天下制覇

 

Okay, I retract my previous ‘nuzzling’ stance. Let’s have more licking in action shows.

Impressions:

This was actually not that bad of an adaptation of chapter 7. Never mind that they’ve totally skipped chapters 2-6, and still haven’t touched on Sister Hell at all, but you take what you can get. In addition, this scene… the very first Fel CG of the lot, actually managed to crop up somehow. Don’t ask me, I’m just happy that they ditched Fel’s giant hat.

 

Not a bad episode all around either. I wish the action scenes were longer, but they were certainly good looking enough. Hyaweh finally has his holy sword too, so now he can really start kicking ass and taking names. The licking was just strange and hilarious. Clearly girls just want people to lick them. That’s the way to their hearts. It is nice to see somebody who is comfortable around the ladies after dealing with Rental Magica’s Itsuki and Kimikiss’… er… everybody. Too bad Hyaweh doesn’t seem to really have a clue that he’s seducing them. He could be getting more trim than a barber shop floor. On the other hand, with the way Priecia was sitting in public with her short short skirt, maybe she’s ready and willing to display her wares to the world. Or maybe she’s just desperate for some lovin’.

Obligatory complaints about the wonky pacing. We’re over halfway done now and still haven’t even gotten to villains introduced in the first episode. It does appear that we’re not really going to be getting almost any Karin or Litte at all, which is more or less fine by me since honestly, they’re both kind of lackluster compared to even Filia.  I was happy to see pimp Acty and Kisarov in the… shady part of town. That business is a pretty hilarious part of the game.

Fel informs the rest that they’re being granted a free day off and she wants to go out and play. Filia wants to spend her time with her brother, and Hyaweh invites Priecia along. Kagura is off in her own world, dreaming about ice cream. Priecia relents and says that if Kagura wants to go, then she’ll go too. Hyaweh says that since Priecia’s the native, they’re in her care. Fel picks up on the flirting, pissing off Filia. Bridget lurks off to the side thinking that this could be a wonderful chance and invites herself along. The fan club also wants to go too, but Karin cockblocks them.

Later, all the girls are waiting impatiently for the late Hyaweh. He comes running up, and Priecia, with her legs and entirely too short skirt exposing her entire lower half for the world to take in chews him out. Kagura defuses the situation and they start razzing Priecia before running off to enjoy the day.

Lots of shots around town, including Kagura winning a billion carnival games with her bow. Hyaweh and Priecia come across a mysterious tent. They both enter at the same time and refuse to leave. Inside is a crystal ball. They tussle over it in the small space while Fel’s ears pick up the sounds of the… ‘struggle’ and interpret it of course as you’d expect.

Priecia tries to extract herself, but trips on Hyaweh, sending both tumbling out of the tent with Hyaweh on top of her and his hands of course on her chest. Everbody flips out, including Priecia heabutting Hyaweh.

Kagura unleashes a swarm of arrows at them in rage, but Hyaweh grabs Priecia and the two run off. Fel loses herself in thinking about the tragic love, but the rest give chase.

Priecia and Hyaweh, still hand in hand, find themselves in a strange alleywall. They find a familiar voice pitching his… let’s just say that he uses the term “big service!” in front of a shady tent. Without looking at who is talking, the guy turns to Hyaweh and starts pitching all the beauties inside. It is of course, Acty the Pimp, who goes into shock seeing that Hyaweh and Priecia are his ‘customers.’

Thankfully, the ‘president’ shows up… Kisarov.

He asks Priecia if she’s on a date, and she finally notices that she’s still holding Hyaweh’s hand. She angrily denies it and Hyaweh turns the pressure back onto Kisarov, asking why he’s here. All four of them start arguing, ending with Priecia storming off with Hyaweh in tow. Acty and Kisarov are just happy to be able to continue their… business.

Priecia and Hyaweh continue through town, looking for the others. They find an ice cream vendor with a huge crowd around it. Hyaweh grabs Priecia hand and runs over to it. She complains how embarrassed she is. The vendor serves the mysterious ice cream to them.

Hyaweh eats his ice cream happily as they look out over the town. Priecia also eats and is surprised by how good it is. She’s a messy eater though, and gets some on her face. Hyaweh, ever the slick man about the world, doesn’t point it out, but instead proceeds to lick it off her face.

Yes.

He just licked her face.

Priecia turns bright red as you’d expect and he says that the ice cream really is delicious.

The rest of the girls are eating their own ice cream (Kagura’s is some kind of monstrosity) while Filia fumes about her brother getting away. Fel just thinks about the… things… they could be doing.

Hyaweh and Priecia finish their ice cream and she makes a little small talk about protecting people, feelings, how beautiful Windland is, etc etc. Priecia especially wants to protect the future of Windland and that’s why she’s trying so hard.

She even points out the beautiful blue sea that she’s never been able to really see. Hyaweh offers to take her there some day.

Priecia blushes and asks if that’s a date he’s asking her on. He sort of stammers and says that that he guesses so. They lay down on the grass and Priecia tells him that it’s rare that she gets to just have fun. She gets up and spins around. Hyaweh notices the clock around her neck and asks about it.

She takes it out and tells him that it’s her most important thing, even more than her life. She tells him that it was from her parents who fought together. She holds it close and Hyaweh puts his hands on her’s. He tells her that Priecia is even more important than it.

Priecia pulls away from him, but apologizes and turns back to him with a smile.

Before they can make up/out though, the ninja appear around them. The leader appears before Priecia. She goes for her sword, but she left it behind. The ninja attack Hyaweh, who easily fights them off, but without her sword, Priecia is helpless and immediately captured.

The head ninja throws a knife at Hyaweh. He blocks it with his arm, but it was poisoned and he immediately falls, paralyzed. The ninja disappears with Priecia as Hyaweh passes out.

He wakes up to Filia shaking him. All the girls have found him. He tells them what happened to Priecia. Hyaweh sends Filia to inform Kisarov. Kagura tells them that she has a way to track Priecia and pulls out a charm. She casts a spell and creates a shikigami to lead them to Priecia.

The ninja and Priecia run through the words. The sister shikigami glows on Priecia’s back.

Fel arrives back at the school (and on top of the fan club) to alert Karin. Filia likewise arrives at the burlesque room to find Kisarov chasing girls around. He hugs her in confusion (he’s blindfolded) and gets slammed against a wall.

Hyaweh catches up to Priecia and the Ninja. The two start fighting with Hyaweh summoning down a huge ball of energy. Bridget sees the energy from a distance.

The energy forms itself into Hyaweh’s sword, finally, and the Ninja puts up an energy barrier around the two. Kagura and Bridget arrive to untie Priecia.

Inside, the barrier around the ninja and Hyaweh breaks as the ninja attacks. There’s something strange about Hyaweh’s sword that the ninja doesn’t understand. Before he can attack, Karin shoots an energy blast at him as she jumps from Fel’s staff.

He beats a hasty retreat and Bridget attempts to give chase. Hyaweh runs over to Priecia, who yells at him for being an idiot and trying to save her on his own. She tries to say that she doesn’t need anybody to save her. She stumbles and Hyaweh supports her. She relents and thanks Hyaweh. She thanks Fel and Kagura too. Filia finally comes running up with Kisarov. He confirms that everything’s hunky dory.

Bridget keeps chasing after the ninja, but she thinks that she recognized him. She senses them up ahead and finds the ninja meeting with the Darkness Knight. The Knight has no patience for failure and kills him. Bridget wonders what all this means. She thought both were on the same side. The Darkness Knight senses her and she quickly escapes.

On the carriage ride home everybody but Priecia and Hyaweh are sleeping. Priecia tells Hyaweh that she’s looking forward to the date at the ocean, but worries about a swimsuit. Hyaweh tells her that everybody can go together. Priecia gets mad at how nice Hyaweh is and how he keeps going on about everybody together, not just her and him.

In her anger, she slaps him, but he still doesn’t understand it at all and she tells him to shut up over and over again as tears pour down her face.