Starting off the season not only with Kurumi out to take on the TRUE Phantom, not just Reine, but also what Mio dreams about...the sea and waves...as we kick off DAL Season 5
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Shido catches up the girls on what's been going on with him and Kurumi, and funnily enough talking about Mio while Reine is RIGHT THERE, but I like how Mana is more willing to buy into it because it's her brother even despite her aversion to Kurumi
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How do we get to the truth of the siblings and Mio? Why, let's use Mukuro's Michael key, of course! And Miku just had to make it sexual
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Well, peering through Shido's memories doesn't really provide more than a scene of a crater and Phantom/Mio hanging over it, but at least Shido woke up...thanks to the indirect kiss of spiritual particles in the area. And Miku is the only girl delusional enough to buy into Origami's latest nonsense about tonguing Shido with particles. And she wants to do a "practice session" with Tohka and Natsumi, which I can only assume means doing the actual deed in a threesome
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Westcott knows exactly what Kurumi is doing and plans to overwhelm her with his attempts to kill Shido, because he fully intends to succeed, and he's even got Neebicole carrying around one of her clones' severed heads
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Eyepatch Kurumi! Going out of her way to visit and warn Shido, and she wants a little gratitude for all the effort they're putting in to protect Shido! And Shido responds with that and more, as he fully intends to steal a kiss from Kurumi, seal her, and make her his honey by the end of this. And this Kurumi is totally into that
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So obviously to stop DEM they need to take out Westcott and Ellen...but how do they do that when Westcott can see through all their plans with Nia's Inverse powers? Though Nia is smart enough to be aware of that but dumb enough to fall for Maria's ploy to electrocute her for the insulting nickname. Guess she's not 100% genre savvy
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Kurumi wants to shoot eyepatch Kurumi for acting on her own...though she's FULLY aware of what Shido said and is absolutely flustered by it. And maybe that, as well as wanting all the numbers she can get, is why she ends up sparing her more honest clone
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Oh hey, AST! We haven't seen these girls in forever! And Origami warns them about DEM and the truth about the Spirits, and how they shouldn't be part of the upcoming all-out war...even if it means risking their jobs and possibly prison time in the process. Though if that wasn't enough, Origami revealing she's a Spirit by firing a Metatron Laser at her captain might've just done the trick
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Kurumi summoning up an army of her CGI clones to fight DEM as the climactic "date" begins
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Sweet ARMS ED! With Reine at the beach and meeting up with Shido, transforming into Mio and kissing him! Though it seems to have just been a fantasy on Reine's part...but a good fantasy
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Would it really be DAL if you didn't hear Kotono Mitsuishi's narration at some point
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