Otome Lover

Last year (lol) we finished up the Alfonse Route, so this year we’re starting the Caesar Route! Also, I’m gonna change up the posting schedule a little bit. I am extremely ahead of my queue (it is currently August 2022 when I’m writing this and this post will be aired in January), so I’m going to switch to a two post a week schedule. Posts will drop Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6 PM EST.

Now a quick recap on who Caesar is, he’s this pink haired dude from the House of Baroque and is cursed to turn into a pig whenever he makes out with someone. His introduction said it was “only when he kissed a girl” but multiple spinoffs and I think the main routes show that it happens even when he makes out with men so.. yeah. Also this is just.. a very otome-esque conflict to have.

Also Caesar Raphael shares his name with Caesar Zeppeli so… strap in for a potential shit ton of bad JoJo’s references.

Without further ado, let’s begin.

This better not be a sudden love confession. That’s too soon, even for Otome Land.

The chapter opens with a recap of Lucious’s backstory, how the Day King imprisoned him in a labyrinth cursed using Baroque magic. The Day King is super pumped because all of his problems go away and House Baroque gets stuck with the magical consequences, and they all spontaneously turn into pigs.

Liz launches into a Kissing Booth style explanation/montage of her backstory and the context of the last 4 routes, and we get confirmation that zombie disease happened in the same timeline as the Big Booty Wizard attack, so I’m surprised students still go to the Academy at all. There’s some ominous wording about the next problem, then we skip to Liz at the sport fields and sighing at Caesar.

Luca comes, and this isn’t helping my deep-fried-in-JJBA brain because dammit there was a jojo’s character named Luca too. Anyway WH Luca is not interested in playing the made-up wizard sport and instead seems more interested in who Liz was scoping out and somehow immediately pinpoints it to be Caesar.

Wasn’t it literally confirmed he was though? Like, why does it have to be a rumor?

Liz wisely declines giving Luca any information. Luca leaves, then Liz flashes back to an hour ago when Caesar asked to see her after what I assume was a class.

Boy I said NO love confessions in chapter 1.

“Sully”? That’s not helping your chances bud.

Luckily, this only ends with an “I like you” confession, which is more believable. Unfortunately, Liz doesn’t feel the same way. And unfortunately, I know that that’s going to change. So she lets Caesar down gently and he takes it well, and tells her he’ll try to do stuff to make her see him in a romantic light.

At least he’s making his intentions clear?

Then Alfonse walks in and asks him to join their Ladilz team, and Caesar enthusiastically joins, and Liz goes to watch the game. We flash back to an hour later, and Liz thinks about how much of a catch Caesar is.

No, really.

Gotta say, this route has quite a strong start. /gen

CHAPTER 25, Klaus/Liz, Rated: Explicit

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Demon au requested by @itsmeimcathy thanks for getting my butt back in gear and giving me awesome prompts. <3

Last time on the Caesar Route, Caesar got stabbed on the Ides of March.

Also the big un-foreshadowed twist was brought to you by a dirty liar! Also Viggo is here for some reason.

Caesar is way too calm about this. Maybe Viggo is just a DnD barbarian then.

Oh my god I totally forgot he got stabbed.

So Mischa the doomsday cat shows up after being gone for a million years and shows Liz and Caesar to a hiding place in a shack. Caesar passes out and Liz casts a healing spell on him. Mischa then brings up how villainous Caesar apparently is, which I have no comment on because I fucking forgot what she’s talking about. She points out that Liz must be in love with him because why else would she show basic human decency, yada yada yada.

Huh. Not the kind of line you’d expect from a dating sim like this.

Liz tells Mischa that she can’t trust Caesar because of all the lies he’s said, which is a smart decision. Mischa tells her that the only way to proceed now is to basically real life block him.

What a smart decision! I’m sure we’ll definitely follow it.

…..Right?

YOU REALLY SHOULD. But the only choice that moves that stupid fucking love meter is the dumbass one.

Girl this is literally one of the stupidest decision you’ve made on this app. And that’s really fucking saying something! Mischa is literally out here telling you that you need to block his ass, but you literally won’t just because the plot says so. Fuck this plot. I know I said that I don’t really believe the twist because of the bad writing, but with Solmare, you can really only take their writing at face value.

Nobody speaks for what has got to be several awkward hours until Caesar wakes up. He’s surprised Liz is still here.

Now is literally not the time. 

And Liz agrees, because she gets pissed off about all his lies. Nobody gives a straight answer for at least eleven clicks until Caesar reveals he became a prefect by cheating with Zett’s help. Then he is about to reveal something that is probably along the lines of “I need the Star Sapphire to break my stupid ass otome pig curse” but the chapter cuts off before we get a straight answer.

Wasn’t there some plot thread about the end of the world 5 chapters ago?

Last time on the Caesar route, no actual interrogating of Zett ever gets done. Instead, Zett is allowed to villainously monologue at Caesar about how he’ll never change his past, which causes him to leave to be alone and then skip the prefect meeting the next morning.

So fun. I just love it when men tell women that they’re responsible for taking care of other men. If you’re so worried about Caesar, Alfonse, don’t be a coward. Take care of him yourself. 

I think that’s the most passive aggressive way I’ve ever said something like that.

So Liz goes into the Gedonelune Town to look for Caesar. She wonders if he went to see the Ringmaster that Zett mentioned last time, but someone approaches her.

Jesus, what is this, the love interest reunion?

Glenn’s back in town for work again. He says THIS, COMPLETELY UNPROMPTED:

Then he randomly brings up a circus that’s in town, presumably so Liz can make a leap of logic to assume that that’s where the Ringmaster and Caesar are. My theory is proven correct and Liz heads to the circus. After briefly getting distracted, she actually finds him there.

So I guess the plot is paused now? Cause Liz and Caesar just go to the circus. They pet some lions, which I’m 99% sure isn’t actually safe, and Caesar casually drops that the circus took care of him at one point, so Caesar is simultaneously fallen nobility, a former criminal, and a circus kid all in one. After a while, Caesar just disappears. Liz finds him in the back of the circus having a conversation with the Ringmaster, who turns out to be a child-exploiting dick, what a surprise /s. I guess now we know what Caesar actually meant by “the circus took care of him.”

Caesar reveals to the Ringmaster that he freed all the children, then attacks the Ringmaster. He’s about to kill him when Liz runs in to stop him with this incredibly weak excuse.

I’m just saying that there are OTHER arguments someone could make against this Solmare, it doesn’t have to be this simple.

People hear the commotion and start heading for the Ringmaster’s room, so Liz and Caesar prepare to escape. The Ringmaster is way too cocky for someone who was about to get murdered, and the chapter ends there.

Last time on the Caesar route, Liz and Caesar visit a circus run by a child abuser that Caesar stayed at? Was trapped at? Unclear. Caesar tries to kill the Ringmaster but Liz stops him. I’m sure the ensuing argument will be very well-thought out and not childish or lacking in nuance at all.

I’m scheduling this for the Ides of March because what better way to celebrate the Ides of March than by airing a segment of the route for the guy named Caesar? It was divine inspiration. I just really hope a fight comes in this chapter so that I can make stab jokes.

Liz and Caesar escape from the Ringmaster through the window and are pursued through the streets by the circus workers, who have decided that they should totally just stab Caesar. Caesar slows them down with nonlethal magic and they escape into an alleyway.

Caesar finally gives up his backstory with the circus. It’s where he met Zett too, apparently, and they began stealing food because the circus did not meet OSHA or child labor standards. Liz and Caesar have a Touching Moment of Connection, but then the carnies catch up to them.

The carnies have them surrounded, so Liz and Caesar fight their way out with magic. 

How big is this fucking circus??

So then the Ringmaster comes and is all like “Oh, I’m not a villain! Im just a poor little meow meow. The real villain is the abuse survivor next to you!” The Ringmaster tries to spin the story to make the circus the good guys? I’m going to assume that’s just a straight up lie. And then the Ringmaster reveals everything Caesar just said as if its some big reveal.

I literally can’t keep track of these twists anymore.

And then the twist is “Caesar illegally entered the magic academy.” However that’s possible. And that he plans to steal the treasure of the academy. Which makes no sense because academy security is so lax that if he was really going to do that he literally would have already done that.

Bitch, what threads!!

I’m gonna need this man to shut the fuck up, pronto.

So apparently this is The Plan. The Big Twist. The Reveal. Maybe I just haven’t been paying a ton of attention to this route but this doesn’t feel properly foreshadowed. Or maybe it’s because they already established that the Ringmaster is a huge liar so you can’t really trust anything he says. Jesus, who was in charge of writing this reveal?

That’s the plot of like at least a quarter of these romance routes. 

So in conclusion, I guess the real traitor was Caesar! I suppose some dramatic “et tu’s” are in order?

The carnies make the 40 Roman senators and attack Caesar (and also Liz) while Liz is reeling from the Big Reveal (if it’s even true or going to stick). 

Holy shit!!! I can’t believe this! And on the Ides of March too!!!! I can’t. This is too perfect.

I mean, that question kind of answers itself, doesn’t it?

So Caesar is protecting Liz from the carnies, she can’t fucking fight, FOR SOME REASON!!! And then mist ex machina pours into the alley, which takes the form of a giant fist.

………. Scanlan Shorthalt?

So Scanlan’s Hand fights off the carnies and apparently the guy who cast it is that asshole from the detention center. Woo /s. Viggo joins the fight and is an asshole about it because how else would he act? And he causes a shit ton of property damage, because he wasn’t enough of a shithead.

And that brings us to the conclusion of the Ides of March special! I’m so glad that Caesar got stabbed in these chapters because otherwise this would have been a really lackluster special.

I’m pleased to announce that Black Wolves Saga: Bloody Nightmare is fully translated in English! To play in English, you need to download Visual Novel Reader. You’ll have to register an account.

I was hoping to finish translating the untranslated bits sooner but at least it’s done. Send your thanks to @bakemeats for translating the vast majority of it! Also thanks to @blackicejester for part of Arles’s route, his good end, and a few other lines.

Keep reading for instructions  on getting the translations to show up & other troubleshooting info.

Mfs really out here having castles built as their houses. The bigger the better ig 😩

Oh and they’re just ✨dramatic✨ in general

This is still one of my favorite nicknames that they’ve called him 🤧

PLS AT LEAST HALF OF THEM NEEDS TO BE BABYSAT 🙄

Shingen says h03s before bros 😤✊🏻 but fr his love-hate friendship with Kenshin is funny

I dunno, mc. Sounds like Stockholm syndrome to me.

Literally was questioning my sanity when I felt myself falling for a character who locked me up in a cell 🤡

Weird flex but ohkay 💀

Whew. Chile sugar daddy 😔

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・・・・𝗜𝗸𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗼𝗸𝘂

𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀:

  ➤ 𝗞𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘀𝘂𝗴𝘂 𝗡𝗮𝗼𝗲

  ➤ 𝗜𝗸𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗼𝗸𝘂 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗹

  ➤ 𝗦𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 & 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀

・・・・𝗜𝗸𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗩𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲 

➤ 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 (𝗩𝗹𝗮𝗱, 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗲𝘀, 𝗙𝗮𝘂𝘀𝘁, 𝗔𝗰𝘁 𝟮.𝟱)

➤ 𝗜𝗸𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗩𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘁

➤ 𝗜𝗸𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗩𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝘁 𝟮.𝟱 𝗦𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗸 𝗣𝗲𝗲𝗸

➤ 𝗦𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 & 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀

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Sometimes it's nicer to hear 'You're strong' than 'You're pretty'

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Monologue

ーー The next day.

The Sakamaki Castle was attacked by the Founders.

The battle was so intense,

we could hear it even from inside the forestーー

ー The scene starts in the abandoned building

Azusa: …Eve, let’s run away.

Yui: …Eh!?

Azusa: The duo of Founders and the entire Vampire clan are currently facing each other upfront. 

Right now, they should be too preoccupied with the fight to think about us, or take direct action…

Therefore ーー We should use this opportunity to make our escape to the human world. 

TRANSLATION

Kou: “Look, look! Over there! It’s the Parade of the Fairy Queen! Let’s go take a look, okay? Don’t worry, I’ll lead the way~!”

*Rustle*

Kou drags you along.

Kou: “It’s said that she can make anyone smile with her magic wand!”

*Twinkle*

Kou: “Ah! The Queen just waved her wand your way!”

You smile.

Kou: “Hehe…Heh…Hey, don’t worry, you’re smiling. A lovely smile at that.”

You nod.

“…Hehe, come on, smile even more! As wide as you can! …I’m begging you…”

Kou turns towards the Fairy Queen.

ーー Hey, Queen! Could you please listen to my request? I want you to cast lots of magic on her! Exactly! Tons of it ー Just shower her in it!”

*Twinkle*