Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute! Episode 13 Recap & Characters (Spoiler-Free)

Episode Summary

A Bloody Showdown as an Offering to Annihilation

Delta destroys Nelson's clones inside the white room and the Sanctuary's memory spaces, while Alpha's group finishes its investigation and withdraws. Cid and Aurora fight through zombies toward the central sealed door, where Cid's attempt to draw the chosen-one sword fails. Nelson sends Olivier against Cid, who is stabbed but reveals magic circuits that flare up without any influence from the core.

• Delta versus Nelson clones

  Delta destroys the Nelson copies in the white room and memory, drawing Nelson's concern while Alpha reads his weakness as a scientist with one brain.

• Shadow Garden withdrawal

  Epsilon's party and Alpha's group finish their investigation and leave, planning to return at a time of their choosing.

• Cid and Aurora at the sealed door

  Cid and Aurora clear zombies at the Sanctuary center and fail to draw the chosen-one sword that must open the chained door.

• Olivier battle with Cid

  Nelson sends Olivier against Cid, who is stabbed, then reveals his magic circuits flaring unaffected by the core.

Recent Timeline

• Natsume revealed as Beta and Drake's death (Episode 10)

  At a signing event in Lindwurm, Cid discovers that the popular author Natsume is Beta. Her books, including Romeo e Julietta and Asherella, are plagiarized from the past-life stories Cid once told her, which he had shared expecting inspiration rather than theft. Shortly after, Archbishop Drake is found dead, killed by the Cult's executioner. A rooftop assailant who attacked Cid is killed by Epsilon, and the Cult's henchmen are captured while the executioner goes into hiding.

• Shadow enters the Goddess' Trial and the barrier breaks (Episode 11)

  Cid, secretly entered by Rose, is called as the next challenger but does not come forward. Instead he creates a distracting light above the arena and jumps in as Shadow, leaving the Church's Nelson unprepared. When Shadow channels his magic, the Sanctuary conjures a door on its own and Aurora appears. After Aurora's defeat, the arena barrier breaks open unexpectedly, surprising everyone including Nelson, and a magic door appears in the middle of the arena while a magic seal spreads across the city.

• Venom's defeat, Aurora's release, and Nelson's exposure (Episode 12)

  As Alpha's squad enters the Sanctuary door, Nelson's guard Venom attacks Epsilon in the arena. She dodges his slash and defeats him faster than anyone could see, keeping her speed hidden. In the white void room, Cid removes the straitjacket Aurora was wearing, and she asks him to work with her to reach the Sanctuary's core and escape. Aurora then ends a memory of her younger self crying by slapping that version of herself, shattering the memory. Alpha forces Nelson to confirm he is the Eleventh of the Rounds, one of the chosen Knights, which exposes his place in the Cult's leadership.

• Battlefield memory and the clone massacre (Episode 13)

  Cid and Aurora break through a memory of a battlefield where the dead rise to attack them as the Sanctuary rejects intruders. Cid defeats the dead while Aurora is protected, and they reach the center door, where a chained door and a sword that cannot be drawn block their path. Delta destroys over a hundred Nelson clones with her Iron Slab sword despite the Sanctuary draining power. Alpha deduces that Nelson was once a scientist and that the clones share one brain and cannot be controlled well. Panicked, Nelson summons Olivier's memory from her statue.

• Shadow Garden's withdrawal and Olivier's attack at the core (Episode 13)

  Shadow Garden finishes investigating the possessed archive, learns how the Sanctuary's defenses work, and regroups to exit, leaving Nelson unable to stop them and planning a return visit at a time of their choosing. Nelson sends Olivier, a mindless shell with Alpha's face, against Cid at the Sanctuary center. Olivier breaks Cid's sword and wounds his shoulder, and Aurora begs Cid to stop, knowing no human can defeat Olivier. Olivier then stabs Cid, who opens the right eye he had kept closed since finding Aurora and says he has caught Olivier, as magic unaffected by the core flares through his circuits.

Character Graph

Zenon Griffey (Swordsmanship Instructor)

Royal fencing instructor · Academy · Swordsmanship Instructor

The royal fencing instructor who taught at Midgar Academy and was Alexia's fiancé, secretly working with the Cult; he kidnapped her for her blood to win the Twelfth Seat of the Knights of Rounds. After awakening with the red pills, he was vaporized by Shadow's Atomic. In the Sanctuary, Alpha's revelations about the red pills and the Rounds' twelve seats bring him back to Alexia's mind.

• Hidden allegiance

  Revealed to Alexia in a sewer junction as the one who funded the doctor's research and kidnapped her.

• Ambition

  Aimed for the Twelfth Seat in the Knights of Rounds, which he considered far above his post.

• Death

  Awakened with the red pills but was vaporized by Shadow's Atomic.

• Alexia Midgar (Pact, Other, Hostility)

  Betrothed to Alexia, though the engagement was a public secret.

  Held Alexia captive for her blood and openly belittled her, disdaining her as a mere 'Fencer Ordinaire'.

• Cid Kagenou (Hierarchy, Hostility)

  Advisor to the Section One team that Cid joined; he treated Cid as the first suspect in Alexia's disappearance and was later killed by Cid as Shadow.

Lutheran Barnett (Cult Knight)

Midgar Academy of Science · Cult

Sherry's adoptive father and assistant principal of the Midgar Academy of Science, secretly the Cult knight. Once a top swordsman until illness took his glory, he funded and then murdered Sherry's mother Lukreia over her Eye of Avarice research, and was killed by Shadow in turn.

• Role in Sherry's assignment

  Encourages Sherry to accept the princess's request, believing she can do it and building her self-confidence.

• True identity

  Recognized on sight by Cid as the Cult knight, he removes his helmet and wonders whether his walk, cough or stance gave him away.

• Motive

  Sought a cure for his disease and used Sherry for selfish reasons.

• Death

  Killed by Shadow after combining the Eye of Avarice with the control unit artifact and attacking Shadow.

• Sherry Barnett (Family, Mixed)

  Father and daughter; he adopted her and is proud of her growth as a researcher.

  Adoptive father who had been posing as a protector while using her for selfish ends; he killed her mother.

Sherry Barnett (Sherry)

Schoolgirl · Academy

A researcher at the Midgar Academy of Science who carries on her late mother Lukreia's work, and who fell for Cid after bumping into him. She found her adoptive father dead without ever learning he had killed her mother, and has resolved to study abroad in Laugus.

• First encounter

  Bumped into a blood-soaked Cid, accepted his offer to help her up, and was smitten by him.

• Plan

  Sets out to study abroad in Laugus after the academy closes, keeping her vow to a secret purpose.

• Cid Kagenou (Other, Friend, Affinity)

  Became smitten with the bloody boy after he offered to help her up.

  Thanked him for his help and told him of her plan to study abroad; she wished to know him better.

• Lutheran Barnett (Family, Affinity)

  Her father, who asked Cid to befriend her and who she is embarrassed about in front of others.

Epsilon

One of the Seven Shadows, who secretly pads her figure with slime. Separated from Alpha inside the Sanctuary, she leads Chi and Omega through memories of the possessed and photographs an archive on them, then rejoins Alpha as Shadow Garden withdraws.

• Beta (Friend, Affinity)

  Teases Beta about Shadow's gazes, sharing a sense of being watched because of their large busts.

Rose Oriana (Rose)

Student Council President · Oriana Kingdom

Princess of the Oriana Kingdom, student council president of Midgar Academy and its finest swordswoman, who is convinced Cid loves her. Trapped in the Sanctuary with Alexia and Natsume, she watches Delta massacre Nelson's clones, then leaves through the exit Shadow Garden offers.

• Cid Kagenou (Other, Affinity)

  Opponent in the qualifying match; underestimated him at first, then got serious and was impressed by his determination.

  Accepts Cid's love and has pledged her heart to him; hopes he will earn a princess marriage through the Goddess's Trial.

Alexia Midgar

Midgar royal family · Royal · Crimson Knights

Princess of the Midgar Kingdom and Iris's younger sister, who once used Cid as a fake boyfriend to escape her engagement to Zenon. Having followed Shadow Garden into the Sanctuary, she watches Delta's raw violence against Nelson's clones and doubts that someone so unlike Shadow really works with him, then takes the exit Shadow Garden offers.

• Fencing reputation

  Known as The Fencing Ordinaire; has always wanted to be as good as her sister.

• Cid relationship

  Asked Cid whether he was interested in continuing their pretend relationship; Cid refused, and she slashed him.

• Audit

  Was investigating the previous archbishop, and the audit is cancelled by the new acting archbishop Jack Nelson.

• Cid Kagenou (Pact, Other, Neutral)

  Fake boyfriend she chose as a low-class aristocrat she could easily control, so she could get out of her engagement.

  Former partner in a pretend relationship that was arranged for specific reasons and has since ended.

• Zenon Griffey (Pact, Hostility)

  Her fiancé by an engagement kept as a public secret, whom she badmouthed in private; he turned out to be the one who kidnapped her for her blood, and Shadow killed him.

• Sherry Barnett (Other, Hostility)

  Became frustrated when Sherry revealed her friendship with Cid and smashed her coffee cup and pastries.

• Beta (Other, Hostility)

  Antagonism begins at the Trial when Alexia stomps on Natsume's foot; Alexia sees Natsume as corrupt on the inside.

Beta (Natsume Kafka)

Shadow Garden

One of the Seven Shadows, who lives in public as the popular novelist Natsume, with books lifted from the stories Cid told her about his past life. Stuck with the princesses as Delta tears through Nelson's clones, she keeps up her act as Natsume and, when Shadow Garden withdraws, goads Alexia into taking the exit.

• Role

  Gathers intelligence and identifies the secret hideout

• Trial appearance

  Receives cheers from the crowd at the colosseum while Alexia is annoyed by her popularity.

• Cid Kagenou (Colleague, Affinity)

  Fellow member who reports to him on the investigation

• Alexia Midgar (Other, Hostility)

  Looks down on Alexia with superiority and is secretly annoyed at how Alexia used Cid; believes Alexia is corrupt inside.

Alpha

Shadow Garden

An elf Cid freed from possession and named Alpha, who now runs Shadow Garden against the Cult of Diablos and shares the face of the hero Olivier. While Delta crushes Nelson's clones, she sees through their one-brain weakness, and once Shadow Garden has its intel she withdraws from the Sanctuary, vowing to return at a time of their choosing.

• Role

  Recruits for the organization and leads the search for the hideout

• Operations

  Observes the progress of the Shadow Garden raid and oversees the operation's roles.

• Olivier's face

  Revealed to have the same face as the hero Olivier, who is shown as an elf woman in a statue.

• Cid Kagenou (Hierarchy, Colleague, Affinity)

  Leader who renamed her and whom she serves

  Visits Cid in his dorm to update him and watches over him, trusting him to trust their efforts.

• Epsilon (Hierarchy, Mixed)

  Shadow Garden leader giving instructions; Epsilon reminds Delta of the plan.

Aurora

Imprisoned in the Sanctuary

The Witch of Calamity whom Cid freed from her prison inside the Sanctuary, her memories still incomplete. Together they fight through its memories to the sealed central door but cannot open it, and when Nelson's Olivier overpowers Cid, she begs him to stop while Nelson offers to spare him if she returns to the Cult's plans.

• Arena fight

  Fights Shadow and is defeated by a single slash, then disappears into light.

• Escape plan

  Explains the Sanctuary is a memory prison and that its magical core must be destroyed to leave; plans to vanish into nothing once free.

• Cid Kagenou (Colleague, Affinity)

  Fellow escapee who agreed to work together to leave; Aurora sees Cid as the strongest of those in her incomplete memories and a gallant knight.

Jack Nelson (Nelson the Avaricious)

Church · Eleventh of the Rounds · Cult of Diablos

The acting archbishop exposed as Nelson the Avaricious, Eleventh of the Rounds, who keeps an ageless body with the Tears of Diablos. After Delta tears through over a hundred of his clones and Shadow Garden walks out, he sets his sights on Alpha's blood and heads to the Sanctuary's core, where he sends Olivier's memory against Cid.

• Acting archbishop

  Cancels Alexia's audit and announces the Church will investigate the murder itself; he activates the arena barrier and prepares to apprehend Shadow.

• Tears of Diablos

  Took the drug Tears of Diablos, which grants great power and an ageless body, but must be taken once a year.

• Immortal body

  Has an immortal body and rises from water in a mutated physiology after being stabbed.

• Venom (Hierarchy, Neutral)

  Nelson's guard, ordered to kill Epsilon.

Cid Kagenou (Shadow)

Kagenou family · Shadow Garden · Midgar academy student · Academy · Midgar Academy for Dark Knights

A Midgar Academy student reborn with memories of his past life, who plays a nobody at school while secretly leading Shadow Garden as Shadow, all to become the Eminence in Shadow. Inside the Sanctuary, where the core absorbs magic, he escorts Aurora through its memories to the sealed central door; when Nelson's Olivier stabs him, he declares he has caught her and opens his right eye as magic the core cannot absorb flares through him.

• Hidden strength

  Trains in secret while posing as a background character at school; a skilled fighter who uses crowbars and other improvised weapons as clubs.

• Encounter

  Confronted Lutheran in the office and was cut down and sent falling through the window.

• Trial appearance

  Enters the Goddess' Trial as Shadow after the announcer calls his name, and defeats Aurora with a single slash.

• Sanctuary entry

  Pulled into the Sanctuary after a magical door appeared above the water he stood upon, and entered after failing to avoid it.

• Alpha (Hierarchy, Colleague, Affinity)

  Girl he freed from possession and renamed; she pledged to join and punish the guilty

  Shadow Garden member who visits his dorm and reports on the organization's progress; he owes her a tuna sandwich.

• Beta (Colleague, Affinity)

  Member who reports to him and works the investigation with him

• Alexia Midgar (Pact, Other, Neutral)

  Fake boyfriend who agreed to continue the act until Zenon gives up.

  Met again at the hot springs in Lindwurm; she apologized for slashing him, and he ignores her gaze while she is flustered and then puzzled by his riddle about the sword.

• Zenon Griffey (Other, Hostility)

  Former advisor of his Section One team who named him the first suspect; revealed as the one who kidnapped Alexia, Zenon was killed by Cid as Shadow.

• Sherry Barnett (Friend, Pact, Affinity)

  Friend since agreeing to Sherry's friendship request.

  Gave her help and encouragement; she thanks him before she departs for abroad study.

• Rose Oriana (Other, Neutral)

  Opponent in the qualifying match who now remembers his name.

  Rose secretly entered Cid into the Trial to show off his worth, and Cid decides how to appear in response.

• Lutheran Barnett (Other, Neutral)

  Assistant Principal of the Academy of Science, whom Cid considers someone to avoid if he wants to stay obscure.

• Aurora (Colleague, Affinity)

  Works with Aurora to escape the Sanctuary; she regards him as a gallant knight.

Venom

Nelson's guard

A guard of Jack Nelson who attempted to cut Epsilon and was defeated quickly by her.

• Defeat

  Quickly defeated by Epsilon after his attempted slash exposed her fake slime breasts.

• Jack Nelson (Hierarchy, Neutral)

  Served as Nelson's guard and was ordered to kill Epsilon.

Olivier

The legendary hero who cut off Diablos's left arm, an elf with Alpha's face whom the Cult had implanted with Diablos cells. Nelson summons her memory from her statue as a mindless shell bound to his orders, and at the Sanctuary's core she breaks Cid's sword and stabs him.

• Jack Nelson (Hierarchy, Neutral)

  Summoned from memory and sent to attack on his orders alone, acting without will of her own.

Delta

Shadow Garden · Seven Shadows

One of the Seven Shadows, a fighter who treats every battle as a hunt and follows Alpha as her pack leader. Even as the Sanctuary drains her magic, she obliterates over a hundred Nelson clones with her Iron Slab sword, leaving Nelson to ask whether she has awakened, and has to be brought to heel by Alpha when Shadow Garden withdraws.

• Clone massacre

  Even as the Sanctuary drains her magic, she destroys over a hundred Nelson clones without breaking a sweat, prompting Nelson to ask whether she has awakened.

• Alpha (Hierarchy, Affinity)

  Her pack leader; Alpha has to bring the snarling Delta to heel so that she leaves the Sanctuary with the others.

• Jack Nelson (Other, Hostility)

  Prey she hunts: she stabbed him from behind in the Sanctuary, then cut down over a hundred of his clones despite her drained magic.

World Memo

• Artifact magic suppression barrier

  A red-eyed artifact, when ignited, creates a barrier around the school that suppresses magic use within it. People inside cannot use magic, while those who came in with the artifact's effect are not affected.

• Three classes of Sanctuary doors

  Sanctuary doors are not physical entries but change shape and location at will, and appear according to who seeks them and who is worthy: a Forbidding door, a Beckoning door, and a Welcoming door.

• Sanctuary as memory prison

  The Sanctuary is a memory prison built from ancient battles, with a magical core at its center that must be destroyed to escape, and magic used inside is absorbed by that core.

• Beads yearly dose and output limit

  The Cult's Beads must be taken once a year to keep their effects, and the Cult can produce only a small annual amount, which Nelson states is twelve.

• Sanctuary core drains power near center

  The closer one gets to the center of the Sanctuary, the more magical power is drained, while Nelson grows stronger the nearer he is to the core.

• Holy sword drawable only by direct descendants

  The ornate holy sword before the chained door can be drawn only by the chosen one, namely direct descendants, and cannot be removed by anyone else.

Clue Board

• Drake's hidden secret (Episode 10)

  Alpha finds Archbishop Drake dead and wonders what he was hiding that led to his killing; the secret remains unrevealed.

• Shadow's concealed identity (Episode 11)

  Shadow hides his true name, and Zenon's demand to learn it goes unanswered; Shadow only declares that Shadow Garden lurks in darkness.

  Nu marvels at Cid's deep thinking, which she calls Shadow's Wisdom, hinting that Cid's identity connects to the hidden Shadow Garden

  Cid enters the trial as Shadow under a distracting light, and the crowd is fixated on Shadow and forgets Cid, so his identity stays hidden while people wonder who Shadow is.

• Magic seal over Lindwurm (Episode 11)

  After the barrier breaks, a magic door appears in the middle of the arena, and a magic seal then spreads across the whole city while Alpha and Delta observe the spell. Its purpose is unexplained.

• Why the Sanctuary responded to Shadow (Episode 12)

  The Sanctuary's door appeared for Shadow, and Jack Nelson wonders why it responded to him, since the door appears only to those worthy of passing through it. The reason is left unexplained.

• Alpha shares Olivier's face (Episode 12)

  Alpha reveals she has the same face as the hero Olivier, whose statue shows an elf woman. Why Alpha resembles Olivier is not explained.

• Cult's goal beyond demon revival (Episode 12)

  Alpha suspects the Cult's true goal is not just reviving the demon and says the group will proceed to see for themselves. The actual goal is not yet revealed.

• Aurora's summoning by the Sanctuary (Episode 12)

  Aurora appears after Shadow's entry through a door the Sanctuary conjured on its own, without any summons being activated, and she is restricted from using her full power during the fight. Why the Sanctuary summoned her is unexplained.

  Aurora says she does not think she summoned Cid. Cid entered through a door that followed him, so the reason he was brought into the white void room remains unexplained.

• Delta's power without awakening (Episode 13)

  Delta keeps overwhelming the clones despite the drained magic, and Nelson asks whether she has awakened, though the technique needed for that was lost; Alpha disputes it, leaving the source of her strength open.

• Chosen one for the holy sword (Episode 13)

  The ornate sword at the sealed door can only be drawn out by the chosen one, a direct descendant; Cid's attempt failed and sank into the stone, so who can draw it remains unknown.

• Delta's ties to Shadow in doubt (Episode 13)

  Alexia questions whether Delta is really working with Shadow, since Delta fights with unbridled violence while Shadow's techniques are sophisticated; the question is left unresolved.

• Alpha's blood for the Beads (Episode 13)

  Nelson schemes to take Alpha's blood in order to perfect the Beads, a plan whose outcome is not yet shown.

• Cid's right eye and core-immune magic (Episode 13)

  Cid's right eye, kept closed since he found Aurora, opens and its magic circuit lines flare with magic unaffected by the Sanctuary core; the source and meaning of this remain unexplained.

Battle Record

Cid fights Olivier at the Sanctuary core door after Nelson sends her in.

Goddess' Trial bout against Aurora

Lindwurm colosseum · Episode 11

Location: Lindwurm colosseum, Goddess' Trial arena

Trigger: Shadow enters the Goddess' Trial after the announced challenger Cid Kagenou does not appear, and the Sanctuary summons Aurora in response

Challenger and summoned warrior

• Shadow — challenger: Shadow
• Sanctuary summoned warrior — summoned warrior: Aurora

Outcome: Shadow wins with a single slash; Aurora disappears into light

Aftermath

• The arena barrier breaks and a magic door appears in the middle of the arena
• A magic seal expands across the whole city, observed by Alpha and Delta

Sanctuary Trial Withdrawal

Delta crushes Nelson's clones; Shadow Garden withdraws on its own terms · Episodes 12–13

Location: Sanctuary core memory

Trigger: Shadow Garden infiltrating the Sanctuary to cut off its power source

Shadow Garden vs Cult

• Shadow Garden — fighters: Delta, Alpha, Epsilon, Chi, Omega, Beta
• Nelson's Cult — forces: Jack Nelson, Nelson clones

Outcome: Delta destroys over a hundred Nelson clones, and with the intel gathered, Shadow Garden withdraws by choice

Aftermath

• Shadow Garden plans to return at a time of their choosing
• Nelson is left scheming to take Alpha's blood

Cid vs Olivier

Duel at the Sanctuary core door · Episode 13

Location: Sanctuary center

Trigger: Nelson sends Olivier to attack Cid, who has freed Aurora

Cid vs Olivier

• Cid Kagenou — fighter: Cid Kagenou
• Nelson's Cult — fighter: Olivier / commander: Jack Nelson

Outcome: Olivier stabs Cid, but he opens his right eye as magic unaffected by the core flares; the fight continues into the next episode

Aftermath

• Cid's shoulder is injured by Olivier
• Cid is stabbed by Olivier while Aurora is in shock
• Cid's right-eye magic circuit flares, unaffected by the core

Ability Table

Music Releases

• HIGHEST (OP)
• Darling in the Night (Eta ver.) (ED)
• Darling in the Night (Epsilon ver.) (ED)
• Darling in the Night (Delta ver.) (ED)
• Darling in the Night (Gamma ver.) (ED)
• Darling in the Night (Alpha ver.) (ED)