Episode 4

Episode 4 Title Card

**Didn't I Say This Was the Crimson Vow's First Step?!** is the 4th episode of the Didn’t I Say To Make My Abilities Average In The Next Life?! anime.

## Plot

The newly established Crimson Vow make their base of operations in a small inn located in the capital. It's the exact inn Adele first stayed at when she arrived in the capital. Because the group acted in a boisterous and audacious and disparaged the inn calling it cheap. Lenny hires them to act as servers at the inn's restaurant.

Later that day the group go the Hunters' Guild and take on their first quest, hunting "Rock Lizards". At first, this turned out to be a bad choice as the size and speed of the monsters are far beyond what they're capable of. However, thanks to the teamwork of Adele and Mavis they defeat it.

A couple of days later, they deliver the Rock Lizard corpse to the Abbotts Merchants place.The merchant tries to exploit their naivety as new hunters by giving them a lesser price than what was originally agreed upon. This is when Pauline intervenes and reveals that they actually managed to kill several. Seeing this, the merchant jubiliciously tries to embrace the rock dragon corpses but Pauline stops him. She then retorts that since they did not meet the agreed-upon standards they will take the corpses with them, leaving the merchant despondent. The Rock Lizards are then sold to the Hunters' Guild for a fair price and the merchant who tried to exploit the girl's reputation plummets.

The following day the Crimson Vow takes upon various monster hunting quests from the Hunters' Guild. The next job they take upon themselves is acting as bodyguards for an Old Man and his merchant caravan group. Along the way, the group gets covered in mud so they take a pit stop in a forest area. They all put on Adele's old clothing and Pauline gets the most attention from the merchants as her figure doesn't quite fit in Adele's outfit.

While the merchants are enamored by Pauline's outfit, bandits surround and attack the group. The Crimson Vow manages to fend off the bandits at first but things get complicated when a bandit mage uses a Rock Golem against them. To defeat the golem, Adele uses a move called, "Ultra Freeze" on it causing it to freeze and crumble. With only the Bandit Leader remaining, he planned on capturing the girls and selling them off as slaves. Hearing this Reina snaps and was going to incinerate the leader but is stopped by her friends.

## Characters

* Adele von Ascham
* Reina
* Mavis von Austien
* Pauline
* Lenny
* Nano
* Abbotts Merchant
* Old Man
* Bandits

## Cultural References

* 1:36 - The “moe moe kyun” chant and action is originally from the anime K-ON!.

* 6:53 - The two monsters or “kaijuu” depicted are parodies of Kosumorikiddo / コスモリキッド and Raibukingu / ライブキング respectively from Ultraman Tarou.

* 6:57 - The suit and arms pose is that of Ultraman.

* 9:37 - Mile’s expression and the white out colour is the “Osoroshii ko / frightening child” from Glass no Kamen / Glass Mask. 10:38 When the creature flies off it says “baado” which is the Japanese pronunciation of the English “bird”.

* 10:47 - The song Mile sings is the “Amefure / あめふり” song.

* 13:52 - Mile’s expression and statement about “konna koto mo arou ka to / I thought this might happen, so” is from the character Sanada Shirou of Uchuu Senkan Yamato / Space Battleship Yamato.

* 14:24 - Mile mentions “Zuka Joshi”, literally “Zuka Girls”, but translated as “Takarazuka”, which is a reference to Takarazuka Revue?

* 15:13 - Reina says “me ga kuroi uchi wa” which literally means “while (my) eyes are black”, but is used in the sense of “while (I) am still alive”. However, her eyes are more red than black.

* 15:47 - Mile says “saasen” which is a particularly casual way of apologising and may make it seem like she is taking things too lightly.

* 15:58 - Mile’s hair sticking up and detection ability is from the Kitarou’s “youkai antenna” of GeGeGe no Kitarou.

* 16:10 - The “Lattice Energy Barrier” in Japanese is “格子力バリア” but is pronounced “koushiryoku baria” which is a homophone for “光子力バリア / Photon Energy Barrier”, the same barrier which appears in the manga Mazinger Z.

* 17:40 - The head of the golem seems to resemble the helmet of Sven from Dota 2 which itself could be based off something else (unsure) The assembling of golem from pieces is similar to that of of the assembling of the robot from Koutetsu Jeeg / Steel Jeeg

* 17:54 - “Build up” and Mile’s pose is the exact same from Koutetsu Jeeg / Steel Jeeg which is performed right before the assembling of the robot Koutetsu Jeeg.

* 18:04 - “Amalgamate rock golem KaBoom” in Japanese is “gattai rokku gooremu gakoon” which is a parody of “Magune Robo Ga Kiin / Magne Robo Gakeen“.

* 18:10 - Mile says “babanban” which was translated as “crash, bang, boom”. “Babanban” is a part of the opening song for Koutetsu Jeeg / Steel Jeeg.

* 18:45 - The attack by the golem was the “Knuckle Bomber Sure-kill Punch / nakkuru bonbaa hissatsu panchi” also from Koutetsu Jeeg / Steel Jeeg. The attack is also apart of the lyrics in the opening song. Mile only said as far as “Knuckle”.

* 18:56 - Mile’s body positioning on the ground as if she were dead is similar to that of the character Yamucha / Yamcha’s pose when he was knocked out in Dragonball.

* 19:11 - Reina’s line was translated as “Burn them to ash!”. However, she said “hone made yakitsukusee” which literally means “burn thoroughly up to the bones”. Perhaps a bit of a joke here was that the golem doesn’t have any bones.

* 19:50 - Mile’s expression and lightly hitting herself on the side of the head was the “tehepero / テヘペロ“, a cheeky wink with a tongue sticking out.

* 20:19 - The kaijuu shown was a parody of “SADOLA / SADOLAR / sadora” from Kaettekita Urutoraman / The Return of Ultraman.

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## References

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