Episode 156

## Chapter Link

Episode 156

**Episode 156**, titled "**Unhappily Ever After (Part 3)**", is the 165th episode overall of Cursed Princess Club.

## Synopsis

*Outside the Pastel Palace, the Cursed Princess Club and Frederick try to figure out why Leland has stolen a portrait of the former Pastel Queen; inside, Leland goes to capture the last princess he needs...*

## Characters

*Characters are linked in order of appearance. First appearances will be in bold.*

* Pastel Guards
* Elderly Foot Guard
* Whitney
* Beckett Dandridge
* Horace Fais
* Jamie
* Leopold
* Frederick
* The Princels
	+ Orson
* Saffron
* Syrah
* Monika
* Aurelia
* Prez (Calpernia)
* Unnamed Witch (flashback)
* Leland
* Plaid Guards
* Maria
* Lorena
* Blaine (flashback)
* Lance
* Suzanna

## Music

* CPC OST vol. 3
	+ Track 16 "Dead or Alive"

## Location

Pastel Kingdom

* Pastel Palace

## Story

Outside the Pastel Palace, the Elderly Foot Guard tells the other guards he's going to take care of things outside while they get the interior, while Beckett remains in a daze. At the same time, Aurelia realizes something strange is going on with the Pastel family and portraits. She forces Prince Jamie to tell her what the Unnamed Witch told him about how to reach Gwendolyn through a portrait: a spell can be cast on a person in a portrait after their death, allowing them to haunt other portraits whether they're real or inside someone's dream, although the spirit is unable to speak or touch anyone. Aurelia then mentions that the CPC said King Jack has been looking for a portrait, which surprises Jamie. Prez explains to him that a portrait that must have been very important to Jack went missing from the palace. Jamie recalls the package wrapped in black cloth he found in the Plaid Palace which King Leland took before he left, and asks Prince Frederick if he had seen his father carrying something in black cloth. Frederick confirms this, and when he asks why Leland would need to steal a portrait, Prez states that the portrait was of Lilyth, the Pastel children's mother. Aurelia is shocked by this, while Jamie is absolutely infuriated, needing Leopold to hold him down. Leopold asks for the group to get in formation, and as they do, Aurelia says that she is *absolutely determined* to get her hands on that portrait.

Inside the palace, King Leland has captured Princesses Maria and Lorena, putting them in chains and surrounding them with Plaid soldiers, but is still searching for the last princess he needs, Gwendolyn. Although he states he wanted to hang up the portrait in King Jack's future prison cell before leaving, he decides that he will first fnd Gwen by himself. Meanwhile, the group of CPC members, Pastel guards, Princels, and Frederick has prepared to invade the castle. The elderly foot guard recognizes Prez as the same schoolgirl going to Gwendolyn's Dinner Party who caused him to retire. Prez asks Frederick if he's ready to fight his brothers, and after a moment, he says he doesn't think he has to. He explains that he thinks so because, despite how Blaine told him that pretending to be nice to him was the hardest part of the entire plan, thanks to all the time they've spent together, he now knows when Blaine is lying.

Back inside, Prince Lance is quietly trying to convince an enraged Lorena to stop fighting back. In response, she shouts at him to get away, and that she doesn't want to marry him. However, he tells Lorena he doesn't want that, either, and he's only doing this because "there's no other choice" - like always, Leland won't stop until he gets what he wants, and the only way for her to be safe is to back off. Lorena is surprised to learn that *that'*s why he always goes along with whatever his dad says. As Lance is in the middle of saying something he still does, she cuts him off by calling him a coward, shocking him into silence. She proceeds to tell him that she can't believe she let him shake off her confidence in leading the kingdom's army by herself, because now she realizes that it wasn't that he never had faith in her, he just never had faith in *himself*. Lance tries to tell her that she can't win against Leland, and in response she yells at him "*I'M NOT SCARED OF YOUR STUPID DAD!!*" He's about to go on when she sharply kicks him in the face, causing him to bleed, and tells him she doesn't need his protection. The guards around Lorena drop her to the ground and are about to attack her for drawing blood from the prince's face, but the still-armored Suzanna tackles her to protect her from any harm. Lorena is about to take them all on when the door breaks open. The carriage containing the group led by Prez bursts inside, and Prez announces "Sorry, but your princesses aren't going to another castle!".

## Episode credits

* Art, writing and music by LambCat
* Edited by Eunice Baik
* Art assistants:
	+ @sheidraws
	+ @catburgerhelper
	+ @i.aint.shihwi
	+ @kyorin24
	+ @spudinacup
	+ @meeshywy

## Trivia

* Prez references a famous line from Super Mario Bros., "Sorry, your princess is in another castle!", when the CPC gatecrashes King Leland's invasion of the Pastel Castle: "Sorry, but your princesses aren't going to another castle!"

## Gallery

Aurelia is determined to take back the portrait.Prez says the famous line, originally "Sorry, your princess is in another castle!"The explanation of the portrait spell.Suzie protects Lorena from hurt.