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Fantastic Children Episode 9 - OSL

The discovery of Helga's whereabouts bring only brief cheer to the Children, as a strange explosion occurs nearby - Cooks and Hollingsworth investigate to discover a man named Kirchner abducted his younger sister from a house and made it explode with some kind of strange blue energy - Kirchner has undergone the same process as Shinon, and the Children explain it as something to do with "OSL", which emanates from the "Zone". The Children confront him, but before they can do anything for him he is shot by Phantom GED forces under Duma's jurisdiction - his OSL lashes out unpredictably, and he disappears like Shinon and Grass did before.

Hmmm. More mysteries to explain, as usual. The whole thing about Enma (a Buddhist concept, apparently) was more than a little off-the-wall, we'll have to see how that ties in with everything. I really like how all three plotlines are very gradually converging thanks to the Children linking Thoma and co. with Cooks and Hollingsworth, and I can't wait to see where things go from here - what's even more interesting is the possible dynamic that may develop between Gherta and Duma, but we'll have to wait and see how that pans out. Nice CG this episode, incidentally, for the OSL detector (is there anything that those capsules the Children have can't do?)