Asaka can't stop Yogiri from being kidnapped and held hostage.
The gang heads to the basement of the Tower of Trials where Theodisia's brethren are held captive.
Yogiri and Tomochika are caught up in a trial strange things are happening to Mokomoko.
Alpha faces off against an empowered Nelson in a vicious battle Cid and Aurora reach the Sanctuary's core, but a door only a hero can open blocks their path.
The door to the sanctuary opens and Alpha strides through it, intending to expose the cult's grave secrets Cid also enters the sanctuary and reunites with Aurora.
The curtain rises on the Goddess' trial when Cid is unwittingly called into the arena, he transforms into Shadow and faces none other than Aurora, the Witch of Calamity.
Cid heads to Lindwurm in response to a summons from Alpha, but he is not the only one traveling there the annual Goddess' Trial is quickly approaching.
When the students fight back, Shadow Garden joins the fray as their reinforcements amidst the chaos, Cid confronts the Gaunt Knight.
Cid sacrifices his life to save Rose unbeknownst to anyone else, Cid survives exactly as planned his counterattack can begin.
Cid gets a report from Nu about powerful cult members lurking in the Royal Capital he is too distracted by the upcoming fencing tournament to notice.
While Iris seeks a bright mind to study an artifact, Cid visits a popular store in the dark corners of the city, someone commits murders in Shadow Garden's name.
Cid is not facing a minion, but a would-be knight of the rounds an atomic bomb has no reason to fear the gnashing of a lowly pest.
The mistake those with power make is believing that they are the ones in control.
The princess is supposed to reject the background character's confession, not accept it.
Reincarnated as the son of Baron Kagenou, Cid bides his time as Background Character A while preparing for the day he can finally become the Eminence in Shadow.
Akane copes with her trauma by being popular and working hard to make people like her, but one boy in her class doesn't care about her at all.
With all the mysteries surrounding her life and death solved, Yuko is finally whole Yuko must choose to pass on or stay with Teiichi as a ghost.
Sion orders sage candidates to kill each other until only one is left.
Yogiri senses murderous intent of someone different.
Yogiri and Tomochika arrive at the capital and must take on the king's command.