Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute! Episode 4 Recap & Characters (Spoiler-Free)

Episode Summary

Sadism's Rewards

Alexia Midgar is abducted and held in a Cult lab beneath the city; after escaping, she runs into Zenon Griffey at a sewer junction, where he reveals himself as the funder of the mad doctor's research. Cid Kagenou is detained by the Knight Order, released after five days without a confession, and then framed by two corrupt knights, whom he kills. Shadow Garden launches a simultaneous night raid on the Fenrir sect hideouts across the capital, and the episode ends with Cid introducing himself as Shadow to Zenon and Alexia.

• Alexia held in the Cult lab

  Alexia wakes chained in a cell beneath the city and learns the doctor wants her royal blood to resurrect a demon. The doctor later injects a creature with a serum; the creature kills him and then cuts her chains.

• Cid interrogated and released

  Cid is beaten and tortured by Knight Order interrogators while feigning panic. He is released without a confession and kept under surveillance.

• Academy response to the kidnapping

  Zenon and Iris discuss the investigation and the lack of personnel. Claire tries to confront the knights, is stopped, and escapes after dislocating Rose's shoulder.

• Alpha and Beta prepare the raid

  Alpha visits Cid to report on Shadow Garden and the Cult. Beta reports 114 personnel and the unit roles for the night operation.

• Frame attempt and night raid

  Two corrupt knights try to frame Cid and are killed by him. Shadow Garden strikes the hideouts across the city, and Iris moves to stop the chaos.

• Zenon confronts Alexia

  In the sewer, Zenon explains his plans for the Knights of Rounds and beats Alexia into the water. Cid appears and introduces himself as Shadow.

Recent Timeline

• Kidnapping rescue and Kageno's rebirth (Episode 1)

  Akane is abducted after the driver's assault, and the masked Kageno storms the warehouse, disarms the lead kidnapper, and breaks the leg of the remaining veteran with crowbars before freeing her. Her father uses his connections to keep the case from becoming public. Separately, the hated classmate Minoru Kageno is run down by a truck and reborn into a new world, ending his life at school.

• Claire's abduction and rescue (Episode 2)

  On the day Claire was due to leave for the academy, a high-ranking Cult of Diablos member abducted her, likely believing she was a hero descendant. Shadow Garden traced the hideout through Beta's map analysis, and Shadow defeated Viscount Grease, who held Claire chained, and freed her. She returned home the next day and left for the academy.

• Cid's fake confession accepted (Episode 3)

  Forced by a test penalty, Cid confesses to Princess Alexia Midgar, the most sought-after girl at school. She unexpectedly accepts, saying she was waiting for someone like him. The acceptance sparks school rumors and begins a fake relationship that Alexia uses to escape her engagement to Zenon Griffey. When Alexia later fails to return to her dorm, Cid, the last person seen with her, is taken in as the first suspect.

• Cid's release and the night raids (Episode 4)

  After five days of interrogation without a confession, Princess Iris orders Cid released under surveillance, and he is thrown out of the Knight Order building with his belongings. Days later, at night, Cid takes Delta's place to open the raid: in a dark alley he kills the two corrupt interrogator knights who had tried to frame him for Alexia's kidnapping. A blast from Delta then signals Shadow Garden's simultaneous raids on the Fenrir sect hideouts across the capital, where Delta wipes out one hideout and splits its building in two.

• Lair injection and Zenon's betrayal (Episode 4)

  In the lair, the mad doctor injects the captive creature with his prototype, which enlarges and strengthens it, and the creature kills him immediately, then cuts Alexia's chains and frees her. Later, Zenon reveals he funded the doctor's research and kidnapped Alexia to take her blood and secure a seat among the Knights of Rounds. He easily disarms her and punches her into the sewer water.

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.

Beta

Shadow Garden

One of the Seven Shadows, the core members of Shadow Garden who serve Cid. On the night of the raid she comes to Cid's room, reports that the 114 members gathered in the capital are ready to strike the Cult's Fenrir faction hideouts at once, and gleefully writes down his exploits.

• 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, now a student at Midgar Academy. When Cid is held as the suspect in Alexia's kidnapping, she tries to confront the knights to prove his innocence until Rose and other students restrain her, and later wants to punish the knights who hurt him.

• 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, who pays Cid to act as her boyfriend so she can get out of her engagement to Zenon. Held as a test subject in a lab beneath the capital for her royal blood, she escapes when a monster breaks her chains, only to learn at a sewer junction that Zenon funded the research and kidnapped her. She wounds him with her sister's technique, but he easily overpowers her, and Shadow appears just then.

• 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.

• Iris Midgar (Family, Mixed)

  Older sister she always wanted to be as good as; Zenon taunts her that she will never be like Iris.

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.

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, whose operations she now directs. Hearing Cid is in trouble, she visits his dorm to tell him the Cult took Alexia for her royal blood and the Knight Order cannot be trusted, then gathers every member in the capital and oversees the night raid on the Cult's hideouts.

• 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.

• Cid Kagenou (Hierarchy, 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.

• Viscount Grease (Other, Hostility)

  Enemy she wounds in combat at the hideout

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. Held for five days as the suspect in Alexia's kidnapping, he hams it up as a terrified minor character under interrogation until Iris has him released under surveillance. When Shadow Garden mobilizes, he opens its night raid on the Cult's hideouts by killing the two corrupt knights who try to frame him, then appears as Shadow before Zenon, Alexia's real kidnapper, in the sewer.

• 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.

• Shadow identity

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

• Alias revealed

  Introduces himself as Shadow to Zenon and Alexia at the sewer.

• Confrontation with knights

  Kills the two corrupt interrogator knights who tried to frame him.

• 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

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

• 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, Hostility)

  Advisor of his Section One team who named him the first suspect; once Zenon is revealed as Alexia's real kidnapper, Cid steps out before him in the sewer as Shadow.

Zenon Griffey (Zenon)

Midgar Academy · Cult of Diablos

The official royal fencing instructor and advisor of the Section One team, and Alexia's fiancé in an engagement that is still a public secret. While naming Cid the first suspect and offering Iris his help, he secretly funded the hidden lab beneath the capital and kidnapped Alexia, planning to use her blood to win the Twelfth Seat of the Knights of Rounds. When she fights back in the sewer he easily overpowers her, just as Shadow appears before them.

• Hidden allegiance

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

• Ambition

  Aims for the Twelfth Seat in the Knights of Rounds, which he considers far above his current post.

• Alexia Midgar (Pact, Hostility)

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

  Holds Alexia captive for her blood and openly belittles her, while disdaining her as a mere 'Fencer Ordinaire'.

• Cid Kagenou (Hierarchy, Neutral)

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

Iris Midgar (Iris)

Midgar royal family

Princess of the Midgar Kingdom and Alexia's older sister, a fighter stronger than ordinary knights who leads the search for her kidnapped sister. When five days of interrogation yield no confession, she has Cid released under surveillance, and when attacks erupt across the capital on the night of the raid, she leaves the academy to the guards and leads her men to the scene.

• Night of the raids

  When attacks break out at several sites across the city at once, she has the security team guard the academy and heads to the scene with her men to stop the chaos.

• Alexia Midgar (Family, Mixed)

  Kidnapped younger sister whose search she leads; they once understood each other just by crossing swords, but Alexia has drifted away from her.

• Zenon Griffey (Hierarchy, Neutral)

  Instructor who reports to her on the investigation; she trusts him and has him keep order at the academy.

• Cid Kagenou (Other, Neutral)

  Student held as the kidnapping suspect; after five days of interrogation without a confession, she orders him released under surveillance.

Rose Oriana

Midgar Academy

Academy student who steps in to keep Claire from making things worse while Cid is held as a suspect.

• Claire Kagenou (Other, Neutral)

  Restrains her when she tries to confront the knights over Cid's innocence; Claire dislocates Rose's shoulder to break free, and on a later evening Rose stops her again and sends her back to her room.

World Memo

• 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.

• Academy dormitory lockdown

  Students are instructed not to leave campus and must remain in the dormitory whenever there are no classes

• 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.

  The royal family carries a higher concentration of hero's blood in their veins than others, which is why the Cult targets their blood

• Cult sect faction hideouts

  The Cult is divided into sect factions, with the Fenrir sect faction maintaining hideouts spread across the capital

• Knights of Rounds

  The twelve highest-ranking knights of the Cult, a rank whose seats bring wealth and fame far above ordinary standing in society

Clue Board

• Possible Cult infiltration of Knights (Episode 4)

  Alpha questions whether the Cult has infiltrated the Knight Order, which Cid's interrogation makes suspicious. Two corrupt interrogator knights framed Cid, but their link to the Cult is not confirmed.

Battle Record

Zenon's confrontation with Alexia at a sewer junction, where he defeats her and Cid arrives.

Capital night raid on Fenrir sect hideouts

Shadow Garden simultaneous attack · Episode 4– (Ongoing)

Location: the capital

Trigger: Shadow Garden plans simultaneous attacks on the Cult while searching for traces of Alexia's magic and intending to secure the princess once found

Attackers vs defenders

• Shadow Garden — commanders: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon / personnel: 114 personnel gathered in the capital
• Cult of Diablos (Fenrir's sect faction) — hideouts: Fenrir's sect faction hideouts spread across the capital

Outcome: Ongoing; Delta destroyed one hideout by splitting the building in two

Aftermath

• Simultaneous group attacks reported at eight sites across the city
• Several buildings destroyed

Alley clash with corrupt knights

Frame-up turned lethal · Episode 4

Location: a dark alley in the city

Trigger: Two interrogator knights frame Cid as the kidnapper of the princess

Cid vs corrupt knights

• Cid Kagenou — combatant: Cid Kagenou
• Corrupt knights — combatants: Two interrogator knights

Outcome: Both corrupt knights killed by Cid

Aftermath

• Cid drops the bodies of the two men who had followed him behind the knights

Sewer junction clash between Zenon and Alexia

Princess captured in the sewers · Episode 4– (Ongoing)

Location: a sewer junction beneath the city

Trigger: Alexia searches for an exit and runs into Zenon, who revealed himself as the kidnapper

Zenon vs Alexia

• Zenon Griffey — combatant: Zenon Griffey
• Alexia Midgar — combatant: Alexia Midgar

Outcome: Zenon disarms Alexia and punches her into the sewer water; Cid appears in front of them, leaving the outcome unresolved

Aftermath

• Zenon forces Alexia to come with him
• Cid introduces himself as Shadow

Ability Table

Music Releases

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