Children and Warriors

Children and Warriors (子供と戦士) is the eleventh episode of the Mushoku Tensei anime.

Synopsis
With their new money-making scheme in place, Dead End head out to track down a mysterious monster. Unfortunately, the job doesn't go as smoothly as they hope, and Rudy's plans may turn out to be a lot less safe than he thought.

Plot
After the Mana Surge in Fitoa, Roxy begins looking for news about Rudeus and his family. Aside from Paul and Norn, all members of the Greyrat family are missing. Meanwhile, to accomplish a quest, Rudeus' party look for a mysterious monster in the middle of a forest. They encounter two other parties also searching for the monster. One of the parties is ambushed by monsters, but Rudeus decides to wait before attacking, which ends with one of the adventurers being killed. The monster they are looking for attacks and kills the other party before it is slain by Rudeus and co. Back at Rikarisu, Rudeus is approached by another adventurer, who discovers his scheme and attempts to blackmail him. Moved by Rudeus' resolve to protect Eris, Ruijerd drops his disguise, revealing himself as a Supard and threatens to kill the adventurer should he reveals their secret. After leaving the city, Rudeus reconciles with Ruijerd. Rudeus keeps traveling with Eris and Ruijerd all the way to a coastal city on the edge of the Demon Continent, unaware that Roxy is also arriving at the continent to look for him, accompained by two of Paul's former companions.

Characters

 * Rudeus Greyrat
 * Eris Boreas Greyrat
 * Ruijerd Superdia
 * Kurt
 * Blaze
 * Nokopara
 * Jalil
 * Vizquel
 * Roxy Migurdia
 * Elinalise Dragonroad
 * Talhand
 * Paul Greyrat (only voice)

Locations

 * Biegoya Region: Rikarisu City; Demon Continent

Adaptation Notes
This episode adapts the following material:


 * Light Novel Volume 2
 * Epilogue
 * Light Novel Volume 3
 * Chapter 11: A Smooth Start.
 * Chapter 12: Children and Warriors.
 * Chapter 13: Failure, Chaos, and Resolve.
 * Chapter 14: The Beginning of Our Journey.

Differences with the light novel:


 * Some short PoV of some people about the teleport incident was cut.
 * In the LN, Roxy meets Talhand and Elinalise offscreen before the events of Light Novel Volume 4.
 * All the development with Jalil and Vizquel was cut.
 * In the LN they buy his new equipment (the most notable, Rudeus Coat made of Mackey Rat) before the battle against the Cobra, meanwhile in the anime was after they leave Rikarisu.
 * In the LN, Kurt party was attacked by a group Executioners (a humanoid monster that use a sword) and a group of Almond Anacondas, Meanwhile in the anime is against a single spider and a single anaconda.
 * A short scene where Rudeus lick Eris hand was cut.
 * The definition of Ruijerd of what is a warrior in LN happens after Kurt party left the forest, meanwhile in the anime happens after Ruijerd left Rikarisu.
 * The backup plan if they find that the party Dead end interchange jobs with the party P-Hunter was cut.
 * A short scene after Ruijerd left Rikarisu of how Rudeus prepare some thing for the travel was cut
 * The explication what are the demon kings of the Demon Continent was cut.
 * A reunion of Dead End that explain all the future plans about the travel was cut
 * How was all those months traveling was changed in the anime.

Trivia

 * The ending sequence use re edited scenes of the first PV.