In the frame above A small figure stands on the tip of a roof spire against a hazy amber sky; birds scatter around it.
Key facts
Boss · Bounty
Red Wraith
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Official Chinese name: 红衣女剑客OfficialChineseChinese name plate: 2025 demo, player’s recordingName sources for Red Wraith
An optional boss. IGN’s writer left the fight unfinished, and she returned to join the last phase of the demo’s final boss. Press-reported · IGN
First shown: The 2025 demo.
- Gamer Guides: “Some bosses you defeat may change the makeup of other battles, like Red Wraith here.” Press-reported Gamer Guides, 28 Aug 2025.
Sources so far: two stretches of official footage (the rooftop from 15:26 and her return from 19:56), IGN’s and Gamer Guides’ previews, and players’ recordings of the same demo.
Watch the full fight
Her first fight starts at 15:26 in the official 2025 S-Party demo walkthrough (Phantom Blade Zero on YouTube): about 40 seconds on the roof, which the player then leaves. She returns at 19:56 in the same video. YouTube loads only when you press play.
Third-party demo recording by IGN China, Bilibili BV1BJ8xz8EN1 · 15:30
Phases and mechanics
- Fight left unfinished in the walkthrough. Her plate is still on screen while she is out of view; the walkthrough moves on, and her plate returns beside Chief Disciple's Fallen Hope at 19:59. Seen in the 2025 demo walkthrough at 16:09. Official · 2025 demo
- Her line when she returns. Subtitle: "Red Wraith — Nothing can separate us. Not even in death.". On screen in the 2025 demo walkthrough, 19:59. Official · 2025 demo
- Rooftop close quarters. The fight is on a steep tiled roof; she and the player trade blows at close range. Seen in the 2025 demo walkthrough at 15:35. Official · 2025 demo
Red Wraith attacks and how to counter
Attacks seen 5
These labels are our plain descriptions; the game has published no move names.
- Longsword and thrown blade Attacks at once with a longsword and a thrown blade. Press-reported · IGN
- Red flare A red flare flashes across the top of the screen as she attacks (max-difficulty demo). From a player’s recording of the demo (Bilibili BV1228tzSEyp, 37:05). Unconfirmed · player recording
- Diving red slash She dives at the player in a burst of red. From a player’s recording of the demo (Bilibili BV1228tzSEyp, 37:20). Unconfirmed · player recording
- High leap She leaps high into the sky above the roof. From a player’s recording of the demo (Bilibili BV1228tzSEyp, 37:32). Unconfirmed · player recording
- Red streaks along the roof Long red streaks shoot along the roof tiles toward the player. From a player’s recording of the demo (Bilibili BV1228tzSEyp, 37:44). Unconfirmed · player recording
How to counter 3
- One writer found that Ghosteps break her guard quickly. Press-reported · IGN
- Leaving her has a cost: she returns during the final boss's last phase. Press-reported · IGN
- When she returns, the writer finally beat her with a leaping finisher from Seamless Death. Press-reported · IGN
Frame by frame
The walkthrough never finishes the rooftop fight, so the frames follow her first appearance and then her return beside Chief Disciple’s Fallen Hope. No official names for her moves have been published. Lines in brackets are the player character’s thoughts, as the subtitles print them.
15:282025 demo walkthrough · Phantom Blade Zero
- Seen Before any blow she stands on the very tip of the spire while birds circle; this is the shot at the top of this page. No gate or cutscene comes first: the player simply climbs onto the roof.
15:462025 demo walkthrough · Phantom Blade Zero
- Still A figure in red leaps from the tip of a roof spire, a pale streak trailing from its blade, birds scattering against an amber sky; the player stands on the tiled roof below.
- Seen Her plate is up and she comes down off the spire at the player.
- Dialogue Soul:
(She's holding back, even under that sanity-breaking Sha-Chi surge...)
- Reported IGN: she “immediately presses the attack with her longsword and some sort of thrown blade”. Press-reported IGN, 2025.
- Counter IGN’s writer found that Ghosteps broke her guard quickly. Press-reported IGN, 2025.
Official frame at 15:46.80, YouTube kwVgxmwgkfI · © PARAWULIN PRODUCTION LIMITED / S-GAME
16:032025 demo walkthrough · Phantom Blade Zero
- Still On the slope of the tiled roof the player turns into a strike against the figure in red; a thin orange line crosses between them and a wooden village lies far below.
- Seen Close fighting on the roof slope. Her plate is still up when the question comes; at about 16:11 the walkthrough leaves the roof with the fight unfinished.
- Dialogue Soul:
(Should I leave her be and push on for now?)
- Counter Leaving her is the choice that brings her back later (see 19:59 below); IGN’s writer called it “my decision to be merciful earlier haunting me”. Press-reported IGN, 2025.
Official frame at 16:03.00, YouTube kwVgxmwgkfI · © PARAWULIN PRODUCTION LIMITED / S-GAME
16:112025 demo walkthrough · Phantom Blade Zero
- Seen The player is off the roof and walking on through a rocky gully; her plate is no longer on screen, and the walkthrough does not return to her until the Chief Disciple fight.
19:592025 demo walkthrough · Phantom Blade Zero
- Still Two plates at the top, “Chief Disciple’s Fallen Hope” and “Red Wraith”; a hanging figure sits in a burst of white threads beside the burning tower while the figure in red comes at the player, her line in the subtitle.
- Seen She is back: her plate appears beside the Fallen Hope plate at about 19:57, and her line follows.
- Dialogue Red Wraith:
Nothing can separate us. Not even in death.
- Counter IGN’s writer struck her down first, with a leaping finisher from Seamless Death, and only then dealt with the Fallen Hope. Press-reported IGN, 2025.
Official frame at 19:59.87, YouTube kwVgxmwgkfI · © PARAWULIN PRODUCTION LIMITED / S-GAME
20:362025 demo walkthrough · Phantom Blade Zero
- Still A pale figure hangs upside down from a red thread above the player, who holds a glowing red blade; the figure in red is close behind on the left.
- Seen Both plates stay up for about a minute and a half; the two attack from the ground and from the threads at the same time.
- Reported IGN: “the combined fury of both bosses was more than I could handle.” Press-reported IGN, 2025.
Official frame at 20:36.90, YouTube kwVgxmwgkfI · © PARAWULIN PRODUCTION LIMITED / S-GAME
21:402025 demo walkthrough · Phantom Blade Zero
- Seen Her plate has gone; her last line is on screen while the thread fight goes on.
- Dialogue Red Wraith:
I will be waiting on the other side...
Where Red Wraith is fought and what it drops
- On the roof of a round building in a village, standing on the central spire; no cutscene or gate. Press-reported · IGN
- Optional: Soul offers to leave her. Press-reported · IGN
- Drops No drop recorded in the sources we read.
- After the two-boss fight the Chinese demo’s interface shows the item 红衣女剑客的记忆之花, our translation “Red Wraith’s Memory Flower” (“Memory Flower” is the official English term for this item type, State of Play 7:52; this item’s own English name has not been shown). Not stated whether she drops it. From a player’s recording of the demo (Bilibili BV1228tzSEyp, 58:35). Unconfirmed · player recording
- Right after the rooftop fight the Chinese demo’s interface shows the item 黑石碎片, our translation “Blackstone Shard” (“Blackstone Shard” is the official English term, State of Play 7:52). Not stated whether she drops it. From a player’s recording of the demo (Bilibili BV1228tzSEyp, 38:08). Unconfirmed · player recording
Where, in detail
- In the walkthrough the rooftop is a steep tiled roof with a central spire, cliffs and pines around it and a wooden village far below. Official 2025 S-Party demo walkthrough, Phantom Blade Zero on YouTube, 15:46.
To be confirmedWhere: which village the round building belongs to, and in which chapter; not stated anywhere we read. What it gives: whether she drops anything herself, in the demo or at launch: the two demo items above appear after her fights, but no source says she gives them.