Inglis versus the mad highlander; Reborn to master the blade episode 10 Impression

The episode instantly pitted Leon and Leone against each other. The battle; while it's quite good, does end short as the masked man reveals their intention to infiltrated the country. According to him, in the next four days, the new Highlander ambassador will come to the country; taking back the defective Hieral Menace (Ripple) with him to Highland. The Steelblood front plans to assassinate him as they know that he is rotten to the core. Lisselote asks why they reveal their plan to them; risking their plan secrecy. The Masked man says that their sole target is the ambassador's life and he mentions that the one who should be held responsible for the mess is the king; who sold their land to the Highlanders. After hearing from both Leone and Lisselote regarding to the assassination attempt, Inglis makes a suggestion for them to pose as the waitress during the ambassador's arrival party; waiting for the assassins and thwarts their mission.

Silva: ...now I am part of the fanservice too??😲

What really interesting from this episode is how it treats Silva respectfully; giving him a decent character background. His main reason for acting snoobish against the runeless is justified as he has a tragic past with them. Once during his early childhood, magicite beasts run amok and tries to take him and his friend's life. He was still young; inexperienced and had no means to protect them from the beasts. However, the runeless friend of him exchanges his lives for Silva's survival. When he is left alone and in utter despair, lady Ripple came and saves him from the beasts using her double golden guns. This episode even answers the reason why he specialized his weapon artifact to gun; which is due to his high admiration to his savior, Lady Ripple herself. I'm happy that this anime gives a reasonable reason for his hateful comment toward the runeless. In fact, he never has any ill will toward them and wants their survival as his tribute to his fallen friend. In contrast to Lisellote who happens to have a change of heart but less explanation to her behavior change, Silva's character's background makes his antagonistic tendency way more relatable and believable.

The funny thing is he suddenly has better spotlight than Lisellote and Leone 

Speaking of the devil, the new Highland Ambassador (Evel) really makes a mess during his visit. His appearance is like a teenager with white hair; along with a dash of red and blue hairs which is apparent on his left and right side of the hair. Similar to the hair, his red and blue pupil is also makes a unique trait to his appearance. Unfortunately, in contrast to those cute physical appearance, he has smudge and cruel expression to boot; creating more villainous persona than a good looking lad. And just like what the masked man describes, he consider the lower land's civilians equal to lifestocks. Nevertheless, In spite of his ruthless demeanor, the king and every attendant to the party Bowes to him and let's him say anything bad about them. The fact that he is a complete jerk and acts even worse than Rahl makes Rani feels quite angry to what she witness during the party. Inglis however, enjoys her maid duty and doesn't even feels threatened to his presence at all.

Just a passing through maid....Just kidding..I am

The sudden appearance of magicite beasts turns the room into chaos but as usual Inglis makes a fast work to them; twirling and throwing them like dolls. The anime gets more serious when one of the SteelBlood Front assassin; disguised as a guard tries to take his life using a sword. As Inglis stops his assassination attempt and holds the man , Evel put his hand in front the assailant face; executing the guy using his mana. King Carlias lower himself in front of Evel; seeking forgiveness for the threat that may cost the ambassador 's live. Yet, the villainous Evel doesn't take long to take advantages and use the moment to handicap the king by cutting his left arm using similar techniques. The guards; angry to what he does to their king, raise their weapon against him. Nevertheless king Carlias knows that in order to save the other from highlander's wrath, once again has to bow to Evel and forbids his guards to lay a hand to their guest. It's starting to get interesting when Inglis and Rani finally steps up to make differences. First, the king needs quick treatment so Inglis asks Rani to heal his hand and attaches the arms back using her new artifact.

I AM the GOD KiNG you lowly peasant!😆

Now we get to the good part 😆. The part when Inglis superiority makes the bad guys looks so helpless that he turns them into a sad NPC. As the ambassador ask anyone to be the arm replacement to the king, Inglis confidently volunteer herself as the replacement. Evel who wants nothing short than replacing Inglis' confidence into a crying mess just can't hide his frustration when his best techniques barely scratches Inglis. To make it funnier, his enchanted mana can only makes a small torn to Inglis left side dress (the part which Evel wants to cut Inglis arm with his mana) and she just explains to him how it may become better if he trains his mana more. Once again the episode closes with a cliffhanger as a machine comes down from the sky and Evel reveals that the highlanders has no interest with giving new Hieral Menace; telling them that soon their country will disappear from the maps. Off course; with the season about to end we will see more surprise down the line and I enjoys this episode's turn of event.