Zetsuen no Tempest - ep03

Finally they are concluding the introduction with the resolution between Mahiro and Natsumura. It seems that the spear-man is to difficult of an opponent to deal with so Mahiro runs away in hopes that Hakaze will give him some incite into how to beat him. However all she does is complain about how he shouldn't be fighting him, that there is little chance that he can beat him with him lacking the ability to use magic freely. This is when Yoshino shows up saying that his girlfriend would hate him if he abandon his friend in need. When Yoshino accidental knocks over his bag, this cause so trouble because it tells Natsumura where they are. Mahiro act quickly to get them somewhere safe at least for a time.

When it is apparent that Natsumura has no intentions on giving themselves time to regroup, Mahiro decides that he will act as a decoy so that Hakaze will be able to give Yoshino a deeper understanding of magic. Then this leads to Mahiro rushing back into battle which Hakaze isn't pleased with, but she start to give Mahiro an explanation. That the magic that they use is to protect never to actual cause harm, the reason that Natsumura is so strong is because of the way he combines the magic that the destruction he causes is create not by the magic it self but the way he uses it. That the talismans that they are using is an advance technique but how the magic is create in the first place is by sacrificing things that humans have made to the tree of beginning. This means that in a city surround by technology, it means that it is hopeless to fight a real mage in a city.

Now that Yoshino understand how the magic works, when he thinks about it everything seems a little strange. Why does a tree need with human technology, and why to people get turn into metallic statues. There seems to be some sort of connection, between human society and this tree. However it seems to suggest that there might be a deeper meaning behind Samons goal that what we have seen so far. However during this lesson with Hakaze Mahiro has gotten quite far away, that Yoshino has lost sight of where Mahiro has gone.

In his search for Mahiro he see so helicopters blow up a bridge, and releazies this is what Yamamoto was talking about. That they need to get out of there quickly, this is when he finds Mahiro's phone. This causes him to come up with a plan that by using healing magic he can track Mahiro down, when his blood tries to return to his body. Then once he finds him they can escape across the last bridge and use the missiles that are going to destroy the bridge against Natsumura, so that he can no-longer pursue them. Then with this the introduction is concluded, and the beginning there journey together. However it seems that there is even more going on than what seems to be because it appears that Aika was kill by mage, and it was done before Hakaze was sealed away. Which means that Aika's death is in someway connected with the current events.