For some reason I'm enjoying now Hakaze's change from a mysterious, mighty chief magician into a love-struck girl. Maybe it's because this show has spent so considerable time to try to give Yoshino, Mahiro (and Aika) so deep personalities with all the history, flashbacks, and the other characters talking so much about them. To be honest I still fail to see how Yoshino is nearly as remarkable as they all say, but between maintaining the illusion of a girlfriend and how significant he supposedly is, someone as important as Hakaze behaving like that next to him is nice to watch. Maybe it's all the better that almost everything about Yoshino is speculation that make him more interesting (also as Hakaze's possible partner, should he begin to feel similarly).

Other than that, it's amusing to watch how Samon's faction try to look so hard to prove Yoshino is the Exodus chief magician, clearly making up evidence to support their theories, in lack of anything definitive.

Aika seemingly predicting her own death was an interesting loose detail. Did she predict everything that would happen so accurately a long time ago that she chose to keep reading and quoting the two books with different endings on purpose?