Otonashi ponders over who to "target" next and meets Hinata and Naoi in the walkway whom both of them wishes to talk to him. Hinata tells Naoi that he have some important matters with Otonashi and tells Naoi to leave but Naoi isn't pleased by that and attempts to hypnotise Hinata into thinking himself as a toilet paper. Otonashi prevents Hinata from falling under the hypnosis and Naoi tells Otonashi that he knows what they are planning to do and wishes to help as well. Otonashi then asks him if he should already disappear but Naoi prefers to stay by Otonashi's side for the time being. A shadow then materialises behind Naoi and assaults him by entering his body, Otonashi and Hinata attempts to fend it off with their own pistols and when they finally got it to disappear, Naoi was barely safe and Yuri now realises that it was a serious problem now that a second shadow has appeared. Yuri therefore announces that everyone now should not move individually and stay in a group of at least two people to prevent themselves from falling prey to the shadow. Meanwhile, the calls Kanada over and Otonashi, Hinata and Naoi follows in as well. Yuri asks Kanade if she knows of anything about the shadow and suspect that it could be a bug from Angel Player. She does not feel that Kanade isn't as evil as she should be but Naoi tells her that he's stabbed almost everyday by her and also helped cover for Otonashi when Yuri asks her who asked her to make wings as she disclosed what she had programmed. But as Kanade allowed Takeyama to access her computer, he sees no bug in the program and gunfires where heard in the school grounds. Everyone rushes forward and sees the other SSS members fending off the shadows. Otonashi asks Kanade to go forward and assist them which Kanade then spreads her new wings and joined in the fight. Yuri, Hinata and Otonashi joined in later and manages to "remove" the shadows. During the fight however, Yuri sees a NPC transforming into a shadow and thinks that it could be a answer to why the shadows are multiplying. Yuri once again thinks Kanade to be an ally of theirs since she had helped them but the suspicion didn't bring her to question anyone yet as Takamatsu just got attacked and swallowed by the shadow as seen by Ooyama. Otonashi now suspects that someone else which a different mindset is at work here and is behind the shadow attacks. The next day, Takamatsu appears in school and does not seem to have any memories of the SSS. Yuri then leads the others to the stairs and tells them that Takamatsu had his soul eaten by the shadow and has now turned into a soul-less NPC. Yuri then calls for a meeting with the other SSS members and tells them about the current situation and that she has learnt of another group of people with a different ideal and asks Otonashi to explain to them. And so it seems that Yuri had already seen through them and Otonashi takes the lead and explains about his plan. Both Hinata and Naoi goes forward and supports him and takes Yui as an example who had moved on happily. Yuri gives everyone sometime to think about it themselves and tells Otonashi, Hinata and Naoi that she's going to find who's causing the shadows to appear and leaves alone and also tells Otonashi and the rest that Kanade was a normal human just like them and Otonashi and Hinata were shocked. (took them long enough to realise it). Everyone then still ponders over which path they should take and as Yuri suspected someone is pulling the strings on the NPCs, she goes to the PC rooms to check but a teacher was just there fixing the computers and when Yuri discovers a secret tunnel , it leads back to Guild again...

That was quite a good cliffhanger for the episode and since its Guild again, the person behind all this might be the Guild leader from before... and with the shadow incident, another person has been "taken out" ... no more abs-revealing D: and i can't imagine how Hinata wouyld become if Naoi really made him think that he himself is a toilet paper. With Kanade helping the SSS fight off the shadows and even allowed Takeyama to access her computer, it was no doubt that Yuri would think that it was the old Kanade and not the bloodthirsty harmonics. if Yuri's suspicions were right, about NPCs transforming into shadows and eating other souls and causing THEM to become NPCs, it is that NPCs were born this way? and that the NPCs were all previously human? 2 more episodes to go ... =/



awesome wings @.@