天下制覇

  

You hauled out a hydra and then just shoved it off-screen?

Impressions:

Oh good, GARO remembered the maid that it set up and then has left to just sit around for the last couple months. If only they remembered to have her be up to something that a dumbwaiter couldn’t accomplish. Oh, and give her a personality. No, I will not be brooking any “zero is a number” debates. They also took the traditional Japanese approach to antagonists by hamhandedly slopping some tragic backstory onto them by way of flashbacks. Her and every-bloody-one else. This one was especially crowbarred in though at the last second though. She hates God (and by extension, everything else) because her idiot sister prayed to be saved from the rabid wolves in their home, presently eating their father. And all the villagers also said “screw this, the wolves will be full after eating them” apparently. They kind of just… gave up on that bit of nonsense.

Anyway, Mendoza’s shockingly alive, but apparently old now for some reason, maid deflects the suspicion that was only sort of ever on her by feeding her sister surrogate and her leg to a monster since she can’t go one night without getting up to the evil plannings even while knowing every monster-hunter in the area is tracking her, and the entire thrust of the plot going forward seems to be another one of Japan’s favorite standbys, “I’m not going to tell you why I’m doing the thing I’m doing.” That way, we get to have both a meaningless fight and a bout of infodumping to explain it afterward! Yay!

Next Episode:

More flashbacks.