just doing my best to catch up

From Old Country Bumpkin To Master Swordsman Episode 3: This time, it was Surena's backstory. I mean, it was vaguely seen in the first episode. But they did an in depth of it in this one. I didn't realize that she had that kind of story, to be honest. Kind of made me sad for her. But thanks to Beryl, she found a purpose to move forward and use whatever she learned from him to become excellent in her chosen profession as an adventurer. Much like Allucia, Surena achieved the highest rank possible. I liked her specialty in terms of sword wielding, by the way. Two swords. By the way, I noticed that the spelling of her name in the light novel and the anime was different. So whenever I would post my episode comment, I think it's better if I should refer to the one used in the anime to avoid confusion or something. Another thing I noticed here was that this would be near the end of the light novel's first volume since I saw the named monster that attacked them. Yikes! This was going to be brutal, for sure.

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From Old Country Bumpkin To Master Swordsman Episode 4: First half was chaotic because of their battle with a monster. That was one heck of a battle and maybe Beryl's first exposure to such battle, given that he remained as an instructor in their village. Or I could be wrong since I did see him trying put adventuring in one of he flashbacks about him. And then the other half was calm. They actually had to use the monster's remains (or at least, one BIG part of it) as a core for the sword that Beryl would be using. In this, it looked like Surena won a point against Allucia in terms of impressing (or should I say, helping) their former instructor. Another of Beryl's former student appeared who was now a swordsmith. A change of pace to the usual mainly girls appearing as his former students. But near the end, it turned out that it was just a calm before the storm. The girl in the end appeared in the ending song as one of those close to Beryl. But it doesn't look like she was one of his former students. Then again, she used fire magic to distract him while pickpocketing. So could she be more attuned to magic than swordsmanship? I haven't read this part of the light novel's second volume, so I'm not sure. Maybe it's best for me to remain in the dark on this one or treat it as its own.