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I'm going to spoiler text this because a lot of big things happened this week that I did not see coming and I don't want to ruin it for anybody.




So, yeah, Alice is the show's villain.

All the times she stupidly wandered into the path of a Horror? Bait to get Rei to come save her and keep her close until he found the egg. Foolishly putting herself in Goro-chan's path repeatedly? Done consciously so she can get back to the egg. Stealing the egg and trying to raise the baby dragon? Not the horribly misguided actions of a complete idiot, but rather her securing her bond with Loupe so he can help her realize her dream of BURNING DOWN THE ENTIRE FUCKING WORLD IN CLEANSING DRAGON FIRE! Maybe I missed something the rest of you did, but holy crap this threw me for a loop because I did not see this twist coming.

I pretty much wrote Alice off as Diet Kaoru for most of the series. She was artistic and a little spacey, she had awful luck with stumbling into monsters, and she found a way to connect to the heart of the titular Makai Knight. There was a point where I started suspecting her around mid-season, but the writers did such a good job of passing her off as kind of an airhead so I started to assume I was mistaken and she was just a normal, albeit kind of stupid girl. I've even been assuming for the last few weeks that she was going to die tragically to give Rei some cheap pathos (and, to be fair, she probably is still going to die next week but really not in any way I ever expected). I really didn't expect her to actually have this big of an ulterior motive and I sure as hell didn't expect to see her become a new dragon knight and announce her arrival by shanking Rekka (who probably won't die, although I'm not putting anything past this show right now).

I'm honestly not sure how the show ends this story. I assume Rei is going to have to kill Alice but I have no idea how he takes down the dragon 1v1 (maybe let the armor timer expire? I can't remember if he's ever done that before or not - it would've been in Black Blood and I try to forget everything about that show that I can). Either way, I am really excited for the finale now.