We pick things up immediately where we last left off. Heronia is shocked and/or scared. Unless she’s putting on a very good acting job, she certainly didn’t expect her light familiar to launch an attack on Cecil. Or was it trying to attack Bertia? I’m going to assume Cecil since his protective earring broke.

It’s the day of Cecil’s graduation, and it starts off auspiciously enough. A generic speech here, a generic speech there, Courtgain is officially appointed the next student council president (it’s not voted on?). All seems normal so far… but anyone who has played the otome game is waiting with rapt anticipation. If you’ve ever watched a villainess show before, the villainess in question always gets humiliated at one of these big, glamorous events. There, in front of everybody, the prince will single out the protagonist, accuse her of all sorts of trumped up crimes, then announce his love for the oh-so-innocent heroine. According to Cecil’s parents, however, he has a trick in store for Bertia. Is this the first time we’ve even seen Cecil’s mother? Well, no matter.

Despite a happy ending to last week’s episode, Bertia has since started avoiding Cecil at all costs. She already adores him. It’s only going to be much tougher for her when they break up if she truly falls in love with him. Cecil won’t give up, though. He is determined to get her back. Ugh, I’ve always felt that you need to respect people’s wishes, and that hasn’t changed. A no is a no. But can there be edge cases? Hmm… no, I don’t think so. After all, who gets to decide what qualifies as an edge case? That’s a dangerous slippery slope. So while I truly understand that Bertia is being really stupid about this, I would not keep chasing her if I were in Cecil’s shoes.

Someone tried to shove Bertia down the stairs, but our “villainess” is luckily fine thanks to her contracted spirit. The downside, however, is that she remains undeterred. She keeps trying to spin this off as a crucial and necessary development in the otome storyline. But as we’ve said before, this is not a game. What if Kuro is too slow to react next time? Cecil needs to stop being so hands-off and take control of the situation, lest his fiancée end up in a coma. I still want Cecil to set Bertia straight, and truly convince his fiancée to just let him love her. But for now — always for now — he’ll take matters into his own hands without looping her in. Instead, he assembles the entire Avengers into his revenge scheme.

Heronia is now claiming that Bertia bullies her. My first thought is you need evidence! You can’t just say whatever you want willy-nilly! You need evidence to back up your allegations! Then it zoomed in, so I saw that stupid bird. It’s probably using its dumb charm magic or whatever to sway people to her side. Sure enough, we’ll later find out that this is the case… sorta. So far, Heronia’s charm seems to only work on the boys at the academy. Bertia has gone ahead and even protected the capture targets, so Heronia doesn’t even have the important boys on her side.