Episode 4

**How to Defeat an Evil Leader** (悪の幹部の倒し方, *Aku no Kanbu no Taoshikata*?) is the fourth episode of the *Combatants Will Be Dispatched!* anime.

## **Summary**

The success of Six in subdue the "Duster Tower" was highly evaluated, and they were assigned to fight againt one of the Demon Lord's Four Heavenly Kings as a special mission. Snow is overjoyed that it's a career opportunity, but Six and Alice see it as a kingdom staff demonstration that they don't like the newcomers...

## **Plot**

Six and Snow are called by the general to praise then for recover a treasure in Duster Tower that is helping the Chosen One get until the Demon Lord, and asks them to take down one of the Demon Army elite four: Heine of the Flame. Snow wants to accept for the rewards while Six is reluctant since it was the army strategist's idea. In the battlefield, Alice comes to the conclusion that it's a suicide mission and the strategist is trying to get rid of them, and it would be better fake they fight against Heine, while Snow and Rose accidentally tumble Grimm. While Six tells his unit they don't have to fight and he doesn't like the strategist that gave them this mission for (hypocrite, as everyone point) reasons, Heine's army shows up, followed by a Golem.

As the armies fight each others, Snow fight the Heine alongside her new sword, Rose goes after the griffon and Alice tries to wake up Grimm, six is forced to fight the Golem by himself. While Alice asks for explosives, Six tries to damage the Golem without success, being easily subdued by it. As the explosive are taking time, Six decides to release his limits, under Alice's protests that he'll be unable to move for 3 minutes, but he do it anyway, throwing the Golem away while Alice explodes it, which awakes Grimm.

Six asks Rose and Grimm to protect him, and while they demand food and alcohol as payment, Heine shows up after destroys Snow's new sword. While Six tries to buy time with a lewd question, being protected by Rose, and Snow comes back crying for her lost sword, Heina tries to finish Six in one strike since he can't move, just to be paralyzed by Grimm. Able to move again, Six goes finish Heine, but is tempted by her with the promise of a monster harem, but she's attacked by Snow, who took down her magacite, a jewel that amplifies her powers. In order of take it back, Heine accept poses for Six's obscene photos, satisfying Snow's thirst for revenge, but after learning he never promised give it back, and put the magacite on his underwear, she retreats alongside her army, crying and promising get revenge on Six.

At night, on the bar, everyone commemorates the victory, and Six teases Snow in front of everyone for acting like a tsundere, by praising him as commander but not accepting him as one. After bring back a drunken Six back to his room, Snow starts to complain to herself about Six, drawing the strategist attention, who also complains about him too and start bribes Snow with her old job as royal guard captain and with money to find proves Six is a spy, even if it isn't true. At first she accepts the money, but as Snow start regretting it, she hear Six and Alice talking about them being spies. The episode ends with a disappointed Snow opening their door and confronting them about they being spies. In the post credit scene, Astaroth, Belial and Lilith are surprised Six ended his spy mission and is already going after a hideout, and while the others speak ill of him, Astaroth tries to complement Six, but get shy at the last second and call him idiot too.

## **Characters**

*In order of appearance:*

* Combat Agent Six
* Snow
* Chosen One (Mentioned)
* Demon Lord (Mentioned)
* Strategist
* Alice Kisaragi
* Grimm Grimoire
* Rose
* Heine of the Flame
* Zenarith (Mentioned)
* Astaroth the Ice Queen (Post Credits)
* Belial the Great Flame (Post Credits)
* Lilith the Dark (Post Credits)

## **Differences**

The victory party scene in the anime leaves out the dialogue where Snow says that she's only seventeen years old.