Episode 21

Lawless City (無法都市) is the the first episode of the second season and twenty first episode of The Eminence in Shadow anime adaptation. It aired on 4th October 2023.

Synopsis

 * -|English= Cid and his sister Claire venture to the huge slum known as the “Lawless City.” There, Cid gets caught up in the commotion caused by the Red Moon.
 * -|Japanese= 吸血鬼を退治するというクレアに連れ出され、巨大なスラム「無法都市」にやってきたシド. だが早々にクレアとはぐれ、「赤き月」が引き起こした大騒動に巻きこまれる.

Summary
Shadow Garden members, along with Shadow, attend a briefing in the Shadow Hall, where Shadow makes an observation that the moon is getting redder. The Seven Shades speculate that this might be a beginning of the legendary Red Moon. They raise their concerns but Shadow tells them not to worry and to leave everything up to him.

In the Lawless City, Quinton and Goldoh Kinmeki set out to hunt the Blood Queen. They reach the Red Tower where they face the White Demon who tells them only servants, guests or the powerful are allowed to pass through. They cross swords ,ending with the defeat of Quinton and Goldoh. Beaten up, they end up in the hands of a slave merchant.

After winning the Bushin Festival, Cid takes His sister Claire to a Mitsugoshi restaurant where they discuss Cid's future. Claire informs Cid that she will be taking him with her to the Lawless City with the Dark Knight Association, where they're going to take down the Blood Queen. While in the Lawless City, Cid wanders outside the hotel where they were staying in. He ran into some lawless city residents knocking around a ghoul. At that moment, the Red Moon released a burst of magical energy, causing the ghoul to attack the men, turning them into ghouls. As the ghouls come after cid, Mary intervenes and slays them. She tells Cid that the moon is affecting ghouls all across the City, causing them to run rampant. With that, Cid leaves to take care of the ghouls as Shadow.

Meanwhile, Claire, while looking for her brother, runs into Mary, who tells her that there was a boy matching the description Claire gave carried off by ghouls to the red tower to be a sacrifice for reviving the Blood Queen. They decide to team up since they have the same destination.

The two other monarchs take down ghouls while headed to the crimson tower. They get to the entrance and as they face off Shadow swoops in and stops them.