Despite Rishia being his opponent in the arena, Itsuki spends most of the start ignoring her completely, shouting up at Naofumi and even firing arrows at him when he’s surrounded by kids. Itsuki believes Malty’s lies about Naofumi exploiting the child slaves, and is determined to use his newfound “justice” (i.e. the Curse Series crest Malty gave him) to defeat all evil in the world.
Itsuki soon learns he can’t ignore Rishia anymore. She’s a lot stronger and tougher than when he booted her out of his party. She no longer recognizes this version of Itsuki, and she’s just as determined to follow her own personal justice in order to get him to snap out of this funk.
Each time Rishia pushes Itsuki back with her Hengen Muso techniques, Itsuki retreats deeper and deeper into the Curse series, which bestows him more power, but power that’s tinged with the very evil he claims to be against. That power won’t work against Rishia’s strength and justice. Even when he binds her shadow and legs and drops a giant golden bull head on her, she simply smashes it to bits.
Itsuki thinks he has the upper hand when he snaps Rishia’s sword and she refuses to take Naofumi’s sword. But when Itsuki tries to fire a decisive shot at her, something nobody expects happens: the Bow itself betrays his curdled will. Instead of harming Rishia, it breaks her Slave Crest and provides her with a transluscent blade that can morph into a boomerang.
Rishia uses the morphable weapon to great effect, defeating Itsuki in the arena. He ends up falling back into his dark memories of once believing he was a hero of justice only to end up among the lowest-ranked of students. His pride, then, as now, was his undoing.
The one and only person Itsuki believes will support him no matter what is Bitch, but when he rushes to her accommodations, she and the remnants of his party are already gone. She left behind a note thanking him for all the prize money he made for her, and left a stack of debts in his name to pay off.
Itsuki is so overwhelmed by this betrayal he smashes the Cursed Series crest against the wall and then faints. When he comes to, he’s in a cabin by the sea in Luroluna Village, Rishia by his side. She takes his hand, tells him where he is, and that Naofumi will be paying off his debts, and she promises to help him as well.
Itsuki, still a little catatonic from everything he’s been through, nevertheless sheds a tear of gratitude, and allows Rishia to guide him by the hand to the garden, where they’ll begin his road to recovery from Bitch’s machinations and his own shattered pride.
Naofumi and Raphtalia look on as Rishia guides Itsuki and Eclair trains with Ren. Now all four Cardinal Heroes are in the same place, and well on the road towards working together as a single unit, just in time for the impending arrival of the Phoenix.
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