[cynicalicious]

lol. I told you that the previews were often misleading. Good ep.

Spoiler for ep9:

Yeah, if you're a Felli x Fon-Fon shipper, you got led on for nothing. lol.

So I take it that the malformed beast thing that was attacking Leerin, her & Fon-Fon's foster father (which makes them siblings of a sort, I suppose), was the guy whom Fon-Fon defeated... the guy who wound up spilling the beans because Fon-Fon didn't kill him, and instead lopped his arm off. How he managed to turn himself into some kind of monster thing is beyond me. I didn't listen too closely to the Japanese in that bit.

And what the wolf masked guys we saw from episode 3 were doing is another mystery, I guess.

Of course Nina doesn't get why Fon-Fon did what he did. She grew up lacking nothing. She never had to eat a wish sandwich, or have stone soup. She's very self-satisfied in her "bugeisha" approach to everything. Even though she ran away from it all, she ran from comfort to a school like Zuellni, where while she wasn't exactly on Easy St., she wasn't suffering, either.

Any martial code you follow is only useful if it keeps you and the people you care about alive. In the case of Gandowelia, it didn't work so hot, did it? That's Fon-Fon's main point, and that's why all the talk of bugeisha this and bugeisha that rings hollow to him.

Either way, Nina's pissed, and that'll mean more yelling next episode.

I was kind of wondering why the Queen let the monster dude attack-- why she wanted Leerin to release her spirit puppy. I wasn't too sure what the deal was with that. She obviously has a reason for it.