I have to award Headmistress Quillyn both for her gravitas while dictating her notice to the students and staff of the College, but also style points for magically affixing a notice to every dorm and office door without leaving her desk. She’s shut Hogwarts the College off from the outside world, both physically and magically, until they can figure out who is attacking people.
Some take this news better than others, but Chise’s tight little crew are more concerned with Philomena suddenly declaring she has to leave the school. For the time being, she’s stuck there with everyone else, as is her grandmother’s familiar Alcyone. But while she’s slow to speak up for herself, Lucy is well enough to return to the dorm she and Chise share.
As golems patrol the school grounds, Chise doesn’t sleep well, and in the morning all students are summoned to the courtyard in their tracksuits. They’re soon met by our boy Fabio Zucchini Macaroni Zaccheroni, who is kept in check by his supervisor/handler, Ms. Wachmann.
Fabio summons a brace of ghoulies for the students to fight using only weapons forged from blocks of clay he hands out. They have talismans to protect them from death, but this is a test meant to test the mettle of the young sorcerers when there isn’t sufficient time to use sorcery.
Chise doesn’t forge a weapon, because she’s never used one before—which doesn’t sound right but with Elias and other powerful sorcerers by her side, I suppose she’s never needed one. And she still doesn’t, as she learns when the monster attacks her. Her body moves all on its own, picks the beast up with one hand and snaps its neck like a twig. She’s the first to defeat her monster, followed by the knife-proficient Rian.
Others have more difficulty, while Philomena deals with her monster with ease and efficiency but doesn’t react well to Isaac’s praise, and curls up into a ball of insecurity. Rian and Chise then team up when Fabio challenges them directly. This brings out a bit too much of the dragon for Wachmann’s taste, and she stops both her and Fabio with her bare hands, demonstrating why Fabio doesn’t cross her.
When everyone passes and Wachmann takes Fabio away by the ear, Philomena is not looking well, so Chise pops her onto her back and takes her to the nurse’s office. Lucy claims to have to stay close to Chise when she tags along due to the mana she’s emanating, but c’mon, she’s worried about Mena too. So am I! And I definitely don’t want her going back to that wretched mansion with that even more wretched grandmother.
Meanwhile, outside of the sealed-off College, Muriel is hard at work recruiting someone who’s good at finding things to track down the stolen grimoire that’s being used in the attacks. After the first cour of this second season contained a large amount of buildup to a larger conflict, this first episode of the second continues that trend in preparing for bigger things.
It’s a perfectly cromulent outing with some fun and touching moments, but at the end of the day buildup is buildup. Eventually the payoff will have to come, and I’m confident we’ll get one before long.
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