Today, an interesting look at a different angle at the usual anime-love triangle. All the ingredients are present: three childhood friends, two of them fall in love, the third one (who was in love as well) in turn breaks down and comes to hate the other two. This episode obviously had this predictability working against it, but the execution remains flawless.
The episode starts with Porfy waking up, enjoying the most luxury he’s ever witnessed in his life. He’s already very friendly with the dogs. Maximilian is away at the moment, as he’s visiting his mother. Porfy then hears the sound of goats, and is immediately interested in them, as it was his job of taking care of the goats when he was still in Simitra. Porfy shows off his skills to Iralia’s father, but this does make him think of Mina again.
During breakfast, Maximilian suggest Porfy to stay at their place a little longer, since he and the others know a ot of people who might have seen Mina. Porfy decides to stay a little longer, and he’ll work on the farm as a means of thanks. That afternoon, Iralia goes to the city to shop, and Porfy goes along with her. They stop by the castle of the previous episode to look at the great view from there, and Iralia notes that her parents proposed at that place. Porfy then asks whether she’s going to propose to Maximilian as well, though she bluntly says that she’ll never marry him.
Then, near the mansion of the previous episode, the car breaks down. Porfy can fix it, but he doesn’t have his tools. He suggests to check at the mansion to see whether they’ve got a driver, but Iralia yet again bluntly refuses, and runs back home to get help. Porfy then realizes that he also needs a spanner, so he does go inside the mansion. The woman who lives there has apparently been spying on the two of them, because she locks Porfy up inside an old room because she suspect that he may have been planning against her with Iralia.
Porfy escaps through a well-hidden window, and then finds out that this woman used to be really close to Iralia. He tries to tell her to become friends again, though she yells at him to leave, and take the tools he needs. When Iralia gets back, she indeed reveals how the woman hated her for taking away the one she loved, and ever since they’ve both been avoiding each other. It’s because of this that Iralia refuses to marry Maximilian.
Maxmilian had no idea of this, and the episode ends as Porfy forces him and Iralia to go back and make up. I’m interested, because after the abandoned city, I know that not everything in this series is as it looks, especially if it needs a cliff-hanger.
