Two Stepping Men in town; Ningen Fushin episode 10 Impression

Without realizing it, Fushin Ningen enters it's ten episode; marking the closer end of the first season for the adventurer.In term of character building this anime has abundant of character story more than the action part. For instance, Zem's trauma against little children especially the girl one gets further explored on this episode. The episode even starts with his poor condition; laying inside the jail still unable to believe that his good deeds put him into jail. Despite the trauma though, his experience with his peer somehow started to heal his wound as he will shows on the following scene. The next thing we know, Reina mother is introduced to the survivor and she is a veteran adventurers by the name of Ada. Nick pretty much recognizes her for she is quite well known adventurer and his work in his previous guild makes him recognizes other famous adventurer's name . She thanks the party members for saving Reina but she also gives them a warning to stop chasing after the steeping man. Knowing that with their current abilities, they hold no candles against him/her. This is the very moment when the little girl introduces her "master" to her mom; which Vem misunderstood that she takes a liking to him. Well, he admits about his weaknesses in front of them as being scared against little girl due to his previous experiences. However, Zem's word of letting her become his student after fifteen years past actually shows that nowadays he has recovered a lot from that traumatic experience; willingly admits that he opens up for new relationship (albeit she must not be an underage 😂). Of course Ada dislike his word as being a single mother, she has to act not only as a team mom but also a team dad; ready to chew on any possible suitors 😆.

Poor owner got to pay additional damage fee 😆

Despite Ada's request to the Survivors to let go of the case, the team decides to continue the man-hunting since the stepping man has abduct little children and the worse part of it their corpses were thrown to the Garbage Collectors. The idea of having minorities as a victim (not to mention that they are underage) is quite daring for an establishment. More anime would try to avoid casualties from minors (children) and even the some of the dark and edgier themed anime prefer to sacrifice mature civilians instead of the minor ones. Nevertheless, Fushin ningen delivers it and changes it's tone darker than usual.

I don't want a son that OLD 🤧

The survivors discusses about the stepping man that they have encountered before and in order to catch him/ her, they must be able to move agile and stay close to the man while using magic to counter his techniques. One interesting note is none of them are actually qualified to do the jobs. Nick for example; while he is the one most suited in fast, close combat quarters, he has very low proficiency in magic. Meanwhile Tiana and Zem has enough magical talents but unable to moves fast and get closer to the target. Curran??Let's forget about her😆 since technically she has no magical talents at all (expect for that fiery fire-breathing techniques that she naturally inherited 😆). Thankfully Ada gives them a fighting chance by personally training Nick to have chances against that mysterious figure. The first thing she do is giving him a food which can stimulate his magical talents. After that, a long training of jumping in one clothesline; repeated in succession has been done in order to make Nick's body lighter. It tooks a few tries until he fully mastered the agile movement and be able to move from one clothesline to another with ease.

Nick learning class 104 : Flying without wing

Well, once again the anime caught me off guard by revealing that Olivia is not the "bad" stepping man. She is indeed known as a Stepping man but the persona that she makes is just a form of adoration to the legendary figure. Therefore, when Nick interrogates her during previous episode, a big misunderstanding happens between them. She may take the mask, yet she knows nothing about the children abduction. Complete with her own misunderstanding that Nick may be the other stepping man, she decides to flee the bar; which only makes the situation more complicated. Nick is the first person who realizes that the Stepping man they encounter during the first half of the episode is not Olivia. While s/he wears a complete mask; making his/her face completely vague, she doesn't budge or hesitate when Nick calls Olivia's name; proving that someone else done the mask.

Nick Mentor is very much NPC. Less detailed and forgettable : D

Olivia herself actually proves to be a strong adventurer and one one occasion, she manages to replicate Kizuna parallel move and beat him using after-image punch. I never knew that she is on par if not better with Kizuna and there is no sign that she is an sentient being like Kizuna either yet. After talking it out, they decided to visit garbage collector to check on the body of the newly deceased to young girl. They tries to look at the body but cant find any injuries until they check the back of the body finding out a red colored sand in her back. Just as they takes it out, the injuries in her left hand can be seen and for after a brief eye checking, it's revealed that she receives a yellow devil disease treatment. Zem somehow knows the culprit and say how regrettable it is.. Somehow I know that the only culprit left available is Mr Nalgarva. Nevertheless, after seeing how unpredictable this anime can get, I'm not going to jump right into a conclusion first and prefer to wait and see for the next few more hours episode to come.