![]() ![]() ![]() She has no way of knowing whether her relationship with Haru was nought but an artifice built by Haru’s innate charisma. She’s been lost all this time trying to figure out the toughest riddle of all why she wanted to protect someone she was told to kill. Tokaku doesn’t take these new revelations well. Otherwise, why would she have those awesome tattoos? Could it be she too is a potential queen, who will kill Haru and ascend if Haru refuses to accept her fate? A few moments of apparent sincerity aren’t enough to make me forget about all the two-faces we’ve already encountered and trust her. Nio continues to glare and bare her teeth from time to time, but her true motives are still a mystery. ![]() Nio drives the point home by taking Haru to a massive clan graveyard deep below the school, full of people who died for the clan’s survival. A Queen Bee isn’t designed to live for herself, but to ensure the survival of the hive, even at the cost of her life. Unfortunately, the power and potential she exhibited in the process aren’t going to entitle her to the normal life she wants so badly (and apparently had earlier in life), but condemn her to serve. Now theres no more doubt: Class Black wasn’t assembled to assassinate Haru, but to test her readiness to take the reins as the “Queen Bee” of the ultra-powerful clan that “controls every aspect of the world.” That last bit sounds kind of silly, but that doesn’t change the fact that it was a good test, and she passed it. Instead of trying to figure out who’s going to target Haru and when, she and Tokaku are rewarded for their victory with a “true orientation” that reveals big, hard truths, most of which had been hinted at, but now brought into the light. With all of the assassins defeated save Nio, the rhythm of the show changes this week. We don’t know how she answered Kaiba’s final riddle, but if I had to guess it would be that she told him the thing that the world was full of…was love. If her wish was to be able to continue being with Haru, it looks like that was granted. Tokaku won, and in the process proved to herself she protected Haru of her own free will. While this episode couldn’t quite match the intense showdown with Hanabusa, it was nevertheless a suitable end to the series. It showed how they were all in one way or another either running away from their past lives or trying desperately to validate them, but their defeats to Tokaku and Haru led to growth, and now they’re all moving forward. The show went to lengths to flesh out the various assassins in the episodes in which they struck. The class wasn’t all about Haru and Tokaku, as we know. Once a means to test Haru’s mettle, now they’re back to their own lives, only Class Black changed them all. Thus, the show has it’s cake and eats it too.Īs the closing montage shows, Akuma no Riddle was ultimately just as bloodless as Ryuugajou Nanana no Maizoukin, or Sakura Trick, for that matter: none of the assassins I thought were killed actually died they all recovered from their injuries and live on. Haru survived, though, since her ribs are made of titanium, and kept the knife from Haru’s heart, where Tokaku aimed. Even after defeating Nio, who used the black arts her clan is known for to impersonate her, Tokaku still tried to kill Haru. When all is said and done, it would seem that her will is indeed free. That it is not being manipulated by Haru.” This is the crux of what Tokaku has to work out: whether she protected and love Haru of her own free will, or if she simply succumbed to Haru’s inate ability to manipulate others in order to survive. “If the will to kill Haru can possibly exist, then that will is mine and mine alone. ![]()
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