Let's Dance, Princess Waltz Style!

Yes, this is in fact the next scene. Continuity!

I blame Bendis. Moving on.

"The other is that the Royal Family are inbred sociopaths bred only for killing. Which, in retrospect, not the brightest idea."


And it's still better than retail.


"And also the number one spot for gods to make out, but we don't talk about that part for fear of smiting."


"Dating back to those legendary days when spaketh the King of the Gods, 'Here, hold this for me while I get some serious creation myths done.'"


"And only those two. The queen has a guest house out back."


You're sick of hearing it? How do you think I feel? I have to come up with new stupid jokes every time you guys repeat the same basic backstory.


"I have drowned too many future empresses to take any crap from you, kid."


"Except in the reign of His Imperial Majesty Reginald The Vigorous, during which the Emperor had no legitimate children."


Because in a Medieval Society, a system of government that leaves the throne empty if anyone catches any of the myriad diseases historically known for killing children young is a good one.


"So that we can at least pretend to spread the royal blood around."


"And your birthday party. We're not made of money, little mister."


If you know what I mean.


"And, thanks to the way our government system actually works, everyone else takes a step up the ladder. The Head Minister becomes the Grand Vizier, the Chief of Finances becomes Head Minister, and the Lord Chamberlain gets to be something other than a glorified butler."


Coming soon from White Wolf.


Well, clearly, they're too plot contrivancey well designed to ever fail.


Don't be silly. The <INSERT PERSONAL PREFERENCE FOR CONSOLE HATRED HERE> cracked years ago.


Really? Lucky. Usually you can't get people to shut up when it comes to Console flame wars.


"Then, my bladder emptied, I go to my actual seat."


"Also, as set down by ancient tradition, there is only one throne for each person, and one cushion to pad that throne, so it's a bit hard."

I like how this update had a maid.

Okay how, exactly, do you ensure that the current Emperor will have a son? If the first Emperor was a woman, why does it even have to be a son? And the satellite kingdoms, how do they ensure they have a daughter of the appropriate age come Waltz time? This is such a stupid set-up.

It's actually Magic in the case of the Emperor, that's what the whole Blood and Ritual thing is supposed to be about.

As for the Satellite kingdoms...

I still don't understand why the price also appears to be one of the princesses, and what would happen if the prince/ss were to win.

It'll be revealed in time; the game uses a drip approach for its info dumps.

edit: incidentally, something that doesn't show too well in a LP, but the music is pretty strong point of the experience throughout. E.g. soon-relevant, princess waltz battle themes:

Yeah, I have a co-worker with B.O. like that.


"And for that betrayal, it had to die."


Tonight the role of the young prince will be played by Kristen Stewart<INSERT YOUR CHOICE OF TERRIBLE ACTOR/ACTRESS HERE.>


"Now then, it says here you're planning to do a number from Les Mis? Oh dear, a bit over used, don't you think?"

.
"It was all I had time to prepare, but I could do some Penzance instead, if you prefer..."


"I dreamed a dream in time gone by
When hope was high
And life worth living
I dreamed that love would nev-"
"Thank you, we'll call you."


Simon Cowell?


"Otherwise, he'll give me a mean look and say something snarky about me in front of millions."


Oh, so it's that Nigel guy who wants to be Simon Cowell so bad he can taste it.


"Entitled to the same 25% discount at ANY Eldilhand Taco Bell!"


"Except for when it is, such as during the 1400s when the Emperor created an Anti-Judge and claimed the existing Judge was a liar and false."



Hmm. BRB, Coin flip.

Voltron joke it is.

"And she'll form... THE HEAD!"


Oh, good. The way the set up had been going so far, I wasn't sure.

I'm pretty sure I have that Yu-gi-oh card. "Oracle of the Judge", Dark element, Priestess type.


Wait, this whole mess is because the Oracle was unclear when she told Chris to throw a kegger?


"No self respecting teenager would throw a raging keg party when he was only seventeen and a half! That would be WRONG!"


"Who throws a raging party in mid-January? You'll have the best groundhog day celebration on the block? The Judge thinks not."


"His Imperial Majesty is out of town until at least Tuesday. The stars are in alignment, the time for this party is nigh!"


Snipped: The shocking news that an all powerful Emperor ruling seven kingdoms at once who lives in a fortress no one ever leaves surrounded by servants did not spend a lot of time raising his son.

This isn't Crusader Kings, after all.

"I want to see hot chicks fighting and I want to see it now, dammit. And don't forget the jell-o. The Judge was quite clear, there must be jell-o."


Holy shit, Kije, you talk to the Judge with that mouth?


I don't think that's even biologically possible!


Man, it's a good thing we've got this on a three minute delay.


Fucking shitcakes, cover your ears, folks!


"I know that ceiling. I went to school with him. Wonder what he's up to these days?"


"A sweet confusion filled my mind
Until I woke up only finding everything was just a dream
A dream unusual of its kind
That gave me peace and blew my mind
And now I'm hung up on a dream..."


... Low hanging fruit, man. Low hanging fruit.



Really, Arata, you want to throw me any more slow pitches like this?


Apparently he does. I think he's gone a little M on me.


I've actually tried to do that once or twice, leave a little notepad and pen next to the bed so I can jot down notes and things that occur to me in dreams.

I've either got terrible penmanship, or the brilliant ideas I have when I'm dreaming are just gibberish by light of day.

Heck, that's how I decided to do a Maid Campaign.


Still got that mistake on it, I see.

That's right, even Arata's sister gets more cute girls than him.


Nodoka has decided that if she's going to be competitive in the attempt to nail Chris, who is totally not a girl how could anyone think that, she should latch on to someone competent for help.

As competent people are in short supply in this game, she's stealing Arata's.


Shizuka's just glad to have an opportunity to escape a soul-crushing existence taking care of her mentally incompetent little brother and terminally lazy mother.

Soon to be a Lifetime movie of the week.


Well of course, Nodoka. There's nothing more interesting to a teenage boy than trailing along behind his sister and a friend while they try on clothes.


Sometimes Arata does show a level of awareness and self-preservation exceeding that of an obese turkey in early November.

Timely!


Anyone who didn't guess there had to be an ulterior motive on anyone actually wanting Arata around? Anyone?


I'd make the obvious joke about this, but he really is talking about Chris and we all know it.



You know, there's not much point in me being here if you people are going to do my part, too.



Apparently Shizuka uses Wapsi Square style teleportation.


"Except for the Bieber fever, of course, but he's had that for years."


We don't believe you.


And so, Arata having no say in his own life, they head off to the mall.

It's funny because it's so abusive!

Oh man, Wapsi Square. I used to read that. But after something like a thousand pages I just lost all understanding of what was going on. I tried to follow along. I really did. And I'm usually pretty good at it. But this just... defeated me utterly.

Nice to see an update from you, John. :D

That's right, Arata was dragged along against his will in order to carry all the nothing Nodoka was buying.

They stop to buy drinks and have a quick rest, allowing Arata to empty his arm of all this heavy emptiness, and who should they spy?

Our totally masculine secondary protagonist!

With the kind of whip-smart intellect we normally in our psychic detectives, Nodoka quickly determines that Chris might just be shopping.



Even with all that context provided, this looks insanely dirty. Don't you love it?


I'm not up with the hep kids and their slangings. Is that what they're calling it now?


I have seen some lazy things, and I have seen some gross violations of good nutrition... but stocking up on McDonald's so you don't need more than one trip a day?


He's gonna lose that girlish figure.



Chris is as baffled by the anomaly that allows Shizuka to be related to both Arata and Nanae as the rest of us.


Not included: The two beat panels, one where Chris stares at her in stunned silence and one where he visibly turns that shade of bright red.


And that he's the one who broke your favorite lamp and painted on the walls.


That's not a good idea at anyone's age, Shizuka.

I say as I sit here eating half a pizza. Ha-ha, hypocrisy!


Don't do it, Shizuka! Mysterious magical girls people in anime are like cats. You feed them once and they never leave the house. Just ask Yosho.



She's been feeding, dressing, and cleaning up after Arata for the past fifteen eighteen years, she's happy to have company.


I know when random strangers offer to have me come to their house for a free home made meal, I often worry it's a sign of anger.


I have to admit, this messed me up for a bit. I mean, from the overwhelming evidence, I'm almost positive Chris is a girl in disguise, and then he shows signs of a crush on Arata's sister.

Then I put two and two together and my brain goes to a happy place. <.<


Yeah? How about you come out here and make- oh, you mean Chris.

A sudden rainstorm for no reason other than to keep the protagonists in their current location?

This is going to turn into another murder mystery, isn't it?


"We'll just stay in that creepy old mansion on the hill."
"... When did they build one of those inside the mall?"


Oh, great, more lack of things for Arata to carry. You use that boy like a pack mule.



Presented without comment.




"Miss Chris if you're nasty."

Wow, half my audience wasn't even alive when that reference was relevant.


"And you can call me Al."

Frankly, I'm not old enough to know these references. That's just how I roll.


SUDDEN ABRUPT SCENE TRANSITION!

(Take a shot if you're doing the Visual Novel Drinking Game!)
(Two, since it's to a previously unseen mystery character!)


You're a weird animal
That's what I know
But you're a weird animal
I've got to follow


A new kitchen tool you won't be able to believe you lived without all these years, from RonCo!


Is it bigger than a breadbox?

It's a text box. You're insane.

Glad you're back to updating, John. Your LPs are always a blast. :)

Not included: The about five panels each of them ellipsising at each other (Bail out now or see greater horrors, english majors.) awkwardly in between each line.

Also not included: Any actual images of Shizuka involved with a lingerie shop. ;_;


In short, WHY CAN'T I QUIT YOU?


Ouch, dumped for big sis.

I've been there...

In retrospect, I should've been more suspicious, given that I'm an only child.


And I love the sound of you walking away
And I can see clearer and I'm getting closer
To finding out to just who I am without you in the way
So hold me
But only for today


"Otherwise we're legally married by the standards of my world."


Arata should really consider himself lucky, considering what a line like that would be referring to in most h-games.


Speaking of...


...

No comment.


Seriously, the longer this supposedly platonic relationship continues, Chris goes from tsundere to being the top in an S&M couple.


Right. Normally people who live in big palaces are down to earth, gentle souls.


He's been stalking you on and off since you've met, Chris. Why is this surprising?


"And then a bunch of fireworks came up behind it and this little fairy flew up..."


An eerie room with a high ceiling? No wonder Chris instantly believes him about this, it's too detailed to have been made up!


"And he kept spouting all these lame catchphrases... but Cameron Diaz looked pretty good playing you..."


I can't help but feel this is just an extended set up for a scene where they fall in love to Once Upon a Dream.

I saw for miles and miles.


And to ferret out information on what Arata may or may not know, Chris immediately leaps to Generic Action Movie Trailer Protagonist.


"What? No. Why would I have seen your mister winkie when you were just talking to a priest as a young bo- okay, point made, but no, I didn't see it."



I think some major and important plot twist is about to be revealed, you guys!


Too bad, it's new character time!

And that seems like a good place to leave off for the night. :D

Thanks for the welcome backs, by the way, and I'm glad to be posting again.
Although I seem to be coming from a slightly darker place than intended on some of these jokes. >.>

Once Upon a Dream is my "look, I've had lessons!" song. In case Chris and Arata need any musical accompaniment to speed things along.

Wait, the Jekyll and Hyde version or the Sleeping Beauty version?

Both. PLAYED BY EAR!

Also, hi John! ^_^

Sleeping Beauty. Although I do have a Jekyll and Hyde song in my folder! (That I always kinda sucked at.)

Once upon a dream is one of my go-to shower songs since I can remember most of the lyrics unlike most songs. Every time a character comes forward for a close up, I think of [drat, can't find the link] that smbc comic about the optimal distance to view potential mates.

Sometimes, dark humor is just what you need. Back to looking for a monologue!

I was actually worried when I clicked 'take me to newest' I would end up at the first post because I didn't have an account when I followed this. I guess I checked up on it after getting one, though, it's good to see it updating. It's a wonderful epic in a world where respecting personal space was believed to summon demons.

Arata and Chris, stunned and confused by this assault, respond.



This is actually a hard scene to make stupid jokes about.




At a certain level of crazy, there's just nothing more a pop culture reference or cynical insult can add.




And I've already made the "I think she's one of the board members" joke about Riko.


She is talking out loud and less than a foot away, by the way.


Chris, let me tell you about this wonderful thing we have in this world known as a restraining order.


Note that the last three images are all right after each other.


Seriously, this must be what being on the other end of the average otome protagonist is like.



After this she's scheduled to accidentally run into the captain of her school's football team and then fall asleep in the library so the guy with glasses can yell at her.





And now she's got the hots for Arata. Ba-dum-pish.

She's more the standard shoujo manga protagonist rather than otome game.

Otome = weak willed, hair down, lot's of stuttering, abusive relationship with ellipses, dense, faints, unusual dreams, faceless (yet somehow, they still manage to kiss)

Shoujo = forces herself onto others, hair doesn't matter but magical girl ponytails are common, ridiculous fantasies, short short skirt, E!X!C!L!M!A!T!I!O!N! Marks!, watch her get angry for no reason soon (she's already on fire), unusual obsession with 'princes', says all of her thoughts out loud, causes everybody within range to scoot back, ignores others, typically stupid

I'm calling the sister out for having a boobs and butt pose.

She thinks she's making a good first impression. I think we have a winner of the Dumber than Arata challenge.


I'm not sure why Shachi doesn't get a speaker credit yet.


At the dentist, getting adjusted?


I was going to do my usual thing by quoting the lyrics to All My Life, but then I realized that A) He's screaming done done on to the next one, not Gone, and B) I need to save all my Dave Grohl related material for my Rock Band Series Let's Plays*.

*I will never LP Rock Band as I have no musical ability.


Where are you? Where are you?
Everything I've believed in, has lied to me
But this could be the best day, of my life
The best day of my life


With the way this plot has been shaping up so far? I really doubt it. Maybe an intricate knot in Arata's shoelaces.


Crap, Arata, Chris, she's got the scent! Head for the river!

And yes, I know, Mythbusters proved that didn't work.


Because of a fascinating chemical property known as salinity! Join me now as we go on a tour of the magical world of salt!


Ha, ditched.


We know who she is, game. Taking away her speaker credit doesn't make her mysterious.


It's kind of weird seeing Angela just out shopping. She doesn't seem like the kind of person to have just a normal life, you'd expect her free time to be spent in wholesale slaughter.


Thankfully, Nodoka is kindhearted enough to answer the question, so she's not going to end up a red smear on the floor of the store.


Well, it would be, if it weren't for the fact different brands and stores label sizes differently making it almost impossible to decide anything by label alone.

Or so I'm told. As a male who dresses like a slob, I can buy anything that's not a small and have it be a close enough fit.


Nodoka needs an adult.

Also a team of bodyguards.

And an assault helicopter.


And just like that, Nodoka gives up the best commission of her life.

I think it's the same outfit she was already wearing without the jacket. What kind of a scam are you people running here?


I don't know yet, dammit, I've only met three two of the datable girls! Stop pressuring me!


Nodoka, like many small prey species, freezes in the presence of a large predator.


Not pictured: The screen where Nodoka herself wonders why she's still part of this scene.


"And have one of these peasants fitted for a harness to carry the lot."


Feel Arata's pain.



As it turns out, when she's not psychotically assaulting anything that crosses her path, Angela is crazy in the generous rich person way.



Listen to the nice rich lady, Nodoka. Before she stabs you with a lance.



A wealthy stranger dragged you through a store, bought twenty different outfits, gave you one, and walked off. And compared to Arata and Chris, you had the normal time of things.


Wait. You notice how we've never seen Angela and Shizuka in the same scene? I'll bet Shizuka's really Angela using a pair of glasses to hide her identity!


As if you didn't know!

The laughing! It hurts! Stop!

Meanwhile, Angela's phone is ringing.



Call all you want, but theres no one home
And you're not gonna reach my telephone
'Cause I'm out in the club and I'm sippin' that bubb'
And you're not gonna reach my telephone



She makes a good point. Don't you hate that with cell phones?

And I would know, because I totally have real friends. Ones who call me. And aren't at all made up.

;_;


You gave a rich girl a credit card with no limit for emergencies only. And expected her to stick to that.

Telephone, you are an idiot.


And as has been previously established, Angela would hate to do anything to attract attention or lead to her being attacked.


That's right. The consequenses. I did warn you, English majors.


That's what she said.


"These hedges... they've been neatly trimmed. And recently."


Now I'm picturing one of the humanoid wolf ones as a contestant on Win Ben Stein's Money.

At a certain point, I'm including references just to get more hits from Google.


Telephone is a clever and strategic planner.

I guess there was an App for that.

... Now I just feel dirty.


You're about a scene and a half too late for that, methinks.


Angela's been following the plot of the game even less closely than I have.


Apparently the person advising Angela and providing her with magical credit cards is Dave Seville.


Picky and precise eating habits could be a sign of OCD, you know.

Next thing you know she's going to have this compulsion to stack her corpses neatly when she finishes.



Man, the traffic cops in this town have gone too far.


I like his optimism, thinking there's even a slight chance she's going to listen when he says don't hang up.

That blonde with the pigtails. I-I don't know why. But I kind of love her. I could watch Arata and Chris make faces behind her back while she monologues all day.

I have to admit, I think she's adorbs. Walking Umbrella Girl is a bit too cute, and we've not seen much of Angela beyond Hulk Smash! So crazy shoujo protagonist is actually lookin' pretty good. And she has a tiny flying whale. How can you NOT love someone who has a tiny flying whale?

...SOMEHOW I TOTALLY DIDN'T NOTICE THE ORCA IN THE BACKGROUND. It's so cute ;A;

Maybe the two of them together could do the narration in other scenes. "Tiny Flying Whale, it looks like they're going with the classic late to wake up opening! Isn't that adorable?"

(And yes, I signed up on the forum just to follow this thread. Who wouldn't? I mean. Tiny flying whales.)

Not standard; she's genre savvy shoujo manga protagonist.

And yeah, she's somehow ended up my favourite too though i usually find these characters annoying. Just couldn't stop laughing at her antics (though in the long run it probably helped she isn't just that)

Speaking of Twin-Tail McGee, Chris and Arata are discussing her as we return to them.


Yeah, no way that could ever possibly be a thing that is both true and painfully obvious to anyone reading this.


... Did the game forget Angela introduced herself? Is that why everyone, even the text boxes, seems to think her name is still a big mystery?


This is probably more due to the memory wipe than Arata being an idiot protagonist, but it's just as annoying.


It's like The Bachelor, but less violent.


We're right back to the soft pitches, huh, Arata?


No. In Eldihiland, marrying yourself was legalized by overwhelming majority, despite opposition from people who felt it impinged on the traditional definition of marriage as being between one man and one goat.


Yeah, not knowing important story elements that people and to some extent monsters are trying to kill you over can't possibly prove to be a bad thing.


"I think. I mean, I don't really recall the last few times you did it, but I think I was probably upset."


To be entirely fair to Chris, he is just trying to keep Arata away from all the monsters and psychotic princesses, but I take issue with the fact he seems to think everything will be just fine if Arata closes his eyes, covers his ears, and starts singing "LALALALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU." when the monsters come.


Yeah, how could you possibly forget about all that wonderful being screamed at every time you tried to help?


Case in point.


Right. You get irrationally angry every time he mentions wanting to be friends, and he's the weirdo.



"Especially since every time you've tried to fight a monster on your own it's kicked your ass!"


I assure you, Chris. Arata is a complete ass and nothing less.


"Not knowing anything has never stopped me before!"



I have dreamed thee too long,
Never seen thee or touched thee.
But known thee with all of my heart.
Half a prayer, half a song,
Thou hast always been with me,
Though we have been always apart.


Don't knock it, Impulse is a pretty cool guy.

Aw, damn, now Geoff Johns is gonna have to write a scene comparing me to Superboy Prime for liking characters that weren't part of his childhood.

Lazy-ass mother, creepily fixated older sister, and annoying childhood friend who acts like a younger sibling? I suppose he could've done worse.


For an anime/video game character? At least your sister isn't a vampire, your dad isn't the king of all evil, and your mother hasn't been cloned into your almost girlfriend.


What is this feeling
So sudden and new?
I felt the moment I laid eyes on you
My pulse is rushing
My head is reeling
Oh, what is this feeling?
Does it have a name?




Surprisingly, Arata's quick wits enable him to decipher Chris' clever stratagem for escape!


No, not really. Every time there's a scene where I even briefly wonder if I'm harping on him for being stupid too much, this happens.


You know, there's a fine line between Tsundere and "Get some valium in that girl guy!"


And the first sign of it is when they start changing gears this quickly. That's not 'quirky anime personality', that's 'close to a psychotic break'.


And went into women's fashions instead of men's? This revealing what we all know about your real identity?

THAT YOU'RE A GHOST BECAUSE ALICE KILLED YOU IN THE PARK!

... Wait, no, that's somebody else.


"I hate having to speak to the hired help on their days off, pretending they're people."


"I don't care what anyone says, it's a well-written splat and a valid addition to the core."


Yeah, it's not like you've been specifically told never to fight without your dress for your own safety.


See how it says please? That means she was only asking. Totally doesn't count.

I keep getting Wedding Peach vibes and it's harshing my buzz, man.

Finally we're getting to the hentai part of the- oh, use him to fight, right.


Will you travel across the land, searching far and wide?


Right, his normal life. The one where, currently, he gets randomly attacked by monsters and runs into your opponents every time he goes to buy milk.


Embody a go-go, baby!


I'm not sure if I missed a screenshot or if they're just actually trusting us to realize she means "Finally, the rain has stopped."


"You know, the person everyone else in this game cares about and respects, as opposed to you, Arata?"



Nodoka apparently prefers to believe that bishonen eliminate waste by producing clouds of sparkles as they move.


Go back and read the last five pages of this LP over, Nodoka. The answer should be incredibly obvious.


Meanwhile, back with the character everyone cares about and respects...


Thanks for clarifying, narration box. I was just wondering how the rivers got up the-WE KNOW WHAT METAPHOR IS.


Good. It would be a much worse plan to hide and then jump out and strike from the expected angles.


I actually trimmed a screenshot detailing how "the guardeners swim freely beneath the puddles as if they were flat oceans", it's not Chris failing to realize they're going to attack him.


This is exactly why anyone with a positive dex modifier (and what kind of idiot uses dex as a dump stat?) should take Combat Reflexes ASAP.


Magical eel monsters that spit acid and teleport around using puddles? This has crappy third party splat written all over it.


Not depicted: The other two who are currently in front of him. Or a good reason he can't go left or right to avoid being in their territory.


Then clearly you're not trying hard enough. I don't want to resort to advice animals here, Chris, but don't make me get High Expectations Asian Father in here for a pep talk.


Say hi to them in passing in the halls instead of dodging them in a desperate attempt to avoid awkward conversations?


Will you stop doing THAT!! I don't know what's with you people and getting right up in the camera like that, but I need my personal space.

Wait, whips? The website didn't say this was that kind of h-game, either...

... I didn't say stop.


You know, the worst part is, there's no way to turn that into innuendo without it being way too heavy handed and obvious, even for me.


The slippery eels sprayed him with a raging torrent. That's exactly what I was talking about.


Serve with crackers and cheese, feeds 6-8.


Because if JRPGs have taught us anything, it's that returning to the place you started from once your attack is finished is only polite.


So, the good news is, if he dodged three out of five attacks last time, and there are only four eels, he only needs to get hit one more time before he can avoid everything when he attacks.


Yeah, I don't really need a detailed description of his injuries, narration box. I can go to the Corpse Party thread for that sort of thing.


I also have this terrible suspicion some of my readers are enjoying this, narration box, so I would REALLY like you to stop.

"Yu Mo Gui Gwai Fai Di Zao"
Yu Mo Gui Gwai Fai Di Zao?


No, that's a healing spell. A protective spell would stop him from getting his ass stomped so hard in the first place.


Forcibly?


Has this been a big issue in the past? Suicidal princes getting spited by the blessing?


"But my Cure* albums said killing myself was cool! Stupid spell! You don't understand me! Nobody understands me! YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD!"

*Insert whatever newfangled emo band you kids are listening to nowadays here.


Cross he bears? Really? "Wah, wah, anytime something tries to kill me I get healed back to full instantly if I say the word blessing. Woe is me."

Most royal families end up with gross deformities, a legion of bastards and cousins with claims on the throne, and paparazzi. You got lucky, you whiner.


I said no. You can ride the Leviathan ONE more time, and then we're leaving this godforsaken park and never looking back.

Oh, good. Another scene of Arata being an idiot around his sister and friend to save us all from that terrible exciting action sequence.


Because it either reacts to danger or to Chris using the Blessing to save himself. Were you not paying attention in the first fi- oh, right.


Yet another good reason to be thankful this LP is silent, believe me.


Thunder, thunder- no. Too obvious.


Yes, thank you, we get it, you're frightened and also high pitched in that way that the Japanese apparently find cute and I find ear drum piercingly annoying.


Shizuka. Big Sisest of Big Sises.


I know. I'm Irish and your screaming had me sure the bean-sidh- oh, the thunder.


All of a sudden, Nodoka gets a sprite again, seemingly just so she can scream in our faces. This game and personal space issues.


Perhaps somebody said something melodramatically. Like, "Yonder is the castle of my master."


Don't apologize, Arata. They've never been sorry to see you leave.


Honestly, it would almost be nice to see a sentence directed at Arata where you couldn't easily add "you idiot." on the end.


"I have to iron the dog!"


Was it a fiddler?


Because after all, it's not like we have reason to believe there are six or so crazy women with medieval weaponry running around at the moment.


Like, Kate Upton hot.


For those of you who missed it less than four pages ago.



Yes, Arata. That's why he lied to you.


Darling you gotta let me know
Should I stay or should I go?
If you say that you are mine
I'll be here til the end of time
So you got to let know
Should I stay or should I go?


Probably. It'll be a really short game if you decide to just go get a pepsi and wait this whole thing out.