Episode 17

The Pride of the Swordsmen (剣士達の誇り, Kenshitachi no Hokori) is the seventeenth episode of the

anime adaptation of Katsura Hoshino's D.Gray-man manga series. It first aired on January 23, 2007.

Summary
Kanda is cut in the gut byt Victorio and projected away. Allen takes over the fight. The fight is interrupted by Claudia and they both leave. The exorcists stay at an old lady's house for the night where the old lady tells them the story of Victorio and princess Sandra. Meanwhile akumas attack Victorio and the exorcists decide to return to the battlefield. Victorio gets rid of Allen and starts to fight Kanda. He plants his sword in Kanda's shoulder. This was Kanda's plan who takes advantage of this to fatally injure him.

Victorio remembers his past and takes the form of an old man before dying with Claudia next to him. Claudia leaves her hom to travel afterwards and the exorcists retrieve the innocence