Episode 2

**The Girl and the Blue Cat** is the 2nd episode of the *Edens Zero* anime.

Rebecca takes Shiki to the planet Blue Garden to get him registered as an official adventurer. Along the way, Happy is kidnapped by a gang of thieves, but with help from Shiki, Rebecca gets him back and reveals a shocking secret: Happy is actually an android! With the gang dispatched, the trio arrives at the Shooting Starlight guild to begin their journeys together.

## Summary

On the *Aqua Wing*, Rebecca introduces Shiki to B-Cube, a video sharing website where people use little cubes to post videos as B-Cubers. The people who get a lot of views earn money off of them, which Rebecca and Happy plan to do with their Aoneko Channel. The Cubes also censor out anything private, like Rebecca's underwear, as Shiki watches her turn it off. Rebecca then tells them they are headed to Blue Garden. There, she plans to register Shiki as an "Adventurer" so he can go to many different stars. As Shiki gets pumped with excitement, Rebecca asks him to be her and Happy's bodyguard for a while, which he accepts as they arrive.

The trio arrives at the Adventurer's Guild, Shooting Starlight, with Rebecca saying their adventure is about to begin as Shiki gets excited.
Shiki, Rebecca and Happy head inside the building for Shooting Starlight. Shiki wants to touch all the people there but is held back by Rebecca. As Rebecca explains to Shiki, Shiki starts bothering this muscular guy and asking him to be friends. As Rebecca drags him away again, Shiki notices a hologram of a giant woman, which she explains is supposed to be "Mother" and is said to be bigger than any known star. Long ago, an adventurer traveled beyond the Sakura Cosmos and found Mother by chance. After that, adventurers started worshiping her as a goddess of space, with Shooting Starlight even adorning the guild with her image.

Shiki then says that he thinks he has met her before, causing the guild to go silent for a moment, and then laugh at him. Shiki ignores it and asks if they want to be friends, causing them to laugh even more. Rebecca watches with embarrassment and drags him out of the building. Outside, Rebecca warns him that most people don't care about each other. When Shiki asks why she's wearing glasses, she says because she's a famous B-Cuber, even though Happy says they don't have many views.

At that moment, A thug places Happy in a glass jar, saying that he's from the Star Exxid and can get a small fortune selling him as he bolts away on his motorbike. Enraged, Shiki gives chase using his Ether Gear. Meanwhile, Rebecca remembers when she first met Happy, alone and abandoned like her. As Shiki chases the kidnapper through a crowd and seeing so many people, he yells that the thug is a bad guy, using Satan Gravity to throw him onto the ground.

The thug gets back up and starts firing a gun into the air to scare off onlookers, as Shiki tells him to give Happy back, which the thug finds weird. Happy then says Rebecca gave it to him because he made her happy by being her friend. The thug's boss shows up wondering about the commotion, and the thug says he caught Happy and that they can sell him as Rebecca returns. The gang recognizes her from B-Cube and mistakes her catchphrase, to her dismay. Rebecca enraged that they would kidnap Happy, tells them she will never forgive them if they hurt him, remembering how they spent her childhood together since they had no one else, promising to be together forever.

Shiki brings out his Ether Gear and makes short work of the thugs, while their boss whips out a minigun and starts shooting at Shiki and Rebecca, causing Happy's jar to break.

In another flashback, it is revealed that Happy was run over by a truck in front of Rebecca, who tearfully begged someone to save him. In the present, Rebecca tells Happy she will never let him go again. Happy then suddenly transforms into a robot and then a pair of pistols, the Happy Blaster Form, that Rebecca wields, vowing to make the gang pay.

Rebecca then uses Happy Blaster form to deal headshots to the gang members, but as the Boss aims, Shiki grabs her and floats them into the air, saying it will help her aim. Rebecca then finishes the Boss with Happy, saying that since the Happy Blaster uses Ether Bullets, they won't die. Shiki then nervously wonders if Rebecca even needs a bodyguard.

Afterward, Shiki exclaims he had no idea Happy was a machine, with Rebecca explaining that after getting hit by the truck, he was rebuilt into a robotic form. Shiki then remembers how she had said that being friends goes beyond being human or machine, making him smile. At that moment, the trio went back to the Shooting Starlight Guild.

In another part of space, a pirate tells his boss that someone on Blue Garden had seen the Demon King's Grandson leave Granbell. Their boss, the Armored Space Pirate Elsie Crimson, then says the time has come and orders her crew to set a course for Blue Garden.

## Characters in Order of Appearance

1. Rebecca Bluegarden
2. Shiki Granbell
3. Happy
4. Michael *(Flashback)*
5. Mithra *(Flashback)*
6. Annie *(Flashback)*
7. Castellan *(Flashback)*
8. Mother *(Hologram)*
9. Ziggy *(Flashback)*
10. Neepa *(Debut)*
11. Weisz Steiner (X492) *(Flashback)*
12. Behrman *(Debut)*
13. Elsie Crimson *(Debut)*

## Appearances

	+ Granbell *(Hologram)*
	+ Blue Garden *(Debut)*
		- Shooting Starlight *(Debut)*

**Powers and Abilities*** Ether Gear
	+ Satan Gravity
* Happy Blasters *(Debut)*

**Techniques*** Magimech Attack: Gravity Center *(Debut)*

**Items*** Aqua Wing
* B-Cube
* Skull Fairy *(Debut)*

**Battles and Events*** Shiki Granbell, Rebecca Bluegarden & Happy vs. Gang Thugs *(Started & Concluded)*

## Manga & Anime Differences

* The scene of Rebecca and Shiki entering the Shooting Starlight building is brought earlier than in the manga, omiting scenes with Clarisse Layer and Labilia Christy.