The shadow battles keep being silly and goofy, the best moment most definitely being the ice puns being thrown out left and right in the third set of battles. Honestly, I agree with the way the first two battles played out and the environments they were set in, but I'm struggling a little to understand the reason for the environment of the third battle. I'm also struggling to see just how/why all of this is relevant to fighting Evil Shu. I mean, I know it's to prove one's skill and what will have you, it just feels rather extravagant and convoluted for no real reason. Also, the people running the Snake Pit are literally just rich nobodies who want to see kids being tortured because why on earth would we not only completely endorse what's happening in the Snake Pit, but also actively try to get rid of the losers of the battles? It's so silly - everything is just so silly right now. The only battle that really felt like it stood out was the first one, ending in a very predictable way in terms of the result, but the way it was won was something incredibly new, so it was nice to see that at least. We got left on a little bit of a cliff-hanger, so I wonder just how that's going to work itself out.