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Cantarella Vol. 9

Today's BGM:

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It was a long bit but WHATEVER. Cesaro shows up to Lucrezia's room, and his eyes are...off, freaking her out. He says that Chiaro is dead, that she's still marrying Alfonso, and he'll be taking responsibility for the child. Sancia stops Lucrezia from suicide (is she after something or genuinely turning face for unexplained reasons?) while Cesare wanders around looking like the next installment of Castlevania.

Chiaro has parted ways amicably with Alfonso after declining his offer and proving he's still a strong fighter. What is it with stories and lopping off swordsmen's arms, anyway? I just realized how common a thread that is in some of my fandoms. Post-sex scene with Cesare and Sancia (equal opportunity fanservice this time ) wherein they both admit this is a superficial relationship and Cesare wants to make the world "as it should be."

(Niccolo) Machiavelli finds Chiaro as he collapses. I guess Machiavelli (screw it I am going back to calling him Niccolo that's easier to type) sealed away most of his knowledge powerz. Lucrezia's son is born, and yoinked before she even gets to hold him. One of Cesare's (or Volpe's) minions is ordered to kill the baby in the woods, but backs out after seeing "the light of God shining down on the boy." Cesare puts the boy in the care of the guy (Bernard) instead of re-ordering the death- maybe he'll be useful as a Borgia some day.

Cesare informs Lucrezia that she can see the boy if she follows orders. Then he starts to rape her. Then he has a little breakdown and runs off. Michaelangelo makes a brief cameo to tell Cesare things about compassion and peace while talking about the Pieta. Niccolo has gotten Chiaro back on his feet, and says that the only way to save Cesare is to kill him. Alfonso becomes a Duke, and it's confirmed that Sancia is the one he's into. I want to like him but that's gonna make it hard.

Alfonso and Lucrezia meet officially and the situation is still that Alfonso is happy for her but does need to marry her politically. She's accepted that fate now. Also he informs her that Chiaro ain't dead. They have the wedding, and it's quite nice. Alfonso arranges for the observers to get sick to give them some privacy on the wedding night. Now they don't have to do it! Except Cesare shows up with Alfonso's sidekick tied up. Lucrezia is sent to her room with Volpe, because it's been a while since he's had a chance to make something terrible. Cesare interrogates Alfonso about Chiaro, gets a truthful answer, and gives him a nasty cut for his defiance.

Cesare gives Volpe the Michelotto mask. I don't think Cesare gets to just decide who Michelotto is, but then he's never been much for rules or propiety. Cesare resigns as Cardinal so he can do even bigger stuff.

Bonus story! It's about Alfonso and Sancia's relationship, with a parallel made between a misshapen pearl and Sancia. He always wanted to protect her when they were kids. They got a bit older and she fell for a musician named Gabriello, but she realized he was plotting to kill her step-sister Isabella. She confronts him but they just wind up kissing. She keeps quiet but Alfonso also finds out, and ruins the plot. Gabriello takes Sancia hostage, but Alfonso slows him down enough to get caught. (and Gabriello isn't willing to use kids as shields) He loses an eye in the process (so that's why he has that hair swoop!) and Gabriello dies painfully in prison. Sancia becomes kinda loose and tsundere, and Alfonso realizes he's into her. We still haven't really figured her exact feelings towards him. 's complicated.

Bonus: Concept art!

My rating: 5/10
I like getting side story for characters I like, but it kinda hurt them in my eyes actually. Just not into the incest, or all the near-rape in the main story. 2dark4me, but well executed.
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