Episode 4

**004 Marlow** is the fourth episode of *Gwain Saga*.

## Plot

The episode opens with Marlow kicking open Mizu's stall, interrogating him about Geo. When Mizu tells her that he knows nothing, she storms out annoyed, with three boys using the urinals looking at her weirdly.

The opening then plays, the same as usual but with a slightly higher pitch. This can be seen in Episode 5 too, but the reason is currently unknown.

A short summary of the events that have gone by is shown, implying a short time skip. After that's done, the screen fades to Marlow once again, exclaiming to the principal that Geo does not belong. The principal quickly shrugs her off, making her more tense and annoyed. She storms out of the office, when suddenly, she bumps into Geo. She was confused at first, but as soon as the green-haired girl realized whom she was looking at, she dashed back to where the principal was, knocked aggressively on the door trying to inform that he was here. Just when the principal let her in, a moving crew along with Mizu cover Geo, making her look delusional.

She shortly walks away, giving up, and it cuts to Gwain asking B-Top if it was possible to recruit anyone to train Geo. B-Top tells her that she can't, so she has to resort to training him herself. In the watchtower, Ami and Deva ordered a moving crew to mae Geo's new home have better quality of life. It is all placed under Queen Gwain's tab afterwards. Agni is shown to struggle lifting Geo's backpack, due to it being from the Human world. While Agni and Deva were talking, Ami notices a figure, making her suspicious. The crew go to a shopping district to spice up Geo's looks, with Marlow stalking them on the way. When their hair were cut, it is shown that Geo's hair is dense too, breaking the scissors in half. Ami notices Marlow again, making her even more suspicious. Ami and co. then go watch a movie, getting ice cream shortly after. After a talk about how they weren't attacked lately, it is revealed that Luna does not have intentions to attack them all the time. Ami senses something is off, and uses a perception check for her surroundings. She sees a silhouette inside of the tree foilage, and shot it down with a stun arrow. Marlow quickly falls and lands perfectly on the ground, seemingly fine at first. However after a few steps, the Stun condition took effect.

After Marlow wakes up, Deva confronts her on why she was spying on them. She then reveals that she's not spying on them as a group, but Geo individually. Marlow reveals that she knows about Geo's secret leaving Geo and Ami in shock, and the rest in confusion and skepticism. Her Stunned condition soon wears off, and continues to pressure on them that Geo is a threat. She threatened to reveal his true identity, and pulls out her bestiary. Back in the light house, Gwain sees the bill, with Noobe cutely staring at her. Cutting back to the scene, Agni tries to put her down, but pathetically fails, getting knocked back to the wall. Marlow then provokes Geo to follow her, and he takes the bait. She takes him away from the area, both of them at relatively the same speed, dashing off to the distance. After some parkouring and dialogue later, Marlow rapidly attacks Geo, only for her to get countered once Geo gained some focus. They both fall into the cavern system below, and Marlow kicks some rocks, making them fall and serve as obstacles for Geo. One of them hit Geo, but he perseveres, making Marlow shocked. They then go back to Marlow running away, and Geo pursuing her.

Suddenly, out of the rocks, a huge Moon Tech robot ambushes them, making them temporarily stop trying to play cat and mouse and run away from the thing. The robot fires a mega laser, knocking out Geo. When all seems to be doomed, a Sand Serpent appears, saving the duo and taking down the robot. However, it seems that the serpent didn't just target the robot, as the ground below them breaks, turning their bodies into free-fall, before the Sand Serpent picks them up taking them to terra incognita. Geo tries to make it stop by punching it, with little effect. The serpent tells him to stop, but the stubborn Geo punches it again anyways. The annoyed serpent roars at the two, and Marlow blames Geo for everthing that has happened.

In a different location, it seems that the others are travelling on a train leading them to Geo and Marlow's location. Back to the duo, the serpent seems to have fired off a magical attack at them, blasting them off to the air. The serpent follows this up with a charged magical attack from it's mouth. Just before it reaches Marlow, Geo's sturdiness blocks the attack from reaching her, making him faint. The serpent gets angry and begins to charge another attack, but Queen Gwain comes in the nick of time, knocking back the serpent with tremendous force. Both of them land without a scratch, though with Geo falling from the sky with a very high velocity. Gwain asks everyone what was going on, with Ami explaining about how Marlow revealed Geo's secret. Marlow talks about her investigation on Geo's race, but before she reaches her conclusion, Gwain interrupts and says "Vampire". Gwain tries to place even more evidence that Geo is a vampire, but Marlow noted that there are contradictions. Gwain quickly convinced Marlow with her wits that Geo is in fact, still a vampire. Since Geo's identity was questioned, Gwain used a Light Piercing spell, inflicting Stunned and pinned him to the side of a rock due to the deal being broken. With Geo's vitality dropping incredibly fast, Marlow stood there in fear, as she was responsible for Geo's execution. Due to her not wanting to see him die, she jumped in front of the laser, piercing Marlow along with Geo. She excalimed that she would keep the secret, as her sense of justice was too strong for Geo to cease. Gwain's imagination struck, thinking of how if Marlow trained Geo instead of her, she'd be free of the responsibility. She immediately stopped attacking and pretended like nothing happened, being friendly towards Marlow and laughing everything off. Some time skips, and we see Marlow with the rest of the group, smiling and happy of her newfound friends.

## Trivia

* This is the first episode to;
	+ Have a (technically) different opening
	+ Have a new dialogue scheme
	+ Use a stinger that is not related to the next episode.
* The stinger at the end is a reference to Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! [*citation needed*]