Filolial Queen

Filolial Queen (フィロリアルの女王) is the sixteenth episode of The Rising of the Shield Hero anime.

Synopsis
Realizing that the released monster is aiming for Filo, Naofumi decides to lead the monster far away from the city to minimize the damage to the crowd, leaving the rescued demi-humans in Reichnott's care. Soon they realized that they are no match for the monster, just then a herd of Filolials surrounds them and their leader appears before them.

Is this an ally, or a new enemy?

Plot
The Tyrant Dragon Rex rampages through Idol Rabier's territory on a warpath to his natural enemy: Filo, a Filolial. Naofumi acts to prevent mass casualties among Idol's forces and Van Reichnott's ignorant followers. Van is assigned to take the Demi-Human slaves and his people and evacuate Idol's people while Naofumi's group tries to lure the dinosaur-like dragon away.

Raphtalia gives Keel her stat boosting bracelet before she, Melty (episode) and Naofumi jump on Filo's back to outrun the dragon. Once next to a lake everyone readies themselves to fight the dragon. Sadly the dragon's scales prove too tough to penetrate for the group. As Naofumi is about to use the Wrath Shield a group of Filolials arrive and surround the dragon, followed shortly by a giant Filolial Queen.

The Queen gives the dragon one chance to surrender, and when it refuses the Queen kills the beast instantly taking it's 'Dragon Emperor Fragment' in the process. The giant Queen assumes a humanoid form and calls herself Fitoria, a Filolial that's lived for hundreds of years and was raised by a Legendary Hero. Before the group leaves though Naofumi wants to feed the dragon to his shield but Fitoria refuses.

She can already sense a dangerous aura coming off of the shield and can tell that Naofumi has unlocked a Curse Series weapon. Ultimately Naofumi succeeds in absorbing chunks of the dragon into his shield before Fitoria transports them away using her own portal skill to her nest in a set of abandoned ruins. Exhausted and hungry the group decide to rest, for the time being, is what Naofumi planned but he ends up cooking the dragon meat for all of Fitoria's followers.

Now that everyone's eaten Fitoria has matters that need to be discussed: she came to their aid not because she sensed they were in trouble but because she was already investigating a new Filolial Queen, Filo. As Queens can only be raised by Hero's she used said investigation as a way of finding them. Simply put Fitoria is angered by the way Naofumi and the other heroes have been acting.

Beating back the waves demands that the Heroes work together, more to the point they've only fought in a couple of the dozens of waves that have appeared. Fitoria has been fighting the waves almost non-stop but she is at her limit, she needs help and they're the only ones who can give it to her. Meanwhile, Ren Amaki and Itsuki Kawasumi's groups break into The Church of the Three Heroes' warehouse where they discover a huge amount of information being kept from the public.

Fitoria Demands that Naofumi reconciles with the others though Naofumi insists that cooperation is impossible. With this in mind, Fitoria has no choice but to kill the four Heroes so that new ones will be summoned.

Trivia

 * The Tyrant Dragon Rex was revealed to be a Dragon Emperor fragment whose core (similar to Zombie Dragon's core) was taken by Fitoria.
 * Waves happening all over the world is confirmed and that the heroes had been fighting only the waves in Melromarc.
 * The heroes were supposed to have been summoned each for each country and that they should work together rather than involved in Human and Demi-Human conflict.

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