Vera and her team are taken before Jade as she and Metalbeak intend to decide Vera's fate.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Metalbeak's flashback reveals that when he had Jesekiel Bexley at his mercy, the old man remained defiant in his conviction that his cruelties to the Mogriffs were justified. However, when Vera arrived, he swallowed his pride and begged Metalbeak to spare his granddaughter.
- Brain Bleach: Ymir has to make an effort not to feel sick when Amelia demands to know if Phobos has proposed to Kage to secure their alliance.
- Call-Back: Like Jade did to him in Chapter 22, Metalbeak challenges Vera to knock him out of a circle drawn on the ground.
- Cry into Chest: As Tinsley cries from learning about Vera's deception, Caroline holds her in her arms.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Vera has no chance against Metalbeak in her unarmed, injured and maddened state.
- Et Tu, Brute?: Amelia exposes Vera's deception to her friends, and they're just as upset about it as she is.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Jesekiel Bexley was a knight templarish Retired Monster who had no regrets about massacring Mogriffs, but he loved his granddaughter so much that he begged Metalbeak to kill him in exchange for sparing her and used his last words to try to reassure and apologize to her.
- Even Evil Has Standards: When Kage's Jade and Queen halves discuss, the Queen concedes that even though they're full Oni now, they don't want to become like Tarakudo who'd engulf Meridian into the Shadow Realm, or Shendu and Drago who enjoy causing destruction For the Evulz.
- Fate Worse than Death: Discussed as a solution to the dilemma involving Vera; Jade decides that since the Bexley heir is too valuable to be killed, but also needs to be punished in a way that'll satisfy the Mogriffs, a Leech Khan will partially eat her shadow, leaving her living in a state which Jade describes as losing one's soul and is alluded to be similar to having a lobotomy. This sentence is ultimately not carried out though when Metalbeak and Jade agree that since Vera has already ruined her own life, imprisoning her will do.
- Hypocrite: Jesekiel Bexley killed innocent Mogriff hatchlings and eggs without mercy, yet he asked Vera to be spared by saying she's just a child who hasn't done anything to the Mogriffs. The hypocrisy didn't go unnoticed by them.
- Indignant Slap: Amelia eventually delivers this to Vera when the latter continues insulting her and the other noble heirs without shame.
- It's All My Fault: Metalbeak ends up feeling ashamed that he savagely killed Vera's grandfather in front of her eyes instead of just finishing him off out of the girl's sight because that put her on her path of becoming the revenge-driven young woman who'll gladly throw away her entire life to have her revenge on him and all the Mogriffs. He wanted to make the Butcher pay for all the lives he claimed, and he ended up creating a new Butcher of his kind.
- Kick the Dog: When the Mogriffs left Vera behind in her grandfather's burning farm, one of them decided to warn her against messing with them and tore in half the dress Jesekiel was planning to give her as a gift.
- Let Me Get This Straight...: Alan sums up everything he and his friends learn in their meeting with Ymir.
- Levitating Lotus Position: Kage meditates in this position while her Jade and Queen halves debate on what to do about Vera.
- Man Bites Man: Vera resorts to trying to bite Metalbeak's hind leg during the Curb-Stomp Battle against her. Jade comments on how sad this act of desperation is.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Metalbeak feels this way when he realizes that by unnecessarily enacting his revenge on Vera's grandfather in front of her just to make the old man suffer more, he's responsible for turning Vera into the unhinged avenger she's today.
- Pass the Popcorn: Jade helps herself to a cup of tea while watching the duel between Vera and Metalbeak.
- Rejected Apology: Metalbeak ends up making a sincere apology to Vera for turning her into the new Nest Butcher, but she writes it off as meaningless.
- Sarcastic Clapping: When Vera ends up arguing with her ex-friends about Elyon failing to live up to her expectations, Jade interjects by clapping and commenting that she's finally hearing Vera say something intelligent.
- Shadow Archetype: The chapter ends with Jade, disturbed at how much Vera is ready to ruin her own life just to have her revenge on Metalbeak, worrying if she could end up exactly the same should she let her own revenge against Elyon and the Guardians overwhelm her.
- Shapeshifter Guilt Trip: This gets interestingly subverted; though it's already established that Vera hates her grandfather's killer for using his form, Metalbeak shapeshifts only when he needs to communicate with non-Mogriffs and isn't trying to gain a psychological advantage over Vera. He uses his own form during his entire Curb-Stomp Battle against Vera and is in fact the one who ends up feeling guilty about filling her with vengeance. He even apologizes to Vera with her grandfather's voice, only for it to be rejected by the maddened girl.
- Sorry That I'm Dying: Before Metalbeak killed Vera's grandfather, the latter had enough time to tell her that he was sorry. He would have said more had Metalbeak not finished him off.
- Sympathy for the Devil: Despite Vera's actions, Jade and Metalbeak both end up feeling sorry for the girl who has ruined her own life in her obsession to avenge her grandfather. Metalbeak in particular admits that by killing Vera's grandfather in front of her eyes, he set her on this path.
- Tragic Keepsake: The black ribbon Vera wears in her hair is revealed to have been a part of the dress her grandfather intended to gift her with on the day he was killed.
- Two Words: Added Emphasis: Philip does this when he's about to tell Ymir how Vera's death would be detrimental to the conquest of the north.Philip: Two words… Idina Bexley.
- What the Hell, Hero?: During their trial, Vera's now former friends give her a piece of their mind for her irresponsible actions, but just like with Amelia in the previous chapter, Vera just blames them and Elyon for not supporting her cause.
- Wouldn't Hurt a Child: When Metalbeak killed Vera's grandfather, he ordered his clanmates not to harm the girl because he didn't want to be a killer of children like the Nest Butcher.
- You're Insane!: When Vera disowns her friends, Alan tells her that before he would have said her grandfather would be ashamed of her actions, but given everything they've learned about his cruelties against the Mogriffs, he might have been completely mad, just like Vera herself. Vera replies that they're the only ones mad for not even trying to fight before she breaks free from her Samurai Khan escorts in a final attempt to attack Metalbeak.
