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This series may run on Rule of Cool and Rule of Funny at times, but it doesn't shy itself away from both realistic and mythical horrors.
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Anime
Episode 1
- The very first scene almost feels like something out of Goblin Slayer. A young lady and her maid are assaulted by bandits and held down as the criminals prepare to rape them both. The scene is portrayed horrifyingly realistic, with the young lady's screams of despair almost drowning out everything else. She is so terrified that she urinates herself, which only prompts the bandits to laugh as they continue the assault. If not for Arc's timely arrival, things could have gone too far.
- Whilst Arc is busy enjoying his OP status in his gaming avatar's body, he decides to inspect himself underneath his helmet, only to discover a realistic-looking skeleton staring right back. It only occurs to him then that he picked a skeleton skin for his avatar, which he is now stuck with. However, it's not so much his body that scares him, rather it's the reaction of the general public if they ever find out, prompting his long-term desire to draw as little attention to himself as possible.
- During his fetch quest to gain a mercenary license, Arc comes across the aforementioned bandit situation, showing the terrifying scene once again but this time from his perspective. To avoid being outnumbered, he goes in for a sudden sneak attack, slicing several bandits in two with a single slash so quickly that a couple of the bodies' lower halves are still standing. When the rest of the bandits attempt to flee, Arc unleashes a powerful Wyvern Slash that briefly shows the bandits being shredded to pieces before the light consumes them entirely. Honestly, you might have even almost felt sorry for them if not for the near-rape scene that occurred.
Episode 3
- Udolan's sadistic abuse toward the elf children. It's telling that even one of the bandits says that he's taking things too far (albeit for more practical reasons than any moral objections).
- Ariane’s attempted rescue of the captured elf children. Despite how clearly skilled Ariane is, she is unable to act thanks to the threat of the children being harmed or killed. Given how clearly eager the slavers were, and how much glee they took in cutting off Ariane's cloak, it’s no question that had Arc not been waiting in the wings for a chance to act, that Ariane would have been raped right then and there in front of the children, helpless to do anything except take it unless she wanted to jeopardize the very lives she came to save.
Episode 5
- Despite how cathartic it was to see Tryton suffer some revenge at the hands of the elves he was about to have his way with, the ease and experience he seems to have during his attempt raises some pretty dark Fridge Horror: just how many elves have gone through this very experience and didn't have someone to help them escape?
Episode 7
- The assassination of Princess Yuriarna. In an eerily similar way to the bandit attack in the first episode, Yuriarna and her escort are ambushed in the woods (thanks to one of the guards selling them out), with their numbers quickly being taken out by assassins. However, unlike Lauren and Rita's situation, the assassins don’t bother trying to "have fun" with the princess or her attendant, and instead kill them without any pomp or gravitas. It's chilling just to see them cut down so quickly and efficiently. Had Arc not arrived soon after (and possessed resurrection magic), it’s very likely that the assassins would have gotten away with a royal assassination without any issue whatsoever.
- Arc's Beware the Nice Ones moment with said traitorous guard; when the latter gleefully entertains the idea of killing Ponta, Arc arrives not long after, grabbing the man's arm and freeing his beloved pet. And then Arc proceeds to easily break that guard's arm; we don't see much of it, but we certainly do hear the guard's bones snap and his blood-curdling scream. Arc may be a loveable goof, but he's still very powerful and it is a terrible idea to make him angry.
Episode 9
- When Arc and the others discover a specific cell, all we hear are flies buzzing. It is only after Chiyome enters and reveals via a Discretion Shot what's inside that we learn what happened to those too old or sick to be considered usable as slaves. Not only that, but this scene was a re-written moment different from the manga and light novel meant to be tamer.
Light novel
General
- The undead man-spiders are pretty horrific; as their name implies, they're monsters with two upper human-like halves and a lower spider-like half, and they have five bloodshot eyes and mouths with rows of sharp fangs.
Volume 3
- When Arc, Chiyome, and Ariane find the remaining beastwomen, they discover why these prisoners were kept separate from the others. These women were raped until they were impregnated and being used as breeding stock to supply slaves. This also adds to the fridge horror of how many times these women were subjected to this, along with how many may not have survived their horrific conditions. This scene was censored when adapted to the anime, but even the tamed down anime version manages to portray very real horrors of slavery.
Volume 6
- The reveal of Cardinal Elin's true undead form; her eyes turn black, and her mouth tears apart to reveal a long, snakelike tongue. The city guard she's having sex with is understandably terrified.
- The poor guy's fate; he gets sucked dry by Elin, until he ends up looking like a dried-out mummy.
Volume 8
- In the prologue, Pontiff Thanatos of the Holy Hilk Kingdom has the citizens of his kingdom's capital slaughtered by the aforementioned man-spiders and raised as undead.
- Thanatos dies a horrifying death in his final battle with Arc. After being doused by water from the Lord Crown by Ponta, he initially regains his human form like Arc did, before hundreds of years' worth of emotions return to him, causing him to scream in agony before aging rapidly and then crumbling to dust.
