Hoo boy. So our scumbag primary love interest, who just got through telling Yuri de aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa that one of the things that she'd need to go home is her original outfit, and that his mother has it... is surprised when she sneaks out of his bed to go try to get it. "That impudent bitch!" he proclaims, before going on to complain about how... he was intending to sneak out of bed to go fuck other girls but can't now. Then some nameless side character remarks that he seems to like being with her the most anyways... which is exactly what he said a while back when he tried to rape her, that he didn't want a princess at the time but would be okay with a concubine. I've said it once, I've said it a million times, whatta charmer.
We left off just after that, with Yuri going, "Naaah, the water-magic-user that scry-and-kidnapped me couldn't possibly be up to anything with this tub of standing water in a desert. And then,
shot through the hand! 
Art isn't half-bad on that shot, I'll admit. But then it's ruined when she says, "I didn't think water could be such a dangerous weapon..." Have you even been paying attention I mean god fucking damn!
And then the kid that got possessed and nearly killed her last chapter points out that she's lying over a drainage ditch...
...which promptly turns into a wall of spikes. Noice. Not sure if that's historically accurate, though. I guess the wood and lashing wouldn't rot as fast in a desert?
Oh, and then when the kid keeps saying that they should leave and give it up, Yuri dives straight into the sunk-cost fallacy, arguing that they "went to all this trouble to get here" despite them being like fifteen fucking steps through the gate of the Queen's palace. Oh boy, you woke up late at night and went for a walk, then almost died twice, sounds like a great pattern to keep following!
Okay, now comes a surprise. And let's take a moment to admire the composition of these two shots.
The first one, for all that I've been giving this manga shit? That's a nice visual device. Really, really cool inter-panel overlap going on there. Also, nod of respect for the obviously hand-drawn panel border.
And then you go to the next page an-WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!? Has this queen been getting henchmen from Innsmouth or something? Also nice visuals on the left-hand panel. But, uh. That dude is literally holding her above his head with nothing but a hand on her face? What the hell is going on here? Oh, and of course, the obligatory panty shot. I assume that that's the one part of her outfit that wasn't ruined (presumably for this exact purpose, or alternatively because the author couldn't get away with showing anything more than toplessness). The alternative is to pretend that these bronze age fucks had textiles that good, yeah no.
Bald WWE star punches her, but for fucking once in a manga that doesn't knock her out, just piss her off. She still flails helplessly while he carries her off under one arm, probably to perform the RKO elsewhere. And then...
Because of course he does. Fishman Randy Orton is interrupted by the queen, however, Apparently it's not kosher to rape people before you use them as blood sacrifices or whatever she's trying to do this time. And
then...
Jumpin' jackrabbits, someone even classier than child-raper-prince-kun. I bet that this is the second love interest! Hey, I guess I misjudged him, too; he's not a rapist, just a creepy serial killer who wears the skin of his victims. Don't assume that a creepy guy is a rapist just because he's a character in a shoujo manga, folks, he could merely be an innocent Hannibal Lecter knockoff! Doubtlessly this one will become a central pillar of the cast. Oh, and the queen says yes, he can have Yuri's body after she's dead. Queen bitch gloats like a true villain, and then-
Hoo boy. Yeaaaah. Let's just keep walking. Yuri's life flashes before her dull, insipid eyes. Thankfully, there's
someone in this story who is competent.
That same kid, what's-his-name, just stabbed the shit out of Fishman Randy Orton and took him to the mat! This is the hero the story needed, but not the one it deserved or wanted. Oh, and while he fights for his life with a guy who could pick up bigger people with a single hand
in exceptionally erotic positions, Yuri lies there and angsts because the Stockholm syndrome is already setting in: she thought about prince-scumbag-kun instead of her boyfriend when she was about to die.
She makes a run for her clothes, conveniently hanging nearby for
no goddamn reason, and then the two of them book it.
Oh. Is it just that she has some sort of condition where she loses most of her memories before they enter long-term storage? Because it looks like she's completely forgotten about the murderous baldy a minute or so behind them. Yuri steps on another one of those drainage ditches from earlier and...
RKO! From out of nowhere! Let's not neglect the rest of this spectacular page either.
You can supply your own words as I appear to have a shortage. The kid saves Yuri's bacon again, going for the flying dive-stab with the three-point landing.
What a champ. He's managing to keep a shoujo protagonist alive without her man around to constantly save her in absurd ways. In the midst of a knife-fight with the bad dude, he manages to shove Yuri out of the palace gate before it closes.
Oh. His name was Tito.
WHERE THE FUCK WERE YOU, YOU USELESS FUCK! ARE YOU ONLY ABLE TO COME ON TIME IF IT'S FOR A WOMAN?
Er, wait, let me rephrase that. YOU'RE THE MALE LEAD IN A SHOUJO STORY YOU HAVE ONE GODDAMN JOB, FUCK YOU YOU USELESS SACK OF SHIT GET OUT, I SWEA-
Turn down a glass for Tito, HERO OF SHOUJO BEAT.End Chapter Three and Volume 1.
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