Episode 19 –
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The fourteenth ritual has been completed and it was another silly one. But this time, it’s in a coliseum and in front of a crowd, including Jugglaburk. Ecarlate is on a high pedestal and sends an eye drop to a kneeling Kon below. It hits his eye and the ritual is a success as the crowd roars its approval.
Oh no! Ecarlate is in that mood again! One cowlick is up! To deal with this stress, they take a break from the stress of the rituals and end up at a karaoke club for a change of pace. It was funny when Kon opened up a panel in the machine and saw a bunch of tiny, sad looking guys with tiny musical instruments. He closed the panel and just pretended he didn’t see anything!
It was funny to see Marian scrambling to place an order every time Ecarlate’s cowlick waved. And under no circumstances can they let Ecarlate sing! Kon is told that the last time was a disaster. Marian volunteers to sing first, but only gets one note out before Ecarlate tells her to pick another song. And Kon decides that this just stopped being fun. The song Marian does finally sing is hysterical. Apparently they are expected to sing songs that mock themselves. Kon thinks it’s just a new form of Ecarlate’s torture.
Ecarlate asks who will be next and eyes Sainglain. He downs a full bottle of wine before he volunteers to be next. In cat ears, paws and tail, he sings a very cute song about cats. Marian directs Kon to play the tambourines and he knows his life depends on it. Things are getting very lively and I hope Ecarlate is satisfied. And in the room next door, Incognito is making merry as well and thinks the people next to them are too loud!
Ecarlate notices that they have a scoring system and hands the mic to Pet, ordering him to sing. She also expects him to score high or be “tossed into the stew”. She also has Marian order a pot of stew for the occasion. The friends can only pray that Pet gets a good score. He sings well but falls short of Ecarlate’s required score. They try to save Pet and Marian ends up shooting the machine. It was funny when all the tiny men fell out of it. Ecarlate accepts his “save” and Pet faints with relief.
Incognito is having just as much fun. Leon keeps driving Gustave crazy by talking to him through the mic. Gustave and KT are drunk and KT is all over Erec. No one will let Erec sing and it doesn’t look like Erec is having a very good time. Poor Erec goes to the bathroom and screams out that he wants to sing. Kon just happens to be in there as well, but they miss seeing each other by a hair. Erec returns to find his men still bickering and stripped down to their underwear. And he still can’t get to sing!
Meanwhile, Kon returns to his own hell and this time Ecarlate is singing. The only recognizable words are “obey”, “submit” and “total obedience” – it’s a very “her” song! It seems they were at this all night and as the sun rises, Incognito is passed out and Erec finally gets his chance to sing. But as he opens his mouth, closing is announced. I really wanted to hear him sing too! At least the Ecarlate beast has been appeased and her cowlick is gone. She’s actually smiling, but the rest of the group looks like hell. Kon is just glad that it’s over. Now, back to the rituals!
Yay! Got to hear Erec sing in the closing. Nice! I guess he ignored the fact the place was closing even though they cut him off in the end. Surprisingly Kon sings too before they cut him off as well. Now, here I thought that he didn’t know any of the songs from this place!