Episode 17

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Episode 17
Previous	Episode 16
Next	Episode 18
Episode Info
Japanese	黒と白と灰色
Arc	Vulcan's Workshop arc
Episode	17
Chapters	#59 • #60 • #61 • #62 • #63
Release Info
Japan	November 16, 2019
English	November 24, 2019
Debuts
Characters No new characters
Techniques No new techniques

Black and White and Gray (黒と白と灰色, Kuro to Shiro to Haiiro) is the seventeenth episode of the Fire Force anime.

Plot

Hibana rescues Shinra who immediately sheds his bindings and flies back to the workshop. He crashes into Giovanni who has accidentally found the key to Amaterasu after smashing Vulcan's projector. Lisa uses her magnetic pyrokinesis to subdue Shinra, but Vulcan tells Iris to press random buttons that eject magnetized metal toy animals which nullify Lisa's powers. Shinra knocks Giovanni outside the workshop, but Shinra then meets Sho and is overjoyed to be reunited with him. However, Sho uses his incredible speed and sword to subdue Shinra and seriously injures Arthur. Fortunately, Victor Licht arrives with a truck and picks up Shinra, Arthur, Iris, Vulcan, Yu and Hibana although Hibana accuses Victor of leading the Knights to the workshop. Just as Sho catches up with the group, Joker intervenes. He and Sho are evenly matched for speed and power, but Joker enables Shinra and the others to escape. He then withdraws, leaving Sho with his sword damaged. Yu and Arthur are treated for their injuries while Shinra reports the events to Obi. He then convinces Vulcan to take refuge with Company 8 and Vulcan is surprised to find that the Fire Force members are quite normal and not how he imagined them. The next day, Vulcan returns to the workshop to visit his father and grandfather's graves and explains to them that he will have to break his promise and join the Fire Force to help rebuild the world.

Summary

Hibana reveals she planted a bug on Iris and has been listening in and unties Shinra so he can get back to Vulcan's workshop. Giovanni finds the key within the projector he smashed. Shinra busts in just in time to try to intervene. Outside, Hibana aids Arthur.

Lisa attacks Shinra, her flames are magnetic and drawn to living organisms. Vulcan instructs Iris to start pressing buttons at random, causing animatronics to fall from the ceiling. Lisa's flames are forced to withdraw as the amount of machines producing a magnetic field can collectively mimic a person's. Shinra is quick to send Giovanni flying through the wall, outside.

Shinra's adolla link becomes active again, as Sho is near. Shinra is immediately elated to see his brother, proud that Sho grew up to be so handsome and cool. Sho is clueless, unaware that Shinra is his big brother. Sho finds himself disgusted and declares that Shinra will be coming with the white-clad. Arthur tries to intervene, but Sho slashes him across the chest with his sword.

Licht helps everyone escape by truck, Vulcan scoops up Arthur and Shinra in their passing. Vulcan calls out to Lisa to come along, but fails to bring her on. Sho seemingly teleports in front of the truck to stop them, but Joker appears saying that he cannot have Shinra yet. Joker vanishes as he is sure that Shinra has gotten away, revealing that Sho and him landed minor cuts on one another, such as one in Sho's sword and Joker's eye patch.

Shinra reports to Obi over the phone at the hospital. Vulcan agrees to stay at the 8th, as the workshop is no longer safe for him. Vulcan still wishes to bring Lisa back and return his found family to normal. He is confident that Yu will be okay. When Vulcan asks about Sho, Shinra says not to worry about him and that Vulcan is not alone.

Hibana questions Licht on his timing, suspicious of him. On the way home, Shinra vows to uphold his promise to his mother from when he was a child, to protect his little brother. He wants to bring his brother back. Vulcan is surprised by how the 8th behaves over dinner, finding it endearing and nothing like he imagined.

Vulcan revisits his workshop to offer soda to his father and grandfather, telling them how he is being taken in by the fire force. He apologizes to them because he is going to break his promise by helping the 8th.