At least, I assume that it's the next chapter. There was a blank page with a single panel offset in one corner. But there's no index and no actual chapter marker beyond that, so for all I know the entire 28 volumes could be a single chapter.
We'll keep track of cliches this time. The first one is "It was all just a dream!" (1). On the bright side, the author managed to describe in about two sentences exactly as much detail as we need to know about the black-and-white setting that she's shown us.
You thought I was kidding when I described them as h-doujin zombie pirates, didn't you?
But who's this! Our protagonist (let's not forget, she's supposed to be fifteen--that'll become relevant) turns a corner and encounters a ~mysterious cloaked figure~ (2). Oh, no, it's just (3) the primary love interes- ye gods, what's happened to his face!
I wasn't kidding about that, either. Nameless bishie-kun, being the love interest, naturally decides to help her hide from the guards. Time for the old fake-kiss-under-the-cloak trick, eh (3.5)?
No.
No, it is not time for that. (And yes, I'm following along in *hem* another source, both for the sake of visual aids and because I'm missing volumes and there's some damage to the volumes I do have.) Then, when the guards show up asking about the protagonist, he holds a hand over her mouth and jokes about how he doesn't pay attention to other women when he's already getting busy with one. The guards promptly ID him as big-head-honcho-kun. Wow, what a great guy.
Also apparently his tongue is magic because she can understand the language now (4.5).
When she freaks out, he offers to keep going. Truly a shining gem of masculine honor. Naturally she runs away and is captured approximately five seconds later. Lesson one of ancient Anatolia: don't step away from your man if you don't want to get grabbed by a bunch of faceless thugs? At least she cries for her parents to save her, rather than douchenozzle-kun.
She comes to tied loosely to a pillar... with what appear to be magic ropes. Also she meets the magic bitch that kidnapped her, who proceeds to monologue (5.5) about how she needs the protagonist's blood, how she's one of several wives of an emperor and that her son is the youngest of his sons, that she wants to kill off all the other sons, yadda yadda you know the lazy info-dump drill.
Turns out, she prayed for the most worthy sacrifice when working her magic. And got Dumbass-chan. Because magic. The latter promptly protests that you can't do human sacrifice in the 20th century. Suddenly, messenger interrupt. The ritual is delayed because the emperor (
my young apprentice...) is coming and apparently him being on the way means that he will magically know if she does it. Oh, wait. No, he literally walked through the door a couple seconds later. Fair enough. Queen bitch makes up a story about Dumbass-chan being a sacrifice for a different god, and the emperor (
aru hairu ANATOLIA) swallows it whole.
And then Dumbass-chan is about to be beheaded. Sadly, I lied about Alduin. Instead she's saved when Prince Date-rape casually tosses a goblet at the headsman... somehow hitting him hard enough that he loses his grip and the axe goes flying. And then he says, "lol fam can't use her as a virgin sacrifice if she's not a virgin amirite? totally tapped that ass the other night, she is no bueno on le purity meter."
Afterward he goes for the full-body hug, wraps them both in his cloak, and talks her into agreeing (seeing as how the alternative is an ISIS greeting). Following that, the Fresh Jackass of Bronze Age tosses our heroine, Yuri, over his shoulder. They have a lengthy conversation in his
low-rider chariot that I won't bother to transcribe. Except that he's going to chill with his bro Pharaoh Tut and leaves her in his bedroom until it's time for Polished Bronze Mirror'n'chill.
There's a lengthy plot where she meets a servant boy that looks like her little sister (6.5), Queen Bitch enchants him to kill Yuri, blah blah, more quality art.
Seriously this shit goes on forever. Or, alternatively, just long enough for Love Interest Alpha to show back up and
shoot the dagger out of the servant-boy's hand. With a fucking shortbow.
Without hurting him. Kid vomits "dark water" which Prince No Means Yes immediately IDs as his mother's, despite it being
the middle of the fucking night.
And then Yuri wakes up in bed, naked except for an artfully draped corner of a sheet across her crotch (7.5) and a bandage, Prince Bone Star staring down at her. She tries to cover up with a sheet, he dismisses her injuries as inconsequential and talks about what he was doing, and then-
Yep. Real good material right here, folks. Only top-shelf considerate people allowed. >.>
Doesn't stop there, either. Goes straight for the rape, and the guy only stops when she starts screaming about how she loves her boyfriend and hates him. What a class act. Oh, and he mentions offhand, that servant boy she befriended is going to be executed for trying to kill her, because she's a de-facto royal after he brought her into the castle (7.5).
More dumb shit happens, Yuri learns that Prince Scumbag might have the magical strength to send her back home. Just what she needs, more material for Stockholm Syndrome to work with! As he reveals to her, it takes a whole bullshit set of highly specific conditions (8.5) that he probably made up on the spot, because there's no way he'd immediately remember on the spot all the necessary elements for a magical working which he has never performed or had any reason to investigate (9.5). Right?
Oh, and a scant few pages later Yuri is already rationalizing away how he repeatedly joked about and made actual attempts at raping her with "he's not a bad person" and "all I do is yell at him".
A few
more pages on, Prince Nice Guy is talking to Yuri's face about fattening her up, and makes an offhand comment about how he can't wait when she hits puberty at fifteen or sixteen 'cause her boobs will be bigger. She promptly yells back that she's fifteen that year, and he expresses surprise, saying that
he thought she was twelve or so. Think back over what we've covered with that in mind. Her internal monologue mourns because she didn't get a chance to
thank him.
Mm, and scum-kun makes her sleep in the same bed as him because he has a reputation as a playboy and doesn't want to ruin it by letting people know that he's not fucking her.
Yuri finally acts independently... by walking into a known trap to get her old clothes back (as they're conveniently one of the things needed to send her home) from the Queen Bitch. She gets a good inch-wide hole blown through her hand by a jet of water, huzzah! And the chapter is finally fucking over.
I find it helps if I imagine that this is what she actually looks like:
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