This episode basically closes the first story arc, and reveals all the background that has been going on. I must say that even after the previous episode, I’m still pretty plesantly surprised.

At the end of the day, everything was just a scheme by Grand Preceptor Shou, to basically make Ryuuki a better emperor. Everything including instigating Grand Preceptor Sa to do all that plotting that he did.

In a way, it’s quite impossibe for anybody to have planned everything, but I guess that just simply shows how good Shou is. He basically got Sa to come up with a plot, in order to surpass Shou. At the same time, he gave Shuurei poison that only he himself had the antidote to. Doing all this, he got Ryuuki to promise to be a good emperor, in exchange for the antidote.

Was kinda surprised that shouka was part of the wolves (the good guys!). I kept guessing that she was the part of the plot to posion shuurei, cause she was always in a perfect position to do so. On hindsight, she was in the perfect position to protect shuurei too.

The relationship between the three Precepetors seems pretty complex, but Sa pretty much died (from his injuries I think).

Shuurei makes the decision to go back home, together with Seiran. Surprisingly, Ryukki allows this to happen. And so, ends this story arc.