Filo has become an official part of Naofumi's party and he takes on the life of a traveling merchant in order to provide aid and survive comfortably. He learns of a crystal that will help him make Filo a set of clothes, and quickly learns the trade in oder to accomplish this quest.
Tropes for this episode include:
- Blow You Away: Filo possesses an affinity to wind magic.
- Chain of Deals: Naofumi can only get a dress for Filo from the tailor. The tailor can only make her a dress if they get her magic thread from the Village Witch. The magic gemstone on the Village Witch's magic thread is broken an thus useless, so he gives an accessory merchant safe passage and protection from bandits in exchange for Item Crafting skills and information on where he can find a new magic gemstone. By helping escort the witch into the old temple where the magic gemstone is, they are allowed to use her spinning wheel free of charge.
- Foreshadowing: Naofumi takes a man with medicine across the mountain to heal his sick mother. When he arrives, there are various used weapons in the house before focusing on the old woman, implying that there is more to her than meets the eye.
- The Highway Man: A group of bandits obstruct their carriage as they board passage for an accessory trader, only to curb-stomp them all and have them pay for their lives in tradable good. While Raphtalia (who was sold as a slave) finds this a little disconcerting, the merchant thinks that it makes Naofumi a natural business man.
- Item Crafting: As payment for giving him safe passage and protecting him from the bandits, the Accessory Merchant teaches him how to craft accessories, as well as providing a leg up in the merchant grapevine in finding a magic gemstone.
- Like a Daughter to Me: While Naofumi sees himself as Filo's owner, she sees Raphtalia as a daughter.Raphtalia: I am not!
- Living Legend: On-top of being the Shield Hero, word has gotten around about Naofumi as being the "Savior of the Heavenly Fowl", a man who rides a carriage driven by "a god of domesticated birds" who travels and heals the sick as a Messianic Archetype.
- Murder Is the Best Solution: Exploited. When the bandits threaten to turn the tables and accuse Naofumi (who has been painted as a crook and a cheat) of attacking them unprovoked, he declares that feeding them to Filo is the safest option. This scares them enough for them to stay silent, as well as taking all of their supplies as payment for their lives.
- My Suit Is Also Super: The plot of the episode revolves around making Filo and outfit that won't get destroyed when she switches between her bird and human forms.
- Nue: Guarding the crystal is a Nue, a chimera-beast with tiger and lion characteristics with a serpent for a tail. Its body gives off a powerful electrical charge like the Raijū of Japanese Folklore.
- Sibling Rivalry: Raphtalia and Filo quickly develop a rivalry for Naofumi's attention.
- You Owe Me: Naofumi agrees to help a man make it back to his village in time to administer medicine to his ailing mother if he can pay for it later. He follows through on a silver's worth of food.
