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'''First Aired:''' 18 August 2023
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'''Adapts:''' Volume 2, Chapters 1-2
'''Adapts:''' Volume 2, Chapters 1-2
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* AdaptationDeviation: The episode focuses on Nanao learning to fly, the magical engineering class and Pete becoming a reversi, both of which happened in the second half of volume 2's first chapter.
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* AdaptationDeviation: The episode focuses on Nanao learning to fly, the magical engineering class and Pete becoming a reversi, both of which happened in the second half of volume 2's first chapter. The alchemy class with Theodore [=McFarlane=] is from chapter 2.
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* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Due to the events of Volume 2, Chapter 1 being rearranged, Stacy Cornwallis, Fay Willock, and Tullio Rossi are all introduced earlier than the event where they appeared in the novel.
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* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Due to the events of Volume 2, Chapter 1 2 being rearranged, Stacy Cornwallis, Fay Willock, and Tullio Rossi are all introduced earlier than the event where they appeared in the novel.
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* CompressedAdaptation: Most of the actual alchemy class with Theodore [=McFarlane=] is cut.
* EmbarrassingRelativeTeacher: Chela's first reaction to running into her father Theodore is to berate him for leaving Nanao in the lurch for six months after bringing her to Yelgland, before they find out he'll be teaching their afternoon alchemy class.
* EmbarrassingRelativeTeacher: Chela's first reaction to running into her father Theodore is to berate him for leaving Nanao in the lurch for six months after bringing her to Yelgland, before they find out he'll be teaching their afternoon alchemy class.
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* CompressedAdaptation: Most of the actual alchemy class with Theodore [=McFarlane=] is cut.
left out of the episode, including the actual answer to Pete's question about the differences between the editions of his travelogues.[[note]]The later edition includes corrections to various factual errors that Theodore had made in the earlier one, like not realizing the salty soup served with soba noodles in Yamatsu is meant as a condiment for the noodles rather than being a meal course in itself.[[/note]]
* EmbarrassingRelativeTeacher: Chela's first reaction to running into her father Theodore is to berate him for leaving Nanao in the lurch for six months after bringing her to Yelgland,before then to cringe when they find out he'll be teaching their afternoon alchemy class.
* EmbarrassingRelativeTeacher: Chela's first reaction to running into her father Theodore is to berate him for leaving Nanao in the lurch for six months after bringing her to Yelgland,
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[[TimeSkip Four months have gone by]] since "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E06Arise Arise]]", and the faculty are still mulling over [[NeverFoundTheBody Darius Grenville's disappearance]]. While they try and fail to figure that out, Pete has a bizarre strange dream, and wakes up from a bizarre CatapultNightmare to discover, to his shock, that [[GenderBender he's suddenly sprouted breasts]]. He's still irritable at breakfast, snapping at his friends, while they get ready to take their first class in {{Flying Broomstick}}s with Professor Dustin Hedges. On the way there, they run into a relative of Chela's: Stacy Cornwallis and her servant Fay Willock, the former of whom snubs her cousin's greeting and keeps walking.
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[[TimeSkip Four months have gone by]] since "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E06Arise Arise]]", and the faculty are still mulling over [[NeverFoundTheBody Darius Grenville's disappearance]]. While they try and fail to figure that out, Pete has a bizarre strange dream, and wakes up from a bizarre CatapultNightmare to discover, to his shock, that [[GenderBender he's suddenly sprouted breasts]]. He's still irritable at breakfast, snapping at his friends, while they get ready to take their first class in {{Flying Broomstick}}s with Professor Dustin Hedges. On the way there, they run into a relative of Chela's: Stacy Cornwallis and her servant Fay Willock, the former of whom snubs her cousin's greeting and keeps walking.
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The afternoon class brings us face to face with the first of Oliver's targets we hadn't previously met: Enrico Forghieri, the MadScientist who teaches magical engineering. He sets the students to disarming traps, with Oliver taking charge as usual. They get three done under the wire, but the fourth goes off, showering them with venomous snakes. Oliver dives to shield Pete, while Guy douses himself with a potion and destroys several of the snakes with a lightning spell over his skin, impressing Forgieri.
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The afternoon class brings classes include the main cast's first face-to-face meeting with Theodore [=McFarlane=], who is subbing for the missing Grenville, and then bring us face to face with the first of Oliver's targets we hadn't previously met: Enrico Forghieri, the MadScientist who teaches magical engineering. He sets the students to disarming traps, with Oliver taking charge as usual. They get three done under the wire, but the fourth goes off, showering them with venomous snakes. Oliver dives to shield Pete, while Guy douses himself with a potion and destroys several of the snakes with a lightning spell over his skin, impressing Forgieri.
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* CompressedAdaptation: Most of the actual alchemy class with Theodore [=McFarlane=] is cut.
* EmbarrassingRelativeTeacher: Chela's first reaction to running into her father Theodore is to berate him for leaving Nanao in the lurch for six months after bringing her to Yelgland, before they find out he'll be teaching their afternoon alchemy class.
* EmbarrassingRelativeTeacher: Chela's first reaction to running into her father Theodore is to berate him for leaving Nanao in the lurch for six months after bringing her to Yelgland, before they find out he'll be teaching their afternoon alchemy class.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Theodore [=McFarlane=] fawns over the main cast, but pointedly snubs his niece Stacy.
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* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Pete is ''very'' thrilled to meet Theodore [=McFarlane=]: he's apparently such a huge fan of his travelogues that he's read every printing of every volume.
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* EvolvingCredits: Beginning with this episode, the clip of the domino mask at the end of the opening credits shows it being picked up and put on by Oliver, since we now know about his [[LivingADoubleLife secret double life]].
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* EvolvingCredits: Beginning with this episode, the clip of the domino mask at the end of the opening credits now shows it being picked up and put on by Oliver, since we now know about his [[LivingADoubleLife secret double life]].
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Nanao, as usual, is a natural: the broomsticks are excited by her clear mana. She zeroes in on one sitting by itself, comparing it to her war horse back home, and to Hedges' astonishment takes off into the sky. Oliver is surprised too, because [[FlashbackEcho that broom used to be his mother's]].
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Nanao, as usual, is a natural: the broomsticks are excited by her clear mana.mana, and she's experienced with horses. She zeroes in on one sitting by itself, comparing it to her war horse back home, and to Hedges' astonishment takes off into the sky. Oliver is surprised too, because [[FlashbackEcho that broom used to be his mother's]].
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* HorseOfADifferentColor: Since broomsticks in the series are living things, Nanao's experience as a cavalrywoman in her former life gives her a leg up riding them.
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* CatapultNightmare: Pete dreams of his body shifting from male to female and then jerks awake. Then he puts his glassed on and realizes it wasn't just a dream.
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* CatapultNightmare: Pete dreams of his body shifting from male to female and then jerks awake. Then he puts his glassed on and realizes it wasn't just a dream.ThatWasNotADream.
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[[TimeSkip Four months have gone by]] since "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E06Arise Arise]]", and the faculty are still mulling over [[NeverFoundTheBody Darius Grenville's disappearance]]. While they figure that out, Pete has a bizarre strange dream, and wakes up from a bizarre CatapultNightmare to discover, to his shock, that [[GenderBender he's suddenly sprouted breasts]]. He's still irritable at breakfast, snapping at his friends, while they get ready to take their first class in {{Flying Broomstick}}s with Professor Dustin Hedges. On the way there, they run into a relative of Chela's: Stacy Cornwallis and her servant Fay Willock, the former of whom snubs her cousin's greeting and keeps walking.
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[[TimeSkip Four months have gone by]] since "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E06Arise Arise]]", and the faculty are still mulling over [[NeverFoundTheBody Darius Grenville's disappearance]]. While they try and fail to figure that out, Pete has a bizarre strange dream, and wakes up from a bizarre CatapultNightmare to discover, to his shock, that [[GenderBender he's suddenly sprouted breasts]]. He's still irritable at breakfast, snapping at his friends, while they get ready to take their first class in {{Flying Broomstick}}s with Professor Dustin Hedges. On the way there, they run into a relative of Chela's: Stacy Cornwallis and her servant Fay Willock, the former of whom snubs her cousin's greeting and keeps walking.
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[[caption-width-right:1000:[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone "Yer a reversi, Petey."]]]]
->'''Japanese Title''': 両極往来者 [-[[ForeignLanguageTitle リバーシ]]-][[labelnote:Trans.]]''Ryōkyoku ōrai-sha'', lit. "bi-polar visitor", pron. "rebershi"[[/labelnote]]\\
'''Director:''' Makoto Sokuza\\
'''Writer:''' Shōgo Yasukawa\\
'''First Aired:''' 18 August 2023
[[TimeSkip Four months have gone by]] since "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E06Arise Arise]]", and the faculty are still mulling over [[NeverFoundTheBody Darius Grenville's disappearance]]. While they figure that out, Pete has a bizarre strange dream, and wakes up from a bizarre CatapultNightmare to discover, to his shock, that [[GenderBender he's suddenly sprouted breasts]]. He's still irritable at breakfast, snapping at his friends, while they get ready to take their first class in {{Flying Broomstick}}s with Professor Dustin Hedges. On the way there, they run into a relative of Chela's: Stacy Cornwallis and her servant Fay Willock, the former of whom snubs her cousin's greeting and keeps walking.
Nanao, as usual, is a natural: the broomsticks are excited by her clear mana. She zeroes in on one sitting by itself, comparing it to her war horse back home, and to Hedges' astonishment takes off into the sky. Oliver is surprised too, because [[FlashbackEcho that broom used to be his mother's]].
The afternoon class brings us face to face with the first of Oliver's targets we hadn't previously met: Enrico Forghieri, the MadScientist who teaches magical engineering. He sets the students to disarming traps, with Oliver taking charge as usual. They get three done under the wire, but the fourth goes off, showering them with venomous snakes. Oliver dives to shield Pete, while Guy douses himself with a potion and destroys several of the snakes with a lightning spell over his skin, impressing Forgieri.
After class, Oliver takes Pete aside, having realized his body has switched sex. He explains that his roommate has awakened as a [[TitleDrop "reversi"]]: [[SexShifter a mage whose body periodically changes its biological sex]]. And he's beaten Carlos Whitrow to the punch: turns out that Godfrey's NumberTwo also heads up a campus support club for students with SexMagic and related traits, and invites Pete to join. Oliver tags along to keep him company, and the club greets them both with open arms. As they enjoy a music recital by Carlos and Oliver's brother Gwyn, Pete decides that maybe he can handle this new development.
Oliver and Pete return to the dorms after the show, with another first-year student looking on from an upper floor and monologuing about how much the group annoys him as the credits roll...
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!!This episode provides examples of the following tropes.
* AdaptationDeviation: The episode focuses on Nanao learning to fly, the magical engineering class and Pete becoming a reversi, both of which happened in the second half of volume 2's first chapter.
* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: The first shot of the episode is of Vanessa Aldiss [[VoluntaryShapeshifting transforming her arm]] and [[ImAHumanitarian eating a screaming man with a mouth she's grown on the end of it]], but the episode left out the first part of the scene that explains how he even got there: he's a member of a Gnostic ApocalypseCult that tried to infiltrate the school building and Vanessa caught him.
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Due to the events of Volume 2, Chapter 1 being rearranged, Stacy Cornwallis, Fay Willock, and Tullio Rossi are all introduced earlier than the event where they appeared in the novel.
* BeautifulSingingVoice: Carlos Whitrow is revealed to have a singing voice that is literally magical, though Oliver notes it's not a charm effect, but "something more pure."
* BreatherEpisode: Last episode had the conclusion of Oliver and Nanao's fight with Miligan, including our first look at a spellblade, and then TheReveal that Oliver is leading a StudentsSecretSociety plotting to murder half the faculty, starting with the RasputinianDeath of Darius Grenville. This episode? Pete turns into a girl and Nanao rides a broom. TheStinger indicates things are about to ramp back up, though.
* CatapultNightmare: Pete dreams of his body shifting from male to female and then jerks awake. Then he puts his glassed on and realizes it wasn't just a dream.
* FlashbackEcho: Oliver recognizes the broom that Nanao picks: it once belonged to his late mother, whom he recalls once again when Nanao takes off on its back.
* FlyingBroomstick: Explained in this episode to be a kind of magical creature in its own right. Nanao in particular bonds with a MoodyMount that she dubs Amatsukaze.
* ForeignLanguageTitle: "リバーシ", "reversi", with the definitional kanji 両極往来者 ''ryōkyoku ōrai-sha'', literally "bi-polar visitor".
* TheGadfly: Theodore [=McFarlane=] appears in person for the first time, having snuck into the OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness's meeting to surprise Esmeralda's insiders. When Aldiss and Esmeralda tell him to knock it off, he comments that it's just in his nature to stir the pot if it's too settled.
* LaughingMad: Enrico Forghieri obviously has quite a few screws loose and constantly jokes around and cackles.
* LGBTAwakening: Pete becoming a reversi is an obvious {{allegory}} to this trope, complete with Carlos Whitrow, who is nonbinary, inviting him to join the in-universe equivalent of a queer students' club.
* MagicMusic: Oliver notes that Carlos's singing voice is literally magical, but "more pure" than a charm effect.
* MoodyMount: Dustin Hedges is astounded when Nanao mounts Amatsukaze because he'd tried to tame that same broom multiple times and failed.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Oliver's comrades succeeded in covering up the assassination. As far as the faculty knows, Grenville simply disappeared without a trace in the labyrinth.
* OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: {{Downplayed}}. The six remaining members of TheConspiracy that killed Chloe Halford meet around a table in a candlelit room, but we can see all their faces and [[DramaticIrony they know a lot less about what's going on than the audience does]].
* SexMagic: Carlos Whitrow runs a club for students with sex- and gender-linked magical traits, including {{Sex Shifter}}s like Pete.
* SexShifter: Pete Reston awakens as a "reversi", a mage whose body periodically switches between male and female.
* SinkOrSwimMentor: Forghieri isn't actively sadistic like Grenville or Aldiss, he just likes to throw students into the deep end with minimal instruction. He does provide healing to students injured in his class, though: after the trap the students fail to disarm releases a swarm of venomous snakes, he passes out lollipops containing an antivenin.
* TheStinger: Tullio Rossi makes his first appearance just before the end of the episode, muttering to himself about how much the Sword Roses irritate him.
* StreetSmart: Guy Greenwood has up to now been a middling student at best (Oliver and Chela have both had to help him with lessons in previous episodes), but he knows how to handle venomous snakes from farm life: he douses himself with a potion to make his skin and clothes more conductive, wades into the snake swarm, then casts '''[[ShockAndAwe Tonitrus]]''' on himself to fry them all at once.
* SupernaturallyValidatedTransPerson: {{Discussed}}: Oliver says that gender dysphoria is a possible early sign of being a reversi, though we aren't told whether Pete had previously experienced any.
* TakingTheBullet: Oliver again puts himself at risk to shield Pete after a side effect of his reversi transformation keeps him from getting clear of the trap before it detonates, and gets bitten by the snakes inside.
* TimeSkip: Four months have passed InUniverse since the last episode.
* VaryingCompetencyAlibi: The teachers consider the possibility that a student might have killed Grenville, but consider it laughable: Esmeralda says that if it ''was'' a student, then Grenville was never worthy to be a Kimberly instructor. Aldiss believes nobody outside the six of them besides Luther Garland or Theodore [=McFarlane=] is capable.
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[[caption-width-right:1000:[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone "Yer a reversi, Petey."]]]]
->'''Japanese Title''': 両極往来者 [-[[ForeignLanguageTitle リバーシ]]-][[labelnote:Trans.]]''Ryōkyoku ōrai-sha'', lit. "bi-polar visitor", pron. "rebershi"[[/labelnote]]\\
'''Director:''' Makoto Sokuza\\
'''Writer:''' Shōgo Yasukawa\\
'''First Aired:''' 18 August 2023
[[TimeSkip Four months have gone by]] since "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E06Arise Arise]]", and the faculty are still mulling over [[NeverFoundTheBody Darius Grenville's disappearance]]. While they figure that out, Pete has a bizarre strange dream, and wakes up from a bizarre CatapultNightmare to discover, to his shock, that [[GenderBender he's suddenly sprouted breasts]]. He's still irritable at breakfast, snapping at his friends, while they get ready to take their first class in {{Flying Broomstick}}s with Professor Dustin Hedges. On the way there, they run into a relative of Chela's: Stacy Cornwallis and her servant Fay Willock, the former of whom snubs her cousin's greeting and keeps walking.
Nanao, as usual, is a natural: the broomsticks are excited by her clear mana. She zeroes in on one sitting by itself, comparing it to her war horse back home, and to Hedges' astonishment takes off into the sky. Oliver is surprised too, because [[FlashbackEcho that broom used to be his mother's]].
The afternoon class brings us face to face with the first of Oliver's targets we hadn't previously met: Enrico Forghieri, the MadScientist who teaches magical engineering. He sets the students to disarming traps, with Oliver taking charge as usual. They get three done under the wire, but the fourth goes off, showering them with venomous snakes. Oliver dives to shield Pete, while Guy douses himself with a potion and destroys several of the snakes with a lightning spell over his skin, impressing Forgieri.
After class, Oliver takes Pete aside, having realized his body has switched sex. He explains that his roommate has awakened as a [[TitleDrop "reversi"]]: [[SexShifter a mage whose body periodically changes its biological sex]]. And he's beaten Carlos Whitrow to the punch: turns out that Godfrey's NumberTwo also heads up a campus support club for students with SexMagic and related traits, and invites Pete to join. Oliver tags along to keep him company, and the club greets them both with open arms. As they enjoy a music recital by Carlos and Oliver's brother Gwyn, Pete decides that maybe he can handle this new development.
Oliver and Pete return to the dorms after the show, with another first-year student looking on from an upper floor and monologuing about how much the group annoys him as the credits roll...
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!!This episode provides examples of the following tropes.
* AdaptationDeviation: The episode focuses on Nanao learning to fly, the magical engineering class and Pete becoming a reversi, both of which happened in the second half of volume 2's first chapter.
* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: The first shot of the episode is of Vanessa Aldiss [[VoluntaryShapeshifting transforming her arm]] and [[ImAHumanitarian eating a screaming man with a mouth she's grown on the end of it]], but the episode left out the first part of the scene that explains how he even got there: he's a member of a Gnostic ApocalypseCult that tried to infiltrate the school building and Vanessa caught him.
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Due to the events of Volume 2, Chapter 1 being rearranged, Stacy Cornwallis, Fay Willock, and Tullio Rossi are all introduced earlier than the event where they appeared in the novel.
* BeautifulSingingVoice: Carlos Whitrow is revealed to have a singing voice that is literally magical, though Oliver notes it's not a charm effect, but "something more pure."
* BreatherEpisode: Last episode had the conclusion of Oliver and Nanao's fight with Miligan, including our first look at a spellblade, and then TheReveal that Oliver is leading a StudentsSecretSociety plotting to murder half the faculty, starting with the RasputinianDeath of Darius Grenville. This episode? Pete turns into a girl and Nanao rides a broom. TheStinger indicates things are about to ramp back up, though.
* CatapultNightmare: Pete dreams of his body shifting from male to female and then jerks awake. Then he puts his glassed on and realizes it wasn't just a dream.
* FlashbackEcho: Oliver recognizes the broom that Nanao picks: it once belonged to his late mother, whom he recalls once again when Nanao takes off on its back.
* FlyingBroomstick: Explained in this episode to be a kind of magical creature in its own right. Nanao in particular bonds with a MoodyMount that she dubs Amatsukaze.
* ForeignLanguageTitle: "リバーシ", "reversi", with the definitional kanji 両極往来者 ''ryōkyoku ōrai-sha'', literally "bi-polar visitor".
* TheGadfly: Theodore [=McFarlane=] appears in person for the first time, having snuck into the OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness's meeting to surprise Esmeralda's insiders. When Aldiss and Esmeralda tell him to knock it off, he comments that it's just in his nature to stir the pot if it's too settled.
* LaughingMad: Enrico Forghieri obviously has quite a few screws loose and constantly jokes around and cackles.
* LGBTAwakening: Pete becoming a reversi is an obvious {{allegory}} to this trope, complete with Carlos Whitrow, who is nonbinary, inviting him to join the in-universe equivalent of a queer students' club.
* MagicMusic: Oliver notes that Carlos's singing voice is literally magical, but "more pure" than a charm effect.
* MoodyMount: Dustin Hedges is astounded when Nanao mounts Amatsukaze because he'd tried to tame that same broom multiple times and failed.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Oliver's comrades succeeded in covering up the assassination. As far as the faculty knows, Grenville simply disappeared without a trace in the labyrinth.
* OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: {{Downplayed}}. The six remaining members of TheConspiracy that killed Chloe Halford meet around a table in a candlelit room, but we can see all their faces and [[DramaticIrony they know a lot less about what's going on than the audience does]].
* SexMagic: Carlos Whitrow runs a club for students with sex- and gender-linked magical traits, including {{Sex Shifter}}s like Pete.
* SexShifter: Pete Reston awakens as a "reversi", a mage whose body periodically switches between male and female.
* SinkOrSwimMentor: Forghieri isn't actively sadistic like Grenville or Aldiss, he just likes to throw students into the deep end with minimal instruction. He does provide healing to students injured in his class, though: after the trap the students fail to disarm releases a swarm of venomous snakes, he passes out lollipops containing an antivenin.
* TheStinger: Tullio Rossi makes his first appearance just before the end of the episode, muttering to himself about how much the Sword Roses irritate him.
* StreetSmart: Guy Greenwood has up to now been a middling student at best (Oliver and Chela have both had to help him with lessons in previous episodes), but he knows how to handle venomous snakes from farm life: he douses himself with a potion to make his skin and clothes more conductive, wades into the snake swarm, then casts '''[[ShockAndAwe Tonitrus]]''' on himself to fry them all at once.
* SupernaturallyValidatedTransPerson: {{Discussed}}: Oliver says that gender dysphoria is a possible early sign of being a reversi, though we aren't told whether Pete had previously experienced any.
* TakingTheBullet: Oliver again puts himself at risk to shield Pete after a side effect of his reversi transformation keeps him from getting clear of the trap before it detonates, and gets bitten by the snakes inside.
* TimeSkip: Four months have passed InUniverse since the last episode.
* VaryingCompetencyAlibi: The teachers consider the possibility that a student might have killed Grenville, but consider it laughable: Esmeralda says that if it ''was'' a student, then Grenville was never worthy to be a Kimberly instructor. Aldiss believes nobody outside the six of them besides Luther Garland or Theodore [=McFarlane=] is capable.
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