“The Eve Party Nightmare – And so the Curtain Rises?”
As the celebration of the anniversary of the school’s founding begins Death the Kid is both worried and irritated with his father. He has found out that the school is built on a sleeping kishin, and Medusa’s plot is to wake it. Lord Death doesn’t seem to be taking the threat seriously, though the other teachers are. Stein and Sid have a plan.
Stein confronts Medusa with his knowledge of her and speculates on her plan directly to her face. Meanwhile Sid turns up just in time to free Maka, Soul, Death the Kid, Black Star, Tsubaki, and the Thompson sisters from the trap Medusa has Free put on the party, leaving them and Professor Stein as the only ones free to stop Medusa and her minions from waking the ancient kishin trapped under the academy.
This is the first real episode where we see all the players on the field at the same time and where the first big plot is exposed.