Finally, we get some long awaited action.  So many things happened this episode which made it a very good watch.  First off, It appears that Silver is being held by Bal Masque and can teleport at will.  This is most likely why they placed a powerful Keeper on the Reiji Maigo, to keep Silver from teleporting through it.  It also seems that this can happen to only certain people from what I understand.

Konoe turns out to be a faux body that was created in order to gather memories or something it turns out.  I’m still not sure what Konoe’s purpose was.  But, Hecate recovers her faux body and seals the Reiji Maigo.  Turbulent Ungula Fecor makes an appearance with Hecate.  His defensive spell Magnesia, was quite effective on Shana and Margery.  I did like how Margery stayed calm the entire time and didn’t let her revenge get the better of her.

After Hecate seals the Reiji Maigo, Johan somehow is released.  Even Hecate seemed surprised, which made it even more interesting.  Johan gives some of the Reiji Maigo’s energy to Pheles in order to save her.  He also tells her his plan in order to stop Bal Masque.  Johan then reverts back to Yuji after using up most of his energy.  Pheles asks the others to believe in her plan and gives Yoshida a strange Hogu.  The next episode will most likely focus on what the Hogu is that was given to Yoshida, and what Yuji and the group will do to uncover more hints about the mysterious Silver.

This was a very intereting episode.  There was a lot of info about Pheles shown.  Pheles’s actual body was somewhere else it seems.  From the looks of it, she’ll do anything to see Johan again and that even means turning on Wilhelmina.  I am somewhat worried about how how the creators will pull off the next episodem, since this one was building up for the next.

Yoshida suggests that Pheles come to the festival with everyone.  Pheles seems to enjoy it, and it looks as if she can be trusted.  We see a short glimpse of Pheles and Johan in the past at a festival.  We learn that Pheles found and raised Johan as a child.  He then fell in love with her and was willing to become a Mystes in order to stay by her side.  I’m guessing he needed to become a Mystes so that he wouldn’t grow old and die.  It’s ironic that Yuji was so scared of not living while Johan volunatrily become a Mystes.

After Pheles’s real body arrives she tries to awaken Johan again.  This time however,  she is piereced by a silver arm.  I pray this isn’t the end of Pheles.  She has made the show very interesting thus far.  I’m also hoping Margery doesn’t go berserk again next episode.  We do get antother hint about Konoe at the end though.  I just don’t understand what those bracelets are.  Who is the butler?  I guess we’ll see next episode.  Overall, very good building up!

This episode of Shakugan no Shana II was packed with a lot of action.  Pheles the Beautiful Whim makes her appearance this episode.  She comes to Sakai Yuji to find Johan who resides within him.  While Pheles tries to bring back Johan, Yuji releases his fuzetsu.  Margery sees his silver flame and goes berserk.

It seems Pheles and Johan were targetted in the past by an assassain named Sabrac.  Pheles managed to seal the dying Johan in the Reiji Maigo as it left him.  Though Sabrac put an unrestricted spell on it before it finally dissapeared.  Most likely this was the keeper they were talking about in the earlier episodes.  Somehow she managed to survive the encounter with Sabrac though.  It also appears that Wilhelmina was friends with Pheles.  She tries to persuade the others to spare her for the time being.  In the past Johan and her made a pact thus she no longer eats humans.

Basically though, Margery and Pheles are subdued by Wihelmina and Shana’s teamwork.  I’m still unsure if the Silver is truly inside Yuji.  It could just be something to do with the keeper placed on the Reiji Maigo.  Though if Johan is truly inside Yuji, then I don’t know how he’ll be able to free him and stay alive himself.  Though we do learn that the Reiji Maigo is changing from what Pheles talks about.  I do dislike the random moments that Yoshida says that she is getting farther away from Yuji.  I believe the drama that Yoshida brings into the series totally ruins a lot of it.

We also get a hint about the new transfer student being Hecate.  I don’t actually know for sure but I’m willing to bet that it is in fact her.  The next episode seems like it will fill in the gaps with the information we need to know.  I’m looking forward to seeing what will happen to Pheles, and what information they can gather on the Silver.