Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute! Episode 3 Recap & Characters (Spoiler-Free)

Episode Summary

Fencer Ordinaire

Cid, now fifteen and enrolled at the royal academy in Midgar, accepts a penalty to confess to Princess Alexia Midgar and is unexpectedly accepted. Alexia then draws him into a fake relationship to escape her engagement to Zenon Griffey, and the two begin fencing practice together. After a tense train conversation about fencing and their pasts, Cid is named the last person seen with Alexia, who has gone missing, and is taken in as the prime suspect.

• Fake confession and lunch with Alexia

  Cid and his friends Skel and Po are dared into confessing to Alexia, who unexpectedly accepts and joins them for lunch, sparking rumors across the school.

• Fencing practice and the fake boyfriend deal

  Alexia gets Cid placed in Section One under Zenon, reveals she wants him as a shield against her engagement, and agrees to keep the boyfriend act going for a while in exchange for his cooperation.

• Train talk and the kidnapping suspicion

  Alexia opens up about her sister and her own struggles in fencing, then leaves. At the school gate Zenon accuses Cid of being involved in her disappearance, and Cid surrenders to the knights.

Recent Timeline

• Kidnapping rescue in warehouse (Episode 1)

  After Akane is abducted following the driver's assault, the masked Kageno crashes in, disarms the lead kidnapper, and defeats the remaining veteran with crowbars, breaking his leg before freeing Akane. Her father then uses his connections to keep the case from going public.

• Kageno dies and is reborn (Episode 1)

  The hated classmate Minoru Kageno is killed when run down by a truck, and he is reborn into a new world, ending his life in the school setting.

• Claire Kagenou abduction and rescue (Episode 2)

  On the day of Claire's scheduled academy departure she was abducted by a high-ranking Cult of Diablos member, who likely believed she was a hero descendant. Shadow Garden traced the secret hideout through Beta's map analysis, and Shadow defeated Viscount Grease, who held Claire chained, freeing her. Claire returned home the next day and left for the academy.

• Fake confession accepted (Episode 3)

  Cid, forced by a test penalty, confesses to Princess Alexia Midgar, the most sought-after girl at school, and she unexpectedly accepts, saying she was waiting for someone like him. The acceptance makes the pair the subject of school rumors and starts a fake relationship that Alexia uses to escape her engagement to Zenon Griffey.

• Alexia's disappearance and Cid's arrest (Episode 3)

  After their tense talk on the train, Alexia does not return to her dorm overnight. Zenon and the knights stop Cid at the school gate and name him their first suspect, since he was the last person seen with her, and Cid surrenders.

Character Graph

Akane Nishino

Nishino Zaibatsu

A classmate of Minoru Kageno, Cid's past self: daughter of the Nishino Zaibatsu and a former actress who has hidden behind a mask of composure since a scandal drove her from show business. She disliked Minoru for never truly looking at her, yet he rescued her from kidnappers shortly before he was killed by a truck.

• Public persona

  Plays the teacher's pet to be liked by teachers and the popular girl to be admired by students, deliberating every action so no one hates her.

• Kidnapping

  Abducted on her walk home after her driver was assaulted; rescued by Kageno and her father quietly kept the case out of the public eye.

• Cid Kagenou (Colleague, Mixed)

  A classmate she hates; he repeatedly gets her name wrong and never looks at her. Later she suspects he also lives behind a mask.

Alpha

Shadow Garden

An elf girl Cid cured of her possession, who pledged herself to fighting the Cult of Diablos and became Alpha, the first member of Shadow Garden. After Claire's rescue, she told Cid the Cult was a vast, worldwide organization that they had to split up to fight, and the members left his side.

• Role

  Recruits for the organization and leads the search for the hideout

• Cid Kagenou (Hierarchy, Affinity)

  Leader who renamed her and whom she serves

• Viscount Grease (Other, Hostility)

  Enemy she wounds in combat at the hideout

Beta

Shadow Garden

One of the Seven Shadows, the core members of Shadow Garden who serve Cid. She tracked down the secret hideout where Claire was held, and has since left Cid's side along with the other members, who split up to fight the Cult.

• Role

  Gathers intelligence and identifies the secret hideout

• Cid Kagenou (Hierarchy, Affinity)

  Member who reports to him on the investigation

Claire Kagenou (Claire)

Kagenou family

Cid's older sister and the talented hope of the Kagenou family, a line of Dark Knights, who fiercely protects her brother. After being rescued from Viscount Grease, she went on to Midgar Academy, where Cid has now enrolled as well.

• Abduction

  Taken from her room on the day she was to leave; held in magic-sealed chains

• Cid Kagenou (Family, Affinity)

  Younger brother she trains with; she protects him fiercely

• Viscount Grease (Other, Hostility)

  Captor who holds her and tests her for possession

Viscount Grease (Grease)

Cult of Diablos

A viscount and high-ranking member of the Cult of Diablos who abducted Claire and held her in magic-sealing chains at a secret hideout. Boosting his magic with pills, he fought Shadow in the tunnels and was cut down.

• Fate

  Cut down by Shadow in the tunnels; as he fell, he admitted he had been powerless against the darkness but said Shadow might not be.

• Claire Kagenou (Other, Hostility)

  Captive whom he holds and tests

• Cid Kagenou (Other, Hostility)

  Opponent who is defeated by Shadow

• Alpha (Other, Hostility)

  Opponent who wounds him in combat

Alexia Midgar (Princess Alexia Midgar)

Midgar royal family

Princess of the Midgar Kingdom and the most sought-after girl at Midgar Academy. She accepted Cid's penalty confession and pays him in gold coins to keep acting as her boyfriend so she can get out of her engagement to Zenon, whom she badmouths in private. Soon after Cid tells her on the train that he likes her plain fencing, she fails to return to her dorm and goes missing.

• Fencing reputation

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

• Cid Kagenou (Pact, Neutral)

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

• Zenon Griffey (Pact, Hostility)

  Her fiancé by engagement, which is still a public secret. She constantly badmouths him in private.

Cid Kagenou (Shadow)

Kagenou family · Shadow Garden · Midgar academy student

Minoru Kageno reborn in a world of magic as the son of Baron Kagenou, who plays a forgettable background character while secretly working to become the Eminence in Shadow. With his Shadow Garden members gone, he enrolls at Midgar Academy at fifteen and, after a penalty confession, becomes Princess Alexia's fake boyfriend, keeping up the act for her gold coins to fund his Eminence in Shadow operation. When Alexia goes missing, her fiancé Zenon names him the first suspect and he is taken in.

• 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.

• Ambition

  Has always dreamed of becoming a powerful being and is determined to overcome human limits at any cost.

• Shadow identity

  Calls himself Shadow, he who lurks in the shadows and hunts shadows

• Akane Nishino (Colleague, Mixed)

  A classmate who saved her from kidnappers; he sees her clearly for once, though he has long been indifferent to her.

• Alpha (Hierarchy, Affinity)

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

• Beta (Hierarchy, Affinity)

  Member who reports to him and works the investigation with him

• Claire Kagenou (Family, Affinity)

  Older sister he spars with; she is abducted on her departure day

• Alexia Midgar (Pact, Neutral)

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

• Skel Etal (Friend, Affinity)

  Friend who confronted him about his dating progress.

• Po Tato (Friend, Affinity)

  Friend who confronted him about his dating progress.

• Zenon Griffey (Hierarchy, Neutral)

  Advisor of the Section One team he now belongs to; treats him as the first suspect.

Po Tato (Po)

Lower nobility

A low-ranking noble and one of Cid's friends at Midgar Academy, a fellow background student at the bottom of the noble ranks. With Skel, he held Cid to his penalty of confessing to Alexia after scoring the worst on a test, then apologized for having told her everything.

• Cid Kagenou (Friend, Affinity)

  Friend who pressed Cid on how far he got with Alexia and said they would have gone all the way.

Skel Etal (Skel)

Lower nobility

A low-ranking noble and one of Cid's friends at Midgar Academy, a fellow background student at the bottom of the noble ranks. With Po, he held Cid to his penalty of confessing to Alexia after scoring the worst on a test, and later, while admitting they had told her everything, pressed Cid on how far he got with her.

• Cid Kagenou (Friend, Affinity)

  Close friend from the bottom of the noble ranks; they confront Cid about his dating progress.

Zenon Griffey (Zenon)

Royal fencing instructor

The official royal fencing instructor and advisor of the Section One team that Cid joins, and Alexia's fiancé in an engagement that is still a public secret. When Alexia goes missing, he stops Cid at the school gate and names him the first suspect in her kidnapping.

• Alexia Midgar (Pact, Neutral)

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

• Cid Kagenou (Hierarchy, Neutral)

  Advisor to the Section One team that Cid joins; later treats Cid as the first suspect in Alexia's disappearance.

World Memo

• Kagenou barony in remote lands

  The Kagenou barony is a baronate ruling a nearly remote stretch of territory, far from the centers of power.

• Kagenou Dark Knight lineage

  The Kagenou family has produced Dark Knights for generations; these soldiers enhance their abilities using magic, and the family places great hopes on talented children.

• Heroes' descendants cursed as possessed

  The Three Heroes who slew the demon Diablos were cursed by its dying breath, and their bloodlines were marked as possessed; history was later altered to make the descendants objects of scorn.

• Midgar Academy admission at fifteen

  Noble children begin attending the Midgar Academy for Dark Knights at around age fifteen.

Clue Board

• Claire's abduction culprit (Episode 2)

  Claire was taken by Viscount Grease, a high-ranking Cult of Diablos member. Beta's map analysis showed the cryptograms were a bluff and revealed a secret hideout at the spot Cid had marked, where Claire was found.

• Suspected healing of Claire's possession (Episode 2)

  Grease has heard rumors that Cid healed Claire's possession and suspects he may need to be looked into. Claire denies that anyone could heal her, so the question remains open.

• Alexia's overnight disappearance (Episode 3)

  Alexia did not return to her dorm the night before, and the knights are investigating it as a potential kidnapping with Cid as the first suspect; the culprit and cause remain unknown.

Battle Record

Shadow Garden's Seven Shadows raid a hidden Cult of Diablos hideout to free Claire Kagenou; Viscount Grease is defeated by Shadow.

Warehouse rescue of Akane Nishino

Kidnapping of the Nishino heiress · Episode 1

Location: Warehouse in Sakurazaka

Trigger: Akane Nishino abducted for ransom after her driver was attacked

Kidnappers vs. masked Kageno

• Kidnappers — leader: lead kidnapper with a gun / fighters: veteran kidnapper with a knife, energetic kidnapper
• Masked Kageno — lone fighter: Minoru Kageno, masked

Outcome: Kidnappers defeated; Kageno frees Akane

Aftermath

• Akane calls the police
• Her father uses his connections to keep the case from going public

Hideout raid to free Claire

Shadow vs Viscount Grease · Episode 2

Location: Secret hideout of the Cult of Diablos, with a secret tunnel

Trigger: Claire Kagenou abducted by a high-ranking Cult of Diablos member

Shadow Garden vs Cult of Diablos

• Shadow Garden — Shadow and the Seven Shadows: Shadow, Alpha, Beta
• Cult of Diablos — Commander: Viscount Grease / Subordinates: Grease's men

Outcome: Viscount Grease defeated and cut down by Shadow; Grease's men cut to pieces by the Seven Shadows

Aftermath

• Claire Kagenou freed and returned home the next day
• Shadow took Grease's locket

Ability Table

Music Releases

• HIGHEST (OP)
• Darling in the Night (Beta ver.) (ED)
• Darling in the Night (Alpha ver.) (ED)