I haven't seen you before.
Oh don't worry about it.
Just come here.
Hey...
Do you like flowers?
Troops—
Let him have it!
Al Huma!
Troops! Follow those two fools!
They're firing the night-banisher.
Close your eyes.
Whoa...
It's just like everyone said! Incredible!
That's... the White Whale?
It's so huge.
Are you scared?
Yeah I'm scared...
of the blindingly bright future
where I'm praised for defeating it!
Now let's run like hell!
Yes.
It's so fast!
You greatly underestimate us
looking away so carelessly.
The intangible sword without regard for range.
That is Crusch-sama's sword art
famous for its Hundred-Man Strike.
Disperse!
For fourteen years
I have dreamed of nothing but this day.
Fall here and leave your corpse behind.
You are naught but a monster!
How wonderfully cooperative of you
coming here to be slain!
Oh crap!
Don't you look away from us moron!
Here we go!
Everyone now!
Troops get back!
Fire at its flank!
Algoa!
Looks like that was pretty effective!
I think we can pull this off!
No truthfully
we had hoped that attack would ground it.
It's not losing altitude at all...
We used all of our best attacks right from the get-go.
If that didn't make it fall
it's a lot tougher than we thought.
The magic attacks didn't work?
Its white hair scatters mana and disperses force.
My magic was not as effective as it appeared either.
Fire!
Time for the second campaign.
Hack away at its reserve power!
Acting as a decoy now would be a hindrance...
So all we can do is watch until it makes a move?
I feel just as irritated as you do.
I don't even have any attacks
so all I can do is watch anyway...
But with your healing specialty you're our lifeline.
Just fulfill that role for us!
We're counting on you.
You've really changed in just one day huh?
What happened?
If I had to say
I've just become a slightly better man.
Wilhelm-sama is...
Upsy-daisy!
Miserable...
What is that?
Something's odd...
What's going on?
The color of its eye...
Have you grown to like flowers?
No I hate them.
Why do you wield that sword?
Because this is all I have.
It disappeared?
We're going to move! Hang on!
Troops retreat!
Retreat!
Retreat! Re—
Whoa whoa whoa whoa!
That's what the magic fog looks like?
If that hits us...
How many men did we lose?
Twelve from my unit.
We're three short now.
Who was lost?
I don't know.
Fourteen from mine.
One deserted.
I'm missing six. I'm sorry.
No one was riding on the opposite side from me.
Who is Rem?
Rem... Who is that?
You've forgotten Rem too?
That's it...
People hit by the White Whale's fog
vanish from existence along with any memories of them.
A Fog of Elimination.
You're back?
Forgive my haste.
Damages?
A total of twenty-one lost.
It appears one whole platoon was wiped out.
It won't even be possible
to properly protect the honor of the lost.
My apologies.
Why do you wield that sword?
Because I could not think
of any other way to protect.
Now that it's in the fog
we won't know whence it will attack.
Staying close is the worst thing we could do.
Disperse immediately.
What is that?
Is that the White Whale?
Hey! What's wrong?
Hey!
Hey! Rem!
That voice is the fog which is directly attacking our minds...
Similar to mana sickness
but much worse...
Some people can resist it and some can't?
I don't feel anything...
It's all right.
It will calm down now.
Hey!
Enough... Stop it!
Felis!
Have the unaffected help them!
They say hurting people is harder on an army than killing them
but what monster does that?
Move!
I guess Felis can remove the effects of the fog's contamination.
But there isn't enough time...
If it comes for us now we're finished.
Crusch-san!
I'll buy us time.
Have everyone regroup!
What?
Rem sorry but I need you to accompany me to the most dangerous place here!
Of course. Anywhere.
Wait Natsuki Subaru!
In this fog...
Anyone who can hear me listen up!
Anyone who can't stay where you are!
I'll Return by Death to—
I'm back...
Well Rem?
Do I smell like the Witch?
Yes you reek!
That's what I wanted but did you have to say it that way?
Those who can move get the injured to the foot of the tree!
We'll have to use a bit of force.
With the ulgarm
it was effective enough to cover the whole forest.
What will it do this time?
Honestly it's an unknown quantity...
No it's working.
It's coming.
I-It's coming!
Ul Huma!
How?
Sis! Together!
Captain!
I got this!
Rem!
Looking away from me? How unfriendly.
And after I have spent the past fourteen years utterly mad for you!
This is startin' to get fun.
It's more sturdy than expected but not all that strong!
No it's putting up less of a fight than it should.
I find it hard to believe this mabeast
got the better of my wife a Master Swordsman.
The fact that we got the jump on it
and that it didn't use its fog to divide our forces to start with—
I'll take one more thing before I leave!
Wilhelm-san!
Be alert!
We don't know whence it will come.
What's up?
It ain't gonna follow?
It comes.
The fog's coming down!
Run!
Hey have you grown to like flowers?
What is it?
There was talk of conferral
and I became a knight.
Well congratulations.
Then you're one step closer to your dream.
My dream?
Don't you wield a sword to protect?
A knight is someone who protects another.
I don't want... to die...
It's humiliating!
I see.
Were you laughing at me?!
Answer me Theresia!
No...
Master Swordsman Theresia van Astrea!
I won't... come here again.
With a face like that
you shouldn't be holding a sword!
I am the Master Swordsman.
I didn't understand the reason why
but I do now.
The reason...
Wielding a sword to protect someone.
That sounds nice to me too.
Wait Theresia...
I will take your sword from you!
I don't care about the role bestowed upon the Master Swordsman!
Wielding a sword...
The beauty of a steel blade... Don't look down on them
Master Swordsman!
We have trouble!
You're kidding me...
Wilhelm van Astrea