Valvrave the Liberator - ep19

Their goal this time was to tie up all the lose ends in everything that has been happening. Although the largest focus was on Mikhail and Lieselotte relationship. That everything that L-elf has done so far was all for her sake because it was love at first sight for him. That he is intent on freeing her and merely sees the students as a means to this end, that is when Haruto arrives in Unit-01 he has him take her back to the rocket as it is preparing to depart. Then before Haruto departs they learn that there is a problem with the rocket, it turns out that Dorssia has block the runway they need to take off. This leads to L-elf going off to secure another path by lowering a bridge. However as L-elf is fading into the background in the pursuit of carrying out this task. It is also implied that this will be his final act, that he will sacrifice his life to see her safely to her new home.

Then as Haruto is return to his friends with Lieselotte, Pino points out the truth about Lieselotte. That she isn't human, this leads her to explain about herself and the Magius. That they arrived her from outer-space hundreds of years ago, but since they didn't have bodies it made life for them very difficult. That in the end they could only survive by taking the bodies of others, then to keep their existence a secret they create the Magius. This ultimately leads us to the point on why she was imprisoned, was she try to expose the Magius so that they could co-exist with the humans. However for this crime so was imprisoned, while having her runes always drained so that she was always left on the verge of death.

However with L-elf's action they have a way to escape but Haruto isn't going to leave him behind to die. This leads to him separating from the other to get L-elf, because he wants to grant L-elf wish to be together with Lieselotte even if she believe this isn't possible because he is human. That Haruto to an extant see their situation as a mirror reflection of his own. However things become tragic when the rocket is damage in take-off, which results in Lieselotte sacrificing herself for them. Although in the end she is happy because she was able to understand what love was in the end, and through this act she was able to realize that she loved Mikhail. However what will her sacrifice mean for L-elf, because now that she is lost there is nothing motivating him anymore or will he become more driven because she died for them. The one question they never really answered was Yukino able to reunite with them before they escaped or is she once again left behind to fend for herself, even thought she has final made it back inside her own body.