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Dragonfly decides to invent a name for her new glitch. Returning to Shangri-La, Rakuro decides to try Skill-Linking by visiting one of Emul's triplet siblings, Elke the Skill Gardener in Rabituza. He acquires six linked skills and a Vorpal Moonblade skill, not initially realizing Elke is completely money obsessed, and convinces him to spend almost all his coin. Arthur reveals the next problem; since Ashura Kai use Wethermon to harvest experience, there will definitely be Ashura Kai members there on the day of the duel unwilling to let Wethermon actually die. Luckily, a new update has placed a restriction on assassins; if an assassin dies, all their accumulated money and some equipment gets transferred to whoever killed them, leaving them totally harmless when they respawn. Therefore, before they can fight Wethermon, Arthur decides they must completely destroy Ashura Kai by assassinating all its members.Cid is seemingly incapable of going ten minutes without making a remark akin to, “At a time like this, X would happen!” or “Doing Y would be so awesome!” These moments are meta humor at its most flaccid, requiring no creativity to make its point. The goal is to be funny and double down by committing what’s tantamount to beating a dead horse, when being unfunny and doubling down only succeeds in compounding the problem.
The show’s insistence on its meta humor tries to function both comedically and dramaturgically. In having Cid make all these remarks, it attempts to paint him as being more keenly aware of what is transpiring, both in the heat of the moment and in the overarching saga that plays out in the overall world, bolstered by his sheer magical and physical power. In emphasizing the brooding aesthetic, punctuated by its dark colors and mood lighting, as well as the occasional action phrase (I will indeed give props to the line “I am atomic,” as it was as grand and dumbly epic as Cid himself thought it to be). Cid is portrayed as being consistently “cool” and slick. The “Rule of Cool” is fine for an occasional indulgence, but to make it a part of the show’s framework is a dangerous game. Cid Kagenou is *The Eminence in Shadow’s* attempt to make the “Rule of Cool” personified via the main protagonist.
Yet in all that time focusing on him, most of the ensemble gets left out in the lurch. The “Greek chorus,” or the series of women who serve under Cid in Shadow Garden, are the prime example. They are caricatures rather than characters, a harem in principle and occasional sexual connotation, though not with Cid himself.