Ep. 1

Summary

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Subaru Natsuki leaves a convenience store and abruptly finds himself in the royal capital of an unfamiliar fantasy world. His modern money is useless, he cannot read the local writing, and three thieves quickly teach him that he has gained no convenient heroic powers. A silver-haired half-elf accompanied by the spirit Puck rescues him, then reluctantly accepts his help recovering a stolen insignia. Calling herself Satella, she searches the slums with Subaru until they reach a loot house operated by the giant Rom. They discover Rom and the thief Felt murdered, and the assassin Elsa kills Subaru and Satella as well. Subaru suddenly awakens beside the same fruit seller he met earlier, with the day apparently reset and everyone else unaware of what happened. After another attempt ends with Elsa slaughtering the group during negotiations for the insignia, Subaru returns once more. He approaches the silver-haired girl and calls her Satella, only to learn that the name belongs to the feared Witch of Envy and deeply offends her.