Free is officially my favourite character, no questions asked. I already felt the vibe that he was exactly my type of character in the last episode but this one just confirmed everything. He's just so much fun to watch, is like a nonchalant version of Wakiya combined with the (rightful) arrogance of characters like Luis, except he's not nearly as awfully insufferable as the evil Labubu. Either way, in this episode, we get formally introduced to an opposing team to our main characters and there's going to be a face-off with said team, so we need to have a bunch of battles to find appropriate team members to join with us. Free ends up aurafarming a bunch, and Wakiya also shows us why he's our favourite nepo baby (he's too funny, like, actually). So, yeah, our first official proper Beyblade match comes in the next episode.