Episode 5

Didn't I Say That We're Doing Everyone's Backstories?! is the 5th episode of the Didn’t I Say To Make My Abilities Average In The Next Life?! anime.

Plot
A flashback of Reina's childhood, reveals that she is the daughter of a peddler. While riding on their horse-driven wagon, they're attacked by bandits and they kill Reina's father. This leaves a traumatizing memory with her, however, she's rescued by a group of Hunters known as the Crimson Lightning. She then joins the Hunter group and bonds with the group's mage called August.

Over the years, August teaches Reina magic and she steadily learns magic. When it was close to her birthday, she receives a gold choker that August wore that belonged to her mother. Soon after accepting a quest protecting a merchant caravan a large group of bandits ambush and overpower them with their large numbers. In an act of betrayal, their employer tried to sell Reina off to the bandits. So although unarmed they try and attack the bandits but perish, as does August shielding Reina from an arrow attack. Enraged by the loss of her comrades, Reina incinerates the Bandit Leader and her former employee. It's also at that time a large group of royal guards arrives at the scene to deal with the bandits.

After hearing this story, Reina proclaims that the bandits that bandits and evil-doers should perish. However, the rest of the group do not see eye to eye with that notion, much to Reina's chagrin. She then calls the group naive for thinking otherwise, so Pauline starts to talk about her backstory. For most of her adolescent life, Pauline was happy with her family and the company that they ran. It was until one day bandits broke into their company and killed Pauline's father. Not long after her father died, the head clerk usurps the company from her family, which is approved by the local lord. The head clerk also forces Pauline's mother to become his mistress and Pauline's mother acquiesces, much to Pauline's dismay. So this inspired Pauline to become a Hunter.

Mavis then elaborates her backstory to the group. She is the eldest daughter to the Austien family, a Count in rank nobility. She lost her mother at a young age, however, her three elder brothers and father doted her none the less. Upon the day she reveals her wish to become a knight, her family rejects the notion. So in an act of obstinance, Mavis runs away from home and becomes a Hunter in order to become a knight.

With everyone but Adele giving her own backstory. So after being pressured to do so, Adele elaborates his backstory to her friends. She reveals her true name and that she was of noble lineage. After the death of her mother and grandfather, that was orchestrated by her father, her step-mother and step-sister move in. It's revealed that the step-mother and step-sister Prissy look down upon and disparage Adele. One day while practicing magic, she learns from the nano machine that her powers are half of the equivalency to an Elder Dragon King. Soon after this revelation, she's ostracized by her family and so she attends the Eckland Academy.

While Adele tries to live a normal life there she many a couple of "mistakes" that garnishes her attention from her male peers. She also attracts the attention of three girls, Monika, Aureana, and Marcela, who try and gauge Adele for authenticity. The three girls search Adele's room for any dirt on her, as she fetches chairs for her guests to sit on. When she returns to her room, she becomes fast friends with the girl. Unbeknownst to her that they found a bone with bite marks in one of her draws and figure she used to eat it to survive her poverty lifestyle.

All was great with Adele's life until the third princess of the Kingdom of Brandel Princess Morena visited the capital. It's then that a young boy falls in front of the path of the carriage which angers the knights in front of the carriage. Acting impetuously, Adele grabs the young boy and casts a chantless barrier around them to protect them from the knight's attack. In order to mollify the situation, she puts up an act that she is the divine that inhabits Adele's body. The princess not wanting her men to face judgment offers to take their place, much to the knights' dismay. Adele forgives them under the condition that they keep her descent a secret to all. However, word of mouth still spreads around the town and the king finds out as well.

In light of this, Adele absconds from the Eckland Academy and heads to the Kingdom of Tils to become a Hunter. With all of their backstories told, they all seem delighted and perhaps closer to one another now that they know more about each other's past.

Characters in Order of Appearance

 * Reina
 * Crimson Lightning (flashback)
 * August (flashback)
 * Adele von Ascham
 * Pauline
 * Mavis von Austien
 * Nano (flashback)
 * Viscount Ascham (flashback)
 * Prissy (flashback)
 * Marcela (flashback)
 * Monika (flashback)
 * Aureana (flashback)
 * Princess Morena (flashback)