Episode 1

### Animation Direction

Saori Hosoda, Youko Iizuka, Youko Komaki, Chiho Mifune, Miyako Nishida, Katsura Satou, Seigasha, Hiroko Shigekuni, Studio Massket, Ayana Togashi, Yoshihiro Ujiie

## Episode Guide

**The Day the Reaper Was Born** (死神が生まれた日, *Shinigami ga Umareta ni Hi*?) is the first episode of the Ragna Crimson anime adaptation.

## Synopsis

Death and fire haunt Ragna's dreams and, deep within his heart, he somehow knows they're omens. If he doesn't grow stronger, and soon, all that awaits him is lifelong regret.

## Summary

An older Ragna fights some dragons. He kills them, but is not satisfied with his power and wishes to get stronger. Ragna then comes to his sense while he is in the middle of a fight with a small dragon. He get knocked down, but Leonica saves him. Ragna thanks her, however she complains that he needs to pat her head when he thanks her.

Dragons are ancient creatures with magical bloodline. They are natural enemies and predators of humankind. You can kill a dragon in two ways, by freezing their blood using silverine, an aura that emits from silver weapons or incinerating their bodies by sunlight.

After killing the dragon, Ragna and Leonica finish their quest and head back to Ronabera city in Kingdom of Lese. As Leonica is a prodigy and had killed many dragons, people easily recognize her due to the scar on her face. The two head to the Guildhall, where the dragon hunters take their quests. Leonica is only twelve, however she is quite strong and Ragna feels she will get even stronger in the future. After taking their prize, the two head to eat. While there one man mocks Ragna for living off Leonica's scraps, however Ragna and Leonica wonder who he is. That annoys the man, who reintroduces himself as Sykes Charluke, who is the second strongest dragon hunter in the city after Leonica. Sykes then continues to mock Ragna, stating that he is only a baggage to Leonica and is only slowing her down. Leonica gets angry and pulls out her sword. She questions him about what he seeks with his sword. Leonica then explains that she wants ultimate strength and become the most powerful one, which is why she is hunting dragons as they are the strongest living creatures. She intends to hunt even the Dragon God to prove that she is the strongest. She then turns around and asks everyone if someone will join her in her quest. Everyone remain silent except Ragna, who states that he will come with her for as long as he can. That makes Leonica happy, stating that this is why she likes Ragna. Feeling sleepy, Leonica then tells Ragna that they should go. Ragna tells her that she needs to take bath first and brush her teeth, but Leonica complains about it and tells Ragna to do it while she sleeps.

After Leonica falls asleep, Ragna goes out to train. He knows he has no talent and will likely be eaten by a dragon, but wishes to be of some use to Leonica. His future self then appears behind him, stating that he won't be of use to her and that he will lose her. Ragna doesn't recognize himself, but his future self then shows him the future and how Leonica dies. Ragna comes to his sense and wonders if this was just a dream, but hear his future self stating that is nigh. Later, Ragna buys some meat and cooks for Leonica.

Age of the Sun, Year 498, February 23rd, Ragna and Leonica head to the Guildhall to take a new quest, however as there has been fewer dragons lately, there are no new quests. Ragna then tells Leonica that her hair is getting long and he needs to cut it. They head back how, where Ragna cuts her hair, however while doing so, he has the dream of losing Leonica. At night, Ragna wakes up after having that dream again.

On February 26th, while training, Ragna recalls his future self telling him that he will lose Leonica. Meanwhile, Sykes and other dragon hunters are discussing the dragons behavior. They find it strange in the last few days and seem like the dragons are migrating to the east towards Donapierru. However that itself is also strange as the city have not been attacked by dragons in decades. Ragna wonders if what he sees is truly just a dream and wonders who is the man he was seeing. Leonica notices that Ragna is distracted and realizes that he has been working harder than usual, and asks him what happened. Ragna asks Leonica of how he can help her in a meaningful way. Leonica then explains that when she first saw him, she felt he have the same potential as hers. While he doesn't have a talent for dragon hunting, her instincts to tell her that he will become strong. She doesn't know when that will happen or what will trigger it, however she will protect him until it happens.

Ragna recalls his past. When he was three years old, his parents were eaten by a dragon. Relatives took him in, but eventually they were eaten too. A wealthy man then brought him, but dragons burned down his estate. Sykes was working for that man and blames Ragna, stating that he brought the dragons there since he keeps on getting attacked by them and somehow attracts them. Leonica then beats Sykes and asks Ragna if he wants to hunt dragons with her. She finds his special link to dragons to be of use for a dragon hunter, especially if he keeps on remaining alive. She tells him that all this isn't his fault and that weak people die, while strong lives. Since she is strong, she won't be dying. After seeing her strength, Ragna feels that there is no way that she will die before him.

On February 27th, the dragon hunters learn that Donapierru has fallen. Leonica is surprised by the news, since the city was known for not needing dragon hunters. She asks Sykes to tell her what happened, however he only have heard that a horde of dragons attacked after the sun went down and they have not heard from the city anymore. The kingdom has issues an emergency quest to slaughter the dragon horde that attacked Donapierru. Sykes then leaves preparing to head towards the horde. Ragna becomes pale and tells Leonica that they should run. However before he can finish, they hear some noise and see that that city is burning. Seeing the flames, Ragna recalls his dream and tells Leonica that they should run otherwise she will die, however she assures him that she won't die and heads out.

The dragons make their way through the city. Among them a man covered in blood shows up. Two men approach him wondering if he is okay, however the man turns the blood into blades and kills them. He then greets the other humans, telling them that they will perish. Ragna sees the man and seeing his whip blades, he recognizes them as the ones that killed Leonica in his dream. Sykes sees the man and realizes that he is a superior dragon and wonders why is he even here. Ragna decides to attack the superior dragon, because if he kills him, Leonica will be fine. However as he strikes him, his blade shatters. The dragon then blasts Ragna into the river. Leonica tells Sykes to go and save Ragna. She then comes to face the superior dragon, angry that he hurt Ragna.

As Ragna sinks into the river. He sees how he loses Leonica and swears that he will kill every last dragon. He starts training to become stronger. He gains new companions but eventually loses them in battle. He keeps on fighting, trying to go beyond his limit. He even feels that he is looking for a way to die, however he keeps on surviving. Eventually he faces his past self and reveals that he is his future self. He tells his past self that he is disgusted, since he idolized a little girl as a hero and leeched off her. If she is truly the most important thing for him, he must become the strongest. Future Ragna is now stronger than anyone and can protect anything he had lost, however there is nothing left for him to protect and wonders what is the point in being strong now. His past self then tells his future self to give his power to him, as he needs that power now. Future Ragna then states he already planned to do that. He then stabs Ragna with his sword. Sykes has taken out Ragna out of the river, however Ragna is in agony. The future self warns him that there is a price to pay, but he past self doesn't care. The future self then merges the future and the past and purges all of his power into past Ragna.

Meanwhile, Leonica is struggling against the superior dragon. She wonders if he is the Dragon God, however that shocks him and he is a low life dragon and can't be even compared to their mighty god. Angered by her words, he introduces himself as Grymwelte, the Tenth Seat of the Blood of the Wing, the lowest of the superior dragons. Grymwelte decides to explain why they are destroying the two cities. He explains that their God enjoyed a certain pastry shop in Donapierru and was protecting the city. However the shop was robbed and went out of business the other day. Their God was deeply saddened by this and told them to lay waste to the kingdom. Grymwelte states that they weren't even taking the humans seriously until now and just a whims of their God is deciding their fate. Grymwelte then prepares to kill Leonica, but suddenly feels something coming from behind.

Sykes sees the dragons around him dead. Ragna takes of his armor and heads ahead. Several dragons attack him, but he kills them with ease and just waving his hand. He recalls how he was almost killed so many things, but he survived over and over again. He kept fighting and was losing a lot, but eventually he kept on winning only. After ten years, he realized that his silver sword was a part of him and that he was part of his sword. His arm and silver sword become one. He was in pain but kept on fighting and after five years, he completely fused with the silver sword, making his whole body a weapon that radiates silverine. After three more years, he developed a technique that increased his body's silverine. After four more years, he learned on how to control silverine at will. And after ten more years, he surpassed the limits of human ability and mastered the ultimate battle technique, the pinnacle of dragon annihilation, Silverine Battle Arts.

Ragna then approaches Grymwelte and just his presence start to freeze him. The sensation Grymwelte feels from Ragna is the same he gets when he faces the dragon monarchs, those chosen by their God to be leaders of the bloodline. He refuses to believe that he fears a human. Grymwelte then transforms into his true form to face Ragna with all his might, noting that only in this form, his ultimate power is unleashed. However before he can finish, Ragna freezes and shatters him.

As the battle is over, Ragna sees Leonica. He hugs her and cries as his future self longed to see her again for so long. Leonica tells him that she is alive and is sure that he worked really hard. Ragna states that that isn't true as he isn't the one that worked hard, however that one is no longer here. However Ragna now knows his future self life story and how much he missed Leonica.

Elsewhere, a man faces future Ragna and sees that he died standing still. He states that he warned him that there is a price to pay. He also adds that his past self won't live long either. However even though the two of them have been together for so long, this is the first time he sees his face without a frown. The man then adds that the hopes of creating a world without dragons is now entirely dependant on their past selves.

On this day, seven cities were attacked by the superior dragons. Six of them fell, including the capital. However, on the same day, the reaper of dragonkind was born.

Ragna and Leonica rent a room at Sykes estate, since the inn they have stayed had burnt down. Sykes wonders what they intend to do and Ragna explains that its best to leave the country, since the Dragon God had commanded that the cities get destroyed. However if they leave the country, the dragons won't follow them. Sykes can't believe that this is Ragna, since he is acting quite differently than what he knowns. He demands that Ragna tells him who he is, however Ragna falls asleep. Leonica is sure that Ragna's power is a result of his hard training everyday. Ragna calls her name in his sleep. She assures him that she is still there, but wonders if he still needs her. Suddenly Leonica and Sykes feels some tremors. As they come out, they see that the forest is moving towards the city.

## Characters

* Future Ragna
* Ragna
* Leonica
* Sykes Charluke
* Grymwelte
* Crimson
* Woltekamui
* Disaster Thrower
* Dornea
* Taratectora
* Olto Zora
* Ultimatia