Episode Title:
Mask of Falsehood
Episode Description:
Garter, President of Major Corporate Alliance (MCA) who controls trade in Midgar via organised 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 made 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 Shadow Garden, whilst making vast profits for himself and Yukime. Yukime warns Cid of Garter’s boss, Devil Swordsman Gettan, whom Yukime wants to kill personally. Cid discovers MCA and Mitsugoshi own competing banks so he proposes they counterfeit a fortune in fake bills. Yukime knows this would destroy public trust in banknotes and cause a bank run of people withdrawing their gold, destroying both banks and allowing Cid and Yukime to make even more profits. She congratulates Cid for knowing this; in reality Cid is completely confused but bluffs his way through. Delta visits Cid whilst hunting MCA thugs. Gettan sends his assassins the Four Clovers to attack Mitsugoshi. One Clover is Zabra, Delta’s brother. She kills him anyway since she has over 1000 additional siblings. Cid is fascinated by Therianthrope society and considers visiting Delta’s clan, until she enthusiastically demands he kill her father, become chief and have strong babies with every female. Gettan begins to understand why his Cultist allies warned him Mitsugoshi was dangerous.
