The one they called the Ice prince was a calm, calculated JERK; The Witch from Mercury episode 5 Impression

 Synopsis

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pisode 5 of Witch from Mercury started with the three on one duel between the house of Daigo and Elan Ceres. It was not long before Elan disarmed two of his opponent’s mobile suits. When only one mobile suit remaining, Elan let it dashed to his mobile suit only to counter it with her mobile suit double beam saber. He emerged victorious against three persons with a calculated strategy. Meanwhile the student body was discussing the rareness of Elan to accept the duel. Unbeknown to them, he was actually tasked to test the newest machine from the house of Pail and that battle was just like a test run for him. In the other place, There was a meeting in the house of Peil, they discussed about how the test subject no 4 had been doing (they mean Elan). They also discussed about the other witch in the school (which means Suletta). Based on the analysis, the Aerial Gundam cleared the problem that usually happened with any Gund format machine regarding to bioethical condition that affecting Gundam pilots.

She is still a girl at puberty Lol off course she prefer the handsome one xD

Back to the Earth house, Nika and the earthian boys were checking on the Aerial Gundam. They were very excited with how great the aerial built was and how much budget must be spent on making that machine. Meanwhile, Suletta was very surprised when Elan suddenly called her when she was being told about her fortune. He asked Suletta to meet him later on her next break or in short, he was asking to date her. In the girl’s room, they were teasing Suletta about her upcoming date. Lipati said that she reject Guel’s proposal because Suletta wanted to date Elan instead.  Just then Aliya remarked that Elan was nicknamed as the ice prince because he never showed any emotion to anyone before. And now out of sudden, he asked Sulleta to hang out with him. Suleta; who got a bit discouraged with Aliya’s word, called her mother regarding her upcoming date. She was not sure about having a date with Elan because she did not know him so well and for a reason, he never smile or show an emotion. Nevertheless, her mother encouraged Sulleta to continue the date and reminded her how happy she was should Sulleta moved forward and fulfill her wish list.

She was jealous cos her husband just choose another person to date 

At the day of the meeting, the people from the Earth house helped Suletta transporting the Aerial. It seemed that Elan asked Suletta to bring the aerial with her. Miorine came and tried to stop Sulleta; telling her that he was an enemy but the Earthian stopped her from getting closer. After that Sulleta finally met with Prince charming eh I mean Elan. They operated the Aerial and Elan joined her in the cockpit. Elan asked if she got suffering while piloting the unit and Suletta replied that instead of suffering, she felt at ease while riding the unit .Elan then asked Suletta to to let him test the unit by himself and Suletta agreed. In the cockpit, Elan tried to check on whether the unit was a real Gundam or not by testing the permet score. He found out that the mobile suit was a Gund format yet something just feels different. He check on her right hand and he didn’t feel the permet rising and it’s not responding. He got out from the unit with a cold expression in his eyes. Suletta asked slowly if he could tell his birthday but to her surprise Elan straight forwardly said that she was annoying. He even said that the Gundam was just a curse for him and they were not alike at all. Suletta shocked with his reply and tears started to well up in her eyes. In that instant moment, Guel who got info regarding their date arrived to the scene. Just as he arrived, he found out that Suletta was on the verge of tears. He asked Elan about what had he done to her. What he didn’t anticipate was Elan suddenly challenged him to a duel.

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In the dueling committee room, Guel and Elan prepared to form the duel pack. Guel staked that if he wins, Elan should stay away from Suletta. Elan in the other hand asked Suletta that should he win the battle, he will duel again with Suleta; one on one in their respected mobile suit. Suleta did not react much but she agreed to that term. The duel started with Guel control his brother’s Dilanza ( which his half brother Lauda; strongly against cause it might make their father angrier)and Elan used a special mobile suit named Phalanx. Unlike the previous mobile suit that Elan used against the house of Daigo, this mobile suit looks like a slender built one with a black color as it theme color and used riffle as its main weapon. The battle started and Elan started the match with a series of beam riffle raining to the Dilanza. Guel countered it with using the magnetic storm to create distraction and tried to catch the unit with the axe. Elan said that he was using him as a way to test his unit. The Phalanx then started its drone series and they showered the DIlanza with a red like laser. To Guel surprise, the red laser didn’t explode when it contacted directly to his unit but it just stuns the part for a few second. Meanwhile, Lady Prospera or who we knew as Suletta’s, mother just watched the duel and she realized that the Phalanx also used a Gun format. Suddenly, the woman who mentored Elan came and called her as an old friend. Lady Prospera did not show a surprised look and she just remarked that there was actually another witch in that place. Back to the Duel, the Phalanx red light while didn’t explode in contact still managed to make Guel’s Dilanza limp for a second so he devised a way to get closer by thumping his axe to the ground creating a sandstorm (which he hope to make the visibility turns low) and tried to get closer to Elan. Just about when he almost got Elan, a setup of Elan’s trap just pierced the Dilanza body from various angles made the unit stopped moving. Elan destroyed Guel stunned mobile suit’s antenna and declared as the winner. Just after defeating Guel, Elan contacted Suletta right away. He told her that he will fight her next as promised and the prize that he wanted was.. Aerial Gundam.

Review.

I am glad that even after 5 episodes, Gundam WFM still gives a solid episode with Elan being the focus of today’s episode. The First thing that I saw was how cunning Elan is and how dangerous individual he could be. From the first part of the anime, when he was fighting Daigo house, the other students mentioned that he was not too eager to do dueling yet here he was fighting against three opponents (and winning by the way). It seems like Peil’s Technology was behind everything in Elan’s decision and this duel was more or less a mock battle to him to test his combat prowess.  Why did Elan; the ice prince even bother having a date with Suletta who he just met for a couple week. It was all a ploy by the Peil  Technologies to get the Aerial’s technology on their hand. He tried to board the aerial alone so he could check on what was the unit’s secret. And his research about the machine freaked him out because Aerial was way different than the usual Gund format machine. It didn’t strain the pilot like the other Gundams’ mobile suit. The fact that Suletta was not enhanced and didn’t get her body stressed out due to the amount of Permet influx to the pilot’s body made him frustrated Afterward, when Guel got angry because he made Suletta crying, he instantly challenged Guel as if he was expected it to happen. What was the catch of him dueling Guell? Not to show his ego as a better pilot but because he was targeting Aerial Gundam from the very beginning. His stake was to get a chance fighting Suletta with Aerial as the his main target. He knew very well about Guel's tendency to fight recklessly and confidence enough that Guel would lost in their upcoming duel. Nevertheless, It made a strong built up for the next episode because we knew how tenacious Elan would be fighting Suletta and how would Suletta defeat the ever cunning Elan since we knew he would make lot of traps and devised a strategic battle formula in their next duel.

(So that Suletta  would be mine and mine only muahahahaha)

This episode also told us how Guel already became a somewhat different person. His lost to Suletta more or less humbled him and when he knew that Elan made her cry, he instantly challenged him to duel and even though he still lost during the battle (due to Elan’s scheme), he still gave a strong performance as a pilot (although in this case, his Dilanza was not in the same class as Elan’s Phalanx). At the beginning of the series, he was a total jerk who considered Suletta as a country bumpkin and now he was trying to protect her dignity even though he might get another storm coming for using his brother's mobile suit without his father consent. To make it worse, he had wrecked another mobile suit in the process and although knowing him, he would not regret his decision even a bit. His father still gonna slapped him like a lot in the next episode thou lol.  

Or my father gonna smack me in the butt

The only thing lacking from this episode was the lack of the focus of our other protagonist; Miorine. This episode was more or less stress much on Elan and for the time being, our princess would have to step back and enjoy less than a half minutes appearance. I am kind of wishing she could give a lesson or two to that scheming prince LMAO.  In this episode we could see that Suletta trusted Elan enough to make her bring along the Gundam and let him entered the cockpit and after that he just instantly rejected her; revealing that he was never interested to her from the beginning. He only wanted to know her Aerial not her being a person. With the next episode might become one of the most decisive battles for Suletta, I could not hide my excitement to watch it soon. I hope our Heroines gonna give him the biggest slap in his face (or dignity) for playing with her heart.