I liked this episode better than the previous two. Though it did feel like I was watching what should’ve been episode 1.

The mysteriousness in the story’s world around the Magia Vander and the Fated Day still feels rather unnecessary. We got some information on both after the credits, but not much that we unexpected. There’s 5 chairs, so perhaps there are only 5 Magia Vander. All 4 of the Magia Vander present at the “meeting” (where they all have silly chairs pointing in the same direction, and Elfaria is facing away from everybody, lol) appear to be rather young. Whether that has an in-universe explanation or it’s just a shounen anime thing, I don’t think we’ll find out any time soon.

Cariot’s line was a bit confusing to me.

As usual, we’re holding a boring meeting merely for the sake of it. If the barrier were breached now, the world would be lost.

Why are the Magia Vander having a meaningless meeting? What does that have to do with the barrier being breached? Do meaningless meetings support the barrier? Or was that just a crazy non-sequitur to let the Magia Vander do some basic exposition?