Episode Title:
Something Precious
Episode Description:
Evidence surfaces 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 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 mistakenly decides Gettan has stolen his gold. Yukime defeats Gettan in a duel but lets him live. Getan swallows a demonic pill and stabs Yukime in the back but is defeated by “John Smith” searching for his gold, though his poor word choice makes it sound like he loves Yukime. Gettan recognises him as “Stylish Bandit Slayer” who scarred his face the night he killed Yukime’s family, causing Yukime to realise it was “Stylish Bandit Slayer” aka young Cid, who unintentionally saved her life that night, so she falls in love with him. Before dying Gettan entrusts Yukime to “John Smith”. Alpha reveals Shadow Garden to Yukime and proposes an alliance which Yukime accepts to be close to Cid. Cid, having misunderstood Gettan’s last words, spends weeks digging the field where Gettan died looking for the gold, assisted by Delta. In the end Cid quits digging and decides to disappear for a while until Shadow Garden are less upset by his betrayal. After he vanishes Delta accidentally digs up something of value.
