Episode Title:
Dancing Puppet
Episode Description:
Cid sits beside Princess Iris and Beatrix to watch Claire’s next match. Perv continues drugging the King, hoping Rose will try to save him. He also plans to have the king publicly assassinate Iris and Princess Alexia’s father, the King of Midgar, to cause war. Claire wins her match and furiously looks for Cid, absent from the audience again. Iris duels Mundane, but has repeated terrifying premonitions of Mundane killing her instantly with a counterattack. Mundane disarms and defeats her in a single move. Rose infiltrates the VIP area with help from Shadow Garden and Perv is enraged when she kills her own father, who shows gratitude at being freed from Perv’s control.
Rose moves to kill herself but Mundane stops her, kills Perv’s men and sheds his disguise to reveal he was the Eminence in the Shadow all along. Rose realises Eminence is also the boy she knew as "Stylish Ruffian Slayer", revealing that when Cid was training himself as a child he killed the bandits who coincidentally had just kidnapped Rose, inspiring Rose to learn sword fighting in the first place. Realising she can’t die yet Rose escapes. Beatrix, having wanted to fight Mundane anyway, realises he is a wanted terrorist and engages the Eminence in a duel.
