OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

At the suggesting of Grimm, Seth finally visits with Melie and Doc to properly apologize for leaving them behind. Though Melie isn’t mad about the leaving so much as that Seth didn’t trust her to be tough enough to handle things in this new location or with Seth’s escalating power. She figured he was someone who could finally accept her, regardless of her caustic infection, but it turned out he didn’t. Seth’s at a loss for how to respond to that and ends up going to stay at the Knight-Sorcerer stables.

There, he meets with Ocoho again, along with her sleeping page Lulu, and meets with Myr. Seth and Ocoho also make an arrangement: Seth will teach her how to use more magic in exchange for Ocoho getting books from the knight’s archives regarding Radiant. She needs this training to help her chances of becoming a proper knight, but Seth’s priorities are kind of scattered. It doesn’t help that he starts having more strange dreams about memories he doesn’t have.

OUR TAKE

This episode mainly focuses on Seth dealing with the fallout of his decision to leave at the end of last season and…it’s pretty feelsy stuff. From the start of the series, I didn’t really think much of Melie, seeing her more as just a token love interest who was more there to be a cheerleader and emotional support than a character in her own right. Her curse seemed like a blatant rip-off of Launch from Dragon Ball and typically played for laughs. Even throughout the Rumble Town arc, she doesn’t do a whole lot to stand out besides wait with Doc. The sole exception was a moment in the midst of the arc where she mentions not being strong enough to save someone, which I suppose we know now is named Venelope. And now we seem to be getting a better look at how having another personality has had a bad effect on her life, as well as how Seth still has a long way to go to prove that he’s willing to stick around.

Speaking of curses, we learn some more of decorum in this world regarding talking about them, specifically that it’s kinda rude and personal. It’s not a major detail, but it’s neat to learn more about how these things are integrated into the world’s society, especially in a Sorcerer-centric one where they can actually control that somewhat. I wonder what other minor details we’ll be getting to know if we have more time to explore Caslean-Merlin, or even other parts of this civilization throughout the series.

And now, while Seth thinks of a way to properly make things up with Melie (which the OP suggests he will), he also has another task on top of the one to help Grimm collect the memory stone. Helping Ocoho train looks like it will also be a great way to see her perspective on growing up in an area where Sorcerers are accepted, as well as our way to seeing the intricacies of the Knight-Sorcerers and how they work, at least until something happens to shake up the status quo on that. We’re already just about a quarter through the season, so things might start picking up on that within the next week or two, but so far I’ve got no reason to think they won’t handle it well. Just as long as they don’t pile on TOO much. It’s possible to get a complex story from a simple idea, but too many different simple ideas and things get PRETTY DAMN COMPLICATED.

Score 8/10