Episode 2 · Bastard!!

Bastard!!

The kingdom of Metallicana is burning, and the ones setting the fires used to be friends. Four of them, anyway: a ninja named Gara, Nei with her thunder, the cold schemer Kall-Su, and Abigail, who lurks in the shadows and says almost nothing. They want the whole world under their boot, and they are not asking nicely. So the high priest panics and does something stupid. He cracks open the seal on Dark Schneider, the wizard who once led those same four, and lets him out. But there is a catch. Schneider has been crammed inside a kid's body for fifteen years, and now that he is free, he mostly wants women, wine, and a decent fight. He is supposed to hunt down his old crew and drag them back to sanity. Except nobody is sure whose side he is really on, and Schneider himself seems to enjoy the chaos too much to pick one. Can the priests really trust the man they locked away, or did they just hand the world to the worst of the five?