Saki (Yoko Minamino) learns that 12 years ago it was actually her now mentor and boss Nishiwaki (Keizo Kanie) who put the iron mask on her, under advice of her father Saotome (Hiroshi Miyauchi), who hid the secret of the treasure inside the mask and who, knowing Kamakura's men would come and kill him, wanted her to grow up strong and fierce to avenge his death and defend the treasure. This information shatters Saki's trust in pretty much everything since she feels used by those she trusted the most, and only a pawn in their game - nevertheless she follows the one clue she has since Kage no Soto (Naoto Nagashima) had her mask stolen last episode, her pendant and Kage no Soto's pendant he carelessly lost in fight. And the info gleaned from the pendants leads her and her sidekicks Okyo (Haruko Sagara) and Yukino (Akie Yoshizawa) to an abandoned high school - and into a trap laid out by the guards of Kidora Tendo (Eiken Shoji) and Chido (Hiro Oikawa), a trap that leaves the three of them in chains, but Saki is promised the secret of the treasure if she doesn't interfere when Okyo and Yukino are blown up. But of course, Saki frees her friends rather than follow the lure of the treasure, upon which all three are freed as the guards only wanted to figure if she's worthy of the Kidora treasure, a test she has apparently passed with flying colours. Unfortunately, the high school doesn't hold the treasure itself, just another clue leading to it. And in the meantime, Kage no Soto tries to find the location of the treasure by scientific means, making this a wild goose chase to the death for Saki and her friends ...

So so episode as it tries to pack too much premise (mostly for later episodes) into a mere 25 minutes while the actual story it tells is pretty slim, to the point of being little more than an actual part of a wild goose chase. Meanwhile the set-up for later episodes is a little bit on the silly side and often does little more than driving a point home hinted at over and over again in earlier episodes. The one thing the episode does well though is making one hunger for more since this one brings little resolution.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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