We finally meet the capture targets, and there’s always a shota. Always, always, always. It’s kinda disgusting if you ask me. If you go too far down his route, the game should just automatically dial the police and give them your name and address. In any case, everyone is busy talking about Bertia. Normally, they should be obsessed with the heroine, right? I also don’t think you should be openly yapping about the prince’s fiancée like this. But we have to remember that Cecil is mostly amused by Bertia for now. He hasn’t quite fallen in love with her just yet.

It’s funny how this show is scratching my new game plus itch far more than the series that actually has the words “new game plus” in its title. I only wish Bertia was a little less clueless. In fact, she might be a touch too clueless. Y’see, she’s too brain-rotted by cheap, cliche otome games, so she continues to see her life as a “scenario.” Everything, she thinks, is dictated by said scenario. For example, saving her mother’s life has led to the woman bearing a second child, which doesn’t happen in the original story. This has the unintended consequence of her father not turning evil, which is necessary for the the scenario to play out as it should. Bertia fears that Cecil won’t have his happy ending as a result. So what does the girl do? She tries her best to corrupt her own father. She even gives him a book with pretty pictures and everything — a literal how-to on the finer points of being evil. By the way, how did she manage to print something like that in this universe? Are there people passionate about graphic design in our fantasy setting? But I digress. This part is a little odd to me, though. Bertia was so deathly afraid of her mother dying, but she’s just fine with her father becoming an evil doer who might get punished harshly, i.e. executed? I dunno, man…

Oh good, it’s another villainess show with a twist. This time, however, the villainess can’t rid herself of the prince. But why would she want to? Isn’t the villainess supposed to try and steal the prince away from the heroine? Well, in her previous life, Bertia was a big fan of Cecil’s route (yes, of course, she’s a Japanese girl who has been isekai’d). The fictional version of him had helped her through some rough times. As a result, she’s content to fulfill her role as a villainess in her second life even if it means he gets to live happily ever after with someone else, i.e. the heroine. She’s willing to sacrifice her own happiness for him, which is a bit disturbing if you think about it. I mean, you gotta be able to separate fiction from reality. For instance, just because Bertia claims to be the villainess doesn’t mean she has it in her to actually become one. She’s not an inherently bad person, and thus Cecil has no reason to annul their engagement. In fact, this story is being told from the prince’s perspective, and he finds her utterly fascinating.