Episode 133

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Episode 133

**Episode 133**, titled "After the Gala", is the 133rd episode of Cursed Princess Club and the first episode of the second half of Season 4.

## Synopsis

*The gala is over, and now everyone has to deal with its repercussions.*
## Characters

*Characters are linked in order of appearance.*

* King Leland
* Miss Agatha
* Molly
* Princess Maria
* Beckett
* Princess Lorena
* Prince Jamie
* Princess Gwendolyn
* Suzanna (flashback)
* Curtis
* Prez (Calpernia)
* Thermidora
* Syrah
* Jolie
* The Polygon King (flashback)
* Saffron (flashback)
* Nell (flashback)
* Monika (flashback)
* Abbi (flashback)
* Renée (flashback)
* Queen Isolde
* Laverne

## Music

CPC OST vol. 10

* Track 01 "Endgame"
* Track 02 "Despondent"

## Location

* Plaid Kingdom
	+ Plaid Palace
* Pastel Kingdom
	+ Pastel Palace
		- Gwendolyn's bedroom
	+ Haunted Forest
		- Cursed Princess Club
	+ Pastel Plaza (flashback)

## Story

The episode opens with King Leland monologuing to himself, pretending he's speaking to King Jack about his defeat, in front of a chessboard with pieces customized to resemble key figures in their life. He considers Jack to be in full retreat, personally fetching him the trophy Jack vowed to protect; his queen has long since fallen, yet he's still "shackled" to her dying wishes. His daughters were Leland's perfect pawns, and though Leland's sons almost ruined everything with their "idiocy" at the gala, causing the princesses to retreat, he has decided that this means they'll just have to take "a slight detour".

Meanwhile, a storm has come over the Pastel Kingdom, resembling the mood that has fallen over the Pastel Palace. Miss Agatha and Molly are concerned about the Pastel children's despondence ever since they returned from the gala. Maria keeps crying on the balcony, despite the constant rain; Lorena's been "stomping around the house at all hours of the night as if she's been possessed, doing heaven knows what"; Jamie won't stop pacing around the foyer in a panic; and, though she insists she's fine whenever anyone tries to check on her, Gwendolyn has hardly come out of her room at all. A brief series of flashbacks, including Lance mentioning that Frederick was forced to show interest in Gwen, Gwen wondering how she ever believed that Frederick could love her, and Maria announcing that their engagements were over, is shown. We then see inside Gwendolyn's bedroom, where she sits in front of her mirror with the lights off; her reflection now shows a crack over her entire face.

Miss Agatha mentions to Molly that Lorena has been the only one showing up to her class, and has turned in her homework every day. A flashback to one of their lessons then begins. Miss Agatha inquires about Lorena's final project, to which she blankly responds that she's putting on the final touches and it'll be ready at the end of the month. Her teacher asks her if she still has any questions about the art of defense. Lorena says she doesn't, as a friend explained it to her a while ago; Suzanna telling her about protecting what she holds dearest is then repeated. She says that she just didn't understand what Suzanna meant until it was too late; Gwendolyn breaking down into tears at the gala is shown. However, she states that she'll never make the same mistake again, and that there's nothing she won't do to protect the things that are dearest to her from now on. Miss Agatha is confused and concerned by Lorena's behavior, and in the present, she admits to Molly that she wants to help them, but she just doesn't understand. Molly says that it clearly has something to do with heartbreak, but also that there seems to be something deeper that they might not have the right to pry into. A flashback to Molly's conversation with Curtis at the gala is shown, and Molly decides that he might have been right. She suddenly announces that she's had a change of heart and wants to do her best to be there for the Pastel children however they can.

At the Cursed Princess Club, Prez is clearly tense - repeatedly crunching the oval necklace Asa gave her - which Syrah and Jolie notice. Jolie says she must be stressed about the gala, and she can hardly blame her. A flashback to the Polygon King cheerily informing the CPC that the Haunted Forest was being torn down to make room for more properties is shown. 16 hours after the gala, the club was racing back to the CPC in their carriage when Jolie spotted Abbi in the middle of the Pastel Plaza, crying and covered in bloodstains. Prez ran out to hug her, but when she mentioned 'escaping' from the horrors, Abbi was confused. Prez mentioned the construction crew, but Abbi pointed out that the forest was perfectly fine, though the construction crew wasn't. Baffled, Prez asked her to explain, and a flashback to the night of the gala begins. Abbi had just gotten the 24-hour curse removal potion redux ready for her and Renée when the construction crew arrived, frustrated by all of Prez's spiders but determined to take out the possum witch. They ran into the clearing and found not one, but two witches. When Abbi and Renée saw them, they screamed, causing a flood of frogs to burst out of Renée's open mouth. However, this wasn't the worst of it, as soon after the frogs landed, a rumbling began. A flock of swans emerged from the woods to kill the frogs, and the construction crew quickly retreated.

Still bewildered, Prez asked Abbi why she was covered in blood and crying in the streets. Abbi explains that, even though they made the potion perfectly and with all the right ingredients, it *still* didn't work. So, she had to spend the whole day cleaning up frog guts and feathers, and when she demanded a refund from the grocery store, they just gave her butterscotch candies and asked if her adult children knew where she was. Prez wasn't surprised, but still comforted her and asked if there was anything she could do, to which she suggested throwing another prom. In the present, Syrah says that it all turned out fine in the end, since they're all safe and all there in the forest. Jolie is about to point out that they're missing someone when the CPC's door creaks open; Prez jolts up and shouts "Whitney...?!"

A storm has also fallen over the Plaid Kingdom, also reminiscent of the mood that has fallen over the Plaid Palace. Queen Isolde wonders if her actions was too cruel, and decides that it was. She had been telling herself it was the right move to make, as long as she could "temper [her] emotions, act with conviction, and see this through to the end", until she realized what the *true* price was for what she had done - she hasn't seen a single trace of any of her sons ever since the gala. Having finally admitted this to herself, Isolde storms into the dining room where her husband is casually eating breakfast, grabs him by the collar, and furiously demands to know what he has done with their sons.

## Episode credits

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