Alright, time to watch this at 2x speed to get it over with.

— Kasubata pulls out a flaming hammer this time, so I guess him getting on Enishiro’s case all this time was just him being a hypocrite.

— Naturally, we gotta interrupt the fight for more boring ass backstories. As we already know, Kasubata was a punk on the streets. Hell, this is the primary reason why Wagari despises him so much. Kasubata initially resisted becoming an exorcist, but that all changed when he found out his sickly mom had died. Unlike the rest of his family, she never hated him. All she wanted was for him to be a good person. Well, guess what? Someone filmed Kasubata doing punk things, so at his mother’s funeral, his father blamed him for killing his mother. Kasubata finally relented on the whole exorcism thing, because he wanted to redeem himself.

— Honestly… I can’t even say his father was wrong. Just because the messenger is a shit head doesn’t mean that their message is wrong. She might have been clinging to life this whole time to see her son grow up, but once she realized that he had strayed from the righteous path, she gave up. Did he kill his mother? In a legal sense, no. But in the court of public opinion? Maybe. But I’m biased. I hate everyone in this story, so I won’t even pretend that I’m being impartial.

— Back in the present, Kasubata finally admits that he needs to, uh… embrace his punk side to achieve greater powers. And this is all thanks to Enishiro. Welp, so much for redeeming yourself to your mother. I kid, I kid. If he uses his newfound flaming hammer to save people, then whatever. But I’ll never like Kasubata.

— In the end, Kasubata lays a beatdown on Wagari, lazy animation and all. Cool, asshole from 1-B has defeated asshole from 1-A. So are we supposed to cheer now?

— Nearby, Enishiro also claims victory over the weirdo dude who wants to literally orgasm on the battlefield. Enishiro even obliges on that front as well. Sheesh, kids these days.

— When Enishiro regroups with Kasubata and Emoto, the latter two reveal that they’re all outta juice. No energy left. How convenient. This positions Enishiro to be the last man standing for 1-B, so it’s all up to him to defeat the last man standing for 1-A. Wait, Haijima also got knocked out? Apparently so. Also, what happened to all that talk about a ghost account being detected within the test area?

— Honestly, the fact that they detected a ghost account at all should have convinced the staff to cancel this competition a long time ago. But all adults in anime are useless, so what can you expect?

— So what’s up with this Ashina guy? Basically, he’s a raging narcissist who takes pride in his accounts being “frozen” by admins. This is why he has ice powers.

— It’s amazing how 1-B is already full of questionable kids, but 1-A still somehow manages to top them. Nanzo, their teacher, truly assembled a team of abject losers. The instructors at this exorcism school also certainly do not care if you become a good person or not. As long as you can exorcise ghosts, anything goes, I guess.

— When Enishiro finally confronts Ashina, the horrible truth comes out: Ashina is the ghost account that they’ve been detecting. He’s been dead this whole time. Huh? He betrayed mankind just so he can snap even… sexier photos of himself? Like what? Most vain people would just get plastic surgery. Instead of becoming a ghost, Ashina could’ve just gotten a BBL. Or better yet, get therapy to treat his narcissism. But nah, bro decided to fuck mankind over instead.

— Again, this is why you need to do more than just make these kids strong enough to fight ghosts. This is why you also have to make them good people. But sure, put a bunch of assholes in a room and let their terrible personalities run amok.

— And sure, there’s a certain guilty pleasure in rooting for a bunch of misfits like the Suicide Squad. But none of these kids come close to having the same levels of charisma. One of them literally jizzes in his pants instead of fighting his opponent!

— See, I thought the story would use the ghost account thing as an excuse to interrupt the A-B Battle, and thus declare it a draw. But I see what they’re going for instead: have 1-A and 1-B work together in order to overcome Ashina. Meh, it’s weak either way.

— And of course, Ashina’s souped up ice powers can create a blizzard that bars outsiders from entering the test area, so the adults are extra useless. Super convenient.

— Everyone’s worried that Enishiro is on his own, but Haijima detects… she detects… who is this again? Oh riiiiiiight, the scaredy-cat tank of 1-B. Such a memorable fella.