
It's what made me unempty.
As well as a thing whose role has already been fulfilled.
Things that fulfill their role shall disappear.
You!
Stay off of my Hecate.
So that was what she was actually after.
Move away.
I can't let you pass ~de arimasu.
No need to worry.
My defense system will find, cope with, and eliminate one mere Flame Haze!
But the Mystes from earlier is still running around.
Shut up!
Ow.
Anyway, just buy some time until the Statue of Pride comes to fruition!
It should...
...be soon! Soon!
Easier said than done.
I can tell that Yuji's here.
Yuji!
Shana!
Yuji...
Don't disappear...
Don't worry.
But, the Reiji Maigo is...
Yeah. It feels like my power of existence is getting drained through the Reiji Maigo.
The Seeking Researcher said the Reiji Maigo is the Statue of Pride's heart.
You're probably being consumed as the energy source of the heart.
Statue of Pride?
Apparently a Tomogara that'll be born in this world.
This large iron structure is about to transform into a Tomogara...
...using the power of existence that was once collected in this city.
Why are they doing this?
I don't know. But if such a thing starts to move, tremendous disaster will befall us.
Not only to this city, but to the entire world.
That's one thing for sure.
We need to get the Reiji Maigo back fast.
Do you know where it is?
Yeah. It's right above us.
Yuji!
I'm fine.
Let's go.
Can you still fight?
I decided that I'm protecting things.
Plus...
I promise I won't weigh you down.
Okay.
Let's go, Yuji!
Yeah!
Stand.
Oh, at last!
Looks like I made it just in time.
Damn, the wound opened again.
Well, what else could I have done?
You're such a stroppy patient.
How dare you trap a newborn chick inside an egg again?!
In that case, Domino!
Let's activate the special device we set up for situations like this.
I-If we used that, wouldn't it blow this entire area to ash and cause us to be cast away from the operational area?
No probleeem!
To test all systems that have been created!
That is the law! The pinnacle! The climax!
Are those wings?
Is it trying to fly out of the Fuzetsu?
Destined to see chaos.
You've got a good altitude to become a spectator in the middle of war!
We must stop this.
No matter what.
Hurry! It looks like it has activated!
We're almost there!
This guy is what we saw...
Yuji, where's the Reiji Maigo?
Yeah, it's inside him!
You're in our way!
Yuji!
Cover me!
What were you going to do if I couldn't do it right?
You did it, didn't you?
Gosh.
It's meant to disappear.
Margery-san.
Are you all right, Missy?
I can't believe I'm saving people when the Silver's right in front of me.
Shana!
I know.
It's happening again. The power that's been drained from me is getting sent somewhere.
You're probably being consumed as the energy source of the heart.
Right, the heart!
You try very hard.
But the shield you've been putting to your back is starting to get dangerous.
This indeed is excellent and exciting!
Take flight to the beautiful world!
Shana, it's that one!
Destroy the machine that's connects the Reiji Maigo, the heart, to the large Tomogara!
I'm running out of power...
Why?
Come back to me, Reiji Maigo!
Yuji, did you get the Reiji Maigo?
Yeah.
Good, get out of here!
How could this...
We were only a step away...
I guess the universe's laws are inflexible.
But...
What happened, Hecate?
I don't know.
Nooo! Why must the control data be fed back from the defense system now?!
An error? A bug? Domino!
Send a revision program this instant!
The link has been cut off!
Ah, the Reiji Maigo has been taken out.
Wh-What did you say?!
The breakdown is spreading like a chain reaction.
Cannot maintain the form.
Professor, it's time we leave.
Curse them! Curse them!
To interfere with my experiment not twice, but thrice!
Press.
We protected it...
Between Yuji and I.
Yeah.
Yoshida-san.
I'm so glad.
Yoshida-san.
Kazumi.
Welcome back.
This night when we saved the city...
...I changed my world a lot...
...believing in what lies ahead.