The Rising of the Shield Hero Episode 2 English Dubbed

While Beloukas offers Naofumi a high-level Wolf-man, Naofumi instead buys the much cheaper Tanuki girl Raphtalia. Placing a slave crest on her prevents Raphtalia from betraying or disobeying Naofumi without feeling intense pain, while also linking shared experience gained by one to the other. Raphtalia’s recurring nightmares of her parents’ deaths in the first Wave have deeply scarred her, making her initially hesitant to kill. Both leave the capital for the small town of Lute for a mine to collect valuable ore, but they’re attacked by a high-level dog monster that wounds Naofumi; the same beast type which killed her parents, the monster’s appearance sends Raphtalia into shock. Seeing her fear, Naofumi tells her to escape while he buys time. Confronting her feelings of regret and helplessness, Raphtalia summons up the courage to kill the beast. Naofumi comforts Raphtalia, promising not to leave her and she agrees to help him defeat the Waves so other children won’t suffer as she has. Later at dinnertime, Naofumi decorates a toothpick flag to make the Flag of Japan, a sign of his intent to someday return home.