Episode 100: Members of the Round Table
Episode 100: Members of the Round Table
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Episode 100: Members of the Round Table
So the episode opens with a bunch of shadowy people watching as the Maou ‘returns’ - presumably from Earth.
…And among them is Waltorana, whose eyes do a creepy flash. Still nothing on Murata’s glasses, though.
Oh, and Densham, too.
Yuuri is welcomed back by everyone at the castle. In their own unique way..
The orgy, however is broken up by the Ten Nobles, who are gathered en masse because dammit, they’re tired of never being invited to these things.
Waltarona gets right down to business. Direct, that man.
Well, at least someone has some manners.
So they decide to convene at the Round Table. Judging by everyone’s reactions, this is a Big Deal.
…We’re kinda starting to get that.
Waltarona’s letting out his inner Phantom-of-the-Opera, being all cloak swirly. Also, he’s apparently elected himself spokesperson for the Ten Nobles. Alrighty then.
After the title screen, we move onto…
The Round Table itself, which as Yuuri says, isn’t how we’d have pictured it.
After a pun worthy of Conrart, Yuuri finds out why the Ten Nobles really called him here.
Yuuri: Ack, no, I’m not really into BDSM, it was just the once!
Luckily, Gunter is there to explain it all before Yuuri’s brain explodes.
Strangely enough, it’s not that hard to picture.
LONG SUFFERING RAVEN IS LONG SUFFERING.
As Yuuri looks around, his eye falls on…
Lord von Grantz’s proxy.
That was so knitted by Anissina, I tell you.
After a small snoozefest break while Gunter reads out the letter, Yuuri finally wakes up and gets back to the matter at hand.
Which is when the chair he’s sitting in spins around.
Hmm. As we cut to the lady in question, we find that apparently Raven is good enough to stare at ‘forever’ - despite his wrinkles. Not that I could actually disagree…
But enough of this! Waltarona wants to know why Yuuri’s been making unilateral decisions.
Yuuri responds that he had ‘just gone to visit a friend’, and that some trouble had unexpectedly sprung up.
Waltarona’s not buying it. They’re humans, he says. Why do we even need to go visit them? They’re utterly different from us, and we can never agree on anything.
Yuuri: Having different ideas about things is what makes it interesting! Damned speciesist.
And Waltarona’s all OHNOYOUDIDN’T, which is when he pulls out the big guns.
Yuuri’s not really sure, but he can always go ask him-
Ahem. Ahemahem ahem.
Um. Gwendal? Something wrong with your throat?
XD
The honourable Stoffel, however, agrees with his King, and he doesn’t care who knows it. I can almost hear Conrart’s veins pop at the hyprocisy, right now. :P.
And from there it descends into a disagreement, with Densham saying he doesn’t mind dealing with Shimaron commercially, which is met with opposition from the blue-haired-middle-aged-lady-whose-name-I-forget.
While Yuuri grows steadily dizzier and dizzier (the chair’s turning mechanism seems to be voice activated), Gwendal finally calls the meeting to order.
Waltarona agrees, saying that he would first like to hear what the Maou has to say for himself.
Yuuri’s too dizzy to answer by now, though, so they take a short break for lunch.
Wolfram takes the opportunity to advise Yuuri not take the Ten Nobles lightly.
Especially that damned Gyllenhal!
Um. Why, exactly?
When I was young, Wolfram grits out, with clenched teeth, he’d forcibly lay me down on his knee and…Okay, I’m starting to get a little disturbed here, Wolfram.D:
Yuuri quickly puts it into perspective for us, however.
Gunter tells Yuuri about the other side of Gyllenhal, talking about the man’s love for art. He proceeds to tell a wide-eyed Yuuri how each one of the Nobles are famous for their individual achievements, which leads the Maou to have a revelation, of sorts.
Before he can get too weighed down by his thoughts, he remembers:
Hey, why’d you stop me from talking about Shinou, Gwendal?
Because it was what the Shinou had commanded.
Just as Yuuri’s ‘whaaa?’ is echoing off the walls, the door opens and the Shinou enters, in his awesome new Shinoumobile, the ride for every pocket sized original king on Murata’s shoulder.
Oooh, says Yuuri.
And the one they are meant to support is not me, ‘tis you.
So, hang in there, Yuuri, says Murata.
And scene shifts to Julia’s younger brother, staring at a bunch of flowers.
Conrart joins him, and the two spend a few minutes talking about Dell Kearson’s son Lindsey (of the pranks) and how the citizens adore him, despite what passes for his sense of humor.
He reminds me of my elder sister, Kearson says.
I see. He must have grown to see the truth, responds Conrart. Without thinking about social standing or appearances, he makes his decisions based on what he sees before him, glowing as he goes.
Aww.
Even now, that hasn’t changed.
Even now?
Conrart says nothing more, despite the puzzled looks Dell Kearson and the audience are now shooting him.
We then see Yuuri and Wolfram having a post-lunch walk in the royal gardens.
They’re interrupted by one of the Nobles, Lord von Radford, who enquires after Yuuri’s health.
Before the Maou can answer, the peace is broken by Anissina and Densham having…a minor disagreement over the usefulness of Densham’s pet chicken.
Really, Densham? A pet chicken? XD
Anissina seems to think it should serve as Yuuri’s dinner. Densham disagrees.
Ah, those meddlesome rambunctious kids, Radford sighs. They’ve been that way since they were yay high.They’d often play together in this here garden.
Yuuri: Huh?
Oh, yeah, says Lord von Radford.
Okay, seriously, guys, answer my question. What’s ‘Shinou-ed Away’? They continue to ignore Yuuri, however, which is why he runs away to…
Conrart, who knows he’s coming, because his Yuuri-senses started tingling.
Yuuri wants an explanation, and Conrart’s happy to oblige.
Oh. Kick-the-Can, huh. After sharing an ‘aww’ worthy moment with Conrart, the little light bulb over his head goes off, and Yuuri runs in to the conference room where everyone’s waiting for him.
Everyone is…surprised…by his entrance, to say the least.
Of course, this is nothing to their reaction to Yuuri’s next item on the to-do list:
WHYYY? Everyone exclaims.
Because it’ll help bring us all together, Yuuri explains.
Surprisingly, he gets support from Waltarona, who thinks it would be a good idea. Dell Kearson agrees, and everyone else falls in line once Densham and Gwendal agree with him.
Gunter, King of Exposition, gets down to explaining the rules to the newbie king. It’s similar to the Kick-the-Can on Earth, he says. However, before you can kick the head, you need to sing the Shinou’s gospel Number 6. And he then proceeds to demonstrate, getting in the first line before a startled Yuuri butts in.
If we have to sing, whoever’s It will tag us!
When you’re singing, whoever is It will have to crawl to get to you.
Oh. Okay then.
And tonight’s game is brought to you by the letter…
And, with Yuuri kicking the skull away, the game’s afoot. Couldn’t resist, lol.
Everyone seems to be really into it, despite all earlier objections.
Stoffel is It, and everyone scarpers to hide, including Waltarona, who has a flashback to when he was a kid and the rest of the Ten Noble kids used to play Shinou-ed Away right in the same gardens.
Yeah, he was a bit of a haughty ass then, too.
When little!Gyllenhal asks him if he’ll be joining the game, little!Waltarona responds that it’s a children’s game, Gyllenhall laughs. Cause, you know, Waltarona, YOU ARE A KID.
Waltarona does not like being laughed at, so he stalks away, only to have his eye caught by something glittering in the bushes. And Waltarona’s a magpie in disguise, so he heads over to check it out.
Only to find…
Oh, hey, little!Julia. Watcha doing here?
Little!Julia wastes no time in dragging Waltarona into the game of Shinou-ed Away she’s playing with the others.
No way, Waltarona responds. Our fathers are having an important conference here-
But Julia thinks conferences aren’t all that important.
That’s the only way we’ll be able to understand one another, she says.
And as she sneakily tricks Waltarona into joining the game, Julia tells him…well, we don’t know yet what she tells him, because Waltarona comes out of his flashback just then to peer around the wall he’s hiding behind.
As he does this, he sees the same flash of light among the same bushes, just like the umpty million years ago in the flashback.
And he goes to look…
Was there really ever any doubt who it would be?
Waltarona’s a little surprised to see Julia’s necklace around Yuuri’s neck, but being polite, he doesn’t pry. Yuuri tells him this is the perfect spot, since he can keep an eye on everyone else.
Oh, Stoffel’s moved away from the head!
This is our chance! Yuuri says, and dashes forward. Waltarona has a flash back to the same thing happening those umpty million years ago with Julia, and he realises that Julia and Yuuri are very alike, neither of them caring much for social standing.
While Waltarona’s having his Deep Thoughts, Yuuri’s reached the skull and is ready to kick it, only to realise…he doesn’t know the words to the Shinou’s Gospel No. 6! D:
Which is when Waltarona comes to the rescue.
And starts singing. Oh god, I love love love this song. :D
He changes the song a little, though, substituting ‘Maou’ for ‘Shinou’. And everyone joins in - the Ten Nobles, the maids, Conrart and Wolfram and Lady Celi and Anissina, everyone, and it is marvellous.
Well, almost everyone joins in. Stoffel’s determined to make Waltarona lose.
Of course, Waltarona has a competitive streak a mile wide.
And in the end, Yuuri and Waltarona win.
It’s sunset, and everyone’s leaving. So soon? It’s customary for the conference to end once it’s evening, Your Majesty.
Before he leaves, Waltarona tells Yuuri that he made him recall something important someone once said to him.
As the Ten Nobles take their leave, in the Shinou temple, Shinou remarks to Murata that he’d have liked to have played with them.
Um, yeah. Moving on.
As Waltarona leaves Covenant Castle, we finally get to know what it was that Julia told him.
A man who was once called a child by a child now supports a child Maou, he muses. Well, perhaps that’s not so bad.
And so ends the episode.
~
-Again, a filler episode, but very enjoyable filler. And it’s nice to see that Yuuri’s actions do have consequences, instead of just falling into a vaccumm of ‘everyone loved the Maou so much’ and ‘nothing the Maou did went wrong, ever’.
-Also, did we, or did we not hear Gunter say he would ‘read’ out Lord von Grantz’s letter out loud?
Exhibit A:
IS GUNTER RECITING THE LETTER FROM MEMORY?? o_0 Cause…I don’t see any letter in his hands.
-I love how the sandbear plushie is included in the reaction shots when Waltarona makes his big accusation. XD
-I really like Conrart’s words to Yuuri when he worries about whether the Ten Nobles would really support him, given that he’s spent such a short time with them. The man really does always seem to know exactly what to say to make Yuuri feel better.
-And how much do I love the Shinou Gospel no. 6? Muchly do I love it. ♥ I don’t think I’ll ever tire of hearing it. =)
Since I love it so much, here, have the link to download it, thanks to the very awesome rynankh.
And, up next, Episode 101, hosted by teef_chan!
If you need to watch the epsiode, go here (Community Locked).
Episode 100: Members of the Round Table
So the episode opens with a bunch of shadowy people watching as the Maou ‘returns’ - presumably from Earth.
…And among them is Waltorana, whose eyes do a creepy flash. Still nothing on Murata’s glasses, though.
Oh, and Densham, too.
Yuuri is welcomed back by everyone at the castle. In their own unique way..
The orgy, however is broken up by the Ten Nobles, who are gathered en masse because dammit, they’re tired of never being invited to these things.
Waltarona gets right down to business. Direct, that man.
Well, at least someone has some manners.
So they decide to convene at the Round Table. Judging by everyone’s reactions, this is a Big Deal.
…We’re kinda starting to get that.
Waltarona’s letting out his inner Phantom-of-the-Opera, being all cloak swirly. Also, he’s apparently elected himself spokesperson for the Ten Nobles. Alrighty then.
After the title screen, we move onto…
The Round Table itself, which as Yuuri says, isn’t how we’d have pictured it.
After a pun worthy of Conrart, Yuuri finds out why the Ten Nobles really called him here.
Yuuri: Ack, no, I’m not really into BDSM, it was just the once!
Luckily, Gunter is there to explain it all before Yuuri’s brain explodes.
Strangely enough, it’s not that hard to picture.
LONG SUFFERING RAVEN IS LONG SUFFERING.
As Yuuri looks around, his eye falls on…
Lord von Grantz’s proxy.
That was so knitted by Anissina, I tell you.
After a small snoozefest break while Gunter reads out the letter, Yuuri finally wakes up and gets back to the matter at hand.
Which is when the chair he’s sitting in spins around.
Hmm. As we cut to the lady in question, we find that apparently Raven is good enough to stare at ‘forever’ - despite his wrinkles. Not that I could actually disagree…
But enough of this! Waltarona wants to know why Yuuri’s been making unilateral decisions.
Yuuri responds that he had ‘just gone to visit a friend’, and that some trouble had unexpectedly sprung up.
Waltarona’s not buying it. They’re humans, he says. Why do we even need to go visit them? They’re utterly different from us, and we can never agree on anything.
Yuuri: Having different ideas about things is what makes it interesting! Damned speciesist.
And Waltarona’s all OHNOYOUDIDN’T, which is when he pulls out the big guns.
Yuuri’s not really sure, but he can always go ask him-
Ahem. Ahemahem ahem.
Um. Gwendal? Something wrong with your throat?
XD
The honourable Stoffel, however, agrees with his King, and he doesn’t care who knows it. I can almost hear Conrart’s veins pop at the hyprocisy, right now. :P.
And from there it descends into a disagreement, with Densham saying he doesn’t mind dealing with Shimaron commercially, which is met with opposition from the blue-haired-middle-aged-lady-whose-name-I-forget.
While Yuuri grows steadily dizzier and dizzier (the chair’s turning mechanism seems to be voice activated), Gwendal finally calls the meeting to order.
Waltarona agrees, saying that he would first like to hear what the Maou has to say for himself.
Yuuri’s too dizzy to answer by now, though, so they take a short break for lunch.
Wolfram takes the opportunity to advise Yuuri not take the Ten Nobles lightly.
Especially that damned Gyllenhal!
Um. Why, exactly?
When I was young, Wolfram grits out, with clenched teeth, he’d forcibly lay me down on his knee and…Okay, I’m starting to get a little disturbed here, Wolfram.D:
Yuuri quickly puts it into perspective for us, however.
Gunter tells Yuuri about the other side of Gyllenhal, talking about the man’s love for art. He proceeds to tell a wide-eyed Yuuri how each one of the Nobles are famous for their individual achievements, which leads the Maou to have a revelation, of sorts.
Before he can get too weighed down by his thoughts, he remembers:
Hey, why’d you stop me from talking about Shinou, Gwendal?
Because it was what the Shinou had commanded.
Just as Yuuri’s ‘whaaa?’ is echoing off the walls, the door opens and the Shinou enters, in his awesome new Shinoumobile, the ride for every pocket sized original king on Murata’s shoulder.
Oooh, says Yuuri.
And the one they are meant to support is not me, ‘tis you.
So, hang in there, Yuuri, says Murata.
And scene shifts to Julia’s younger brother, staring at a bunch of flowers.
Conrart joins him, and the two spend a few minutes talking about Dell Kearson’s son Lindsey (of the pranks) and how the citizens adore him, despite what passes for his sense of humor.
He reminds me of my elder sister, Kearson says.
I see. He must have grown to see the truth, responds Conrart. Without thinking about social standing or appearances, he makes his decisions based on what he sees before him, glowing as he goes.
Aww.
Even now, that hasn’t changed.
Even now?
Conrart says nothing more, despite the puzzled looks Dell Kearson and the audience are now shooting him.
We then see Yuuri and Wolfram having a post-lunch walk in the royal gardens.
They’re interrupted by one of the Nobles, Lord von Radford, who enquires after Yuuri’s health.
Before the Maou can answer, the peace is broken by Anissina and Densham having…a minor disagreement over the usefulness of Densham’s pet chicken.
Really, Densham? A pet chicken? XD
Anissina seems to think it should serve as Yuuri’s dinner. Densham disagrees.
Ah, those meddlesome rambunctious kids, Radford sighs. They’ve been that way since they were yay high.They’d often play together in this here garden.
Yuuri: Huh?
Oh, yeah, says Lord von Radford.
Okay, seriously, guys, answer my question. What’s ‘Shinou-ed Away’? They continue to ignore Yuuri, however, which is why he runs away to…
Conrart, who knows he’s coming, because his Yuuri-senses started tingling.
Yuuri wants an explanation, and Conrart’s happy to oblige.
Oh. Kick-the-Can, huh. After sharing an ‘aww’ worthy moment with Conrart, the little light bulb over his head goes off, and Yuuri runs in to the conference room where everyone’s waiting for him.
Everyone is…surprised…by his entrance, to say the least.
Of course, this is nothing to their reaction to Yuuri’s next item on the to-do list:
WHYYY? Everyone exclaims.
Because it’ll help bring us all together, Yuuri explains.
Surprisingly, he gets support from Waltarona, who thinks it would be a good idea. Dell Kearson agrees, and everyone else falls in line once Densham and Gwendal agree with him.
Gunter, King of Exposition, gets down to explaining the rules to the newbie king. It’s similar to the Kick-the-Can on Earth, he says. However, before you can kick the head, you need to sing the Shinou’s gospel Number 6. And he then proceeds to demonstrate, getting in the first line before a startled Yuuri butts in.
If we have to sing, whoever’s It will tag us!
When you’re singing, whoever is It will have to crawl to get to you.
Oh. Okay then.
And tonight’s game is brought to you by the letter…
And, with Yuuri kicking the skull away, the game’s afoot. Couldn’t resist, lol.
Everyone seems to be really into it, despite all earlier objections.
Stoffel is It, and everyone scarpers to hide, including Waltarona, who has a flashback to when he was a kid and the rest of the Ten Noble kids used to play Shinou-ed Away right in the same gardens.
Yeah, he was a bit of a haughty ass then, too.
When little!Gyllenhal asks him if he’ll be joining the game, little!Waltarona responds that it’s a children’s game, Gyllenhall laughs. Cause, you know, Waltarona, YOU ARE A KID.
Waltarona does not like being laughed at, so he stalks away, only to have his eye caught by something glittering in the bushes. And Waltarona’s a magpie in disguise, so he heads over to check it out.
Only to find…
Oh, hey, little!Julia. Watcha doing here?
Little!Julia wastes no time in dragging Waltarona into the game of Shinou-ed Away she’s playing with the others.
No way, Waltarona responds. Our fathers are having an important conference here-
But Julia thinks conferences aren’t all that important.
That’s the only way we’ll be able to understand one another, she says.
And as she sneakily tricks Waltarona into joining the game, Julia tells him…well, we don’t know yet what she tells him, because Waltarona comes out of his flashback just then to peer around the wall he’s hiding behind.
As he does this, he sees the same flash of light among the same bushes, just like the umpty million years ago in the flashback.
And he goes to look…
Was there really ever any doubt who it would be?
Waltarona’s a little surprised to see Julia’s necklace around Yuuri’s neck, but being polite, he doesn’t pry. Yuuri tells him this is the perfect spot, since he can keep an eye on everyone else.
Oh, Stoffel’s moved away from the head!
This is our chance! Yuuri says, and dashes forward. Waltarona has a flash back to the same thing happening those umpty million years ago with Julia, and he realises that Julia and Yuuri are very alike, neither of them caring much for social standing.
While Waltarona’s having his Deep Thoughts, Yuuri’s reached the skull and is ready to kick it, only to realise…he doesn’t know the words to the Shinou’s Gospel No. 6! D:
Which is when Waltarona comes to the rescue.
And starts singing. Oh god, I love love love this song. :D
He changes the song a little, though, substituting ‘Maou’ for ‘Shinou’. And everyone joins in - the Ten Nobles, the maids, Conrart and Wolfram and Lady Celi and Anissina, everyone, and it is marvellous.
Well, almost everyone joins in. Stoffel’s determined to make Waltarona lose.
Of course, Waltarona has a competitive streak a mile wide.
And in the end, Yuuri and Waltarona win.
It’s sunset, and everyone’s leaving. So soon? It’s customary for the conference to end once it’s evening, Your Majesty.
Before he leaves, Waltarona tells Yuuri that he made him recall something important someone once said to him.
As the Ten Nobles take their leave, in the Shinou temple, Shinou remarks to Murata that he’d have liked to have played with them.
Um, yeah. Moving on.
As Waltarona leaves Covenant Castle, we finally get to know what it was that Julia told him.
A man who was once called a child by a child now supports a child Maou, he muses. Well, perhaps that’s not so bad.
And so ends the episode.
~
-Again, a filler episode, but very enjoyable filler. And it’s nice to see that Yuuri’s actions do have consequences, instead of just falling into a vaccumm of ‘everyone loved the Maou so much’ and ‘nothing the Maou did went wrong, ever’.
-Also, did we, or did we not hear Gunter say he would ‘read’ out Lord von Grantz’s letter out loud?
Exhibit A:
IS GUNTER RECITING THE LETTER FROM MEMORY?? o_0 Cause…I don’t see any letter in his hands.
-I love how the sandbear plushie is included in the reaction shots when Waltarona makes his big accusation. XD
-I really like Conrart’s words to Yuuri when he worries about whether the Ten Nobles would really support him, given that he’s spent such a short time with them. The man really does always seem to know exactly what to say to make Yuuri feel better.
-And how much do I love the Shinou Gospel no. 6? Muchly do I love it. ♥ I don’t think I’ll ever tire of hearing it. =)
Since I love it so much, here, have the link to download it, thanks to the very awesome rynankh.
And, up next, Episode 101, hosted by teef_chan!