Blah blah blah blah blah some guys did some things and the princess is alive and denim dolgare branta blah blah blah.

Basically the Dark Knights are assisting Kachua in reclaiming the Valerian throne, the Cardinal is not trustworthy, and Denim is fighting for the freedom of his entire land.

At Heigm, Lans goes down into the dungeon to have a talk with Lans, one-on-one, eye to eyes. Yes, Lans Tartare has Lans Hamilton captive. They bicker about philosophy and what most humans really want. Tartare seems to think they want to be the victim and to be lazy, so they need to be controlled by the strong. They should fight for their rights instead of letting others do it for them. Hamilton thinks everyone has the freedom to choose what they want to do with their lives and that not everyone is strong like him and his one-eyed friend. Kachua comes in and - as usual - can only talk about herself before running off to go cry or bleed out of her stupid vagina. She really needs to see a therapist about her obsession with her "brother".

Meanwhile, Denim is hesitating to do anything, because he doesn't know what the dark knights are up to. Before he can make a decision, a soldier barges in telling them some soldiers in Brigantes have taken hostages and wanting Bacrum's surrender. Turns out something called the Filaha order are gaining influence in the realm and they have some strange ideas of what "ethnic unity" is. Denim says he'll go without weapons to talk to them peacefully.

Well that doesn't happen. Denim had a bow equipped so the soldiers at the gate are MAD! They get into a scuffle and Denim takes no prisoners or lets anyone escape, they're all dead and he now possesses the mighty Black Shield. Oh well, he goes inside the castle and meets with the leader of the order, who is Denim's father. Olivia informs him that Plancy is dying due to "fatal disease..." Inside, Plancy tells Denim about Kachua's true identity. She was begat by King Dolgare and one of his lusty handmaidens named Manafloa. Manafloa runs away because the Queen is Mad, so I guess we know where Kachua gets her bitchiness. She dies giving birth to the child while in Plancy's care.

He meets with Branta, who tells him to raise Kachua as his own and promises to "take care of everything" in terms of what happens to Valeria. Ha! Guess how that all turned out. So Plancy tells Denim that the Dark Knights have some hidden purpose and aren't just being nice guys trying to restore the queen's throne, they're looking for something called Dolgare's Treasure. He dies. Then Olivia drops a bomb on Denim which causes him to become some sort of weird sack of potatoes: he's Bacrum! Whoa! Denim makes a huge deal out of this when it really isn't, but Olivia also reveals that she is one of his long lost childhood friends and that he is the nephew of Branta. This is all very sudden for us since we had no context of any of this shit until just now.

After regaining his resolve, Olivia, Selye, and Sisteena convinces Denim to go to some temple to find their father for some reason and also to confront Shelley, their other sister. Now it's off to Banhamuda Temple.