Shokei Shoujo No Virgin Road

When was the last time an assassin who was supposed to assassinate the target suddenly has a change of heart? That is, the assassin now protects the target with his/her life. Akuma No Riddle. Satsuriku No Tenshi. Now we can add Shokei Shoujo No Virgin Road to that list. Well people, if you think being reincarnated into isekai world and being all powerful is fun and dandy, be warned that in this anime, those said people are hunted down and killed! That sure puts some damper on those who dream to become super powerful heroes in their new reincarnated lives, eh? But what happens when one becomes too powerful to be killed? Why, you protect her instead! I mean, don’t want to get killed by a seemingly immortal, right? Well, so at least by this logic, protect her until she finds a way to kill her for real.

Episode 1
Mitsuki Mutou gets summoned to the isekai world. He knows it very world and thinks his life is getting better from now. Think again. He gets thrown out! Hungry and no money, he is picked up by Menou who is a priestess of a local church. She takes him in and brings him to the nearby town that is so much like Japan! That’s because there have been summoned ones from the past, many from Japan. They integrated their culture here. These are called Lost Ones. Based on what Mitsuki says, Menou explains he is likely being summoned by the king of this nation, Grisarika. It is a crime to do that and as a priestess, she will have to report this. She adds that there are 3 types of class in this world: Commoners (everyday people that makes up 90% of the population), Noblesse (royals and nobles) and Faust (the highest class and made up of the church). Mitsuki also remembers that before he was kicked out, he saw them summoning another Lost One. The only thing he remembers about her are her big boobs! Menou takes Mitsuki to a church to access his power (termed as Pure Concept as each Lost One has one). After saying some password, it seems the power starts to manifest in him. It is not that Mitsuki has no power, in fact he has the power to nullify anything. Mitsuki gets his hopes up that he can get things his way and wants Menou to help him when suddenly Menou kills him off! Oh sh*t! I guess he is not the main character! Menou says a prayer for him and doesn’t blame him as he is a victim. Because as an Executioner, her job is to exterminate al Lost Ones for they have brought a lot of harm to this world. Menou reports back to Archbishop Orwell about this. She remembers Menou well as she is a student of Flare and the only survivor of a calamity that is on par with the Four Major Human Errors. Flashback shows Menou’s hometown was turned white by a desperate Lost One seeking to go home. She was killed off by Flare and ultimately by Orwell when she turned into a monster. After that, Orwell left Flare to train up Menou. Menou receives report from her assistant, Momo that the other Lost One is being sheltered in Grisarika’s castle. They are soon surrounded by imperial knights who are out to silence them. Well, Momo did torture one of them for the info. Seems it was part of their ploy to throw Faust off by summoning 2 Lost Ones and have one as a sacrifice (since only 1 summoning was only often made). This is all part of the plan to overthrow Faust’s rule. But of course, Flare easily kills them all as they realize too late she is a successor of Flare. The other Lost One, Akari Tokitou is being locked up against her will. Well, looks like Menou has come to visit her.

Episode 2
After talking with Akari for a while, Menou can tell she is her target. She cooks up a story about Mitsuki who was summoned earlier but escaped and sought her help to free her. However he was too injured and died. Akari agrees to follow her as she tells of her Pure Concept as something of the likes of healing. When Menou takes the chance to strike her from the back, it seems she heals and resurrects! Akari didn’t even know what hit her! A shocked Menou has Momo distract the outside guards so they can make their escape. Back at her church, Menou reports to Orwell about Akari whose Pure Concept is believed to be time regression. They discuss the more Lost Ones use their Pure Concept, the more unstable their mind becomes and this will lead to disaster. Hence Orwell tells her to bring Akari back to Garm where they have a ceremonial hall to get rid of her. It is not surprising that Menou doesn’t know as Flare never relied on Orwell so she never told her of it. Menou then talks to Akari about taking her to Garm where she can get her back to Japan. Akari being very casual and chirpy about it. Yeah, think of going on an adventure together? Too bad, it’s just a day and a half by train. Later Momo reports that Grisarika has been captured and will be put on trial. But Momo is not happy that Menou is spending some awful lot time with Akari. Long story short, Momo is a fan girl of Menou if you have not realized by now and is jealous. Menou shuts down her suggestions to slowly kill her in various ways because they cannot risk her Pure Concept going berserk. Worse, Momo wants to tag along back to Gram instead of remaining here to watch Grisarika’s trial. She kicks up a fuss and gives excuses of not wanting to leave her with that dangerous woman so Menou has no choice but to accept. But keep your distance from Momo and not make your presence known. At the train station, Menou notices a couple of imperial guards on the lookout but it’s not like they’re looking for the Lost One. Worse, Akari is going to use her power to heal an injured girl. This will attract attention so Menou is forced to use create bubbles as distraction. Menou warns Akari and the latter has the cheek to say Menou was the one creating attention! Whose fault is it?! Also at this station is Princess Ashuna whom the soldiers are looking for. It seems she does not care about her father’s trial and is off to Garm herself. All aboard!

Episode 3
Terrorists take over the train as some confront Ashuna in her carriage. Those keeping the other passengers at bay, one of them notices Menou and tells her to strip (for hidden weapons). She is going to that and attack while he lets his guard down but WTF Akari steps in and strips instead?! Still enough distraction for Menou to take him and the rest down. Akari has to be told she is not in a position to protect her. Can she? Learning from Momo who has taken out some herself, it seems the terrorists want the king to release their leader. Momo is about to head to the engine room to deal with some terrorists there but instead faces off with Ashuna at the top. Looks like the wild princess has taken out those terrorists. Ashuna has a bone to pick with Faust and starts fighting Momo. Maybe she just wants to have fun. With Momo busy dealing with her, Menou heads to the engine room. Ashuna too has taken care of the terrorists but soon all the terrorists get mangled and turned into a red orb since they failed their mission. All their orbs combine into a crimson puppet knight. Menou fights it but it damages the control system. Yeah, train cannot stop. Meanwhile Ashuna and Momo’s fight continues even when they tumble down the train. That won’t be enough to kill them, right? As Menou fights the knight, she felt something strange. She can’t tell but it felt disgusting. With Akari popping up because she got curious about those orbs (curiosity kills the cat, eh?), Menou now has to expend more energy to fight it and eventually uses a self-destruct spell to destroy it. Now that she is too weak to have any magic to stop the speeding train, she is forced to seek Akari’s help. From what I understand, Akari will channel her power through Menou who then summons a giant magic net to stop the train. Like the magic of cliché, just an inch the train stops right before it hits the parked train at the station. Phew. Everybody safe. Maybe except Ashuna and Momo. Still fighting… This is getting tiresome… In the aftermath, Menou thinks of the possibility that could have happened had she failed to stop the train. Of course, everybody dies! However, she thinks that happened once but Akari used her power to turn back time or something.

Episode 4
Menou discusses with Momo about Akari’s Pure Concept that might be able to rewind the entire world at her own will. Flashback to Menou’s memories. She doesn’t remember anything before the disaster. Even when Flare picked her up, she was emotionless and dead inside. But she decided to follow Flare and during their journeys, Menou learnt about Flare’s job as an Executioner. One of the journeys has them on a giant continent. Once it was teeming with life but now reduced to nothing but salt thanks to this sword from a Lost One. This is what a true disaster of a Pure Concept can do. Menou realized this was perhaps all to give her some sort of emotion. That was when Menou wished she wanted to become like Flare. Back at the church, Menou and other girls were taught on how to kill Lost Ones for there is no other way to send them back and leaving them alone will lead to disasters. Flare’s training was particularly tough as she psycho everyone that they are villains who will be loved. So kill until you get killed! One day Menou approached Flare to tell her that she noticed other girls don’t want to kill. Hence she will kill as many Lost Ones on their behalf and be the only villain. Flare laughed at this proposition but seeing how Menou truly wants to become like her, that’s when the true long training road began. Now we’ve arrived in Garm and Akari is like a country bumpkin, amazed by everything. Menou brings her to the church as they meet Orwell who will gladly send Menou home via ritual in 2 days. In the meantime, Orwell has Menou look into the case of missing girls. Even if she fails to solve it, she just wants a different perspective. Back in their room, suddenly Akari is mad at Menou! HUH?! Apparently Menou was supposed to take her go sightseeing but now that she’s occupied with this investigation, you can see why the simpleton’s mad. Oh damn, Menou feeling sorry for her? Hence she throws the case to Momo to help investigate. Yeah, she too knows it’s because of that boobs monster. But the ever loving Momo will do whatever her senpai tells her. Menou also warns that the terrorists’ conspirator might be here in Garm too and that means that person could be a Noblesse. Later Akari apologizes for her selfishness and will go sightseeing herself. Well, since Menou has already altered her schedule to appease Akari, guess who is all so very happy now?

Episode 5
Momo reports she saw a group of people heading into the palace and this means Menou was right on the money that the Noblesse may have something to do with it. For now, Menou continues her sightseeing with Akari. Damn Akari, she’s pouting because Menou didn’t get a hint to buy a farewell souvenir for her?! After that, it’s back to the ceremonial hall for the ritual. Hard to say goodbye, huh? As Momo sneaks into the underground path of the palace to further investigate, to her dismay she stumbles into Ashuna. Looks like she too is doing her own investigation after noticing a few shady knights. They arrive in a strange place that looks like it is to conduct some ritual. Ashuna hints to Momo who might be behind this. As a royalty, Noblesse don’t have the resources or technology to build this. That’s right. Only Faust can do this. But since normal priestesses won’t be able to conjure something like this, guess who the big rat behind this is? Momo catches on quickly and contacts Menou. But something is jamming the communicator. Oh, nothing Ashuna can destroy that whatever spell blocking it. Menou gets Momo’s note and is shocked. However Orwell can tell that Menou has realized the truth and attacks her. Orwell further reveals she let them investigate this case to separate them. She was going to dispose them all in the end. Momo tries to get out but of course if you wonder why this place is so easy to get in, it’s because now the trap is activated. Yeah, have to fight a monster dragon. For once, Ashuna and Momo agree to a truce to fight this thing. As Menou falls through the ground, she arrives in a strange room. She notices all these are the missing women and are being experimented on. How kind of Orwell to explain how she has helped too many people and she got nothing in return. Worse, those whom she failed to help, blamed her or even demand more. She is getting tired of hearing all those voices. To put it shortly, she wants to get Akari’s Pure Concept to reverse time and hence reverse her aging body. She was using these missing women as experiment but it didn’t get anywhere. She is also the one who gave permission to Noblesse to do the summoning for them to overlook this. But how is she going to control Akari’s Pure Concept. That is what the ceremonial hall is for. From what I understand, it strips the person’s personality. Once it blanches the person’s soul clean, all that is left is the Pure Concept to be used. All that is left is for some quality magic and that is where Menou comes in. She’ll be used with Akari. Orwell has waited 10 years for her to grow properly into her catalyst of needs and now the time is right. She knows she’ll won’t go out without a fight and has summoned an angel for her to fight. The other priestesses strap Akari down for the ritual.

Episode 6
Orwell further reveals she has been conducting this experiment for years. This means she was also the one responsible who decimated Menou’s village. Menou can use her atrocities as reason to kill her. Akari is about to get her memories erased when something inside her activates. It’s like her split personality is out as she rids of the other priestesses and get her ass off the seat like a cool cat. She knows Menou is trying to kill her as well as Momo’s existence and also reversed time on the train. Once harm is out of her way, she reverts back to her retard version. When the dragon burns away Momo’s ribbon, she becomes sad and angry that she beats it down!!! Payback time is never enough as she destroys part of the palace. This has Ashuna realize she was a fool to hold back and preserve the place so she so too goes all out in wreaking havoc and destroying the place. Momo ends her devastating combo by throwing the dragon into the church! This breaks the barrier and disrupts Orwell’s flow. Menou is about to brag her competent underling but WTF Menou comes hugging her! Oh, you just made Menou’s blood boil. But no time for that as she has to shield Akari’s eyes so as not to see Momo. I think sad Momo gets the memo as now she continues her beat down on the angel.

Menou wonders why Akari didn’t she get away when it became so dangerous. Simple. The safest place is next to her! This gives Menou an idea as she throws several distractions at Orwell. But the Flare disguise didn’t work as the church’s auto defence system protects Orwell as she is the archbishop. No choice, Menou dives into Akari’s mind to borrow her Pure Concept. Not sure about Menou unable to come to terms with her past but there is Akari, assuring her she will always be her best friend. This allows Menou to deflect Orwell’s attack back at her. Orwell now shrivels up and dies as she answers Menou’s question of not using her own scripture just to find her own path but never found in her life where she was nothing but righteous. In the aftermath, it is reported a dragon and demon suddenly appeared. Ashuna and a priestess helped destroy it and Orwell died in the attack. This means the higher ups of the church will cover up her atrocities forever. Menou cheers up a sad Momo with a new pair of ribbons. Happy Momo is the best. Then Menou talks about Akari’s regression. She believes Akari must have regressed back from a future far beyond this point in time and forgot about herself although her feelings for her remained. Her future self managed to deceive Akari to earn her trust but must have failed to kill her for some reason and allowed her to regress back. That’s why she will continue this journey with Akari to find a way to kill her. Later Akai wakes up from a nightmare she can’t remember. An excuse just to hug Menou? Well, looks like we have a glimpse of the future whereby she got so distraught when she killed Menou. After she disintegrates, Flare is about to kill Akari but she figures if she is going to die anyway, she would want Menou to kill her instead. Hence Akari turned back time in hopes she can be killed properly.

Episode 7
Menou will take Akari on a pilgrimage as she will be taken to a residential area for Lost Ones. This leads them to the port city of Santorini Libelle. Menou was here too with Flare the last time. There is this huge wall of fog across the ocean but it serves as a prison barrier for one of the Four Major Human Errors. Whoever goes in it cannot come out ever again. Menou takes her sightseeing and finally a public bath. Menou gets out of the bath first so that she can talk to Momo who is dying to see her. Momo wonders if Menou is worried about the group known as Fourth here. They after all have a grudge against Flare. Menou assures had their leader had not been captured years ago, they still would’ve been a threat to the world. Momo suggests throwing Akari into Pandemonium and let a monster eat her. Seriously, Menou didn’t even consider this. This has them both wonder if Menou is hesitating to kill Akari. As Menou drives Akari via boat to Pandemonium AKA that fog, they pass by a castle island that belongs to the ruler of Libelle. Apparently the currently ruler fell ill so his teen daughter, Manon is currently running in his stead. Of course in secret, the family is the head of Fourth and has been funding the group. We see Manon and the followers discussing about Menou’s arrival and must do something about it. Manon suggests they wait and see but the rest want a more pre-emptive measure. They think she is too young to remember Flare’s atrocities but Manon knows it too well since her mother was killed by her. After Manon leaves, the adults think she is not reliable. After the drugs take effect, Menou sets Akari on a boat into Pandemonium. When Akari wakes up, she is back to her original self and notes everything is going as planned. She has been through this many times, including being eaten. But looks like something different happens. Her Pure Concept activates and Akari teleports back out next to Menou’s side. Back to her retard self. I guess Menou doesn’t have to feel sad about Akari leaving now, huh? So she cooks up a story how Akari dozed off during their sightseeing and all. Akari claims she can sleep so soundly is because she knows being to her is the safest. Menou hates to admit that but also worries that the more she uses her Pure Concept, the closer she’ll be to go berserk.

Episode 8
Back in town, Menou is assaulted by a couple of guys from Fourth. Even if they take Akari hostage, Menou saw this coming and has her own tricks to defeat them. However after the guards take them away, they start changing into monsters and die. Of course this is done secretly by Manon. Later Menou talks to the local nun, Sicilia who finds her expenses form to be weird because it leaves out the expense to the Sanctuary, indicating she has no intention to kill Akari. Menou promises to find another way to kill her but Sicilia remains suspicious. However she can pay her worth of work. This means she has to go investigate this strange drug that is being distributed about, Monstrine. You bet she is going to let Momo investigate this. Meanwhile Fourth is not pleased with Manon as she was the one who told them to distribute Monstrine. Initially such drug could be used as a weapon to turn subjects into monsters against Faust but with some of their members dead, they are not happy. When one gets too cocky, Manon demonstrates and turns her into a monster and then dies. Any other complaints? Because they too ate their food laced with Monstrine, they better watch what they say. Of course Manon is doing this as part of her revenge on Menou. Got to give her a proper welcome, no? Momo is beating up some alley delinquents for more info. They say they don’t know about it since their boss told them not to touch it. Why, their boss is Ashuna! Momo knows better than to please her by prolonging her fight after her failed surprise attack. So they just talk things out. Momo reveals about the origins of monsters. They never existed 1000 years ago until one of the Human Errors, a girl with Pure Concept to materialize monsters went out of control. That is why it is sealed in Pandemonium, the source of monsters that now ravage their world. Since Ashuna is also investigating Monstrine and Momo doesn’t want to be in debt with her info, Ashuna suggests a challenge. Tomorrow night, Manon will hold a ball and she plans to infiltrate it. Whoever gets the most info wins. Is Momo going to say no? So Momo tells all this to Menou who will also be attending the ball thanks to Sicilia’s arrangement. Of course she is going in to spy and Momo insists of getting a beautiful dress for her. Speaking of one who won’t listen, looks like Akari is throwing a tantrum as she wants to come too… You bet Momo is not happy to see boobs woman with her beloved at the ball. Yeah, Akari dressed as a priestess to take the attention of Menou.

Episode 9
While Momo infiltrates the Monstrine factory, Menou can’t worry about Akari too much as she needs to take care of business on her own end. Unfortunately she stumbles into Ashuna who is very interested to fight her as she knows she is not a normal guess. Menou tries to hide her identity and mask her face but Ashuna is hell bent on fighting her to test her strength. Eventually they do that and Menou has a few tricks up her sleeve. Eventually she lets loose a huge flame blast to escape. However this attracts the attention of everyone at the ball and this somewhat activates the return of original Akari. At the same time, Manon comes to talk to her and knows that she is from another world and wants to know about her origins. Akari lies that she doesn’t remember. Conversation ends although Manon notes she is envious as she has the power to change the world as she sees fit. Akari is a bit panicking because this has never happened before. The most at Libelle is her being sent to Pandemonium. Momo’s investigations lead her to an underground lab where Monstrine is produced. A twisted and cruel way if I should say. A young girl being trapped in an Iron Maiden and her dripping blood is what is produces Monstrine. As Momo tries to save this girl, an explosion occurs. Too bad for the girl, Momo is hit with poison spikes. Before she loses consciousness, she tries to contact Menou. Menou on the other hand learns Akari is missing and from the other guests, it seems they saw her went with Manon. Menou then gets Momo’s message and rescues her. Don’t worry, she’s recuperating in hospital. She won’t die so easily. Menou then talks to Sicilia and from Momo’s recording, Fourth is definitely behind Monstrine’s production. She seeks her help to request the knights to arrest them while she goes in to find Akari. Sicilia is surprised because unlike Flare, she relies on others. Nevertheless, she will assist her. As the guards surround the castle island and ordering them to surrender, Fourth’s members are in a dilemma. What should they do? Manon thinks of silencing them but sees them all in a frozen state. She can quickly tell it is Akari’s doing. What else do we not know about this girl? Anyway, she wants to ask Manon a few things.

Episode 10
When Akari snuck into Manon’s room last night, she couldn’t find any answers. It seems Manon knows about Akari and the many times she has turned back time and redone the things. She knows all this from Pandemonium. Manon reveals that her mom is a Lost One but unlike others, she was not summoned but lost her way here. Her father who is the founder of Fourth, found her and thought he could use her knowledge against Faust. But as time passed, her mom never used a single Pure Concept because father truly fell in love with her. One day when mom was about to talk about the other sister Manon had, Flare showed up and killed her. However it is not Flare whom Manon seeks revenge with. If she wanted revenge, it would be Fourth. Her dad convinced his members that Manon will inherit mom’s Pure Concept but since she was totally ordinary, the members began to call her useless. Long story short, she wants to prove her worth and is in her rebelling phase. She uses her Pure Concept that is some dark shadowy power. Akari would’ve died had not Menou saved her. Fearing that she has seen this side of hers, Menou will save the talk for later and wants her to seek refuge at Sicilia while she goes to apprehend Manon. As both fight, Manon is thrilled that Menou considers her a taboo and must be killed. Flashback shows Flare did not kill Manon because she does not have a Pure Concept. It is only unique to the person soul and does not pass down like genetics. After Menou blows off an arm, Manon believes the next part will be more fun and troublesome for her. After Manon dies, that Monstrine girl sacrifice breaks out from her body like Alien! When Menou kills her, the same process happens. Basically she cannot be killed and it is most likely she is on the level of a Human Error. The girl laughs at Menou’s mission to kill all those with Pure Concept. Then she talks about the ivory hero whom nobody knows. The hero who sacrificed himself to protect this world. She then starts her next horror move as she twists her head until it breaks off, summoning various monsters who eat her body in which she resurrects again. Pandemonium is back. Wow. Such a bloody scene. Have we lost our appetite? As other Fourth members have surrendered and one of them being interrogated by Ashuna (he claims they were all victims of Manon and were doing as they’re told), soon Monstrine takes effect and they all melt away.

Episode 11
Pandemonium is her actual name and not to be mixed up with the fog one that was named later. She is one of the Human Errors. It seems she can also clone herself and summon lesser monsters for Menou to do some warm up. Menou believes Monstrine is made out from her blood and by making people ingest part of her, she infests their bodies to be used as sacrifices for resurrection. Though, Pandemonium claims she is half wrong and just wanted to do a horror movie. Since she loves them and this world has none, she thought of making a B-grade horror movie. So Menou just have to keep running, huh? She summons more monsters for her to play and each time Menou destroys them with her magic, it starts to tire her. When she gets thrown outside, here comes Ashuna. Their first official meeting. Menou tells what is happening and after learning that hundreds of people in town has melted, she believes this is the number of lives Pandemonium has and what it takes to defeat her. So both combine their powers as they seal Pandemonium in some endless heavenly vein. But of course that is short-lived as it soon explodes and Pandemonium is back. This time with that huge Kraken monster from the fog. Similarly, a Pandemonium clone appears before Akari to prevent her from intervening. Akari thinks defeating her would seal the monster but of course Pandemonium laughs at that. Can somebody so weak defeat her? Akari is shocked that she remembers from Japan since she wants to know more about it. Because those who used too much of their Pure Concept will have their memories erased. Too bad for Pandemonium, Akari doesn’t care about Japan as she doesn’t have pleasant memories of that world and doesn’t want to go back. She rather die at the hands of Menou here. Pandemonium then thanks her because of Akari’s constant time warping, it managed to create a small gap enough for her to escape. Though, just a small part of her. A small pinky part. Similarly, Menou knows they don’t have to do anything about the monster because it is still trap in the fog. It is just temporarily out. She also figures out this Pandemonium isn’t the real one. Hence all that has happened so far is thanks to Akari. Pandemonium continues to stun Akari with revelation about the Astral Archives. Some origin of the lord’s word in the priestesses’ scriptures. Noticed why Akari has never succeeded? Because someone has always been interfering with her. Could it be Flare? She also hints there is a way back to Japan. Menou can’t think of killing Akari now as she has to deal with this Pandemonium who is going to end this horror climax by turning herself into a centipede monster!!!

Episode 12
When Pandemonium whispered to Akari about a way back to Japan, she adds that the Four Major Human Errors tried to destroy the world because they wanted to go back. Menou and Ashuna fight off the centipede minions that can join itself back again. They have to do this many times until Pandemonium runs out of life. Or will they run out of magic first? With some heading into town and attacking the people, Ashuna goes to deal with it, leaving Menou alone to deal with the big boss. Lucky for her, Ashuna leaves her sword for Menou to have a fighting chance, though it drains more magic than usual. When Menou is about to get done, time reverses itself for a short period. Then Akari comes to Menou’s side and wants her to use her magic to defeat this monster. The sword turns into a giant flaming one and cuts through Pandemonium. Knowing the battle has won, Akari then seals her own self and returns to her retard version. In the aftermath as Menou talks to a disintegrating Pandemonium, the latter claiming she is doing it not for revenge but just for the thrill of it. She hints that a certain salt sword wielded by the ivory one has the power to destroy any Pure Concept. Even Akari. Manon wakes up alive with Pandemonium by her side. It seems she dug up all the bodies and put it all back together again and reanimated Manon. Why? It is hinted Pandemonium is that sister of hers. Yes it is. Together, they will go make another horror movie and bring destruction to the world. Oh God. A horror sequel?! Say it isn’t so. Momo has recovered as she talks to Menou who updates her about the salt sword. As there is one on the salt continent, she is going back there to get it and kill Akari. Then talking to Sicilia who thanks her for doing all she can to save this town. The damage could’ve been much worse. Then returning to Akari who is worried sick she has abandoned her. Menou asks if she remembers anything in which Akari says she doesn’t. Menou knows Akari doesn’t lie or hide things but feels that Akari then was conscious. Akari apologizes she won’t do anything to burden her so as not to be hated. But when she bugs Menou about what she means to her, isn’t that how you get one to hate you? Source of stress on her journey? That’s right. You mad? Momo is having reservations about Menou because if she keeps acting for Akari, those feelings will eat her away and for her sake, she will kill Akari herself. Menou and Akari begin their journey to the Sanctuary. Flare notes that some vessel also escaped from all this time reversing. Now it’s her turn to go out and kill her apprentice for the zillionth time.

My Life As A Villainess: All Routes Lead To Execution!
If all that chaos and destruction was just a tinsy weeny bit drop, then imagine what the real and actual one would be. Yeah, I can’t comprehend that with my puny mind. The possibility that Menou might have to meet and fight all the Four Major Human Errors in some way, that’s another story to tell. Which means another season? What do you mean they haven’t announced one yet?! I thought it is a trend these days to hype up fans for the next part when the first season ends?! Or are they going to wait like 10 years down the road until everybody forgets to make that announcement? Yeah, it’s a long time. Just like Menou and Akari’s journey and quest. Considering time has been reversing for the umpteenth time. The longest journey ever. Talk about replaying value, huh?

The story’s setting certainly gives a different take than your usual isekai. Instead of having people from our world being reincarnated or transported to another fantasy world in which they slowly build themselves and become kings and ultimate masters, this one goes the reverse. So there is that shocking but refreshing value to see that people who get sent over to the fantasy world are treated as scourge by the locals and promptly killed off. It’s a good change in pace since we’re getting tired of such basic isekai tropes and ingredients even though there will be more of this sort to come in the future.

Of course the basic story of this series is straightforward as it mostly sees how Menou is going to deal with Akari and her very strange and seemingly indestructible Pure Concept. Like they say, it is the journey and not the destination that counts. So it is quite interesting to see the route that Menou takes in hoping to achieve this goal of hers but at the same time seemingly fooling herself to think that it would work. We know it’s not, right? The journey might seem long and draggy and that there has not been much story arcs (first half being the conspiracy at Garm and the late half being the conspiracy at Libelle) but I guess it is better than skimping through the materials, right?

One of the strangest vibes that I had when I first started watching this series was that I felt it was somewhat similar to Munou Na Nana. You see when they introduced this Mitsuki character in the first episode, I was confused because I don’t remember seeing him anywhere on the promotional poster whatsoever. Who this guy then? They made him sound like he was going to be the main character of the series but my guts were ringing like hell that something was wrong. It was not going to be of this sort. And then at that moment when I started to think that all this could be trolling just like Munou Na Nana, it was at that exact same moment, a few short seconds before Menou killed him off! It was like a, “Oh sh*t!” moment for me. And the other factor is how Momo has this very uncanny resemblance to the titular character in Munou Na Nana. Holy sh*t. Are they lost sisters or something?

As you would have guessed, the series may be about Menou trying to find a way to kill Akari but the more interesting aspect as we can see is how they develop some sort of relationship along the way. Our guts will tell us from the start that Menou will hesitate to kill Akari because of all the time they spent together. When you spent a considerable amount of time with someone on a journey, you develop that kind of bond. I’m not saying it is something like Stockholm Syndrome but Menou is still human after all despite being trained as a killer and has been telling herself that she’ll be a baddie and killer, blah, blah, blah. Menou isn’t a bad person to begin with (self-proclaimed villain just to do her job properly) and the same can be said for Akari. At this rate you start to wonder that in order to save the world, will you sacrifice this seemingly innocent and nice girl so that this wretched world can continue to exist? Yup. I bet I’ll have those same conflicts if I am ever put in the same shoes as Menou. After all, Menou going to great lengths to trick Akari about the journey (by being friends and all), eventually it is Menou herself who has fallen victim to her own trick. But not in a bad way it seems. Otherwise she would not have discovered some juicy secrets and truth had Akari been killed off easily, right?

As for Akari, well, I need to get this off my chest first because I am sure that many will agree with me that Akari is annoying as f*ck! Yes, I don’t really like her retarded version and somehow it gets on my nerves. Even worse than Momo trying to suck up to Menou. A few times this retarded version almost cost Menou to fail but I guess lady luck is smiling on them. Even more aggravating is when she throws tantrums and wants Menou’s full undivided attention. Who made her queen of the day? This called friendship, huh? Of course as we found out, this retard version is only a façade to hide the real personality of hers and it’s like double trick for Menou. Uh huh. Menou thinks Akari is unaware of her true goals and pretends to be friends. But she is unaware that Akari is also putting up the greatest pretending as a ditzy klutz. It’s like she never knew it all. Although Akari in her true character is more bearable, somehow at this point it just feels odd. Uh huh. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. For the longest time we have gotten so used to this retard whether we like it or not and then suddenly the serious and reasonable version is out. Uhm, can we get back our old Akari? I promise I won’t b*tch about her anymore.

Then there is Momo who is basically having the Menou complex and will do anything for her. But the strangest part is how she struck a somewhat odd bond with Ashuna. From the first time they clashed on the train towards Garm, it’s like they duo has become some sort of inseparable pair as fate would have them end up together in the weirdest of circumstances. Both are like oil and water and don’t mix but at the same time seemingly perfect fit for each other despite their different styles. Momo is more of the stealthy kind and resort to sneaky tricks while Ashuna as the muscle brain would try to solve everything by barging in head first with her brute strength.

I keep wondering what happened to Flare. It is not really explicitly stated if she is dead or missing but from the final scenes, I am speculating that she might be in some higher form because it’s like she feels like pulling the strings from the shadows. It is uncertain what her true goal is but I can’t see it’s a pleasant one either. After all, there is a lot of unknown factors to Flare from her personality to her intentions. Hence she might be the big boss and antagonist of the series in which Menou and Akari will have to face in the end. Imagine reversing time again and again, that is got to be a fate worse than death. Or any horror movie!

There is a lot of blood and gore in this anime so it is definitely not for the faint hearted although not every 5 minutes there would be some sort of battle and action scene. But when the fight really comes down to it, there will be blood spilled and sometimes dismemberment of limbs. Even more so with the arrival of Pandemonium because this girl really feels like a horror movie trope come to live. I don’t know, I find her disgusting and twisted regeneration moves to be horror-like and if I’m not careful, could be nightmare fuel for me. Definitely a B-grade horror movie because this series isn’t a horror genre to begin with. Geddit?!

Art and animation are pretty okay but if there is one thing I would like to nit-pick, it is probably how Menou’s priestess uniform looks so plain and bland. I’m not expecting the uniform to be intricately designed with all the details and patterns. But it looks so flat and boring that I thought whoever came up with this design didn’t really give a f*ck how a priestess should dress. Perhaps in this world, it is not supposed to attract attention and of course fighting in such attire would be easier compared to all those complexly designed costumes. But still, can’t shake off that feeling that it looks so plain that it’s weird. I’ll never guess she’s a priestess if she didn’t say it herself. Hey, still way better than being scantily clad, right?! Oh right… Ashuna’s dress… Sure that’s not her bathing dress or something? It feels like her back is so… Exposed! On a side note, is it me or does Akari look a bit chubby? FYI, I’m not into thicc girls… The other visuals are okay especially the special effects when Menou and the rest invoke their incantations. Backgrounds and sceneries are also quite good. Not surprisingly veteran J.C. Staff animated this so there’s some quality thee. Though, some CGI parts could use a little work. Thankfully they’re just minimal.

Voice acting is pretty okay but the one taking the cake is Anzu Haruno as Pandemonium (Mafuyu in Blend S) as she makes her character sound both cute and scary at the same time. The only ones I recognized here are Yuko Kaida as Flare and surprisingly Satomi Satou as Manon’s mom. I thought Youko Hikasa was behind Asuna’s voice but looks like it was Mao Ichimichi instead (Bada in ClassicaLoid). The other casts are Iori Saeki as Menou (Vanilla in Nekopara), Moe Kahara as Akari (Tomoe in Genjitsu Shugi Yuusha No Oukoku Saikenki), Hisako Kanemoto as Momo (titular character in Shinryaku! Ika Musume), Manaka Iwami as Manon (Tohru of the Fruits Basket remake), Akeno Watanabe as Sicilia (Rito in To Love-Ru), Tamie Kubota as Orwell (Sui in Hanasaku Iroha).

The opening theme, Paper Bouquet by Mili is pretty interesting. Actually I prefer all the instruments in the background like the finger drilling piano play and the solo violin, giving it a dramatic and exciting vibe. Can’t say the same for the singer’s voice. Sounds flat and it’s like she is mumbling her words. Like as though she has something in her mouth that prevents her voice from getting out fully. The ending theme, Touka Serenade by Choucho sounds like a slow dramatic ballad that is heavy on the strings. There are some nice memorable BGMs too and mostly I like the ones that are with the Spanish and flamenco acoustic guitar vibes.

Overall, I find this series to be interesting and enjoyable. An irony because animes of the season which I think I should find interesting turned out to be not and vice versa. It’s probably that psychological moment whereby I do not place any high expectations (AKA looking down with stereotypical biasness) and when it slightly surpassed that threshold of mine, it blew away my mind albeit by a bit. The story might not be a masterpiece and the character dynamism between the duo may look like it is draggy but it’s amusing to watch and see how things turn out. I hope in the future that we can have more of this reverse isekai setting where the main character isn’t given the overpowered and preferential treatment, having to actually work and slog his/her way up (I guess Tate No Yuusha No Nariagari pales in comparison now that I have seen this). Then we’ll all think twice to become heroes in an isekai world even as a form of escapism. Reality and life doesn’t suck so bad now, does it? Ah, how we have all been executed the death penalty to live this way of life… Real life horror movie so to speak…