“The Black Blood Resonance Battle! – A Small Soul’s Grand Struggle against Fear?”
Black Star and Maka go against Stein’s commands when they come against Crona. Maka is determined to face Crona and Ragnarok alone. Maka seems to feel a kinship with the tormented meister, or maybe she is just determined to figure out the puzzle of Crona’s magic.
Medusa reveals to Stein that Crona is her own child, twisted and corrupted from a young age to become the Demon Sword. Meanwhile Soul tries to fight the call of the black blood inside him, only to have Maka agree to let it take her instead, in the hopes she can solve the riddle of Crona’s madness and defeat the Demon Sword, maybe even undo it.
But can Maka handle the insanity that black blood brings?
A lot of this episode is slow because it’s in Soul’s head. But there’s a little part of me that hopes that Maka and Soul can detangle the Demon Sword and save Crona. No one deserves the torture that Crona has seen.
(Side note: Crona is ambigiously asexual and which gender Crona is is never revealed. So sometimes if wording gets odd this is why.)