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'''Adapts:''' Volume 1, Chapters 3-4
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* OvershadowedByAwesome: PlayedForLaughs. Katie gets annoyed that the rest of the freshmen are fawning Nanao and not giving Oliver any credit for his part in the garuda attack. Pete and Chela explain that Nanao's swordplay was flashy and easy to follow, whereas Oliver's strategizing was harder to see and his spellwork was dull to look at (unless, like Chela, you understand enough to know what to look for). This is accompanied by comical images of arrows slamming into Oliver's head at each statement from Pete.
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* OvershadowedByAwesome: PlayedForLaughs. Katie gets annoyed that the rest of the freshmen are fawning over Nanao and not giving Oliver any credit for his part in the garuda attack. Pete and Chela explain that Nanao's swordplay was flashy and easy to follow, whereas Oliver's strategizing was harder to see and his spellwork was dull to look at (unless, like Chela, you understand enough to know what to look for). This is accompanied by comical images of arrows slamming into Oliver's head at each statement from Pete.
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* EurekaMoment: Nanao offhandedly comments that she subconsciously assumed the troll was trying to ''escape'', not ''attack'', which suddenly causes Oliver to realize what's really going on. The troll telling them that Miligan kidnapped Katie clinches it: he connects it to experiments by demihuman rights activists she's previously heard about.
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* EurekaMoment: Nanao offhandedly comments that she subconsciously assumed the troll was trying to ''escape'', not ''attack'', which suddenly causes Oliver to realize what's really going on. The troll telling them that Miligan kidnapped Katie clinches it: he connects it to experiments by demihuman rights activists she's he's previously heard about.
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After class, the [[FireForgedFriends no-longer-antagonistic]] Richard Andrews takes Oliver aside, warning him that Grenville has a reputation for taking promising students under his wing and then [[PlagiarismInFiction stealing their research for himself]]. Then he introduces them to someone: a girl named Annie Mackley, who fesses up to being the girl who bespelled Katie to run into the parade in "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E01Ceremony Ceremony]]". That said, she vehemently denies having anything to do with the troll attack or the garuda: she's as much in the dark about that as they are.
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After class, the [[FireForgedFriends [[HeelFaceTurn no-longer-antagonistic]] Richard Andrews takes Oliver aside, warning him that Grenville has a reputation for taking promising students under his wing and then [[PlagiarismInFiction stealing their research for himself]]. Then he introduces them to someone: a girl named Annie Mackley, who fesses up to being the girl who bespelled Katie to run into the parade in "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E01Ceremony Ceremony]]". That said, she vehemently denies having anything to do with the troll attack or the garuda: she's as much in the dark about that as they are.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Oliver has another secret meeting with Teresa Carste, with them alluding more directly this time to him having a secret SeriesGoal. This is accompanied by a FlashbackEcho of the blonde woman from his recollection in "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E01Ceremony Ceremony]]" surrounded by six dark figures.
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* OvershadowedByAwesome: PlayedForLaughs. Katie gets annoyed that the rest of the freshmen are fawning Nanao and not giving Oliver any credit for his part in the garuda attack. Pete and Chela explain that Nanao's swordplay was flashy and easy to follow, whereas Oliver's strategizing was harder to see and his spellwork was dull to look at (unless, like Chela, you understand enough to know what to look for). This is accompanied by comical images of arrows slamming into Oliver's head at each statement from Pete.
-->'''Guy:''' Hey, calm down there, Pete! Are you trying to mentally break the poor guy?\\
'''Pete:''' Right, my bad.
-->'''Guy:''' Hey, calm down there, Pete! Are you trying to mentally break the poor guy?\\
'''Pete:''' Right, my bad.
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* SmoochOfVictory: PlayedForLaughs. Chela decides Oliver hasn't been congratulated enough for his part in saving the day earlier, and tries to kiss him on the cheek. He's actually put off by this because they're LikeBrotherAndSister; meanwhile, Katie, who has a crush on Oliver, [[JealousRomanticWitness nearly blows a fuse]]. Then Nanao comes over and, taking it as a local custom, gives him a kiss and then demands one for herself. He's saved by the arrival of his cousin Shannon, who gives him ''another'' kiss by way of greeting; meanwhile Katie is fit to burst, and Nanao is left plaintively whining about her kiss getting forgotten.
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The day after the garuda incident, things have calmed down at the school, at least on the surface. Katie and Miligan continue their work with the troll and succeed in getting him to start eating again, and getting their lives saved by their ideological opponents has shut the conservatives up. However, Oliver and Chela still feel they're missing something important, and Guy and Pete are horrified to learn that, [[NoEndorHolocaust since nobody was actually killed]], [[AdultsAreUseless the faculty will likely ignore the attack]].
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->'''Japanese Title''': 蛇眼 [-[[ForeignLanguageTitle グレアー]]-][[labelnote:Trans.]]Lit. "snake eyes", pron. "gureā"[[/labelnote]]\\
'''Director:''' Daisuke Kurose\\
'''Writer:''' Shogo Yasukawa\\
'''First Aired:''' 4 August 2023
The day after the garuda incident, things have calmed down at the school, at least on the surface. Katie and Miligan continue their work with the troll and succeed in getting him to start eating again, and getting their lives saved by their ideological opponents has shut the conservatives up. However, Oliver and Chela still feel they're missing something important, and Guy and Pete are horrified to learn that, [[NoEndorHolocaust since nobody was actually killed]], [[AdultsAreUseless the faculty will likely ignore the attack]].
On the other hand, after slaying the garuda, Nanao has acquired a bit of a fanbase. After a bit of back-and-forth [[OvershadowedByAwesome comparing Nanao's swordplay to Oliver's spellwork and strategizing]], Chela decides that Oliver hasn't been sufficiently rewarded for his part in saving the class... which she chooses to rectify with [[SmoochOfVictory a kiss on the cheek]], [[JealousRomanticWitness much to Katie's consternation]]. As [[CluelessChickMagnet Oliver tries to figure out what the heck is suddenly happening with his female friends]], Nanao manages to extricate herself from her adoring fans and rejoins them--and decides to join in the kissing, aggravating Katie even more. ''Then'' she demands one from Oliver in return, all while [[TheGadfly Pete and Guy egg the girls on]] and Katie gets closer and closer to an aneurysm.
Oliver is rescued, sort of, by the appearance of his older cousin-slant-foster sister Shannon Sherwood, who is pleased as punch that her baby brother has gotten such a good group of friends around him. She, too, affectionately kisses his cheek, forcing Oliver to then explain away Katie's RelativeError.
That afternoon, Professor Grenville holds a practical exam in his alchemy class. Oliver, [[{{Foreshadowing}} again showing he's a much better mage than he lets on]], quickly notes that the assignment has "a lot of hidden pitfalls", and spends a good chunk of the class period running around the classroom rescuing his classmates from various {{Dangerous Phlebotinum Interaction}}s, culminating in having to [[JumpingOnAGrenade dive on top of Pete's cauldron]] before his concotion [[MadeOfExplodium explodes]]. This impresses Grenville, who compliments Oliver's evident knack for alchemy but cryptically warns him he should choose his friends more carefully.
After class, the [[FireForgedFriends no-longer-antagonistic]] Richard Andrews takes Oliver aside, warning him that Grenville has a reputation for taking promising students under his wing and then [[PlagiarismInFiction stealing their research for himself]]. Then he introduces them to someone: a girl named Annie Mackley, who fesses up to being the girl who bespelled Katie to run into the parade in "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E01Ceremony Ceremony]]". That said, she vehemently denies having anything to do with the troll attack or the garuda: she's as much in the dark about that as they are.
As evening comes, Katie is back with the troll, while Oliver teaches Nanao how to cast spells outside the dorms. A comment from Nanao gives Oliver a EurekaMoment about the attack; meanwhile, [[SuddenlySpeaking the troll suddenly warns Katie to stay away from it]]. Oliver and Nanao rush to the troll's cage to find Katie missing, and minus her athame. The troll tells them Katie was taken by "the other one" to someplace "dark and deep".
Oliver and Nanao head into the labyrinth, with Oliver explaining his theory that somebody was experimenting on the troll inside Kimberly, continuing [[PlayingWithSyringes an old experiment to grant human speech to demihumans]] in the hopes mages might come to respect them. That person turns out to none other than Vera Miligan herself, who has taken Katie prisoner to do a little exploratory surgery on her brain, thinking something in there might explain how she got the troll to talk. Nanao, being Nanao, charges the upperclasswoman--who reveals what's been [[HidingBehindYourBangs hidden behind her bangs]]: [[DeadlyGaze the paralytic eye of a basilisk]].
[[{{Cliffhanger}} Roll credits.]]
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!!This episode provides examples of the following tropes:
* AdaptationDeviation:
** Andrews making Mackley fess up is a modified version of a change that originated in Creator/SakaeEsuno's manga, used to [[CompressedAdaptation compress the investigation storyline]]. In the original novels, the cast got her name from the [[PlantPerson pride plants]] along the approach to the school and interrogated her before the duel in the colosseum.
** In the novel, all five remaining Sword Roses were involved in the search for Katie, though they split up to cover more ground so the end result was the same.
* AdultsAreUseless: {{Discussed}}: Oliver and Chela have to explain to the others that the faculty habitually turn a blind eye to incidents in the labyrinth. Students who go in there are believed to know the risks, and the garuda incident is going to get chalked up to a fight between students that got a little out of hand. Though Chela does admit it would've been different [[NoEndorHolocaust if anyone had actually died]].
-->'''Pete:''' They don't care about us if we live?! That's crazy!\\
'''Guy:''' I know it's too late, but we sure picked a scary school to enroll in, huh?
* AnimalWrongsGroup: Miligan turns out to be the culprit behind the events of the past five episodes: the troll was one of her experimental subjects and was trying to get away from her, and the garuda was one of her familiars, which she employed in a counterattack on the conservatives for putting on the kobold hunt. She's revealed to have been experimenting on demihumans for years, with corpses of trolls, kobolds, and merfolk in vats around her lab, but passionately believes that her experiments in granting them greater intelligence are key to expanding the InhumanableAlienRights of demihumans.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: Katie is on an operating table being prepared for nonconsensual brain surgery, and Nanao and Oliver are at swordpoint with a mage three years their senior. Roll credits.
* DangerousPhlebotinumInteraction: {{Discussed}}: Oliver realizes that the assigned recipe is leaving out a lot of hidden pitfalls. One student puts in too much bubblegrass and Oliver has to add an ingredient to calm the potion before it boils over, while another ends up with chemical burns on her eyes because she didn't know to put the lid on after adding vampire bloom to the cauldron; Oliver tells her to wash her eyes out with olive oil. Then Pete forgets to dilute an ingredient, and Oliver has to toss his cauldron onto the floor upside-down and dive on top of it before it explodes.
* DeadlyGaze: A strike from Miligan's basilisk eye freezes Nanao in her tracks and [[TakenForGranite starts to turn her to stone]], though Oliver fortunately knows the {{counterspell}}.
* EurekaMoment: Nanao offhandedly comments that she subconsciously assumed the troll was trying to ''escape'', not ''attack'', which suddenly causes Oliver to realize what's really going on. The troll telling them that Miligan kidnapped Katie clinches it: he connects it to experiments by demihuman rights activists she's previously heard about.
* HidingBehindYourBangs: We finally find out what Miligan is hiding behind hers, in the most literal sense: the eye of a basilisk. Figuratively, she was hiding that she was the StarterVillain all along.
* HowDoIShotWeb: Nanao has no idea how to use magic to do much more than throw sparks or produce a stiff breeze. Oliver spends the evening tutoring her, and tries to adapt the martial arts philosophies she was taught as a {{samurai}} into practical mental images that she can use herself.
* JealousRomanticWitness: [[RunningGag Being Katie is pain.]] She is sent into a veritable conniption by seemingly every female character except her getting to kiss Oliver.
* LastNameBasis: Mackley's first name isn't stated in the episode. [[EnforcedTrope It wasn't revealed in the novels until volume 12, which came out in Japan the day of the series premiere.]]
* LoveMartyr: Miligan thinks her basilisk eye is a sign of her parents' love, despite the fact that similar implants ''killed'' five of her siblings. This is an early sign of how little regard mage culture pays to child welfare, a running theme in the series.
* NoEndorHolocaust: Despite multiple students in the first- and second-year classes getting disemboweled last episode, nobody died. [[AdaptationExplanationExtrication The episode neglects to explain]] that this is because [[SuperToughness mages are just made of tougher stuff]] than {{Muggles}}.
* PlagiarismInFiction: Andrews accuses Grenville of habitually taking promising students under his wing only to then steal their research, ruining their careers.
* SinkOrSwimMentor: Grenville is more professional in this episode than in [[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E03Soldier his previous appearance]], but seemingly deliberately doesn't warn the students that the potion recipe has a bunch of hidden traps in it that can cause injury, only giving a vague warning that "if you are not careful, you will die today." On the other hand, he's quite impressed when Oliver turns out to know exactly what to do when several students run into those traps.
* SuddenlySpeaking: While Katie is talking to the troll as usual, he suddenly starts talking ''back'', warning her to stay away from himself and Miligan--who unfortunately is watching from the shadows at that very moment.
* TaughtToHate: Mackley's stated motive for enchanting Katie? Her parents told her that [[CategoryTraitor demihuman rights activists are an embarrassment to mages]], and she just overheard Katie's argument with Guy about the troll and wanted to embarrass her right back.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Mackley just wanted to embarrass Katie, but instead nearly got her trampled because the troll happened to go berserk at that exact moment.
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->'''Japanese Title''': 蛇眼 [-[[ForeignLanguageTitle グレアー]]-][[labelnote:Trans.]]Lit. "snake eyes", pron. "gureā"[[/labelnote]]\\
'''Director:''' Daisuke Kurose\\
'''Writer:''' Shogo Yasukawa\\
'''First Aired:''' 4 August 2023
The day after the garuda incident, things have calmed down at the school, at least on the surface. Katie and Miligan continue their work with the troll and succeed in getting him to start eating again, and getting their lives saved by their ideological opponents has shut the conservatives up. However, Oliver and Chela still feel they're missing something important, and Guy and Pete are horrified to learn that, [[NoEndorHolocaust since nobody was actually killed]], [[AdultsAreUseless the faculty will likely ignore the attack]].
On the other hand, after slaying the garuda, Nanao has acquired a bit of a fanbase. After a bit of back-and-forth [[OvershadowedByAwesome comparing Nanao's swordplay to Oliver's spellwork and strategizing]], Chela decides that Oliver hasn't been sufficiently rewarded for his part in saving the class... which she chooses to rectify with [[SmoochOfVictory a kiss on the cheek]], [[JealousRomanticWitness much to Katie's consternation]]. As [[CluelessChickMagnet Oliver tries to figure out what the heck is suddenly happening with his female friends]], Nanao manages to extricate herself from her adoring fans and rejoins them--and decides to join in the kissing, aggravating Katie even more. ''Then'' she demands one from Oliver in return, all while [[TheGadfly Pete and Guy egg the girls on]] and Katie gets closer and closer to an aneurysm.
Oliver is rescued, sort of, by the appearance of his older cousin-slant-foster sister Shannon Sherwood, who is pleased as punch that her baby brother has gotten such a good group of friends around him. She, too, affectionately kisses his cheek, forcing Oliver to then explain away Katie's RelativeError.
That afternoon, Professor Grenville holds a practical exam in his alchemy class. Oliver, [[{{Foreshadowing}} again showing he's a much better mage than he lets on]], quickly notes that the assignment has "a lot of hidden pitfalls", and spends a good chunk of the class period running around the classroom rescuing his classmates from various {{Dangerous Phlebotinum Interaction}}s, culminating in having to [[JumpingOnAGrenade dive on top of Pete's cauldron]] before his concotion [[MadeOfExplodium explodes]]. This impresses Grenville, who compliments Oliver's evident knack for alchemy but cryptically warns him he should choose his friends more carefully.
After class, the [[FireForgedFriends no-longer-antagonistic]] Richard Andrews takes Oliver aside, warning him that Grenville has a reputation for taking promising students under his wing and then [[PlagiarismInFiction stealing their research for himself]]. Then he introduces them to someone: a girl named Annie Mackley, who fesses up to being the girl who bespelled Katie to run into the parade in "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E01Ceremony Ceremony]]". That said, she vehemently denies having anything to do with the troll attack or the garuda: she's as much in the dark about that as they are.
As evening comes, Katie is back with the troll, while Oliver teaches Nanao how to cast spells outside the dorms. A comment from Nanao gives Oliver a EurekaMoment about the attack; meanwhile, [[SuddenlySpeaking the troll suddenly warns Katie to stay away from it]]. Oliver and Nanao rush to the troll's cage to find Katie missing, and minus her athame. The troll tells them Katie was taken by "the other one" to someplace "dark and deep".
Oliver and Nanao head into the labyrinth, with Oliver explaining his theory that somebody was experimenting on the troll inside Kimberly, continuing [[PlayingWithSyringes an old experiment to grant human speech to demihumans]] in the hopes mages might come to respect them. That person turns out to none other than Vera Miligan herself, who has taken Katie prisoner to do a little exploratory surgery on her brain, thinking something in there might explain how she got the troll to talk. Nanao, being Nanao, charges the upperclasswoman--who reveals what's been [[HidingBehindYourBangs hidden behind her bangs]]: [[DeadlyGaze the paralytic eye of a basilisk]].
[[{{Cliffhanger}} Roll credits.]]
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!!This episode provides examples of the following tropes:
* AdaptationDeviation:
** Andrews making Mackley fess up is a modified version of a change that originated in Creator/SakaeEsuno's manga, used to [[CompressedAdaptation compress the investigation storyline]]. In the original novels, the cast got her name from the [[PlantPerson pride plants]] along the approach to the school and interrogated her before the duel in the colosseum.
** In the novel, all five remaining Sword Roses were involved in the search for Katie, though they split up to cover more ground so the end result was the same.
* AdultsAreUseless: {{Discussed}}: Oliver and Chela have to explain to the others that the faculty habitually turn a blind eye to incidents in the labyrinth. Students who go in there are believed to know the risks, and the garuda incident is going to get chalked up to a fight between students that got a little out of hand. Though Chela does admit it would've been different [[NoEndorHolocaust if anyone had actually died]].
-->'''Pete:''' They don't care about us if we live?! That's crazy!\\
'''Guy:''' I know it's too late, but we sure picked a scary school to enroll in, huh?
* AnimalWrongsGroup: Miligan turns out to be the culprit behind the events of the past five episodes: the troll was one of her experimental subjects and was trying to get away from her, and the garuda was one of her familiars, which she employed in a counterattack on the conservatives for putting on the kobold hunt. She's revealed to have been experimenting on demihumans for years, with corpses of trolls, kobolds, and merfolk in vats around her lab, but passionately believes that her experiments in granting them greater intelligence are key to expanding the InhumanableAlienRights of demihumans.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: Katie is on an operating table being prepared for nonconsensual brain surgery, and Nanao and Oliver are at swordpoint with a mage three years their senior. Roll credits.
* DangerousPhlebotinumInteraction: {{Discussed}}: Oliver realizes that the assigned recipe is leaving out a lot of hidden pitfalls. One student puts in too much bubblegrass and Oliver has to add an ingredient to calm the potion before it boils over, while another ends up with chemical burns on her eyes because she didn't know to put the lid on after adding vampire bloom to the cauldron; Oliver tells her to wash her eyes out with olive oil. Then Pete forgets to dilute an ingredient, and Oliver has to toss his cauldron onto the floor upside-down and dive on top of it before it explodes.
* DeadlyGaze: A strike from Miligan's basilisk eye freezes Nanao in her tracks and [[TakenForGranite starts to turn her to stone]], though Oliver fortunately knows the {{counterspell}}.
* EurekaMoment: Nanao offhandedly comments that she subconsciously assumed the troll was trying to ''escape'', not ''attack'', which suddenly causes Oliver to realize what's really going on. The troll telling them that Miligan kidnapped Katie clinches it: he connects it to experiments by demihuman rights activists she's previously heard about.
* HidingBehindYourBangs: We finally find out what Miligan is hiding behind hers, in the most literal sense: the eye of a basilisk. Figuratively, she was hiding that she was the StarterVillain all along.
* HowDoIShotWeb: Nanao has no idea how to use magic to do much more than throw sparks or produce a stiff breeze. Oliver spends the evening tutoring her, and tries to adapt the martial arts philosophies she was taught as a {{samurai}} into practical mental images that she can use herself.
* JealousRomanticWitness: [[RunningGag Being Katie is pain.]] She is sent into a veritable conniption by seemingly every female character except her getting to kiss Oliver.
* LastNameBasis: Mackley's first name isn't stated in the episode. [[EnforcedTrope It wasn't revealed in the novels until volume 12, which came out in Japan the day of the series premiere.]]
* LoveMartyr: Miligan thinks her basilisk eye is a sign of her parents' love, despite the fact that similar implants ''killed'' five of her siblings. This is an early sign of how little regard mage culture pays to child welfare, a running theme in the series.
* NoEndorHolocaust: Despite multiple students in the first- and second-year classes getting disemboweled last episode, nobody died. [[AdaptationExplanationExtrication The episode neglects to explain]] that this is because [[SuperToughness mages are just made of tougher stuff]] than {{Muggles}}.
* PlagiarismInFiction: Andrews accuses Grenville of habitually taking promising students under his wing only to then steal their research, ruining their careers.
* SinkOrSwimMentor: Grenville is more professional in this episode than in [[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E03Soldier his previous appearance]], but seemingly deliberately doesn't warn the students that the potion recipe has a bunch of hidden traps in it that can cause injury, only giving a vague warning that "if you are not careful, you will die today." On the other hand, he's quite impressed when Oliver turns out to know exactly what to do when several students run into those traps.
* SuddenlySpeaking: While Katie is talking to the troll as usual, he suddenly starts talking ''back'', warning her to stay away from himself and Miligan--who unfortunately is watching from the shadows at that very moment.
* TaughtToHate: Mackley's stated motive for enchanting Katie? Her parents told her that [[CategoryTraitor demihuman rights activists are an embarrassment to mages]], and she just overheard Katie's argument with Guy about the troll and wanted to embarrass her right back.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Mackley just wanted to embarrass Katie, but instead nearly got her trampled because the troll happened to go berserk at that exact moment.
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