Lablac Belle was supposed to begin her journey as a nomad after going through her passage of rite, however, as shown in Bye Bye Earth episode 2, achieving one’s goal does come with sets of trials.
Previously, in Bye Bye Earth episode 1, Lablac Belle is shown to be the only human among the demihumans, who supposedly was born of rock and hold a huge physical strength unlike others.
Since her childhood, children of her age bullied her for her featureless ears and face, and absence of horn and tail, and adults including her adoptive parents somewhat feared her strength, so in search of a friend she illegally freed the sword Runding from its seal and got imprisoned.
However, no matter how long she waited, her parents didn’t come, but another person came in their place, Lublac Sian, his future teacher, who gave her the Lublac name, and taught her the way of the sword as he was the bearer of the sword named Enola.
And it is a world, where respectable jobs come with a named sword and that sword shapes one’s lifestyle.
After killing a flower base monster at Lake Chaser following the request of the arbiter of the Weather Wheel Tower beside the lake, Belle realizes the sadness that the monster holds, is of a similar kind to her, thus it incites her homesickness(as Sian said).
It was then, that Sian presented the idea of becoming officially a nomad to her, to which Belle agreed, and faced Sian in a battle for the passage of the rite after receiving a curse through the blood oath.
As she took the blood oath, she started to forget about Sian slowly, and to be relieved of the pain of forgetting the most important person in life, she had no other choice but to cut the image of Sian completely from her mind, using her sword.
To know, what happens next, let’s follow Bye Bye Earth episode 2.
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Scenic Beauty In Bye Bye Earth Episode 2
Bye Bye Earth episode 2 presents a stunning background from the beginning, especially the scene, where the so-called O’Clock stone in quartz forest glows brighter.
Some innovative ideas also added beauty to the scene, like breaking the azure stone to bring forth water!!
In the very first scene, Lablac Belle arrives at the quartz forest, her so-called birthplace, since she was said to be birthed from a stone of that very forest.
It was then that she contemplated her origin and gazed upon the bright blue planet in the sky to find a planet with the promise of life and an equally impossible thought about her origin being there, this moment was beautifully captured with the planet in the background, quartz forest, mainly a forest of glittering stone in the middle ground, and Belle at the foreground.
This scene somehow depicted the yearning of lonely Belle to meet her kin, as the quartz forest showed the distance between her and the supposed planet that she expected to be her home.
This is the episode where medieval fantasy meets with ethereal beauty.
The townscape when Belle arrives at the Park City of Schwert Land, the country, the angle of the view, and the little bit of imperfect geometrical design of the city capture the natural beauty of a fantasy story.
The instance where the farmer’s band played music facing the crops, was an exquisite concept.
Theatrical Approach To The Story In Bye Bye Earth Episode 2
The story of Bye Bye Earth episode 2, adapts a theatrical approach to present the story.
The focus of this episode is Belle as she prepares for her nomad journey, setting the capital as the official starting point.
This episode starts by showing Belle’s loneliness in a fulfilled population by showing her alone in a glittering stone forest, the quartz forest with a single planet accompanying her.
Her journey in the vast unknown is shown by her encounter with a dressed rabbit, according to the story of Bye Bye Earth episode 2, it’s a species called Rabitia’s kid.
However, it couldn’t be helped if someone thinks of that scene as a reference to Alice in Wonderland’s story, just like Alice journeyed into the unknown land.
The fact that Park City runs according to a “Theme” by distinguishing good from evil, white from black as if the color grey doesn’t exist is quite symbolic.
Like our society, in which authorities sometimes use scapegoats to make the black and white distinct, because if anything exists out of the social norm, like necessary evil or toxic goodness, then the structure of society could crumble.
If we observe carefully, we can find that all the names related to the capital are somehow similar to a wildlife and animal park, like the name of the city itself, Park City, or something like top-dog and under-dog, which also could be used to describe the animal foodchain.
It’s shown that intelligent beings, that are close to humans are no different than wild beasts, the only difference is that, unlike wild beasts, they systemized violence, just like when in the tavern, underdog knights were about to kill Rabitia’s kid with the excuse of their sword’s growth.
There is also a superficial aspect of social animals, that is shown here, that they prioritize their well-being and materialistic gains over the lives of others.
For instance, the underdog knights who were about to kill the Rabitia kid weren’t imprisoned, but Belle was imprisoned, who broke their sword.
Because just in our real world we prioritize the wealth, that we have built over time, more, in the story of Bye Bye Earth episode 2 it is shown that the populace of Park City also values the sword most that they raised like a living being.
A capital city where good and evil are categorized and forced upon its citizens using laws must also have a king of the same kind.
We see such a king after Belle gets acquitted of her charge of breaking swords with the help of her brother-disciple, Guff.
An entity that holds two distinctly different forms of good and evil in the same body, worshipping a Sword-Tree God, Yggdrasil, which seemed similar to the social system’s materialized form, just like the social system, which doesn’t see any single person.
That thing is cleanly portrayed when Belle aims her sword at the tree and neither the king nor the tree reacts as if she and her sword are insignificant to them.
Ostrasization of socially awkward people is shown in a creative metaphor, in which it was told, that those who stop enjoying their life and surroundings, in short, don’t appreciate society, are taken away by some ghoul-like creatures.
Those theatrical approaches made the story of Bye Bye Earth episode 2 more appealing and relatable.
Struggles Lablac Belle Faced
The plan was to start the nomad journey as soon as possible in Bye Bye Earth episode 2, however, Belle was faced with some unavoidable struggles.
One of which could be to be of service to the King before getting the official permission to be a nomad and go out of the country.
However, as we learned in Bye Bye Earth episode 1, Belle had to bear a curse, which materialized in Bye Bye Earth episode 2 which was the inability to cut some precise objects, so being in the King’s service was quite difficult for Belle.
There was her supposedly teacher whose identity she forgot, keeps on speaking in her mind, maybe her guilt from killing him, well yes it makes one doubt, that if the fight Belle had was with her teacher in Bye Bye Earth episode 1 was truly limited only in mind relm.
There was another problem, Belle was one with a unique philosophy, which was, that the sword is a glove to her, which allows her to interact with all without discrimination by cutting.
But the curse preventing her from cutting some still unknown specific things was a major inconvenience and detrimental to her philosophy.
There was only another way for her to gain permission to be a nomad which was to face an old rival, whose, sword she broke, in other words, wounded his ego, his name is Kir Royale, one of the four champions of the kingdom.
By the way, there is one mysterious character who appeared in Bye Bye Earth episode 2, Adonis is his name.
So, what kind of involvement will Adonis have in the story in the future?
Next, what kind of duel will take place?
To know the answer to that, stay tuned to for the next episode...
