Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute! Season 2 Episode 6 Recap & Characters (Spoiler-Free)

Episode Summary

John Smith

Counterfeit bills flood the market and drain the MCA's gold reserves, and Alpha sends Delta to hunt John Smith. On the train Cid overpowers Delta, who recognizes him by his scent, and he sends her on a special mission to hunt Juggernaut at the Black Tower, while Shadow Garden finds her broken bell and fears the worst.

Gettan kills two Cult agents and forces Garter to set checkpoints, which John Smith's train smashes through; Alexia tells Iris she is studying to learn where to wield her sword, and Beta reports the crisis to Shadow. Atop the train Alpha realizes John Smith is Shadow and is left behind, Yukime shows him the drained gold and reveals her past with Gettan, and that night the Black Tower burns.

• Shadow Garden hunt on the train

  Gamma and Alpha send Delta after John Smith; she is defeated by his strings and rubble, then recognizes her master Shadow and is sent on a special mission to the Lawless City to hunt Juggernaut at the Black Tower.

• Counterfeit crisis spreads

  Gettan orders Garter to set checkpoints and executes the Cult agents, John Smith's train smashes through the MCA checkpoint, and Yukime reveals the gold stockpile and plan to expose the MCA's insolvency.

• Alpha confronts Shadow

  Alpha learns John Smith is Shadow, demands to know Delta's whereabouts, attempts Vampire mist form, and is defeated by Cid's Tiger Kung Fu and Iron Palm strike at the train.

Recent Timeline

• Shadow Garden rescues Claire at Crimson Tower (Season 2 Episode 3)

  A four-woman Shadow Garden cell reaches Crimson Tower just as the Blood Queen is about to feed on Claire. Beta beheads the Blood Queen while 664 secures Claire, but the head reattaches to the body and the Blood Queen's attack escalates, forcing Beta to order a retreat with Claire. Separately, Cid, returning to the Midgar Kingdom, changes to his Shadow persona on a train and confronts Yukime, who had followed him from Lawless City.

• MCA cargo ambush and Zabra's death (Season 2 Episode 4)

  MCA-hired bandits ambush a high-value Mitsugoshi cargo trade, but the employees they threaten are Nu, Chi, and Omega in disguise. Shadow Garden encircles and crushes the bandits in a one-sided fight. Nu reports that the assault has significantly weakened the MCA, which must now rely on legitimate resources for the coming war. Zabra, who claimed to be Delta's brother and served Gettan, is stabbed in the chest by Delta and killed. Delta dismisses the loss, noting the father has over a thousand offspring, and Garter reports to Gettan that Zabra, the fourth leaf, has been defeated.

• Failed raids and counterfeit notes (Season 2 Episode 5)

  Gamma, Omega, and Chi repel intruders at Mitsugoshi headquarters; Leaf One dies when Gamma's flung sword pierces his neck and explodes. Garter must report the failed raid to Gettan. Shadow Garden catches counterfeit currency after a few bills appear in Mitsugoshi stores, and Gamma reports to Alpha that the patrons seemed unaware the money was forged. A squad of 664, 665, and 666 sent to intercept counterfeit cargo on an outward-bound train is bound by wires and thrown off the train by John Smith, and they withdraw planning to report the man in the suit to Gamma.

• Delta defeated and MCA checkpoint destroyed (Season 2 Episode 6)

  Delta charges John Smith's cabin to hunt him but is overpowered by his magical strings and buried under train debris. Recognizing her master Shadow by his scent, she turns playful, and Cid sends her to hunt Juggernaut at the Black Tower in Lawless City. In the MCA office, Gettan beheads one Cult agent who jests about his personal relations and kills the other to frighten the hesitant Garter into compliance, leaving Garter to enforce royal capital checkpoints and find the source of the counterfeit bills. The MCA checkpoint is effortlessly destroyed as the train approaches, and the senior MCA member at the checkpoint hopes they can go into hiding before the monsters find them.

• Alpha defeated and Black Tower burned (Season 2 Episode 6)

  Alpha confronts John Smith atop the train and realizes he is Shadow. When she attacks with her new mist form, Shadow counters with Tiger Kung Fu and Iron Palm, leaving her on the tracks as the train moves on. That night in Lawless City, the Black Tower where Juggernaut was to be hunted is consumed by a raging inferno, and Delta howls over the ruins.

Character Graph

Cid Kagenou (Cid)

Kagenou family · Shadow Garden · Midgar Academy student · Midgar Kingdom

Reborn in another world, he dreams of being the Eminence in Shadow and leads Shadow Garden as the masked Shadow while posing as an ordinary Midgar Academy student. As the secret agent John Smith he runs a counterfeit scheme with Yukime behind Shadow Garden's back. On the train he overpowers Delta, who smells out who he is, and sends her to hunt Juggernaut, then defeats Alpha, who recognizes him, and leaves her on the tracks without explaining himself.

• John Smith

  Wears a black Snow Fox suit, a short ponytail and a magician's mask as the secret agent John Smith, and disowns the name Shadow.

• Coded notes

  Takes notes in a cipher he claims to have built from five languages of his own, and gives Beta a page to decode.

• Alpha (Hierarchy, Mixed)

  Girl he freed from possession and renamed; he beats her atop the train and tells her only that she will see it was for the best.

• Delta (Hierarchy, Affinity)

  Recognizes him by scent; he gives her a special mission to hunt Juggernaut and promises a reward within his abilities.

• Yukime (Pact, Neutral)

  Partner in the counterfeit scheme; she shows him the MCA gold and tells him of her past with Gettan.

• Beta (Hierarchy, Affinity)

  Reports the counterfeit crisis to him in his dorm.

Alpha

Shadow Garden · Seven Shadows

An elf girl Cid freed from possession and renamed, who now leads Shadow Garden against the Cult of Diablos and shares the face of the hero Olivier. Fearing Delta dead and believing John Smith is engineering a credit collapse for his own gain, she confronts him atop the train, realizes from his skill that he is Shadow, and is beaten and left behind on the tracks.

• Vampire mist form

  Replicates the vampire mist form to slip past John Smith's wires, but he points out its weaknesses.

• 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, Mixed)

  Her master; she begs to stay by his side, but as John Smith he defeats her and leaves her on the tracks.

• Gamma (Colleague, Affinity)

  Gamma reports Delta's disappearance and the spreading counterfeits.

• Delta (Hierarchy, Mixed)

  Sent Delta to hunt John Smith and fears her dead after finding her broken bell.

Beta

Shadow Garden · Seven Shadows

One of Shadow Garden's Seven Shadows, an elf who chronicles Shadow's deeds and once posed as the author Natsume Kafka. She reports to Shadow in his dorm on how the counterfeit bills are hurting the capital's economy, and he hands her a page of his coded notes to decipher.

• Coded notes

  Is amazed by Shadow's notes in an unknown language and takes a page to decipher.

• Cid Kagenou (Hierarchy, Affinity)

  Her master Shadow, to whom she reports the counterfeit crisis.

Gamma

Shadow Garden · Seven Shadows · Mitsugoshi

One of the Seven Shadows, who built the Mitsugoshi Company from knowledge Cid shared and runs it as its president. After 664's squad loses to John Smith she weighs his origins with Alpha, then reports Delta's broken bell and counterfeits flooding the market beyond what the MCA can redeem.

• Self Sacrifice Spinning Wheel

  Proudly names the accidental sword throw that killed Leaf One a secret technique.

• Cid Kagenou (Hierarchy, Colleague, Affinity)

  Her master, whose knowledge from his old life she turned into the Mitsugoshi business.

• Alpha (Colleague, Affinity)

  Reports to Alpha on John Smith, Delta and the counterfeit crisis.

Delta

Shadow Garden · Seven Shadows · Therianthrope

A therianthrope of the Seven Shadows whose father is her clan's chief. Sent by Alpha to hunt John Smith, she is pinned on the train, recognizes Shadow by his scent, and happily takes his special mission to hunt Juggernaut at the Black Tower instead. Shadow Garden finds her broken bell and fears her dead, while she howls over the burning Black Tower.

• Clan ties

  Father is the clan chief with over a thousand offspring; promises to give Shadow a hundred women if he defeats her father.

• Cid Kagenou (Hierarchy, Affinity)

  Her master; he sends her on a secret special mission and promises a reward within his abilities.

• Alpha (Hierarchy, Mixed)

  Ordered her to hunt John Smith; Delta keeps Shadow's mission from her.

• Juggernaut (Other, Hostility)

  Target of the hunt Shadow gives her.

Rose Oriana (666)

Shadow Garden · Numbers · Oriana Kingdom

Princess of the Oriana Kingdom who stabbed her father, joined Shadow Garden and now serves as Number 666 in a squad with 664 and 665. Thrown off a train by John Smith, she breaks in on the squad's report to Alpha and Gamma to stress how strong he is, alarming 664.

• Father's death

  After her father forgives her, she attacks Perv, who shields himself with the king, and stabs her father; she then puts her blade to her own neck until Shadow tells her the fight is not over.

• Renaming

  Placed in a squad with members 664 and 665 and renamed Number 666.

• 664 (Hierarchy, Mixed)

  Her squad leader, who scolds her questionable decisions and orders her to stand down.

• Cid Kagenou (Other, Affinity)

  The masked boy who saved her as a child and inspired her to take up the sword.

• Alpha (Hierarchy, Neutral)

  Recruited her into Shadow Garden after offering her the choice between fighting alone or alongside them.

664

Shadow Garden · Numbers

A Shadow Garden member who leads a squad of the Numbers with 665 and 666. After John Smith throws the squad off a train, she reports the defeat to Alpha and Gamma and hustles 666 out of the room before she can speak out of turn again.

• Squad leadership

  Singles out 666 for questionable decisions and orders her to stand down after the defeat.

• Rose Oriana (Hierarchy, Mixed)

  Squad member she scolds for questionable decisions and orders to stand down.

Alexia Midgar (Alexia)

Midgar royal family · Royal · Crimson Order · Midgar

Princess of Midgar and Iris's younger sister, who once used Cid as a fake boyfriend and is known as The Fencing Ordinaire. Wanting more strength after sparring with Cid, she studies books from the palace archives, telling Iris she must learn where to swing her sword instead of swinging it at random.

• Fencing reputation

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

• Motive for growth

  Fears that the world is moving on without her and that she will be left behind if she stays idle.

• Cid Kagenou (Friend, Neutral)

  Former fake boyfriend she now spars with; she envies his carefree outlook on life.

• Iris Midgar (Other, Affinity)

  Her older sister, whom she tells she is studying to learn where to wield her sword.

Iris Midgar (Iris)

Midgar Kingdom · Royalty · Crimson Order

First Princess of Midgar and daughter of King Klaus, who leads the Crimson Order and has won the Bushin Festival before. Walking home from training she meets Alexia with a stack of books, and quietly walks off when her sister mentions having little time for anything but training.

• Bushin Festival

  Lost the final to Mundane Mann and later chased Shadow across the capital without success.

• Alexia Midgar (Other, Affinity)

  Her younger sister, who is studying in the palace archives.

Garter (President of the MCA)

Major Corporate Alliance

President of the Major Corporate Alliance (MCA), a pious merchant in public who answers in secret to Gettan. Ordered to trace the counterfeits, he balks at setting checkpoints until Gettan kills a Cult agent in front of him, and the checkpoints he then imposes at the capital's exits turn the public and the knight orders against the MCA.

• MCA strategy

  Sent bandits after Mitsugoshi's cargo and reported to Gettan that Mitsugoshi's private soldiers were stronger than estimated.

• Gettan (Hierarchy, Mixed)

  His real master, whom he obeys out of fear after Gettan kills a Cult agent to force his hand.

Gettan (Gettan the Sword Devil)

Major Corporate Alliance · Cult of Diablos · Great Wolves

Son of the Great Wolves patriarch and a blind lycanthrope warrior who secretly runs the MCA for the Cult of Diablos. He beheads one Cult agent and kills the other to cow Garter into setting checkpoints, hunting John Smith as the source of the counterfeits. Yukime reveals that he once bargained for red pills, killed her mother and slashed her back.

• Red pill bargain

  Made a deal with an outside force for power using red pills, which Yukime's mother refused.

• Garter (Hierarchy, Hostility)

  Treats Garter as his subordinate and forces him to obey by killing a Cult agent before him.

• Yukime (Other, Hostility)

  Former betrothed; he killed her mother and scarred her back, making her his sworn enemy.

Yukime (Spirit Fox)

White Tower ruler · Spirit Fox clan

Ruler of the White Tower and daughter of the Spirit Fox clan's only three-tailed fox, who partners with Cid as John Smith in the counterfeit scheme. She shows him the gold drained from the MCA and her plan to expose its insolvency, then reveals that Gettan, her former betrothed, killed her mother and that bringing him down is her true goal.

• Rise to power

  After her village was destroyed she survived as a prostitute and slowly gained power until she became queen of the White Tower.

• Plan

  Gathers genuine MCA notes to cash in all at once, exposing its insolvency and destroying the Alliance.

• Cid Kagenou (Pact, Neutral)

  Partner in the counterfeit scheme as John Smith; she tells him her past and leaves to settle things with Gettan.

• Gettan (Other, Hostility)

  Former betrothed who killed her mother and slashed her back; bringing him down is her goal.

• Juggernaut (Other, Hostility)

  Rival ruler of the Black Tower whom she fought during the ghoul outbreak.

Juggernaut

Black Tower ruler

The brutish ruler of the Black Tower in Lawless City, who wields a massive cleaver. He cut down Claire and Mary in the Crimson Tower before Shadow kicked him off it, and is now the target Cid gives Delta; the Black Tower is later seen engulfed in flames.

• Assault on the Crimson Tower

  Broke through the artifact gate with one swing of his cleaver, then wounded Claire and Mary and was about to deliver a fatal blow to Claire before Shadow kicked him off the tower.

• Yukime (Other, Hostility)

  Rival ruler of the White Tower whom he fought during the ghoul outbreak.

• Delta (Other, Hostility)

  Delta is sent by Shadow to hunt him.

World Memo

• Shadow Garden secret organization

  A secret organization that operates from the shadows and hunts its targets unseen; hunting from the shadows is described as the sole purpose of its existence.

  Shadow Garden expands its influence through several franchises in major cities and beyond, inside and outside the kingdom, and uses a mail-order system for remote areas. It holds a secret budget of approximately one billion Zeni for immediate disposal.

• Goddess' Trial rules and rewards

  The Goddess' Trial is an annual fighting ritual in which ancient warriors are awakened from the Sanctuary to compete against modern challengers.

  Challengers must request participation in advance, and the ancient warriors answer only the few they deem worthy. Hundreds try each year, but only about ten reach battle. Participation carries a hefty fee and a real risk of death. The barrier around the arena cannot be left until either a contestant or a summoned warrior is defeated.

  A winner receives a commemorative medal that allows them to join any knight order in the world.

• Mountain realm ruled by Mist Dragon's grant

  The mountain region's magical beasts are under a realm that the Mist Dragon declared ruled by Shadow after Shadow defeated it, and it bathed him in its breath.

• Lawless City as kingdom-free slum

  Lawless City is a notorious slum outside the jurisdiction of any kingdom, and resources bound for it have increased.

• Crimson Tower as Blood Queen domain

  The Crimson Tower marks the domain of the Blood Queen, sovereign of the vampires.

• Inconspicuous viscountcy as production base

  Counterfeit banknote production is located in an inconspicuous viscountcy where law enforcement is weak, governed by a desultory magistrate, with printing presses housed in an abandoned coal mine.

• Fractional-reserve banking exposes bank runs

  Mitsugoshi has adopted fractional-reserve banking, so a loss of trust in one currency could spread to the other and trigger a credit crisis.

• Royal capital exit checkpoints

  Inspection checkpoints are set at every exit from the royal capital, imposed under Garter's authority, and draw public and knight order anger over overreach by a merchant alliance.

• White Tower of the Lawless City

  The White Tower in the Lawless City is ruled by a queen, a position Yukime rose to through years of hardship and acquired power.

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.

• Gettan's credit-crisis plan (Season 2 Episode 5)

  The credit-crisis plan Alpha feared is revealed to be Gettan's true purpose, but it was not meant to start this early; the premature circulation of counterfeit MCA banknotes threatens the Cult's capital still tied up in MCA assets.

• Anticipated train intrusion (Season 2 Episode 5)

  John Smith says he knew the women would come to the train, though their arrival came sooner than he expected, leaving his reason for anticipating them unexplained.

• Black Tower fire cause (Season 2 Episode 6)

  Delta was sent to hunt Juggernaut at the Black Tower, and afterward the tower is left in a raging inferno with the cause and Juggernaut's fate unexplained.

• Delta presumed dead (Season 2 Episode 6)

  Delta's bell ornament is found cracked at the train battle scene and she has not contacted Alpha or Shadow since, so Shadow Garden presumes her dead, though she is last seen alive in the Lawless City, howling over the burning Black Tower.

• Shadow's coded notebook (Season 2 Episode 6)

  Shadow's notes are written in an unrecognized language that Beta cannot read, and he claims to have built a coded method from five languages that he developed himself.

Battle Record

Alpha confronts John Smith atop the train, who she realizes is Shadow, and is defeated by his Tiger Kung Fu and Iron Palm.

Outward train cargo interception

John Smith vs the Numbers squad · Episode 25

Location: Outward-bound train from Lawless City

Trigger: The Numbers squad is assigned to intercept contraband cargo including counterfeit MCA banknotes

John Smith vs the Numbers squad

• Numbers squad — infiltrators: 664, 665, 666
• Train defenders — combatant: John Smith

Outcome: The three Numbers are bound and thrown from the train; they withdraw while John Smith remains

Aftermath

• 664 reports the man in the suit to Alpha and Gamma
• 666 reflects on her weakness

Train cabin ambush by Delta

Delta charges John Smith on the train out of the Lawless City · Episode 26

Location: Train leaving the Lawless City

Trigger: Delta, ordered by Alpha to hunt John Smith, pursues the train

Delta vs John Smith

• Delta — attacker: Delta
• John Smith — defender: John Smith

Outcome: Delta is pinned under rubble and then redirected by John Smith to a new mission

Aftermath

• Delta is sent to hunt Juggernaut at the Black Tower in the Lawless City

Alpha's clash atop the train

Alpha attacks John Smith (Shadow) atop the train · Episode 26

Location: Atop the nose of the train

Trigger: Alpha confronts John Smith, demanding to know what happened to Delta

Alpha vs John Smith (Shadow)

• Alpha — attacker: Alpha
• John Smith — defender: John Smith

Outcome: Alpha is defeated and left on the tracks as the train moves on

Aftermath

• Alpha is left crying in the snow on the tracks

Ability Table

Music Releases

• Grayscale dominator (OP)
• Polaris in the Night (Omega ver.) (ED)
• Polaris in the Night (Chi ver.) (ED)
• Polaris in the Night (Nu ver.) (ED)
• Polaris in the Night (Lambda ver.) (ED)