This show was absent last week due to some reason I didn’t really care about (or didn’t really pay attention to) because I know it was just absent for a week, and there was the OVA to fill the gap too (read my review here). At least it didn’t get delayed several weeks due to another earthquake or something (like what happened to Madoka Magicalast year). This episode made me kinda relived or satisfied though there were some asshole moments in the beginning, which I’m going to explain next (though I kinda thankful it happened, and you’ll know why).

 So the story proceed to where Rea’s father challenged Furuya to a fencing duel (to see who is the better person to protect Rea), while Rea arrived just in time hoping to stop anything bad from happened. To bad Rea was stopped by 2 asshole maids who then captured her and tortured, I mean costume-raeped her, thus we got to see Rea in bunny suit as pictured above. Actually with her strength she could have escaped earlier or even forced her way in but strangely she just let those people do as they please, as if she likes to get raeped or something.

Well she did manage to escape after that though I wish she could have inflicted some serious injuries to those asshole maids as a lesson not to mess with her. On the other hand Furuya did not really accept Rea’s father challenge but instead he keeps laughing at him, calling him pathetic or something I can’t really remember. He said many sarcastic stuff at him and naturally that old man would get provoked and unexpectedly stabbed Furuya right in his torso!

Yes, Rea was too late and Furuya was stabbed right before her eyes, something that even Furuya didn’t expect that asshole would go as far as killing people for his intention. I’m not sure though how fragile is the law and order system in the series though because it seems like Rea’s father wouldn’t mind killing people as if his wealth could save him from the following consequences to his action. However him stabbing Furuya is actually backfired him, or rather revealed something that made him the instant loser in the duel he started himself.

Not sure if it was luck or what but Furuya somehow didn’t have any effect on Furuya as if he was a zombie himself, except that he was bleeding from the wound. At first (because of the OVA) I was thinking “I knew it! His mother must be a zombie and he inherited some zombie traits from her!” but I was half-wrong about that. I mean I was half-right because Furuya is now a half-zombie but the zombie traits were not inherited from his mother as I have thought.

Instead of ‘inheriting’ the zombie traits from his mother Furuya actually got them from the time where Rea licked his wound back then (I forgot which episode it was). However the dosage wasn’t fatal but enough to make Furuya able to stand serious injury like that, an injury that could have killed him if he was a “full” human. Actually at that point Furuya already won the duel but Rea’s father’ seemed to have forgotten about the rules tried to attack Furuya again, this time was to severe his head.

This time Rea was able to save Furuya and at the same time stopped his father from doing something stupid that he finally orz-ing and accepted defeat. Then he learned that he never fulfilled Rea’s wishes all these times but only fulfilled his wishes he forced onto Rea. In the end he entrusted Rea to Furuya and he himself then went to a journey to find a ‘cure’ to Rea’s ‘disease’ but not before he gave a warning to Furuya not to take her chastity.

Right after receiving the warning from Rea’s father, Furuya collapsed due to the ‘zombie poison’ lost its effect and the injury he sustained earlier began to take its toll on his body. The next thing happened is when he regained consciousness he was already in his room with Rea and the asshole maids around him. Soon after that Ranko also arrived after learning that Furuya has gotten himself some serious injury.

For Ranko it was like a perfect time for her to show to Rea who is the right person to become Furuya’s lover. Not only she moved her body in such a way that shows her ‘superior’ proportions but from her words also she hinted that she has the all the rights to become Furuya’s partner. For Rea she got the message and learned that Ranko loves Furuya, probably as she does, though as of new she has yet to realize that she loves him too.

After Ranko showing all that all I can think is the next episode would be about love triangle or something but for now I can’t even say Rea is having an advantage despite having her father’s approval, living under the same roof with Furuya and Furuya loving zombies. Of course I’m rooting for Rea x Furuya but before that I want to see an episode where she admitted that she has a feelings towards Furuya, regardless it was in front or behind him. With only 2 episodes left, I really hope there will be a season 2 or something.

 

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