Episode Title:
Conscience does make cowards of us all. I
Episode Description:
Lucy remains in a coma. Chise replaces Lucy’s magic with her own. Concerned about her arm Chise visits Cartaphilus who assures her killing to protect herself is natural, but is gleeful Chise has started down a dark path. Lucy’s brother Seth visits. Lucy awakens and Chise sees her dreams of a massacre, and spiders. Philomena asks Chise to be friends. College librarians discover a forbidden book has been replaced with a forgery, the Testament of Carnamagos, a Grimoire so dangerous reading the words can kill the reader. Elias, having read the book once, reveals it concerns how to steal magic, create or kill immortals, and necromancy. Since the forgery contained spider silk the teachers suspect the Websters are involved. The teachers reveal the Websters cultivated special spiders to use their silk to preserve grimoires. The Webster tragedy involved the massacre of the family, except Lucy and Seth, and the theft of every spider. Seth has long been a suspect, having left the family due to having no magic. Teacher Simeon Paladihle, an expert in Sound Magic, is attacked by someone wielding the stolen Grimoire. Lucy wonders why Seth visited when they hate each other. Outside the college Seth’s driver is murdered by non-humans planning to invade the college.
