Episode 161

## Chapter Link

Ep. 161

**Episode 161**, titled "**Absolute Chaos**", is the 161st episode of Cursed Princess Club.

## Synopsis

*After Whitney lets go of his trauma, he forges a path for Frederick to reach Gwen upstairs, leaving Aurelia to take Lilyth's portrait back. However, it's absolute chaos on the lower floor as everyone has to deal with Prez in her 'murderous' huge were-spider form!!!*

## Characters

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

* Prez (in were-spider form)
* Frederick
* Whitney
* Aurelia
* Pastel and Plaid soldiers
* Saffron
* Syrah
* Monika
* Leopold
* Jamie
* The Princels
	+ **Celso**
	+ The Ear Princel
	+ Orson
* Lorena
* Suzanna
* Blaine
* Leland
* Molly
* Colonel Snuggles
* Laverne

## Music

CPC OST vol. 6

* Track 15 "Bloodthirsty Rage"

## Location

* Pastel Kingdom
	+ Pastel Palace
		- Ground floor
		- Flights of stairs leading to upper floor

## Story

The episode begins where the previous one had left off, with Prez having fully gone into were-spider form. Frederick, Aurelia, and Whitney hear her shriek from the other room. Recognizing the noise, Whitney hurries over and watches her climb up the walls and onto the ceiling. Everyone shares his horrified reaction, except for Lorena, who thinks Prez's spider form is extremely cool, and Blaine, who is now unconscious and has to be carried off. Spider-Prez recognizes Whitney and rushes towards him with a shriek. Whitney is unable to move as she gets closer and closer, and he thinks that he might deserve this ending after everything he has done. However, before Prez can hurt him, Curtis knocks him out of the way with a broom. He furiously yells at Whitney for the uselessness of what he was doing, giving Whitney the idea to distract Prez to save everyone else. He leads her towards the Plaid soldiers, but she lunges forward at him, crashing into and caving in the door to the upstairs.

Meanwhile, Leland has just won the fight against the Pastel maids. Before he strikes the final blow against Molly, he asks her if she has any last words, to which she responds by calling for the Pastel children. Maria, Lorena, and Jamie all hear her from across the palace and stop to listen. Molly tells the children to be confident in themselves, where they came from, and everything that they are. Lorena is inspired by this and gets the idea to fashion vines into makeshift weapons covered in blossoms and thorns for her, Suzanna, and Colonel Snuggles. Likewise, Maria begins to sing, attracting a troop of woodland animals to come through the entrance and bombard the Plaid soldiers. Even more animals burst through a window upstairs, where Leland is still about to strike Molly, and fiercely attack him. He drops his halberd and bolts up the stairs trying to get away from them, leaving Molly alone.

Back downstairs, the situation has become even more chaotic than it was before with Maria's animals now involved. When Syrah asks where the rest of the CPC is, **Celso** volunteers to bring them back and dashes out of the infirmary. A group of birds descends on Spider-Prez, distracting her and giving the soldiers an opening to run away. Frederick takes the opportunity to get upstairs as well. Aurelia hesitates to follow him, but when she notices Lilyth's portrait get bumped off a table, she makes a run for it. She tackles the portrait so that none of the soldiers running away will step on it - instead, they step on her *ankle*, causing her immense pain. Aurelia begins to cry, but reassures Lilyth as if she were actually there that she will be safe now. To make things even worse, she suddenly hears Prez coming up behind her, and is unable to get up because of her now-injured leg. However, Celso picks her up and carries her away.

Frederick is still trying to escape the chaos downstairs, avoiding many soldiers and small animals in his path towards the exit. Whitney (who is carrying a weeping Saffron, a snoring Laverne, and an unconscious Pastel soldier) is watching him and optimistic that he'll make it. When Frederick reaches the door, he sees that it's been caved in by Prez, and the only way to pass is through a tiny gap between the doors. He attempts to make it through by repeating to himself that he is the Tiniest Prince, but Aurelia (still in Celso's arms) ends up kicking him through with her good leg. Celso follows him through, and the three are left panting and wheezing by the stairs. Aurelia decides to finally uncover the portrait of Lilyth, but is shocked to see only a ghostly green trail exiting the frame, showing that Lilyth was leaving the portrait.

## Episode credits

* Art, writing and music by LambCat
* Edited by Eunice Baik
* Art assistants:
	+ @sheidraws
	+ @CatBurgerHelper
	+ @i.aint.shihwi
	+ @kyorin24
	+ @meeshywy
	+ @BBMOCHI\_ART
	+ @clovercomplex

## Gallery

Prez in cursed form on the ceiling.Whitney leads Prez away to forge path to rescue Gwendolyn.Whitney lures Calpernia, while Curtis is bewildered.The cover image of Episode 161, "Absolute Chaos".Maria weaponizes her singing voice.Lorena makes weapons for Suzanna and Colonel Snuggles with her ability to summon plants.The 'trash' princel gets a name, Celso.Celso saves Aurelia from getting eaten by Prez.New trio! CeLiaNerdAurelia realizes that the portrait is actually empty.
## Notes and Trivia

* Panels LambCat spoiled in the hiatus comeback video include:
	+ The panel where Whitney is shocked to see something (the thumbnail of the episode)
	+ Aurelia looking at the stolen portrait of Lilyth
	+ Frederick running to the exit, in the opposite direction of everyone else running for safety
		- This scene is similar to one in the Detective Conan | Case Closed series, where the characters Sherry / Ai Haibara / Shiho Miyano / Anita Hailey / Vi Hawthorn (which actually Kaito "KID" Kuroba in disguise) running willingly to the source of an explosion, which is the last carriage at the Jet-Black Mystery Train arc.
* Weapons used in this episode are a broom by Curtis, and the makeshift plant-based weapons covered in flowers and thorns which Lorena made: a pair of sickle-sized scythes connected with vines for herself, a large sword for Suzanna, and vines wrapped around Colonel Snuggles' ankles, tail, and neck.
* Abilities used in this episode come from Lorena summoning plants to make into weapons, and Maria using her singing voice to call an ensemble of her woodland creatures (consisting of rabbits, bluebirds, deer, foxes, squirrels, and hedgehogs) to attack the Plaid troops only - including a vicious attack towards Leland.
	+ Leland was attacked by rabid rabbits and squirrels on his lower body part, had his skin wounded by hedgehogs' spikes, and got his eyes pecked with birds' beaks - but he withstood all the pains from the animals' attack and only complained that some mysterious animals were inside his nostrils.