Episode 3

**Adventurers** is the 3rd episode of the *Edens Zero* anime.

Shiki joins the Shooting Starlight guild, but it proves to be a far less welcoming place than he imagined. To help make a name for himself, Rebecca, and Happy, he proposes that they embark on a quest to find Mother, the Goddess of the Cosmos. The three excitedly head off to obtain a better ship from Rebecca's good friend Professor Weisz on the planet Norma, unaware that the planet is already dead.

## Summary

In the Shooting Starlight a spider lands on Shiki, terrifying him. Rebecca wonders if an adventurer can work like this, making Shiki worried, but Happy informs him that he just needs to register to be an adventurer. They are greeted by Clarisse, the receptionist of the guild. Happy and Rebecca hug Clarrise, who starts crying, glad that the two are safe. Rebecca introduces Shiki to Clarrise and asks her if she can register him as an adventurer despite the lack of the usually required identification papers. The guild mocks the return of Shiki, the guy who met Mother, and laughs at him. Suddenly a girl named Labilia Christy, appears and calls Rebecca a "ground-level" B-Cuber with a trashy cat while charging an eager fan for an "autograph", consisting of a cartoonish stool. She then tells Rebecca that she should just retire after how her recent videos aren't very good. Rebecca introduces her to Shiki as being a famous B-cuber, though Labilia corrects her that she is a *super* famous B-Cuber and that there isn't anyone in the Sakura Cosmos who doesn't know her name. Though Shiki says he's never heard of her, making Labilia tells Rebecca to keep posting boring videos to make hers' look better, causing the blonde to tear up. As Labilia is leaving, Shiki then grabs her wrist and uses his Ether Gear to make her float, much to the guild members' shock. Her fans, however, comment that she is beautiful and acrobatic even when floating upside down. Rebecca drags Shiki away and leaves Labilia on the ground. Though the blue-haired B-Cuber is fascinated by him and declares how he can make great content.

At a restaurant served by a staff of Nikora, Shiki, Rebecca, and Happy are eating there. Shiki states that he imagined a guild to be more like a big family, while Rebecca says that it's more of a place for people to get work. At that moment, Shiki's online registration finishes and Rebecca hands him his new Adventure License. Because he doesn't know his last name, Rebecca had him registered as "Shiki Granbell". Once he notices the "Class E" rank on his card, Rebecca and Happy tell him that it's the lowest adventurer rank, which they are also a part of. They overhear people watching Labilia's newest video, causing Rebecca to begrudgingly admit that her videos are good. Shiki then says he knows how they will make Rebecca's videos better than Labilia's. He declares that they'll go and meet Mother, being the first ones to do so while figuring out while she seems familiar to Shiki. However, since Mother lives outside of the Sakura Cosmos, they will need a better ship and more party members to help them. Rebecca decides that they should ask Professor Weisz, the man who fixed Happy, for his help. Back at the guild, Elsie Crimson and her crew arrive looking for Shiki, with one guild member saying that he was headed to the Planet Norma. One of her crewmembers reminds her, and Elsie shows she already knows, that that planet is already dead.

Meanwhile, on the Aqua Wing, Rebecca tells Shiki that he can stay in the guest room, as she refuses to share her room with him. Happy answers Shiki's question, in that the ship is flying itself because it is on autopilot. Intrigued, Shiki asks if he can pilot the ship. Rebecca and Happy agree, thinking that they could get a lot of views from him flying for the first time. They record Shiki piloting the ship, when they are close to Norma, Shiki says that he wants to land the ship. The two decide to let him and instruct him how to land, but he presses the switches all at once. They rapidly enter the atmosphere and dodge the pillars of earth falling from the sky until they crash into one of the crystals and making their ship land face first. Rebecca is furious yet happy that she got footage of it, while Happy wonders about what to do with the ship. Shiki lifts it by using his Ether Gear to make it lighter and sets it back down. At that moment, an alarm goes off warning the three that there it is about to rain earth ether crystals, much to Shiki's shock. Happy explains that Ether is the source of all "power" present in everything in the universe; wherein unscientific terms, it can be called magic. In Shiki's case, his Ether Gear can rearrange the flow of Ether in his body like hoe a machine would.

Shiki proceeds to ask how people live on a planet like this, to which Rebecca answers that they built underground cities to live. Shiki is amazed at all the people and animals present and asks if there are no bugs. As they arrive at Professor Weisz's House, Rebecca and Happy call out to him, while Shiki picks up a set of goggles and discovers that they give him X-ray vision. Rebecca tells him to stop messing with the Professor's stuff, but just as she tries to take the goggles off, a man with a gun appears telling them not to move. The man asks them why they are in someone else's house, and Rebecca and Happy nervously explain that they are looking for Professor Weisz Steiner, the man who fixed up Happy. The man says that he is Weisz Steiner before asking them who they are, much to everyone's shock.

20,000 years into the future, a pair of explorers find two human corpses, a man and a woman. They then pick a B-Cube necklace and find the words "Edens Zero" written on the back.

## Characters in Order of Appearance

1. Shiki Granbell
2. Rebecca Bluegarden
3. Happy
4. Clarisse Layer *(Debut)*
5. Labilia Christy *(Debut)*
6. Elsie Crimson
7. Behrman
8. Jesse *(Debut)*
9. Weisz Steiner (X442) *(Debut)*

## Appearances

	+ Blue Garden
		- Shooting Starlight
		- Diner Fairy's *(Debut)*
	+ Norma *(Debut)*
		- Gate 66 *(Debut)*
		- Weisz's House *(Debut)*

**Powers and Abilities*** Ether Gear
	+ Satan Gravity

**Items*** B-Cube
* Aqua Wing
* X-Ray Goggles *(Debut)*

**Creatures*** Nikora *(Debut)*

## Manga & Anime Differences

* Rebecca and Shiki entering the Shooting Starlight building segment is slightly different from the manga.