Our second episode opens with a brief recap of the first. Immediately following this is a scene in which Nyarlko defends Mahiro from a horde of Nightgaunts with a new facet of her Space CQC: the Blasphemous Hand Grenade. (At this point, I feel as though I should make a joke about each appearance of this supposed "Close Quarters Combat" being less and less accurate with regards to its title, but since Mahiro makes that joke in the episode, it would be rather redundant). After she finishes ridding the park of the foul creatures (as well as some unoffending dirt which was tragically caught in the crossfire), Mahiro berates Nyarlko for not doing anything other than defeating Nightgaunts as they attack, suggesting that she should attempt to be more proactive in finding their foes. Nyarlko protests that it isn't that simple, then announces that they will be immediately going to R'lyeh to stop the monsters at their source, thus demonstrating that it is simple.
Ah, the Cthulhu Mythos. Where even something so simple as checking to see that the stars are in the right position requires the stars to be in the right position. |
We now see Nyarlko and Mahiro traveling through the ocean on the back of a giant frog-thing. By sifting information out of a string of One Piece references, we learn two important things:
- Nyarlko has poor taste in anime.
- The two of them are traveling to R'lyeh