Episode 1

**Episode 1** is the first episode of the Reincarnated as a Sword anime series.

## Summary

A man dies in his world of origin and reincarnates as a "Sword" in a fantasy world where he's the teacher to a young beastkin girl.

A flashback depicting how the sword died is shown and how he reacts to not only being reincarnated in an alternate world, but as a sword mounted onto a pedestal. For a brief time, a voice inside the sword's head informs him that he's in for one hell of a time and then leaves. Despite wanting more answers, the sword chalks the voice to be a hallucination and realizes that if he's in an isekai story he'd have cheat skills. Wasting no time, he pulls out his menu to see his name and learns he's an "Intelligent Weapon". Furthermore, the sword compliments his skills and abilities; he then notes his design looks like a sword you'd find toward the end of an RPG.

At that moment, a small pack of Goblins tries and draw him out of his pedestal. Provoked by the Goblins, the sword uses his **Telekinesis** skill to slay a couple of them immediately. In doing this, the sword manages to slice a crystal inside one of the Goblins allowing him to absorb its power unknowingly. Once the Goblin pack was finished off completely, the sword opened up his menu again to see the new things in his stats menu. Noticing that he's met cumulated 3/100 crystals so far and has skill slots with some new skills after he slayed the Goblins. Realizing that he can absorb skills from his defeated enemies, the sword hears a feminine voice notifying him that he has ten skill slots available and then asks if he'd like to equip any. Before doing that, the sword stabs the corpse of a Goblin and absorbs its crystal, thereby absorbing its two skills. Afterward, the sword uses his **Digging** skill to bury the Goblin pack's corpses and re-sets himself back into his sword mount. Looking forward to absorbing more crystals and gaining new skills, the sword also hopes that he'd one day get a worthy master to wield him. Elsewhere, a young black cat girl works with a group of slaves under the orders of their slave trader master and internally notes her desire to become stronger.

Returning to the sword, he uses his *Telekinesis* to fly in the air for three minutes periodically as his MP runs out within that time. Amid this, the sword encounters an Air Floater, which he tries to kill instantly, but the monster constricts him with its tentacles and drains his MP. Desiring that skill for his own, the sword slices through the Air Floater's tentacles, freeing himself and immediately slays the monster thereby absorbing its crystal. Once the sword absorbs three new skills, he notices one of them is called **Float**. This skill, combined with his **Telekinesis**, allows him to fly for five-times longer, and he uses it to slay a monster centipede. By doing this, the sword is notified that his abilities have evolved and that he's received ten Evolution Points. The sword uses five skill points to gain **Improved MP 1** and the other five for **Improved Attack 1**. Although elated that he's gained two new skills, the sword notes his forlorn over not having a user to wield him.

That evening, the sword locates a cave that acts as a Goblin nest and slays the ones outside and most of the ones inside, gaining new skills in the process. In the deepest part of the cave, the sword using **Stealth**, locates the Goblin King surrounded by Goblins. Using his **Telekinesis Catapult** attack, the sword instantly kills the Goblin King and proceeds to kill the rest of the Goblins. Once that was settled, the sword learns that his **Sword Mastery** is up to level three. Elated again that his wielder would be delighted to have such an impressive skill set. Meanwhile, the Black Cat girl, protects another slave from a beating by one of their overseers and is ordered to stand down. Because of her insubordination, she's scolded and isn't allowed any dinner that night.

The following morning, the Black Cat girl tries to retaliate against her overseer again, only to be ordered down to the ground by the overseer. Later, she and the other slaves, ride a wagon through a forest where the Black Cat girl chants that she'll get stronger and evolve. The sword back on his pedestal reflects how the further he's away from the location, the stronger types of monsters he encounters. The locations are divided into areas, the highest being five, and thus far, he's been able to handle all of the monsters in Area 4. With enough confidence, the sword challenges the Area 5 boss, a Gluttonis Slime, and defeats it by combing his **Telekinesis Catapult** and **Wind Shooter** skills he aptly calls, **Heavenly Slash**. By accomplishing this, the sword receives 30 EP and some new skills, including **Insta-Regen 1**. It's a skill that allows him to instantly regenerate himself at the cost of a ton of MP. The sword then tries out the **Pocket Dimension** which instantly stores the Gluttonous Slime's corpse.

Eventually, the sword would face off against the Eastern Boss, the Doppel Snake, and would gain its **Doppelganger** ability which unimpressed him. He'd then face off against the Area 5's Northern Boss, a Blast Turtle, and tries out his **Split Thinking** skill and uses it to improve his **Earth Magic**. By doing this, he defeats the Blast Turtle with an **Earth Wall** and **Heavenly Slash** and gains two new abilities. The next day, the sword faces off against the Western Boss of Area 5, Tyrant Saber-Tooth. By spending 15 EP, the sword upgrades its **Superior Poison Fang** to **Demonic Poison Fang** and exploits its poison weakness against it. After defeating the monster, the sword evolves again, gaining new stats. Longing to face off against new stronger monsters, the sword heads into the forest beyond Area 5. When the sword plants himself into the ground, he learns that his MP was being absorbed by it and becomes stuck there. During his month-long stay there, he cries out for someone to rescue him, not caring what race they belong to, and out of desperation, maxes out his **Cooking** and **Fire** skills. Furthermore, he levels up his **Wielder Stats Boost** to level 2. Amid this, it starts to rain, and the sword goes on a morose soliloquy about his current situation.

Meanwhile, a Twin-headed Bear attacked the wagon the Black Cat girl and the slaves rode on. It sequentially destroys the wagon and kills some of the slaves as well as an overseer. This grants the Black Cat girl's freedom, and while wielding a stick, attacks the monster, but is blown away by its awesome power. Desiring more power, the sword calls out to the Black Cat, who finds him and uses him to defeat the Twin-headed Bear. After this, the Slave Trader tries to get the Black Cat to relinquish the sword, but he angrily kills the trader for his abuse and burns the contract that was connected to the Black Cat's collar, causing it to fall off, setting her free. The Black Cat then agrees to become the sword's wielder to evolve, as no Black Cat has ever managed to evolve. Moved by the Black Cat's story, the sword agrees to train and help her achieve her goal. The Black Cat girl then introduces herself as Fran, and because the sword doesn't have a name, Fran calls him Teacher. Mainly due to his promise to make her stronger.

In the present, Fran sleeps next to Teacher as they ride on a wagon to a city surrounded by a stone wall, where a horde of Goblins plan to invade it.

## Characters

* Teacher
* Fran