Mafia Date Night.
So, it seems things aren’t sewn up at the mixer, so we get a double date with Akira and Yuugure going out on the town with the Mafia siblings. Amrou is there too.
The exact stakes seem to be about as such: the Mafia Sister, Fides, is doing what she thinks she must; Akira is going with her because she’s the first person who seems to know a thing or two in this world who is neither an OWEL goon nor Yuugure who repeatedly claims things are classified; Yuugure is going with Mafia Brother, Kalcrom, to prove that she understands her feelings and to just plain make Akira jealous; Kalcrom is going with Yuugure, who he knows is an android, for reasons eventually revealed to be that it’s a cover to go against his and Fides’s crazy controlling mafia father.
While on the date, we learn more of these characters, and particularly get that yes, the feelings between the Mafia siblings are mutual. Given his own background, Akira is of course in full support and tries to subtly put his finger on the scale, clearly not understanding just how bad news the mobster dad really is.
During the date, Yuugure essentially outs herself saving a random nobody from an industrial accident. It’s pretty much nothing to her, but it lets one of the mafia dad’s spies see that Kalcrom’s proposed partner is, in fact, an android.
This greatly displeases the mafia dad, and his resulting plans to rub out Kalcrom come to fruition at the fancy dinner for two (times two) that’s ending the night, when he enters with a wall of mobster goons. He calls out Kalcrom and suggests that the weapons Kalcrom was smuggling in the last episode were explicitly for rebellion against dear old dad. Dad’s orders are initially that Fides kill Kalcrom, but she chooses the rebel path by letting Kalcrom take the offered pistol and point it at the head of house himself. Next order is get the drunk android. She turns off fun mode and prepares to fight, which is when Akira notices a mobster with a high-power sniper rifle putting Yuugure in his sights.
Akira then goes and ends the episode by proving that whatever other skills he has, he’s really good at catching bullets, as he takes this one for Yuugure.
Now, I noticed that there was no blood when Akira was hit. That could just be a stylistic thing and I would have discounted it if not for the fact that I’m already suspecting there may at least not be as much in there as there should be, if any. But if that’s the case and what saves him then we’ll find out next episode (in which the preview suggests he’ll be fine)
I’ll also note that early on, we get Yuugue talking to herself, and she addresses Towasa, like she perhaps knows her visage donor. It doesn’t seems like something she’d do based purely on Akira’s talk. We know Yuugure plays a lot of things close to her chest, so it will be nice to see this kind of thing develop.