Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute! Episode 14 Recap & Characters (Spoiler-Free)

Episode Summary

Your Lie, Your Wish

Cid defeats Olivier and her copies inside the Sanctuary by tempering his magic until it is too solid for the core to absorb, survives stab wounds by protecting his vital organs and shifting his heart aside with magic, then unleashes Atomic, obliterating the Sanctuary, Nelson, and the holy sword. Aurora's spirit then fades after thanking Cid. Across the city, the Seven Shadows, Alexia's group, Shadow Garden executives, Gamma's real-estate negotiations, Iris, and Rose each react to the blast and move their own plans forward.

• Olivier copies overwhelmed

  Cid tempers magic until it solidifies, defeats the summoned Olivier copies, and blasts the Sanctuary with Atomic, destroying Nelson and the holy sword.

• Aurora's farewell

  Aurora reveals she summoned Cid and lied about other things, thanks him for a memory she wants to keep, then fades away after telling him what to do if he meets the real her.

• Aftermath across factions

  The Seven Shadows watch the blast; Alexia, Rose and Natsume (Beta) agree to form an information team; Epsilon reports the Sanctuary's fall to Alpha and confirms that Aurora's other name was the Demon Diablos; and Gamma closes property deals in Madlid.

• Iris and Rose's next steps

  Iris resolves to win the Bushin Festival despite Klaus's passivity, while Rose trains her fencing and then discovers a red growth on her chest.

Recent Timeline

• Delta slaughters Nelson clones (Episode 13)

  Delta destroys over a hundred Nelson clones with her Iron Slab sword despite the Sanctuary draining power; Alpha, deducing Nelson was once a scientist, points out that the clones share one brain and cannot be controlled well, and the panicked Nelson summons Olivier's memory from her statue.

• Shadow Garden withdraws from the Sanctuary (Episode 13)

  Having finished their investigation of the possessed archive and learned how the Sanctuary defenses work, Shadow Garden regroups and exits the Sanctuary, leaving Nelson unable to stop them and planning to visit again at a time of their choosing.

• Olivier stabs Cid at the core (Episode 13)

  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.

• Sanctuary destroyed by Atomic blast (Episode 14)

  Cid defeats the Olivier copies and casts I Am The All-Range Atomic, its explosion obliterating the Sanctuary, the holy sword, the chained door, and Nelson. Epsilon reports the Sanctuary's destruction to Alpha, who notes Nelson is dead and calls the outcome the simplest and most effective solution.

• Aurora fades after confessing (Episode 14)

  Aurora confesses she called Cid into the Sanctuary and lied about other things, then thanks him for a memory she does not want to forget before fully disappearing. Cid takes his leave once she has faded.

Character Graph

Gamma

Shadow Garden · Seven Shadows

One of the Seven Shadows, who runs the Mitsugoshi Company as its president 'Luna,' built on knowledge from Cid's past life. In the royal capital she hears out Velgalta nobleman Rude's pitch, and on learning there is oil in his domain, she buys up an entire street in Madlid to redevelop the city.

• Business

  Built a store and franchises in the kingdom and beyond, including mail-order service, and holds a secret budget of about one billion Zeni.

• Cid Kagenou (Mentor, Mixed)

  Cid mentored her and shared knowledge from his old life, which she used to build her business.

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.

Epsilon

One of the Seven Shadows, who secretly pads her figure with slime. After Shadow's Atomic wipes out the Sanctuary, she reports the news to Alpha, adding that Beta has teamed up with the princesses and that their theory was right: Aurora's other name was the Demon Diablos.

• 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. Shaken by the hidden war between the Cult and Shadow Garden, she forms an information team with Alexia and Natsume; back in the capital, while training to recreate Shadow's swordplay, she finds a strange red growth on her chest.

• 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. Frustrated at being a mere spectator in the Sanctuary, she forms an information team with Rose and Natsume, and back in the capital she tells Iris that Archbishop Drake and Nelson were Cult members, though Iris brushes off her warnings about the Cult and Shadow Garden.

• 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.

• 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.

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. After Shadow obliterates the Sanctuary, she hails his solution as the simplest and most effective, learns from Epsilon that Aurora's other name was the Demon Diablos, and names the Midgar royal capital as Shadow Garden's next stage.

• 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.

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 kept an ageless body with the Tears of Diablos. At the Sanctuary's core he threw countless copies of Olivier at Cid, and was obliterated along with the Sanctuary by Cid's All-Range Atomic.

• 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.

• Death

  Obliterated along with the Sanctuary by Cid's All-Range Atomic.

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. At the Sanctuary's core he defeated Olivier and her copies, then blew away the entire Sanctuary, Nelson included, with I Am The All-Range Atomic. Aurora, whom he had freed, thanked him for a memory she wanted to keep before fading away.

• 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.

• 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.

• Aurora (Colleague, Affinity)

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

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. The mindless copy Nelson summoned from her memory stabbed Cid at the Sanctuary's core but fell when he tore open her neck, and the further copies Nelson called up were wiped out by Cid's Atomic.

• Jack Nelson (Hierarchy, Neutral)

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

Aurora (the Demon Diablos)

Imprisoned in the Sanctuary · Demon

The Witch of Calamity whom Cid freed inside the Sanctuary, confirmed by Epsilon's report to bear another name: the Demon Diablos. After Cid destroyed the Sanctuary, she admitted she had summoned him and lied about other things, thanked him for a memory she wanted to keep, and faded away after telling him what to do if he ever met the real her.

• 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.

• Identity revealed

  Epsilon confirms the theory that Aurora was the demon Diablos, and that she had another name.

• Final farewell

  Before fading completely, Aurora tells Cid what to do if he ever met the real her.

• Cid Kagenou (Colleague, Friend, 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.

  Aurora called Cid into the Sanctuary, confessed to having lied about other things, and thanked him for a memory she did not want to forget; Cid accepted this.

Beta (Natsume Kafka (Beta))

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. After the Sanctuary's fall she agrees, as Natsume, to form an information team with Alexia and Rose, which Epsilon reports as a chance to work her way into the princesses' inner circles.

• 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.

• Team formation

  Agrees with Alexia and Rose to form a team and pool resources, and is described as calling the group 'The Hero, Wise Woman, and Dead Weight.'

• Infiltration of princesses

  Reported by Epsilon to be working with the princesses, likely to infiltrate their inner circles.

• Cid Kagenou (Colleague, Affinity)

  Fellow member who reports to him on the investigation

• Alexia Midgar (Other, Colleague, Affinity)

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

  Joins Alexia and Rose in a team to pool resources and look for information about the powerful organizations.

• Rose Oriana (Colleague, Affinity)

  Joins Rose and Alexia in forming a team and pooling resources.

Marco Granger

Knight · Crimson Order Knights

A knight of the Crimson Order and, with Glen, one of the two knights Iris trusted most. Now that the order has lost its strongest members, he visits Glen's grave.

• Joining the team

  Honorably accepted Iris's request to join her new investigation team, alongside Glen.

• Visit to grave

  Visits Glen's grave after the Crimson Order Knights lost their strongest members.

Rude

Velgalta Empire · Nobleman

Nobleman of the Velgalta Empire who meets Gamma in the Midgar royal capital to pitch a second Mitsugoshi shopping centre in his outskirt domain, Madlid.

• Property negotiation

  Argues for opening a store in his domain and pitches a discount to Gamma, then is surprised when she decides to buy every property on the street.

• Gamma (Colleague, Mixed)

  Negotiating counterpart; Gamma, the Mitsugoshi company president, agrees to buy the properties and plans to redevelop the city with him.

Iris Midgar (Iris)

Midgar Kingdom · Royalty · Crimson Order

First Princess of Midgar who leads the Crimson Order. With King Klaus unwilling to move against the Church without clear evidence, she resolves to win the Bushin Festival again to gain the people's backing.

• Hot spring talk

  At a Mitsugoshi hot spring she insists the great explosion in the capital came from an artifact, since no single human has that much power, and hears a towel snap twice from the other bath.

• Alexia Midgar (Family, Affinity)

  Her younger sister, who explains that Archbishop Drake and Nelson were part of the Cult; when Iris asks why she entered the Sanctuary though only an audit was authorized, Alexia evades the question.

• Marco Granger (Hierarchy, Affinity)

  A knight of her Crimson Order, who visits Glen's grave after the order loses its strongest members.

World Memo

• Eye of Avarice artifact

  An artifact that absorbs and stores magic from any user and can be programmed to ignore some magical frequencies; it cannot absorb magical traces that are too small or spells exceeding its capacity, and once it reaches maximum capacity it releases all stored energy.

• Seven Shadows inner council

  Shadow Garden's inner group of seven members, named Alpha through Eta, which reviews operations against the Cult and assigns tasks such as investigation and research.

  Under magic suppression, reinforcements' Slime Bodysuits are likely to malfunction, so most cannot use magic; only the Seven Shadows members retain magic control in such circumstances.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

  The Sanctuary core absorbs magic that is loosely formed, but magic tempered until it is solid enough cannot be absorbed by the core.

Clue Board

• 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.

• 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.

• Aurora's advice about the real her (Episode 14)

  Before fading, Aurora tells Cid what to do if he ever meets the real her; the instruction itself is not given.

• Hidden organizations at war (Episode 14)

  Huge organizations have been working in the shadows and fighting each other since the Academy attack, but nothing is known about either side.

• Alexia's reason for entering the Sanctuary (Episode 14)

  Iris wonders why Alexia entered the Sanctuary, since she had only authorized auditing the archbishop, and Alexia evades the question.

• Unseen presence in the bath (Episode 14)

  Iris hears a towel snap from the other bath, followed by a second snap, suggesting someone else is there.

• Red growth on Rose's chest (Episode 14)

  Rose feels a strange pain and discovers a red growth appearing on her chest; its cause is unexplained.

Battle Record

Cid's final clash with the Olivier copies ends in the Sanctuary's destruction, with Nelson dead.

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

Sanctuary center final clash

Cid vs. Olivier copies · Episodes 13–14

Location: Sanctuary center

Trigger: Continuation of the Sanctuary center fight

Sides

• Shadow — fighter: Cid Kagenou
• Sanctuary — defenders: Jack Nelson, Olivier copies

Outcome: Cid's Atomic spell destroys the Sanctuary, the Olivier copies, and Nelson; Cid survives

Aftermath

• Sanctuary, chained door, and holy sword destroyed
• Nelson dead

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)