MÄR: Märchen Awakens Romance - Season 2

3rd Round, 3rd battle, volcano stage, Snow vs. the Bishop pirate Mr.Hook. Though she fights with courage, the heated battlefield gains Mr. Hook an upper hand against her ice-elemental ÄRMs, and her drastically halved magic power eventually fails her.

3rd Battle, 4th round, volcano stage, Ginta against Kannochi. The Bishop's shrewd deployment of his Body Candle ÄRM lands Ginta in a deadly crisis, but the boy's timing summon of his Holy Guardian Alice quickly turns the table, inflicting the curse back upon Kannochi in his place.

3rd Battle, 5th round, volcano stage, Alviss spars with the adolescent - albeit proficient in the field of explosive Nature ÄRM - Rolan of the Knights, only to find out that while he's not the only one bearing the Tattoo curse of immortality, he appears to be the unique to harbor grudge against it. That shock from which he has no time to recover and Rolan's ceaseless blows simultaneously exhausts Alviss of magic power, beating him hors de combat.

MÄR's victorious choir is soon to be silenced as they return to the Reginrave castle base just to find Phantom and his Zodiac Knights ready on the welcome spot. Ginta uses Alice, Babbo's Holy ÄRM form, to break Edward and Alan's curse. Unfortunately, Alice cannot cure Alvin's Zombie Tattoo.

As the Knights' official introduction heralds their participation in incoming battles, all member of MÄR (with exclusion to Snow, who needs to rest due to her being weakened at her last fight (although she convinces Alan to let her go later anyway), and the newly Edward-split Alan) are to again hone their skills in the Shadowman "Shadow fight" of the Training Gate.

4th Battle, 1st round, ice field stage, Alviss vs. Mr. Hook. The "Shadow battle" has augmented his prowess to an extent to be marvelled at; without using any of his ÄRM Alviss gradually disposes of Mr. Hook's ÄRMs, and for this defacement the Bishop meets with death sentence at the hand of his team leader, the deranged Knight Rapunzel.

4th Battle, 2nd round, ice field stage, Jack vs. Korekkio and it's the wits of the former that earn him his victory, while condemning the latter to the late Mr. Hook's fate. 4th Battle, 3rd round, ice field stage, Dorothy defeats the Bishop Avrute with such swiftness that it spares him no time to counterattack, much less to salvage a chance for his life in the game of...

4th Battle, 4th round, ice field stage, Nanashi vs. Aqua. Although his thunder mastery overwhelmingly dominates her aquatic monsters, again it's his gentleman instincts that prevail; being witness to the fates of her unfortunate teammates, Nanashi deliberately pulls the fight a draw. However Rapunzel and her brother Girom are not blind, and even winning the rock-paper-scissor match, they still impale the little girl dead, much to Nanashi's horror.

4th Battle, 5th round, ice field stage, Ginta vs. Girom rematch. Aqua's death has begetted a bout of wrath from Ginta, stripping him of reason and sensibility, thence his synchronization and strength drop considerably. Ginta's impending defeat warrants Babbo's forcible convincing, and eventually with Babbo v.5 Cushion Jelly conceived and realized, the Ginta vs. Giromu vendetta ends with Giromu's loss.

4th Battle, 6th round, ice field stage, Dorothy vs. Rapunzel. Engaging the Knight with self-confidence envisioning opponent understatement, the witch pays dearly with several wounds, one counts vital and turns to the impertinent doll Guardian Crazy Quilt for helps, which finally ensures her victory.

With authoritative clues about "the woman whom she must kill'' obtained after the fight with Rapunzel, Dorothy goes back to Kaldea with team MÄR escorting her. They learn of the truth behind one of the more shrouded characters at the top of the Chess Pieces' echelon, its Queen – Dorothy's exiled older sister Diana, Snow's stepmother empress of MÄR-Heaven's majestic kingdom Lestava thereat.

Perceiving team MÄR's on-goings, Diana unleashes her most powerful knight piece Phantom and a brigade of Rooks onto her disowned homeland. In the field of a sabotaged Kaldea, Phantom's ÄRM virtu and Ginta's clash (unofficially) for the first time, as do their ideals. The former conclude with Phantom's prowess outclassing Ginta's, whereas the latter reach a stage of stalemate from which Phantom retreats with ease, leaving Ginta brooding over the reason behind Phantom's undoings.

Tensions after the Kaldea's incident soon break into tranquil intervals, but are not without trouble as each pursues his/her thoughts, and Ginta in particular is approached by his scheduled 5th Battle's opponent, the child-loving Knight Ash.

5th Battle, 1st round, desert field stage, Snow the benign princess loses her benignancy against the contemptuous manners of Emokis, the more graceless one of three lvl. 1 Bishops. However she soon finds out to confront a first class Bishop rage is not one reliable stimulation, and the worsening situation invites the introduction of her new Guardian, Undine.