Two on the Reef
At a drowned island shrine where a paired Bridge answers to two altars at once, the Good Luck Cats bury a fallen ally while the tide eats the ground under them — and Salugi comes in person to steal the wake for himself.
Vivek, Siru and Marcus reach Guardian Island for the funeral of the Manu Guardian, killed in episode 29, only to find the reef shrine itself failing — the paired altars that anchor its twin Bridge are drifting apart with the tide. The island's remaining guardians, Alice and Minsun, have been holding the site alone and are revealed as the fifteenth and sixteenth Good Luck Cats. Mid-rite, Salugi arrives not to raid but to watch — then to seize the paired wake the moment it opens, and for the first time he and Vivek fight directly, old and personal, neither winning outright before the shrine gives way beneath them. The heroes save the site and the cats join the group, but Salugi leaves with a warning that reframes everything: the war has a body count now, and he intends to make it a bigger one.