Episode 6

**The Greater Demon Cheated** is the sixth episode of the Reincarnated as a Sword anime series.

## Summary

Supposedly stealing Fran's skills, the Greater Demon attacks Fran, only to have the left side of his mouth sliced open by her. Teacher realizes that the Greater Demon was unaware that he shared his skills with Fran. Hoping to assist the Greater Demon, the Dungeon Master summons a horde of Goblins, but they're instantly destroyed by the Demon's **Black Bomb** spell. Warning the Dungeon Master not to interfere again, or his limbs will be torn off, the Greater Demon then casts **Darkness Thunderbolt** against Fran. Within the upper parts of the dungeon, Donadrond's group tries to break down the door leading to the deeper level where Fran was.

Returning to Fran's side, Teacher suggests that they use the Feather of Return to escape; however, Fran refuses, noting the consequences if they do. Dodging the Demon's **Darkness Spears**, Teacher agrees to give Fran all the power she'll need as she deftly dodges the Demon's **Darkness Blaster** attacks. Assessing the situation, Teacher cogitates on a possible weakness as Fran now dodges **Black Bomb**s followed by another **Darkness Blaster** and **Darkness Thunderbolt**. During these attacks, Teacher notices that the Demon purposely avoids the Dungeon Master. So to test a theory, Teacher has Fran cast Fire Arrow at the Dungeon Master, causing the Demon to block the attack with his body. It's then recalled what Donadrond once said about what happens to a Dungeon once its Master is killed. Hence, Fran and Teacher duo cast multiple fire spells against the Demon, who negates the spells with a barrier. With their MP going to run out, Teacher proposes a gamble, and after the Demon casts another **Darkness Thunderbolt**, Teacher casts **Mana Sense**. It allows Teacher to deduce it takes three seconds for the Demon to regen its MP after a big spell. Hence, Teacher tells Fran to cast a Wind Spell to fling him toward the Dungeon Master. Fran does so and creates a decoy with some fire spells. However, the Demon was privy to their plans and attacked Teacher with a **Darkness Blaster**, but this act was a decoy as Teacher re-directs himself toward the Demon to stab him in his crystal. Using nearly all of his MP, Teacher defeats the Demon, only to end up in a broken state, leaving Fran devastated. At that moment, Teacher starts to regenerate thanks to the Demon's Crystal and his **MP Regen** skill.

Exploiting Fran emotionally cradling Teacher, the Dungeon Master tries to use its remaining MP to summon another powerful Demon, but Fran stops him before he does. She also slices off his hand, which had a sacrificial armband that would allow him to revive after he dies, and stores it away for herself. After this, the Dungeon Master dies, and the cave transforms into an ivory brick room. Donadrond and his party then arrive at the scene, and Donadrond praises Fran for her accomplishment, but then disciplines her for running ahead without them.

Afterward, while the dungeon subjugation party returns to Alessa, Teacher informs Fran that she's leveled up to 25 and has both new skills and impressive stats to boot. Teacher was also impressed by his own new stats and skills as well. However, when he asked how they should spend his evolution points, he was shocked to see that Fran was upset about how he was so giddy about skills; she had the brunt end of a lecture by Donadrond. To raise Fran's opinion of him again, Teacher reminds Fran that he promised to make her some curry after they accomplished the task. Hearing this makes Fran elated, and they change the subject to what skills they'll invest in, which is decided to be Sword Mastery and Arts. Once the points are allocated to max out both of the skills, Fran learns Blade Arts, Mastery, and Elemental. The remaining points they use on **Skill Taker** and max it out.

That night, Fran returns to the Adventurers' Guild, where Klimt greets and congratulates her for her recent accomplishment within the dungeon. On the other hand, Klimt asks Fran what happened to the Demon's Crystal, and Fran answers that it broke when she slew it. Although hesitant, Klimt believes Fran noting there was no disturbance from the fairies, a homely man in armor barges into the room and claims that Fran was lying.

## Characters

* Fran
* Teacher
* Donadrond
* Lily
* Crull
* Eustace
* Klimt
* Nell (Flashback)
* Randell (Flashback)
* Rufus (Flashback)
* August Allsand