Episode 5 (Anime)

Glare (蛇眼（グレアー）, Jagan (gureā)) is the fifth episode of the Reign of the Seven Spellblades (Anime) series.

Synopsis
Nanao and Oliver face down a powerful foe who has designs on Katie.

Summary
Teresa apologizes for not being there to protect Oliver, however Oliver tells her its fine as no one could predict a garuda would show up at the coliseum. Terasa still wishes to protect him, so that he can do what he came to do when the times comes. Katie keeps visiting the troll, but Vera doesn't believe she will have a progress with him. However in that moment, the troll accepts food from Katie and makes her happy.

After finishing a class where they dissected guts from an animal, Oliver and his friends head for lunch, but are not thrilled about it given the class they had. The other students are avoiding them and they no longer make fun of Katie. However Oliver doesn't want to assume its all over. He also believes that the troll and garuda incidents may be related to a demi-human activist. Guy hopes the teacher find out the culprit for the garuda incident, but Oliver states that the school won't get involved since it happened in the labyrinth and such things are quite common at the school.

Nanao had become quite popular due the fight with the garuda and students surround her asking her questions. Katie feels its unfair, since Oliver also fought and he should be popular too. Michela then decides to reward Oliver with a victory kiss, but he stops her. Nanao returns and hearing about the reward, she decides to give Oliver a victory kiss too and then requests that he gives her a victory kiss as well. Oliver feels quite embarrassed, but agrees to do it. Just about he kisses Nanao, Oliver's cousin interrupts them, stating that they finally met each other at school. She apologizes if she is bothering him, and is glad that he found some friends. She then kisses him and leaves. Michela wonders who she is and Oliver explains that she is his cousin and he has been staying with her family.

Oliver and the rest have an alchemy class with Darius Grenville. Darius warns the students that the materials they work with can undergo sudden and drastic changes in state, and are dangerous. He then tells them to start working on the potion recipe they have. During the class, Oliver helps few students, including Pete, who messed up and almost caused incidents if it wasn't for Oliver to stop them. Darius is impressed by Oliver's actions and tells him that he will remember his name and face, however he warns him to choose his friends more carefully.

After class Richard warns Oliver to watch out for Darius, who tends to take talented students under his wing and ruin their future careers. He also steals results from students and publishes it as his own work. Richard also tells them that an acquaintance of his wants to talk to Katie and the others about the incident with the troll. Later, they meet with Annie Mackley, who apologizes for putting Katie in danger during the entrance ceremony. Her parents had told her that rights activist are embarrassment for all mages and she decided to cast a pranking spell on Katie. Oliver asks her who else works with her and someone else made the troll go crazy. Annie explains that she doesn't know who did that.

After they leave, Katie heads to visit the troll. She wonders on why he attacked, since she knows he isn't the type of person who would do that. She really wishes to speak with the troll, but to her surprise the troll answers and tells her that she shouldn't come anymore, as that person is dangerous. Nanao practice using Flamma with Oliver. She has been taught on how to use her power inside of her, but doesn't know what to do when the power leaves her body. Oliver tells her that she needs to melt outside the world of her skin and demonstrates on how to use Flamma. Nanao then practice some other spells. She wants to learn fast so that she can help the rest, although she doesn't believe the troll will try to escape again. Oliver then questions her if she believe that the troll was trying to escape and not going out of control. Nanao states she felt that the troll was heading towards the gate. Oliver then thinks about it and realizes something and they head towards the troll cage. They reach the cage, where Oliver finds Katie's sword. The troll then tells them that they took away Katie. Oliver asks if he knows where, but the troll doesn't and only guesses it may be where they took him before, a deep dark place. Oliver realizes its the labyrinth. While heading to look for Katie, Oliver explains that in the past rights activist organized projects to try and bring intelligence to demi-humans. They believed that if some of them become smart as humans, then they will be given rights. One of the projects was with trolls, but was criticized and abandoned quickly, however someone may have kept it going in the dark corners of Kimberly. Oliver is sure that someone was messing with the troll's brain and as he couldn't bear it anymore, he tried to escape. They reach a point in the labyrinth from which Oliver doesn't wish to continue any further down. He wants to call Alvin for help, but he and Nanao are the attacked by something and taken away.

Oliver and Nanao wake up elsewhere, where Vera tells them that she can't let them call Alvin. She welcomes them to her workshop and states it took her a year to make the garuda her familiar, but they defeated it on the first day it showed up. Vera explains that her operation on the troll's brain was perfect, but he refuses to talk with her, however Katie awakened his ability to speak, which makes Vera wonder what she did to make it happen. Vera wants to look at Katie's brain and take a small part to study it. Seeing there is no point in talking, Nanao jumps as Vera, but she reveals her left eye and starts turning Katie to stone. Oliver quickly breaks the spell and saves Nanao. He realizes that Vera has a basilisk's eye. Vera explains its a present from her overprotective parents and its not something anyone can use, as it killed five of her siblings before it finally worked on Vera. Those who know her eye, call Vera "Snake-Eye Miligan".

Characters

 * Oliver Horn
 * Teresa Carste
 * Katie Aalto
 * Marco
 * Vera Miligan
 * Michela McFarlane
 * Nanao Hibiya
 * Pete Reston
 * Guy Greenwood
 * Vanessa Aldiss
 * Shannon Sherwood
 * Darius Grenville
 * Richard Andrews
 * Annie Mackley

Light Novel-Anime Differences

 * Oliver's meeting with Teresa Carste at the start of this episode is original to the anime. She did not introduce herself to Oliver in the novel until the end of volume 1 (corresponding to episode 6).
 * In the novel, the Sword Roses learn of Mackley's involvement in the entrance ceremony incident from the the pride plants on the Kimberly Magic Academy grounds, rather than by Richard Andrews finding out and making her confess to repay Oliver.

Trivia

 * The Japanese episode title in Kanji, "Jagan", is pronounced similarly to the Japanese word for "evil eye" (邪眼), but is written with the characters for "snake eyes" (蛇眼).