This is the moment I'd been waiting for since the time our heroine of D.Gray-man lost the use of her Innocense.
While I began watching D.Gray-man because of Suzumura Kenichi and his cast as Lavi, I began to grow to love this anime very much. Between the entire cast of the Dark Order whether or not they fought as exorcists or did research work as a normal person, I found I enjoyed all of their presence.
Lenalee grew on me very early on in the series because of her sense of justice, her toughness, as well as her penchant for treasuring those things and people important to her. We are shown that Lenalee has had a tough life ever since the first day she was discovered to be a host for Innocense. She was taken away from her home, separated from her brother, and forced to fight in a way she didn't really care to know about.
And then Komui entered into the organization as some regular joe, section chief and gave Lenalee a reason to live again.
As time passed by, Lenalee came to treasure the Dark Order Headquarters and everyone within which became her only home in the whole world. And thus her sense of needing to protect this life of hers was very great, so great, in fact that she has the willpower to go as far as sacrificing her own life to make sure she never loses anything or anyone she holds dear.
I like Lenalee because she's not a damsel in distress all the time.
At least she wasn't until she pushed passed the limits of her Innocense and lost the power to use it. And then she became just some regular little damsel who wanted to fight but could do anything but wait for everyone around her to save her time and time again. Throughout this time, you could see the frustration and the annoyance in her expression. She hated being the one who needed protection and she wanted to be the one protecting others.
But the wait is finally over.
We finally present to you the episode in which Lenalee is finally pushed passed her limits of remaining as the poor princess who needs protection. As a last resort to protecting her family of Dark Order and all of her friends and her home, Lenalee allows the damaged Innocense to be forced into her body so that she can fight once again.
And the results were quite fantastic. As her Innocense fragment had been shown to have evolved to protect her more than once already, it now ends up evolving even further to create a weapon against akuma in the form of her Dark Boots, but made purely from Innocense that has used her blood as a component.
It looks pretty cool and it seems that by uniting with her Innocense fragment in this way, Lenalee has become on par with the newly formed Level 4 akuma who has been whipping everyone's butts. Even Allen has been having issues fighting the newly upgraded akuma, although he is also the only exorcist among the Order who can keep up with the evil weapon at this point.
And so what happens?
After saving Allen from becoming fertilizer for a new Akuma experience level, it seems that Lenalee easily learns how much stronger her own power is. She feels faster, she feels more power, and she becomes aware that her boots are different than they were before.
This is no longer an equip-type weapon she'd been using since the beginning, but something completely different.
And thus the two tag-team it up and destroy the level 4 who'd been wreaking havoc around the headquarters. The whole place is completely destroyed, the whole science research team is dead, and I'm not even sure how many exorcists there are left in the whole organization around the world anymore.
On top of that Lavi and Kanda have yet to acquire their still broken Innocense weapons.
While all of this is going on, I really, really kept wondering where the heck all those above 100% synch rate Generals were at the moment. To be honest, there's no way they could be anymore tired than Allen who'd been fighting hell and back before the Generals even arrived in the isolated science area to help out.
But anyway, apparently the fight with Level 4-kun isn't exactly over because the next episode continues the battle with him. I look forward to more and hopefully the series doesn't end before more can happen.
At least Allen is still strong and still going. I'd hate for the poor kid to have had to go through so much and end up being weaker than Lenalee. After all, no matter how I look at it, I still feel he should be the strongest of all the exorcists since it seems only right in that aspect.
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