Episode 12

*This article is about anime epiosde. For manga chapter, see Enrollment Ceremony.*

## Chronology

**Enrollment Ceremony** (入校式, *Nyūkō Shiki*, Funimation: **Entrance Ceremony**) is the 12th episode of *Plunderer* anime.

## Plot

Jail Murdoch and the others entered inside the huge building. looking at the things around, they were confused and found out the environment here looks completely different than in the present time, even the technology seems to be far more advanced as well. Jail wonders if the black hair dude they saw earlier was really younger Licht Bach or not, as he looked nothing like his present self does. Pele Poporo also wonders how comes the technology in the past were far more advanced than in the present time, Jail responded that something must happened in 300 years ago. Jail also believed that what Nana Bassler want them to do is more than just changing Licht's past.

Jail and the others then followed the other people and went into the enrollment ceremony, they found out that the huge building is a training school. While looking at the people around, Hina Farrow got pushed and fall into the ground by a tall guy with ugly face, in which she was scared. Lyne Mei felt angered and tried to told that guy to apologize. However, the tall guy told Lyne to shut up and slapped her. Jail and Pele then went ahead to protect the girls from the guy. As Jail tries to attack the tall guy, he realized that he doesn't have his Ballot which means he can't use his metal abilities. Because of this, it caught Jail off-guard and got punched by the tall guy instead. As the tall guy wants to give Jail an another punch, he was stopped by younger Sonohara Mizuka. The tall guy's name is revealed to be Douan Taketora, he asked Mizuka if she want to be bullied so badly since she told him to stop earlier. As Mizuka was terrified, a man with a wooden sword named Sakai Tokikaze comes in and told Taketora to stop, as what he did was meaningless. Taketora then ask Tokikaze that if he want to getting hurt as well which he doesn't know what to response. Jail stands up and told Tokikaze to stay back as he believes he can handle Taketora by himself. Tokikaze disagreed and claimed that he must stands here to protect the girls and weirdos who were cosplaying as a solider, which angered Jail. Soon, Hina overheard someone's voice that claims it's not good for fighting, which she looked around and found Licht is looking at her panties. Being embarrassed, Hina stomping at Licht's face and asking him why does he always acts like a pervert.

The enrollment ceremony has begun, with a smoking man named Alan tells the newbies that they're no longer an ordinary citizen but a solider and they must follow the orders from their superiors. The pink hair woman, Firenda, told Alan to speak nicely and don't scare the newbies which he found it annoying. Then, Firenda comes in to introduces herself to the newbies and explains the history of "Nuclear War", a war that happened few years ago in attempt to steal resources from other countries. Before she could explain more about it, Alan stopped Firenda from continuing by claim that they should have leave it to the headmaster to made his speeches and everyone shall salute at the headmaster, Schmelman. As everyone salutes, Hina is confused at the name "Schmelman", as it's the same name Nana mentioned earlier back on "Abyss Demon" incident. Soon, Schmelman made his entrance on the ceremony and read the storybook about tortoise and the haze, where everyone was confused. As Schmelman reading his storybook, three newbies laughs at him for reading it as the treated them as children. Schmelman tried to told them to keep quite but they doesn't listen.

Soon, Alan pointed his gun at the girl and shoot her head. After he killed the girl, Alan tells the other two guys that this is what happened when they don't follow their superior's orders and kills them as well. The other newbies freaked out and tried to escape but the door was locked so they were trapped inside the ceremony. Alan shoots his gun at the upside and tells them to silent. He then pointed his gun at Hina and said that she deserved to die too as she's crying in the battlefield when she shouldn't. Jail and the others worried at Hina might get killed. Alan told Jail and the others don't move or he will kill Hina as well, while also says that a solider shouldn't do things based on their emotions. Jail agreed that a solider indeed should act professionally and don't rely on their personal feeling, although he said that acting professionally doesn't mean he can left troubled people unhelp as well and went to save Hina. As Alan is about to kill her, he was stopped by Tokikaze. After Tokikaze saved Hina, he asks Alan about how can he randomly kill any person whatever he likes, Alan stated that's how soldiers used to be and kicked him. Alan then pointed his gun at the man and stated that he will kill him as well for disobey his will. Soon, Licht claimed that the headmaster has been taken as a hostage so Alan shouldn't kill Hina and Tokikaze.

Alan told Licht to stop as they aren't playing games, although Licht denied and claimed that he was serious. Schmelman asked Licht that if he seriously think he could kill him with a tree stick. Rihito then showed his magic for him. After a while, Licht was surprised that nobody laughs at him and his magic. Schmelman then teaches him how to snap his neck and tells Licht to kill him, or else Alan would kill both Hina and Tokikaze. Licht states he won't kill him because violence isn't good. After hearing his words, Hina and the others realized that he is indeed Licht from the present time. Schmelman then states he would have no choice but kill everyone in the ceremony. Everyone except Rihito was scared at Schmelman due to his killing intent, while Tokikaze told Rihito to run away before Schmelman kill him. Before Schmelman could do so, he's stopped by Firenda, a female instructor, and reveals that it's all an act. The three newbies that Alan killed earlier is in fact still alive. Alan also revealed that the reason why they did that was because the newbies should not be scared at battlefield. Then, the instructors told the trainee soldiers it was time to eat lunch, although Schmelman doesn't want to end the ceremony yet, as he still hasn't finished reading the storybook,. Everybody ignored him and having lunch at the canteen, however.

During the lunch time, Jail told Tokikaze to get out, as they're eating in the same table and sit next to each other, which caused them angered and having a fight. Licht stated that both Tokikaze and Jail has become friends real fast, which they disagreed. While eating, Jail think back about what happened at the ceremony and realized that while Alan was indeed acting, the killing intent he felt from Schmelman was real and doesn't seem to be acting in the same way as Alan. At the headmaster's room, Schmelman tells Alan that there is "rare" warrior here, which refers to Licht. Alan wondered if Schmelman is actually serious about that since even Tokikaze was better than him, as Licht refused to kill his enemy and acts selfishly. Schmelman explained that the reason why he believed Licht has a potential, is because that while he's weak and a bit clumsy, he was able to react at the situation and preform his actions much earlier before everyone else begin to freak out and run away. Alan then asks Schmelman if Licht should be the one that lead the army, Schmelman stated that he's not sure about it and thought that they need to test his abilities first beforehand.

In the other side, Licht is shown to be harassing the girls and ran away from them. Lyne thought that Licht haven't change much in these 300 years, while Jail wondering if he really was Licht from the present time, as he has a different name called "Sakai Rihito" and he was shorter than nowadays, not to mention that he had a black hair instead of white. More importantly, what's this school is actually about and if the school's existence had something to do with Licht became a Baron later on. Soon, Pele reported Jail and the others about the stuffs he found at the computer room, which was a website called "Wikipedia" contains some information and videos about the "Althing". They clicked the video and found out there's something fall into the ground from the sky, which confused them. Pele tried to search more information about the Althing, but the internet was resisted and doesn't allow him to search it. Jail and the others believed that Althing must have top-secret information, thus explain why the page was blocked. Soon, Alan comes in and explains that Althing is a "god", which confused them. He said that one day, a "god" was fallen from the sky to Japan, which would later known as the "Althing", The "Althing" has a ability to create new rules to the world, which the United Nations used the Ballots to stopped the "Nuclear War" and the usage of nuclear weapons. However, Alan said that the world is still far from being safe, which confused Hina. After the explanation, Alan told them that the class is about to start so they should return to their classroom and leave.

After Alan left, Jail and the others begins to question about the origin of Althing. Pele speculating that if Althing really wasn't created by Althea but a certain entity fallen from the sky as Alan said, there's a possible that the counts and how people always send into the Abyss when their count reaches zero was, in fact, set by the humanity with the uses of the Althing. Jail and the others begin to suspect that this school may had some relation with how Althea was created and this school may will also answer all of their questions later on.

## Differences in Adaptation

* In the anime, Jail and the others questioned if Rihito is really the past Licht or not. This doesn't happen in the manga, as Rihito only appeared after the riot started and they don't have time for speculation.
* In the anime, Tokikaze and Rihito went inside the school together. In the manga, Tokikaze went into the school by himself.
* Taketora and few of Class A students appeared in the anime much earlier than in the manga.
* The anime added extra scenes where Taketora tries to punch Jail and the girls: Taketora had clash with Tokikaze and Mizuka, Rihito flipping the girl's skirt, and Gespenst tried to find more information by searching Althing in the Wikipedia.
* Firenda introduced herself much earlier than in the manga.
* Rihito's "first" meeting with Hina is almost similar to their meeting from the Chapter 1.
* The Nuclear War was explained much earlier than the manga. In the manga, the war was explained when Jail and the others found the information about what happened in the past 300 years ago in computer room. In the anime, Firenda explained the war during the ceremony.
* In the anime, when Alexandrov said Schmelman's name, Hina is surprised at that name. In the manga, it was Jail who is surprised instead.
* In the anime, when Alexandrov is about to kill Hina, Jail stated that a soldier won't allow to let his friend die. Jail never said this in the manga.
* In the anime, after Rihito showed his magic, he is surprised that nobody laughed at him. In the manga, Rihito were scared after he showed his magic, as he doesn't know what to do against Schmelman.
* In the anime, as Jail and Tokikaze arguing each other, Rihito said that both of them has become friends so quickly. In the manga, it was Alexandrov said it instead.
* In the manga, Schmelman and Alexandrov's conversation about the rare warrior were take place in the ceremony. In the anime, the conversation were take place on Schmelman's room instead.
* Many scenes from the manga that's supposed to be shown were skipped in the anime, these include:
	+ Jail and the others confused at how different the building and ground compared to 300 years later.
	+ Jail's fight against Tokikaze outside the school.
	+ Jail and the others confused at why everyone in the ceremony were happy at the lunch time.
	+ Schmelman asked Firenda and Alexandrov about he still wanted to continue reading his storybook.
	+ Gespenst asked Alexandrov about the computer room.
	+ Jail's attempt of using the computer.
	+ Alexandrov's mistakenly thought Schmelman was talking about Tokikaze.
	+ Most of Schmelman's explanation about how Rihito acts much earlier than Tokikaze.
	+ Alexandrov asked Schmelman about how to treat the newbies soldiers.

## Characters

By order of appearance:

* Jail Murdoch
* Hina Farrow
* Lyne Mei
* Gespenst Zerlegen
* Nana Bassler (flashback)
* Licht Bach
* Sonohara Mizuka
* Alexandrov Grigorovich

### New Characters

* Sakai Tokikaze
* Douan Taketora
* Ichinose Saki
* Akui Genji
* Suda Kyouhei
* Firenda
* Schmelman Bach
* Narimiya Kyouka
* Sumitani Asumi

## Trivia

* Some of the Nuclear War's images showed at ceremony is a references to the Korean War and Vietnam War respectively, with one of the images loosely based on the famous "Napalm girl" photo from the Vietnam War.
* Taketora's school uniform is same as the one he wore in he and Mizuka's flashback from Chapter 52.
* In the Blu-Ray version of the episode, the scene where Rihito flipped the girl's skirts was edited, which makes the panties a bit more revealing.