The episode 2 of It's So What's Wrong with Getting Reborn as a Goblin starts with Akira using Skill Search to confirm that the Master Archfiend’s skill is still inside him. What initially seems like a strange advantage quickly becomes the center of a much larger problem. Akira is no longer simply trying to survive as a goblin. He is beginning to build a future for his people, while the power inherited from the Archfiend is quietly making him a target.
Akira enters the human city with Karen, who helps him navigate a society where goblins are viewed very differently from how he now sees them. Humans consider goblins cute, and Karen explains that goblins were once kept as pets. Their extremely short natural lifespan also makes them seem insignificant to humans, with ordinary goblins surviving for only about seven days. Akira, however, is different. Because of the Octogenarian skill, he can live for eighty years, giving him an entirely different perspective on what goblin life could become.
At the estate of Margrave Ophiuchus, Akira becomes separated from Karen and encounters an elderly gardener. He explains the situation surrounding the goblin who killed a human, only to discover that the gardener is actually the Margrave himself. Ophiuchus is the king’s uncle, but he introduces himself to Akira as Simon and chooses to speak with him informally.
Simon takes Akira to a bar, where their conversation turns toward people, mistakes, and the ways relationships are formed. Simon explains that he has learned about people through gambling and experience. Akira responds with his own belief that people should be watched through the way they learn from their mistakes. Their conversation gives Simon a reason to take Akira seriously instead of treating him as an ordinary goblin.
The situation changes again when a runaway horse threatens a child. Akira reacts quickly and rescues the child, demonstrating that his concern for others is not simply part of a negotiation strategy. Simon ultimately agrees to guarantee the goblin village’s safety and autonomy. However, the arrangement comes with a condition: Karen will remain connected to the village as its human overseer and liaison.
Simon also privately orders Karen to watch Akira. His concern is understandable from the human side. A goblin capable of living for eighty years and carrying the Master Archfiend’s power could eventually become a serious threat. Akira does not know the full extent of this surveillance, but his position within the human world has clearly changed.
Back in the village, Akira begins establishing rules to create a functioning society. The first major law is simple: goblins must not kill humans. The rule is not merely about preventing another incident. Akira understands that the goblins need laws if humans are ever going to recognize them as a community capable of controlling its own actions. Karen’s presence initially frightens the goblins, who are naturally wary of a human living among them. Akira gradually establishes the relationship between the two sides, making Karen an important connection between the village and human society.
Akira then develops another major idea: a lineage system. He places combat-focused goblins under Hanzo and begins considering how specific roles and abilities can be passed down through generations. The concept is especially important because goblins inherit skills in ways that are different from humans. Instead of simply receiving abilities according to personal choice, goblins can inherit skills from their lineage.
Kinokuniya is also given an important role involving appraisal, calculations, and interaction with human business. Akira’s objective is to turn the randomness of goblin skill inheritance into something useful. By organizing goblins according to particular roles, he hopes future generations will inherit abilities that actually suit the work they are expected to perform. This system also connects directly to Akira’s own plans. He had wanted to pass useful skills to Takahashi, but simply hoping for the right inheritance would not be enough. By creating a structured lineage, Akira can begin shaping how skills and responsibilities develop over time.
Two weeks later, Hanzo captures an intruder alive. Akira also faces a personal decision involving a goblin who wants to leave his assignment because of a promise made to a partner. Rather than treating his new laws as excuses to control everyone, Akira allows the goblin to leave. His leadership is therefore based not only on rules, but also on understanding why those rules exist.
Karen examines the captured attacker and discovers that the intruder possesses several different skills, including abilities connected to status effects, flames, and earth. The discovery reinforces the difference between humans and goblins. Humans normally choose skills that work well with their abilities, while goblins inherit skills more randomly. Akira’s lineage system is an attempt to overcome that weakness. Karen begins to realize that Akira is far beyond an ordinary goblin. His intelligence, long lifespan, leadership, and inherited power make him difficult to classify. From the human perspective, that combination is precisely what makes him dangerous.
Akira later explains why he approached the earlier negotiation with humans in such a calculated way. He understood the bargaining range and recognized that the punishment being imposed on the goblin was effectively a life sentence because goblins normally live for only seven days. By forcing the humans to confront that reality, Akira was able to make them take goblin interests seriously.
His larger goal is now clear. Akira does not simply want temporary protection. He wants humans to recognize that goblins can govern themselves, establish laws, make agreements, and maintain their own society. That fragile progress is suddenly threatened when a mysterious woman attacks the village. She uses the Clone skill and immediately demands to know where the Master Archfiend is. She refuses to accept that the Archfiend is dead and uses Skill Search to investigate. The result shocks her. The Master Archfiend’s skill is still present, but it is inside Akira.
She immediately accuses Akira of killing the Archfiend and stealing his power. Akira responds by using Chain, followed by Reflect, turning the confrontation into a battle of both abilities and reasoning. Instead of simply accepting her accusation, he challenges the logic behind it. Akira points out that if the Master Archfiend was truly as powerful and kind as she claims, it makes little sense that an ordinary goblin could simply defeat him, kill him, and steal his skill. Akira gives her the real explanation: the Archfiend entrusted the skill to him.
The final revelation makes that claim impossible to dismiss. When a goblin receives a skill from someone at the moment of death, the goblin can reproduce the dying person’s final words. Akira uses that ability to reproduce the Master Archfiend’s voice. The woman finally realizes that Akira did not steal the Archfiend’s power. The Master Archfiend really died, and he deliberately entrusted his skill to Akira. The confrontation therefore ends without Akira needing to prove his claim through a simple display of overwhelming strength.
But the revelation creates an even bigger problem. A goblin who can live for eighty years while possessing the Master Archfiend’s skill could become a serious danger to humanity. Akira’s dream of creating an independent goblin society has therefore reached a turning point. The same power that helped him protect his people may now make the entire village a target.
It's So What's Wrong with Getting Reborn as a Goblin Episode 2 gives Akira’s story a strong progression by showing how his unusual circumstances are beginning to reshape goblin society. His meeting with Simon, the revelation that the Margrave is willing to recognize the village’s autonomy, and the introduction of laws and lineage systems all establish Akira as a leader focused on building a sustainable future rather than simply surviving. The episode also makes his inherited Master Archfiend skill far more important when a mysterious woman tracks its presence and confronts him directly. The final confrontation works especially well because Akira does not defeat the threat through brute force alone; he uses logic, Chain, Reflect, and the Archfiend’s dying words to prove what really happened. With the attacker realizing that the Master Archfiend entrusted his power to Akira, the episode ends by turning his long-term survival into a potential threat to humanity, giving the story a much more dangerous direction.
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