The Eminence in Shadow: Season 2

Shadow Garden informs Cid that large amounts of money have been flowing to Lawless City, a crime-infested slum that belongs to no kingdom. This coincides with the Red Moon heralding the return of the vampiric Elizabeth the Crimson Blood Queen, one of Lawless City’s three rulers. Cid decides to investigate since he was going to Lawless City anyway. Goldy and Quinton approach Elizabeth’s tower and are confronted by White Devil, a notorious murderer enslaved as Elizabeth’s guard dog. Cid is shown v

Juggernaut and Yukime ignore Cid to break into Elizabeth’s tower. White Devil attacks Cid but is cut to pieces. Beta encounters Claire and Mary and reveals Shadow Garden intends to steal Elizabeth’s blood for research. Soldier 666 panics to hear of Cid’s supposed kidnapping and is reprimanded by Beta. Juggernaut almost kills Mary who 'kisses' Claire to drink her blood, healing herself. Claire realizes Mary is a vampire. Cid drops Juggernaut off the tower, making Claire confused as to why "Shadow

Claire and Mary arrive after Cid leaves and Claire is attacked by the awakening Elizabeth. Shadow Garden rescues Claire. Even half asleep Elizabeth is formidable, the arrival of Yukime and Juggernaut not slowing her down. Elizabeth takes control of the demon blood dormant in all Shadow Garden. Claire, possessing higher amounts of demon blood, goes berserk. She awakens in a dream world where Aurora the Calamity Witch explains that despite “Shadow” curing her demonic possession years ago the remai

Garter, President of Major Corporate Alliance (MCA) who controls trade in Midgar via organized crime, goes to war with Mitsugoshi, a Shadow Garden fashion company. Alpha hopes killing Garter’s thugs will force Cultists within MCA to reveal themselves. Cid deduces Shadow Garden owns Mitsugoshi and makes new enemies without telling him. Believing Shadow Garden may be going too far Cid arranges the secret meeting with Yukime to discuss putting Mitsugoshi and Garter out of business as a warning to S

The Clovers are sent to Mitsugoshi to kill the CEO Luna, Gamma’s public alias, but the clumsy Gamma insists on dealing with them herself. Gamma turns out to have unusually high amounts of magic and is resistant to physical damage, so while her combat abilities are below even an amateur she bulldozes her way through the fight, killing the leader Clover Leaf One. Gettan decides to act himself, determined to attain the power needed for revenge on the boy who scarred his face years ago, Stylish Band

Alpha sends Delta to hunt “John Smith” but Delta realizes “John Smith” is Cid from his scent. Cid claims he is undercover and then temporarily gets rid of Delta by sending her to hunt Juggernaut. Delta’s absence causes Alpha to assume “John Smith” killed her. Alpha and Gettan independently realize “John Smith” is planning a bank run. Beta tries to report the financial crisis to Cid and mistakenly believes it angers him; really Cid is just baffled by her financial jargon. Beta is relieved when Ci

Evidence surfaces that Gettan had made his own fake banknotes for the cult to undermine Mitsugoshi, giving Alpha hope Cid only created his fake banknotes to undermine the cult first. This is confirmed by a coded letter from Cid explaining his motives and the location of the gold, which Alpha retrieves for Shadow Garden. Delta returns. Cid is relieved everything worked out but is then stunned to find the gold gone; having never imagined Shadow Garden would decode his dramatic coded letter, and mi

Skel and Po break into Cid’s room and steal six tickets to a Mitsugoshi hot springs resort. Unfortunately, as the tickets were personal gifts to Cid Shadow Garden interrogates Skel and Po and mistakenly concludes Cid has invited Skel, Po, and three of the Shadows to the hot springs for a mission posing as three romantic couples. Eta, having built the resort after hearing a story from Cid of a legendary dragon and a princess, concludes there is a secret meaning to the story. The three Shadows cho

Cid stays at an inn owned by Marie, the former prostitute from Lawless City. 666, 665, and 664 meet 559 to spy on supporters of Perv Asshat. They witness Queen Reina, 666’s mother, use her royal blood to open a chamber and reveal the Ring of Succession, which is taken by cult officer Kouadoi. 559 tries to assassinate Reina but 666 stops her. 559 declares 666 a traitor and attacks Kouadoi. 666 returns to Oriana with Reina and resumes her old life as Rose. Cid mistakenly believes Rose was always p

Lambda, aka 11, believes she should kill Rose but relents after Cid decides to visit Rose himself. Epsilon, as famous musician Shiron, can escort Cid into the palace as her student. Perv demands Cid perform a song to prove he is Shiron’s student. Cid dazzles the nobles with a performance of Moonlight Sonata while using magic to sneakily rob them of money and jewelry, including the Ring of Succession from Perv’s pocket he mistakenly assumes to be Rose’s ring for the wedding. Rose’s maid, Margaret

Shadow Garden infiltrates a cult facility seeking another relic but finds it already gone. Cid plans to rescue Reina for Rose but overhears Perv and Reina plotting to kill Rose after the wedding, also revealing the latter was working with the Cult the entire time. As Shadow, Cid shows Rose that Reina is having sex with Perv and plotting Rose’s death, hoping her rage will inspire her tyrant bloodlust. Instead, she loses all hope as she believes that everything she did for her kingdom was for noth

Ragnarok heals itself. Most of the wedding guests reveal themselves as Shadow Garden. Mordred duels Epsilon and Beta and is shocked when his legendary sword skills are exposed as nothing more than an ancient magical sword stolen from the elves. After defeating him Mordred tells them everything. The cult is aware of alternate dimensions that orbit each other like a solar system. Every few millennia dimensions collide and temporarily fuse. This resulted in both magic and humans arriving in this di