Episode 2

**The Hellish Trial at the Adventurer's Guild** (冒険者ギルドに行ったら鬼試験官でした, *Bōkensha Girudo ni Ittara Oni Shikenkan Deshita*) is the second episode of the Reincarnated as a Sword anime series.

## Summary

Teacher gives a narration about Fran's background and her desire to evolve, even though those of the Black Cat Tribe have never been able to evolve. After finishing a pack of Goblins off, Fran uses Water magic to clean herself off and then Teacher of the Goblin blood stains. Fran then hears something and rushes to the scene despite Teacher's plea to learn what the problem is.

Skipping over to a merchant wagon surrounded by a large group of Goblins, an adventurer named Randell struggles to protect the wagon with the merchant inside it. Arriving at the scene, Fran briskly eliminates the Goblins as the lead Goblin flees. Thankful for Fran's help, Randell asks if she'd like a ride to Alessa. Teacher considers the offer a way for Fran to help him protect the wagon until they reach the destination. However, beyond that, he believes Randell to be a good guy overall and has Fran accept the offer.

En route to their destination, Randell explains to Fran the rise in monster encounters within the Greatwolf Plain. Apparently, a turf war occurred there, causing weaker monsters like Goblins to take refuge by busy roads. Hearing this makes Teacher conclude that his antics within the area caused recent trouble. Fran then asks if Randell knows about a plain sword implanted within the area; however, Randell does not, much to Teacher's dismay. Randell then asks if Fran is a G-Ranked adventurer, which perplexes her and Teacher, hence Randell explains the monster ranking system to her and those who hunt monsters, Adventurers. An explanation of Adventurers is then given by Randell, who names a couple of famous ones. Desiring to become an adventurer herself, Randell explains that Fran will have to register at the Adventurers' Guild, where she can sell her monster materials.

Elsewhere, the Goblin Leader that fled after Fran's arrival, returns to its base, where a Goblin Shaman summons various species of Goblins and, in the process, starts to mutate. Back to Fran's side, the wagon arrives in Alessa, and as Fran heads to the Adventurers' Guild, Teacher casts **Identify** on the weapons used by the Adventurers. To his astonishment, all the weapons were much stronger than he was, and becomes morose. Fran then cheers Teacher up by praising him, which lightens up his spirits, and they continue forward to the Adventurers' Guild.

At the guild, the receptionist Nell struggles to keep up the facade of a smiling receptionist while dealing with the boorish behavior of the adventurers there. Fran then approaches Nell and asks to register as an adventurer; internally, Nell believes Fran to be unfit to be an adventurer, but still allows her to take the mock fight exam. Led to an arena, where the examiner Donadrond introduces himself to Fran with a loud boisterous voice, while using his intimidation skill. Casting **Identify** on Donadrond, Teacher is shocked by how strong Donadrond is as the Ogre prepares himself for the fight ahead. At the start of the fight, Fran has trouble defending herself against Donadrond's attacks, so Teacher casts Support Buffs on her making her STR and AGL temporarily increase. With the buffs and the combination of Earth and Fire Magic, Fran finishes the fight off with a **Dragon Fang** attack. By defeating Donadrond, Fran passes the exam.

Afterward, Fran, accompanied by Donadrond, meets with the guild master Klimt in his office. Klimt tries to learn from Fran, where she learned her sword skills and spells, but following Teacher's advice, refuses to answer. Understanding, Klimt tries to use **Indentfiy** on Fran; however, it's negated due to Teacher's **Identify Protection**. Curious to know if she failed, Klimt assures Fran that she has passed as the Spirits are calm. Teacher then casts **Identify** on Klimt and learns his impressive stats and skills. Just then, Nell enters the room and informs him that everything is in order, and Klimt allows Fran to be issued her Guild Card.

In a room where stone-carved faces make up the wall, a large crystal sits upon a pedestal in the center of the room. Fran records her mana signature on the Crystal and then chooses her class as **Spellsword**. Once that is settled, Nell hands Fran her Guild Card, and back at the receptionist's desk, Fran turns in some of her monster materials to earn herself a profit of 195k gold. As Fran tries to leave, a quartet of adventurers try and extort money from Fran, but Nell intervenes and disparages the group. One of the members tries to attack Nell, but Fran saves her, and Teacher suggests they take the fight outside; however, the adventurers block the way. One of the Adventurers disparages Fran as being from the Black Cat Tribe, which triggers her and makes her slice off the adventurer's feet. She then takes out the remaining adventurers with **Ocillation**. Nell refuses to heal the leader until he pays a large fine. Once that was done with, Fran leaves the guild, but a Dwarf uses **God Sight** on Teacher to deduce that he's an Intelligence Weapon.

## Characters

* Fran
* Teacher
* Randell
* Forlund (Mentioned)
* Amanda (Mentioned)
* Nell
* Donadrond
* Klimt
* Garrus