Episode Title:
Festivities and Fuushu’s Graduate
Episode Description:
Everyone prepares for the upcoming fall festival. They arrange an event called "sliding", but with more safer rules. To prepare for it, Hiraku builds a hill, which comes with a slide, a ramp, and a pool. Once the festival, Hiraku explains that contestants (who are made to wear swimsuits created by Zabuton) would slide down the hill and up the ramp to see how far they can land across the pool in a similar manner to ski jumping. Distance keepers and a rescue team are established and Flowrem is made the host. Ronana is the first to go, followed by Daga, Flora, Kuro, Tia (who cheats by flying), Ru, Sena (who finds her swimsuit embarrassing), and the Town Hall Girls. The latter three then make Rashashi go next, but she gets into an accident, prompting the rescue team to help her. The latter makes Flowrem go next as Rashashi takes over as the temporally host, though Flowrem cheats with magic. Lastismoon is the last to go, but they discover that Zabuton has also entered the competition, who surprisingly wins. This sways contestants to try and beat Zabuton's record. Later, Hiraku and Ru discover that Alfred has started walking and talking. Fuushu returns to thank Hiraku for curing her son and brings more villagers to stay in the village, who are all human. Hiraku is glad that the village will finally have more men. Earlier, it is revealed that when Fuushu tried to invite people to move to the Great Tree Village, no one wanted to due to their fear of her and the Forest of Death, until she manipulated them into doing so; she learned that nobles were spreading lies about her and the village being dangerous and had them punished. The new villagers have trouble with work in the village, so Hiraku gives easier jobs for them. Hiraku learns that one of the new villagers can conjure elemental sprites. A banquet is then thrown to welcome the new villagers and Hiraku has to clear up a misunderstanding with some of the new villagers fearing the elves. One new villager appears to be able to tell that Lastismoon and Hakuren are dragons as she is suspected to be a Dragon Maiden. Meanwhile, a demon-like being watches them from a flying castle.
