Synduality: Noir – 11 – The Two (Purple) Towers

Kurokamen and Schnee report that they, along with Ciel, have the Magus Key and her current Master in their hands. Their shadowy boss, named Mr. Weisheit, orders Kurokamen (who he calls by his real name, Macht Ewigkeit—to eliminate the master.

While this is standard practice for anyone searching for Paradise, neither Macht, Schnee, nor Ciel seem particularly happy about having to kill Kanata. Meanwhile, his longtime protector Tokio remains unconscious in a medical tank.

Ciel acknowledges her orders as she heads to pick up Kanata and Noir in Tokio’s carrier, only to find he’s readying Daisyogre for the battle at Rock Town. Ciel realizes she doesn’t want Kanata to die, so much so that she’s willing to defy her orders to eliminate him.

She begs Kanata to run away instead, with her, but he declines. He can’t leave Rock Town, Tokio, Ellie, and all the others in the lurch. He has to do what he can. Faced with rejection, Ciel once again steels herself to eliminate him with her electro-fingers.

Back at Rock Town, Michael sets up a line of defense with Drifters from home, Desire, and Baccarat. Even Range and Dolce show up, initially only to watch everyone get their asses kicked, but when they’re ambushed by Enders and accidentally flee to the front line, they give the impression to everyone that they’re not so bad after all, coming to the town’s aid.

The battle is a grueling one, with Drifters running out of ammo and becoming exhausted left and right. But just as Ellie and and Ange are surrounded and look to be out of options except for Ellie to call out for Kanata, there Kanata is, her knight in shining armor with a newly modded-out Daisyogre.

Obviously, Ciel never went through will killing him, as Macht ordered her to continue observing and supporting Kanata instead. Unlike their boss, he has a hunch that he has potential to help them achieve their nebulous “Ideals”, and Schnee feels the same way: it would be a shame for him to die.

Thanks to Kanata the Drifters defending Rock Town have their second wind, and in preparation to make their advance on the twin Ender Storm towers (atop which the cores sit), Claudia and Flamme launch a one-time mega fire cannon that paves a way for Michael, Kanata, and three other Coffins.

As they climb the towers and meet heavy Ender resistance, back in town Tokio finally comes to, and immediately gets dressed. As he expected, Maria has his Coffin fixed up and ready to go; no time for physical therapy. It’s a good thing, too, because Kanata loses his rifle and alerts pop up all over the place.

Just as Kanata rescued Ellie in the nick of time, so too does Tokio take the stage at the most dramatic moment. He tosses Kanata a spare rifle, and they fight off the Enders side by side until the path is clear to one of the Ender Storm’s cores.

They pierce their core, while Michael pierces his…but something’s wrong. The Storm has stopped, but it doesn’t crumble or fall over. Instead, the third, true core coalesces between the two false ones, like a threatening, purple Eye of Sauron. To underscore the importance of this development, a lot of the characters appear on the screen like the end of a Gundam or Macross OP. The next episode will be for all the marbles.