Anime Episode 25

Know Your Enemy and Know Yourself, and Your Union Shall Not Be Endangered is 25th episode of the "Genjitsu Shugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki" Anime adaptation.

''One evening, Excel whispers to the fiancées Liscia, Aisha, Juna, and Roroa that she will teach them how to please their man, and suddenly commences a "Fiancées' Bridal Course". The secrets of Souma and his fiancées are about to come to light.''

Summary
Jirukoma left Komain as chief of the settlement and with some others, he headed back wishing to retake their homeland.

Excel gathers Liscia, Aisha, Juna and Roroa for a lesson of Fiancee's Bridal Course, since she heard that Souma is ready to have children. She reminds them that two generations ago, when the previous king died, Elfrieden nearly faced a civil war as there was disputes over the throne succession, but believes that such thing won't happen after Souma is gone. Excel explains that she had lived for over 500 years and had multiple men with whom she was in love, and remained with them until they die. She plans to teach the girls how to be wife and understand and remain with the man they love. Excel also had a lesson with Souma, where she secretly made an illusionist cast a confession spell on Souma and made a notebook with the information she got from Souma.

Since Roroa is the last bride, Excel decides to start with her and tell her how Souma sees her. Souma reveals she is cheerful and friendly, and while she is a bit underhanded, its part of her charm. She is very good with finances and Souma is glad that she became his wife. Souma feels responsible for her father's death and fears she may not want to marry him. (After all, this would be an anomaly on Earth in the 21st century; making Souma feel guilty). Roroa states she already considered that and its with him by her own choice. She is a bit upset he doesn't know how she feels, but is kinda happy that he thinks so much of her.

Proceeding with Juna, Souma states that she is beautiful and not only on the outside, and finds her perfect, not wishing to lose her. He also feels lucky to be younger and dote on her from time to time. The group then comment that both Juna and Souma are 19 years old, but Excel explains that Souma figured out that this world has 384 days in a year, while his is 365, which would make Juna a year older than him. Juna and Aisha worry that Souma may not like older women, but Excel explains that's not the case.

Next up is Aisha, but as Excel starts to explain how Souma looks at her, she pauses and then states pet-like, causing shock to Aisha. Souma states Aisha is strong, noble and beautiful warrior, and is glad that she is by his side, but he feels something irresistible about her and finds himself wanting to protect her. (Which is why shes pet-like: being similar to a canine) Aisha feels she failed as bodyguard, but Liscia and June comfort her, stating they want to protect her too.

The final one is Liscia and Excel states she should start with how Souma felt about her, because his assessment to her can be summarized with one word, "nothing". Liscia starts to worry what that means, but Excel explains that Souma states he wish to personally tell her the feelings that matter most to him. (Meaning Souma resisted the spell to a degree) Liscia gets happy, while the rest comment they feel a bit jealous that she got a special treatment. Liscia feels jealous as well, as she wanted Souma to say similar nice things for her too.

Excel decides to proceed with the lecture and to talk about the nighttime services they should provide. The girls are embarrassed and are unsure if they wish to hear a lecture about that, but Roroa is a bit curious, along with Liscia. Excel reveal that if they complete the lecture, she will give them a notebook containing national top secrets, and more precisely what Souma wish to do with each one of them and how and where. The girls then get intrigued and agree to proceed with the lecture, but as they finally read the notebook, they feel quite embarrassed.

In Valois, the Gran Chaos Empire capital, Jeanne visits Maria and reports of what Souma had done with the slave traders and wishing to do the same. Maria agrees, stating she is excited of what kind of kingdom Souma will make next, but while they may take references from his kingdom, they should also build a rock-solid nation on their own. Maria then asks Jeanne how are things going with Hakuya, causing Jeanne to blush but state nothing is going on. Meanwhile, Hakuya reports to Souma that the trees surrounding the capital have all been cut down, for lumber and winter heating purposes, turning some areas into bare hills. Souma wonders if they should introduce lumber stoppages, explaining that lumber was once important military resource in his country and some areas where prohibited from being cut down by people. Souma suggests they redirect the thinned timber from the God-Protected Forest to where its needed. Hakuya then explains that the refugees relocation to Venetinova is going smoothly, and the only issue is jobs. Since many of them are hunters, there are not many with "marketable skills". Souma states they should also be good with woolen goods and decides to put them to work in the textile industry. Souma believes they need to raise the education level there and Hakuya reveals he already had spoken with Ginger. Poncho rushes in and states that thing that Souma requested is finally done. Souma then takes a taste and excited tells Poncho he did it and that this is a sauce for flour-based dishes. Souma states they now can make yakisoba, okonomiyaki, monjayaki, takoyaki and more. He lets Hakuya have a taste and as he does, he is amazed by all the flavor and depth of taste it has. Poncho explains how many ingredients and sauces he combined to make it and per Hakuya's question, he confirms they can start mass producing it. Hakuya then has the idea of turning the sauce into Venetinova special sauce. Souma realizes that will create new jobs, but they can't let Venetinova has monopoly on it. However, since they are a gulf city, they can make a squid yakisoba, which will turn into Venetinova's delicacy.

Souma is with Liscia and comments its been a turbulent year. Its been eight months he got the throne. He feels good not having to do anything and they feed each other with oranges. Carla then comes and tells Souma that she has a message from Albert which states that tomorrow, the evening of December 32nd, Albert would like to meet up with Souma. Liscia wants to come as well, but Carla states that Albert requested Souma to come alone.

Characters in Order of Appearance
Characters in italics debuted here.
 * Kazuya Souma
 * Liscia Elfrieden
 * Aisha Udgard
 * Juna Doma
 * Roroa Amidonia
 * Excel Walter
 * Jeanne Euphoria
 * Maria Euphoria
 * Hakuya Kwonmin
 * Poncho Panacotta
 * Carla Vargas

Changes

 * The scene with the worcestershire sauce happens earlier in the light novel and happens at a distillery.
 * Excellent got Souma heavily inebriated in the original version; not a use a truth spell to trick him.

Trivia

 * This Episodes adapts Light Novel Volume 04 (Final Chapter Part 1),& Light Novel Volume 05 (Chapter 3)
 * The title of the episode is a quote that was given by Excel Walter.
 * The light novel would explain that Souma has a kind of sister figure fetish. (Good luck explaining that one to these girls).
 * Excel overstepped by getting Souma to confess his sexual preferences, to be written down for his four fiancées. Thats something that should be talked about in private between said partners.