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'''Adapts:''' Volume 2, Chapter 3
'''Adapts:''' Volume 2, Chapter 3
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* VoluntaryShapeshifting: {{Downplayed}}: Fay doesn't have direct control of his werewolf transformations, but Stacy is able to make him transform with the '''Luna Plena''' spell, which simulates moonlight, and she asks for his consent beforehand.
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As Katie realizes something is off about the ceiling, Fay can't shake Nanao, and Chela is more than a match for Stacy. Time for them to step things up, too: Stacy asks Fay if he'll win for her at any cost, sparking a {{flashback}} to their first meeting, when Stacy saved him from being killed by her father and adopted him as her servant. The Fay of the present tells his master to order her "guard dog" to tear out her enemies' throats, and Stacy raises her athame aloft. '''"Luna Plena!"'''
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While her friends duke it out with their classmates, something has caught Katie's attention: [[{{Foreshadowing}} she's noticed that something is wrong with the area's ceiling]]. [[{{Cliffhanger}} Roll credits.]]
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* SetSwordsToStun: Like the Oliver-Rossi duel in "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E08Rivals Rivals]]", the two teams set their dulling spells to half-strength, allowing them to draw blood but not inflict lethal injuries.
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* SetSwordsToStun: Like the Oliver-Rossi duel in "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E08Rivals Rivals]]", the two teams set their dulling spells to half-strength, allowing them to draw blood but not inflict lethal injuries. This backfires when Fay transforms: his HealingFactor is sufficient that what would be an incapacitating wound in his human form gets [[NoSell No-Sold]].
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Fay roars aloud and transforms. He's a werewolf, and Stacy jumps onto his shoulders and they charge, upending the battle they had been losing. After a couple inconclusive clashes, Chela tells Stacy to have Fay transform back: since he was allowed to attend Kimberly, he must only be a half-werewolf, which means taking his lupine form causes him excruciating pain. In reply, Stacy has another flashback, this time recalling a conversation with Fay where she sees her father playing with her other siblings and wonders aloud if he neglects her because [[MamasBabyPapasMaybe she isn't his real daughter]]. In the present, she screams at Chela that she doesn't know a thing about their pain.
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A full moon appears in the sky, and Fay roars aloud and transforms. He's a werewolf, and Stacy jumps onto his shoulders and they charge, upending the battle they had been losing. After a couple inconclusive clashes, Chela tells Stacy to have Fay transform back: since he was allowed to attend Kimberly, he must only be a half-werewolf, which means taking his lupine form causes him excruciating pain. In reply, Stacy has another flashback, this time recalling a conversation with Fay where she sees her father playing with her other siblings and wonders aloud if he neglects her because [[MamasBabyPapasMaybe she isn't his real daughter]]. In the present, she screams at Chela that she doesn't know a thing about their pain.
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[[caption-width-right:932:“Don’t hesitate. Just give me orders. As your guard dog, I’ll tear out your enemies’ throats!”]]
->'''Japanese Title:''' 主従 [-[[ForeignLanguageTitle マスターアンドナイト]]-][[labelnote:Trans.]]''Shujū'', lit. "lord and retainer" or "master and servant", pron. ''Masutā ando Naito''[[/labelnote]]\\
'''Director:''' Takaaki Ishiyama\\
'''Writer:''' Shōgo Yasukawa\\
'''First Aired:''' 8 September 2023
The morning after the Sword Roses claim their base, Oliver, Nanao, and Katie get up early. Oliver and Nanao go to practice her spellcasting, while Katie surprises Guy by bringing back the troll, whom she's adopted and named Marco. Pete gets an even bigger surprise when he wakes up looking for his glasses, and has them handed to him by [[HelpingHands a disembodied hand]]! Turns out, the hand belongs to Miligan, who's been helping Katie to try to make up for her actions in the first several episodes, and reanimated the hand Nanao cut off as a {{familiar}}, which she dubbed Milihand. After showing them the nearest labyrinth exit back to the school, she takes her leave and the Sword Roses set off on their second day of labyrinth exploration.
Soon enough, as they near the entrance to the second layer of the labyrinth, they're waylaid by Stacy and Fay, who challenge Chela to a two-on-two match. Oliver is initially prepared to let [[BloodKnight the ever-enthusiastic Nanao]] be her second, but then the man who challenged Tullio Rossi in TheStinger of "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E08Rivals Rivals]]" steps out of the shadows. This is Joseph Albright, a young man from a well-known family of battlemages, and he suggests making it more interesting: a three-on-three match between himself, Stacy, and Fay, and Chela, Nanao, and "that [[CatchphraseInsult nobody]] over there"--meaning Oliver.
Albright brings them down to the second layer of the labyrinth, the "Bustling Forest": an underground forest lit by a WeirdSun that never sets. The two sides set their dulling spells to half-strength and square off: Chela opposite Stacy, Oliver opposite Fay, and Nanao opposite Albright, with the latter warning his erstwhile teammates not to expect any support--he wants the glory of beating the samurai. He tosses a medallion into the air as the starting gun and--
'''"[[BlindedByTheLight Flash Wisp!]]"''' Oliver momentarily blinds the other side and goes for Albright, obviously pissed at the larger man's dismissal and drawing him out of the battle. Stacy and Fay consider this development, and Fay lures Nanao off into the woods while Stacy goes straight for Chela.
Oliver's initial efforts against Albright are defeated at every turn, and the other man mocks his Lanoff Style as rote practice from the textbook. In answer, Oliver steps up his game, driving in close. Albright blocks his sword stroke--and is overpowered by an unexpectedly heavy blow.
->'''Oliver:''' [[QuipToBlack The textbook just cut your cheek open. Any remarks, Mr. Albright?]]
As Katie realizes something is off about the ceiling, Fay can't shake Nanao, and Chela is more than a match for Stacy. Time for them to step things up, too: Stacy asks Fay if he'll win for her at any cost, sparking a {{flashback}} to their first meeting, when Stacy saved him from being killed by her father and adopted him as her servant. The Fay of the present tells his master to order her "guard dog" to tear out her enemies' throats, and Stacy raises her athame aloft. '''"Luna Plena!"'''
Fay roars aloud and transforms. He's a werewolf, and Stacy jumps onto his shoulders and they charge, upending the battle they had been losing. After a couple inconclusive clashes, Chela tells Stacy to have Fay transform back: since he was allowed to attend Kimberly, he must only be a half-werewolf, which means taking his lupine form causes him excruciating pain. In reply, Stacy has another flashback, this time recalling a conversation with Fay where she sees her father playing with her other siblings and wonders aloud if he neglects her because [[MamasBabyPapasMaybe she isn't his real daughter]]. In the present, she screams at Chela that she doesn't know a thing about their pain.
Nanao agrees, and tells Chela that Stacy and Fay are putting everything on the line in this duel, and that effort deserves their respect. Chela apologizes for disrespecting them, and swears she'll win.
[[{{Cliffhanger}} Roll credits.]]
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!!This episode provides examples of the following tropes:
* AchievementsInIgnorance: Oliver asks Nanao if she's managed to reproduce the Seventh Spellblade, but Nanao says she wasn't consciously aware she had even done so the first time and has no idea how, either.
* BerserkButton: Oliver obviously takes an irrational level of offense at being called a "nobody" by Albright. ([[AdaptationExplanationExtrication According to the original novels]], his late mother Chloe Halford was [[FamedInStory quite famous]] and it's implied Oliver took offense on her behalf, but nobody present knows they're related.)
* BlindedByTheLight: Oliver's '''Flash Wisp''' spell creates a momentary blinding flash to cover him attacking Albright.
* CallBack:
** Oliver and Nanao recall her creation of the Seventh Spellblade in "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E06Arise Arise]]".
** Joseph Albright is the young man who challenged Tullio Rossi in TheStinger of "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E08Rivals Rivals]]" and [[BattleDiscretionShot defeated him offscreen]]. He similarly mocks Oliver's swordplay as boring, saying Rossi at least had some uniqueness.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: {{Downplayed}}. Miligan is trying to make up for her actions in the first six episodes by offering the Sword Roses, especially Katie, her patronage as a friendly upperclassmen. The Sword Roses are clearly still wary of her, though: Oliver is half-convinced she must have an angle she isn't telling them about.
* ForeignLanguageTitle: "マスターアンドナイト", "Master and Knight" in katakana, with the definitional kanji 主従 referring to a lord (Stacy) and their loyal retainer (Fay).
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The "sky" of the second layer is overcast, but the flashes from Oliver's spells inadvertently give Katie a glimpse of the ceiling, and she spots something unsettling about it...
* HalfHumanHybrid: Fay is a half-blooded werewolf, which is the only reason he's allowed into Kimberly and explains his [[ALittleBitBeastly bestial looks]].
* HandshakeSubstitute: Because Marco is so much bigger than a human, when Oliver agrees that he's the troll's friend, they fist-bump instead of trying to shake hands.
* HealingFactor: As a half-werewolf, Fay heals fast enough that a sword wound from Nanao that would have incapacitated a human, even with the d
* HelpingHands: After Nanao cut Miligan's left hand off, rather than having it reattached, Miligan chose to reanimate it as a {{familiar}}, which she calls "Milihand". It scares the heck out of Pete when he first sees it, but it's actually kind of cute the way it scuttles around and clambers over the characters like a bizarre kitten.
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: In one of her {{Troubled Backstory Flashback}}s, Stacy [[{{Foreshadowing}} alludes to Mr. Cornwallis not being her real father]]...
* MercyRewarded: Katie's efforts to save the troll that attacked her have now begun to pay off: the school gave her permission to adopt him as a {{familiar}}, and she's made him her bodyguard and named him Marco. When Chela is worried about taking the weaker members of the Sword Roses down to the second layer, Marco promises her he'll protect them. Also PlayedForLaughs when Katie has to hold him back from charging Stacy and Fay when they show up.
* PainfulTransformation: Transforming into wolf form causes half-werewolves like Fay excruciating pain.
* PortalPool: The nearest entrance to the school building to the Sword Roses' base is a pool of water that leads to a second-floor classroom in the school building.
* RoyalRapier: Stacy and Chela, as befitting {{ojou}}s, both use athames modeled after smallswords. They both practice the Rizett Style, explained in the novels to be an aggressive, thrust-centric FantasticFightingStyle (patterned after sport fencing).
* SimpleSolutionWontWork: When asked by the Sword Roses why they didn't just use the PortalPool to get to the laboratory and save the trip in the previous episode, Miligan reminds them that [[MalevolentArchitecture the labyrinth has a mind of its own]]: that entrance isn't always accessible, and if they can't reach the laboratory by other paths, then it's probably too dangerous for them to be down here in the first place.
* SuperStrength: {{Justified|Trope}}: Oliver's spatial magic spell "Heavy Feather", which he uses to overpower Albright and injure him through a block, is said to alter his center of gravity to make a sword blow that is much heavier than it appears to be.
* TitleDrop: Chela says Stacy and Fay are "like master and knight" while explaining their relationship to Oliver after he asks how well they know each other.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: [[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E08Rivals Like Rossi, whom he defeated previously]], Albright disparages Oliver's fighting style as nothing more than book-learning: Rossi's fighting style at least had some novelty to it. And of course, just like Rossi, he's underestimated just ''how much'' book-learning Oliver has.
-->'''Oliver:''' [[BadassBoast The textbook just cut your cheek open. Any remarks, Mr. Albright?]]
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[[caption-width-right:932:“Don’t hesitate. Just give me orders. As your guard dog, I’ll tear out your enemies’ throats!”]]
->'''Japanese Title:''' 主従 [-[[ForeignLanguageTitle マスターアンドナイト]]-][[labelnote:Trans.]]''Shujū'', lit. "lord and retainer" or "master and servant", pron. ''Masutā ando Naito''[[/labelnote]]\\
'''Director:''' Takaaki Ishiyama\\
'''Writer:''' Shōgo Yasukawa\\
'''First Aired:''' 8 September 2023
The morning after the Sword Roses claim their base, Oliver, Nanao, and Katie get up early. Oliver and Nanao go to practice her spellcasting, while Katie surprises Guy by bringing back the troll, whom she's adopted and named Marco. Pete gets an even bigger surprise when he wakes up looking for his glasses, and has them handed to him by [[HelpingHands a disembodied hand]]! Turns out, the hand belongs to Miligan, who's been helping Katie to try to make up for her actions in the first several episodes, and reanimated the hand Nanao cut off as a {{familiar}}, which she dubbed Milihand. After showing them the nearest labyrinth exit back to the school, she takes her leave and the Sword Roses set off on their second day of labyrinth exploration.
Soon enough, as they near the entrance to the second layer of the labyrinth, they're waylaid by Stacy and Fay, who challenge Chela to a two-on-two match. Oliver is initially prepared to let [[BloodKnight the ever-enthusiastic Nanao]] be her second, but then the man who challenged Tullio Rossi in TheStinger of "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E08Rivals Rivals]]" steps out of the shadows. This is Joseph Albright, a young man from a well-known family of battlemages, and he suggests making it more interesting: a three-on-three match between himself, Stacy, and Fay, and Chela, Nanao, and "that [[CatchphraseInsult nobody]] over there"--meaning Oliver.
Albright brings them down to the second layer of the labyrinth, the "Bustling Forest": an underground forest lit by a WeirdSun that never sets. The two sides set their dulling spells to half-strength and square off: Chela opposite Stacy, Oliver opposite Fay, and Nanao opposite Albright, with the latter warning his erstwhile teammates not to expect any support--he wants the glory of beating the samurai. He tosses a medallion into the air as the starting gun and--
'''"[[BlindedByTheLight Flash Wisp!]]"''' Oliver momentarily blinds the other side and goes for Albright, obviously pissed at the larger man's dismissal and drawing him out of the battle. Stacy and Fay consider this development, and Fay lures Nanao off into the woods while Stacy goes straight for Chela.
Oliver's initial efforts against Albright are defeated at every turn, and the other man mocks his Lanoff Style as rote practice from the textbook. In answer, Oliver steps up his game, driving in close. Albright blocks his sword stroke--and is overpowered by an unexpectedly heavy blow.
->'''Oliver:''' [[QuipToBlack The textbook just cut your cheek open. Any remarks, Mr. Albright?]]
As Katie realizes something is off about the ceiling, Fay can't shake Nanao, and Chela is more than a match for Stacy. Time for them to step things up, too: Stacy asks Fay if he'll win for her at any cost, sparking a {{flashback}} to their first meeting, when Stacy saved him from being killed by her father and adopted him as her servant. The Fay of the present tells his master to order her "guard dog" to tear out her enemies' throats, and Stacy raises her athame aloft. '''"Luna Plena!"'''
Fay roars aloud and transforms. He's a werewolf, and Stacy jumps onto his shoulders and they charge, upending the battle they had been losing. After a couple inconclusive clashes, Chela tells Stacy to have Fay transform back: since he was allowed to attend Kimberly, he must only be a half-werewolf, which means taking his lupine form causes him excruciating pain. In reply, Stacy has another flashback, this time recalling a conversation with Fay where she sees her father playing with her other siblings and wonders aloud if he neglects her because [[MamasBabyPapasMaybe she isn't his real daughter]]. In the present, she screams at Chela that she doesn't know a thing about their pain.
Nanao agrees, and tells Chela that Stacy and Fay are putting everything on the line in this duel, and that effort deserves their respect. Chela apologizes for disrespecting them, and swears she'll win.
[[{{Cliffhanger}} Roll credits.]]
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!!This episode provides examples of the following tropes:
* AchievementsInIgnorance: Oliver asks Nanao if she's managed to reproduce the Seventh Spellblade, but Nanao says she wasn't consciously aware she had even done so the first time and has no idea how, either.
* BerserkButton: Oliver obviously takes an irrational level of offense at being called a "nobody" by Albright. ([[AdaptationExplanationExtrication According to the original novels]], his late mother Chloe Halford was [[FamedInStory quite famous]] and it's implied Oliver took offense on her behalf, but nobody present knows they're related.)
* BlindedByTheLight: Oliver's '''Flash Wisp''' spell creates a momentary blinding flash to cover him attacking Albright.
* CallBack:
** Oliver and Nanao recall her creation of the Seventh Spellblade in "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E06Arise Arise]]".
** Joseph Albright is the young man who challenged Tullio Rossi in TheStinger of "[[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E08Rivals Rivals]]" and [[BattleDiscretionShot defeated him offscreen]]. He similarly mocks Oliver's swordplay as boring, saying Rossi at least had some uniqueness.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: {{Downplayed}}. Miligan is trying to make up for her actions in the first six episodes by offering the Sword Roses, especially Katie, her patronage as a friendly upperclassmen. The Sword Roses are clearly still wary of her, though: Oliver is half-convinced she must have an angle she isn't telling them about.
* ForeignLanguageTitle: "マスターアンドナイト", "Master and Knight" in katakana, with the definitional kanji 主従 referring to a lord (Stacy) and their loyal retainer (Fay).
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The "sky" of the second layer is overcast, but the flashes from Oliver's spells inadvertently give Katie a glimpse of the ceiling, and she spots something unsettling about it...
* HalfHumanHybrid: Fay is a half-blooded werewolf, which is the only reason he's allowed into Kimberly and explains his [[ALittleBitBeastly bestial looks]].
* HandshakeSubstitute: Because Marco is so much bigger than a human, when Oliver agrees that he's the troll's friend, they fist-bump instead of trying to shake hands.
* HealingFactor: As a half-werewolf, Fay heals fast enough that a sword wound from Nanao that would have incapacitated a human, even with the d
* HelpingHands: After Nanao cut Miligan's left hand off, rather than having it reattached, Miligan chose to reanimate it as a {{familiar}}, which she calls "Milihand". It scares the heck out of Pete when he first sees it, but it's actually kind of cute the way it scuttles around and clambers over the characters like a bizarre kitten.
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: In one of her {{Troubled Backstory Flashback}}s, Stacy [[{{Foreshadowing}} alludes to Mr. Cornwallis not being her real father]]...
* MercyRewarded: Katie's efforts to save the troll that attacked her have now begun to pay off: the school gave her permission to adopt him as a {{familiar}}, and she's made him her bodyguard and named him Marco. When Chela is worried about taking the weaker members of the Sword Roses down to the second layer, Marco promises her he'll protect them. Also PlayedForLaughs when Katie has to hold him back from charging Stacy and Fay when they show up.
* PainfulTransformation: Transforming into wolf form causes half-werewolves like Fay excruciating pain.
* PortalPool: The nearest entrance to the school building to the Sword Roses' base is a pool of water that leads to a second-floor classroom in the school building.
* RoyalRapier: Stacy and Chela, as befitting {{ojou}}s, both use athames modeled after smallswords. They both practice the Rizett Style, explained in the novels to be an aggressive, thrust-centric FantasticFightingStyle (patterned after sport fencing).
* SimpleSolutionWontWork: When asked by the Sword Roses why they didn't just use the PortalPool to get to the laboratory and save the trip in the previous episode, Miligan reminds them that [[MalevolentArchitecture the labyrinth has a mind of its own]]: that entrance isn't always accessible, and if they can't reach the laboratory by other paths, then it's probably too dangerous for them to be down here in the first place.
* SuperStrength: {{Justified|Trope}}: Oliver's spatial magic spell "Heavy Feather", which he uses to overpower Albright and injure him through a block, is said to alter his center of gravity to make a sword blow that is much heavier than it appears to be.
* TitleDrop: Chela says Stacy and Fay are "like master and knight" while explaining their relationship to Oliver after he asks how well they know each other.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: [[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E08Rivals Like Rossi, whom he defeated previously]], Albright disparages Oliver's fighting style as nothing more than book-learning: Rossi's fighting style at least had some novelty to it. And of course, just like Rossi, he's underestimated just ''how much'' book-learning Oliver has.
-->'''Oliver:''' [[BadassBoast The textbook just cut your cheek open. Any remarks, Mr. Albright?]]
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