At the imperial court, nobles demand to know which woman slept with His Majesty. When no one confesses and guards threaten to hand a girl to the emperor, Mirabel is ordered to execute them — "Kill them all." The accused plead for mercy. A witness then claims to know the missing woman's whereabouts and says she fainted in the Imperial Garden, waking to see the woman jump into the lake at dawn. The episode closes with the revealing admission that the missing woman is disguising herself as a man and refuses to reveal her identity, leaving the search and her fate unresolved.