Reaction Shot: My Next Life as a Villainess E06 (or, SUMMER HOLIDAYS, YAY!)

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• LOOK AT THAT ADORABLE CRAYON DRAWING!


• Catarina approaching Tom like she's there for a drug deal, and practicing her thow like she's a baseball player. ... And Anne just there like "... It's been seven years and I still don't understand what's going through her head."


• Keith: Don't forget to do your homework!
  Catarina: *has already forgotten that she HAS homework*


• OG!CATARINA WOULD NEVER HAVE ACCEPTED HANDMADE SWEETS FROM A SERVANT AND THAT IS JUST ONE OF THE MANY REASONS THAT OG!CATARINA SUCKS.


• Lady Claes thanking Anne for looking after Catarina at school is nice, although now I'm wondering if Anne also has to look after Keith or if Keith is just assumed to be able to take care of himself.


• "She was a selfish brat before, and now she's a troublemaker." DAMN Lady Claes, don't hold back, tell us how you really feel!


• Joana and Tom (Head maid and head gardener) apparently never opened up to anyone, AND THEN CATARINA WON THEM OVER. And Anne loves her! And Lord and Lady Claes learned how to talk to each other! CATARINA IS A FORCE FOR GOOD IN PEOPLE'S LIVES, EVEN IF THAT FORCE HAPPENS TO BE CHAOS.


• Lady Claes: *tries to compliment Catarina*
  Catarina: *interrupts from the other side of a garden*
  [REPEAT UNTIL LADY CLAES SNAPS]
  I'm sorry Catarina, the universe is very sure that your mother doesn't need to compliment you.


• Oh it's an episode of lots of little stories! I like episodes like that! ... But also it means I get to look at the crayon drawing and Geordo's horrible shirt some more.


• (I fully believe that this is the sort of picture Catarina would draw even though she's fifteen and you cannot change my mind.)


• Catarina just wants to nap in the grass, and Keith is so fond of her! And has good memories of lying in the grass with her. And look at baby Catarina rescuing Keith from nightmares and promising to keep doing that so hard that he doesn't have nightmares anymore!


• (I am going to fight every single adult who let that bullying happen. I'm not even sorry, it needed to be done.)


• Keith, do not kiss Catarina while she's sleeping. That's just weird.


• ... Of course she wants food.


• Look at the little earth dolls helping Keith to build a sandcastle! And Alan having finally learned how to climb trees!


• Geordo: Aha, I will invite my fiancée to the lake, where no one will be around and we can...
  Catarina: He's sitting awfully close to be complaining about the heat.
  Keith: I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT GEORDO IS PLANNING AND I WILL NOT HAVE THIS.


• Catarina is the most oblivious and I love her for it, because she sees Keith charging in to protect her virtue and assumes that this means he was upset about being left behind!


• Catarina: Why don't you come with us?
  Geordo and Keith: ?!?!?!


• She is SO CONFIDENT that Keith and Geordo are best friends and I honestly respect her for that.


• "It would be the perfect place for a date, but..." [camera pans over to show literally everyone who has a crush on Catarina here to have fun too]


• (... Did Alan ditch a fancy social event to come hang out on the lake with them? Because's very sweet, and it looks like he just ditched his jacket and tie somewhere instead of having proper summer-wear like the others.)


• Mary, who has never played a dating sim in her life, understands exactly how dating sims work and I respect her dedication to tracking everyone else's relationship levels.


• Maria's little headband is really cute!


• Geordo: I'm her fiancé, I get dibs on being in Catarina's personal space.
  Keith: For now.
  Sophia, Mary, and Maria: *also throw their hats into the ring of HANGING OUT WITH CATARINA!*


• Alan, like two episodes ago: I have grown out of my competitive streak.
  Catarina: Let's have a race to see who can row the fastest!
  Alan: I AM ABSOLUTELY GOING TO WIN.


• Maria has never been in a boat before, and they put her on rowing duty. You kids. (But now she and Sophia get to be excited about fish!


• THEY DREW LOTS TO SEE WHO WOULD GET TO GO IN CATARINA'S BOAT, LOOK AT THESE ADORABLE NERDS AND THEIR COMPLETE LACK OF CHILL.


• Alan please stop accepting challenges for things that you've never done before.


• Mary got so excited she tipped the boat over, whoops. I bet everyone had fun with that rescue.


• ... Why did they split the picnic by gender?


• Sophia: My brother is happy!
  Everyone else: ... How can you tell...?


• HORRIBLE GOOSE!


• Alan and Keith: *horribly flustered by Catarina's lack of propriety*
  Geordo: *is used to this and/or treasures these memories on cold nights*
  Nicol: ???????


• DAMN, Nicol is just casually laying out deep observations of people's emotions because he can. "You never never used to smile like that. Even when you smiled on the outside, you still looked bored." AND THEN GEORDO TURNS IT BACK ON HIM BECAUSE APPARENTLY THE PERSON WHO BRINGS OUT THEIR ABILITY TO DISPLAY GENUINE EMOTION IS CATARINA. AND I ASSUME SOPHIA, WHO CAN ACTUALLY TELL WHAT NICOL'S MICRO-EXPRESSIONS MEAN.


• She's so cute when she's sleeping!


• Keith and Geordo sitting there like "... I swear she learned proper manners. I know I saw them once upon a time.


• YES, GO TO THE BOOKSHOP AND BUY DELICIOUS SHINY NEW BOOKS, LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE.


• Studious!Catarina: WE NEED TO DO WORK.
  Rest of Caterina Assembly: *has checked out for the summer*
  Studious!Catarina: No! We need to do things!
  Devilish Count:
  Studious!Catarina:
  Devilish Count:
  Studious!Catarina: ... You're right, we need to enjoy the summer.


• Sophia is so cute! And they're picking out jewelery for each other because they're adorable!


• Is it just me or does Sophia have the exact same fringe as Acchan in the opening credits?


• Me, in lockdown, not having been inside a bookshop for three months: *QUIETLY DIES OVER HOW FANCY THIS SHOP IS AND HOW MANY BOOKS THEY HAVE AVAILABLE*


• I like how they have m/m novels in fancy bindings, because I think that's honestly a thing that I need more of in my life.


• Nicol: *watches over them ?fondly?*


• Sophia: I feel like we've spent time like this before!
  Catarina: ???????


• Sophia, are you... Match-making your brother with your crush? Is that what's happening there?


• CATARINA MAKES SOPHIA HAPPY AND NICOL HAS NOTICED. AND THANKS HER FOR LOOKING FOR AFTER HIS SISTER.


• Nicol, a romance novel protagonist: I know it can't last forever, but just for this moment... Let me stay by your side.
  Catarina, who reads romance novels and is oblivious to feelings but not Nicol being unreasonably handsome: *BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH*


• Okay, show of hands: who thought for a second that Catarina might be understanding that someone had feelings for her? And who is reading that "He did say he liked someone, but there's no one alive who could resist him" as Catarina ONCE AGAIN MISSING THAT THE FEELINGS ARE FOR HER? (Which gives me hope about how oblivious she is when Mary/Sophia/Maria tell her that they have feelings for her.)


• THEIR PARTY DRESSES ARE SO CUTE AND I LOVE THEM.


• Ah, everyone is here to drool over Alan.


• ... I wonder why she didn't invite Sirius to anything over the summer.


• The fact that Alan does this recital with his sleeves rolled up, all his jewelery in, and his tie loose is an attack on me personally and I would like to file a complaint.


• ... Omg they're holding up banners and signs for him like this is a concert, wut.


• Alan is about as oblivious to his feelings as Catarina is to everyone else, but he still specifically looks FOR HER in the crowd and smiles when he sees how happy she is, and I just! I can't! I am verklempt!


• Mary gave him flowers! I am suspicious.


• Catarina: So you played it with the person you love in mind?
  Alan, who has never had a feeling in his life: *instant mortification*
  Catarina: I bet he was playing it for Mary or Maria.


• "It's not that I love her exactly," he says, because there is only so much tsundere you can take out of a guy.


• Mary: *gets snippy with Alan because he's chatting to her crush*
  Catarina: I guess she doesn't like Alan getting so much attention...


• ... Mary has apparently spent the last seven years trying to make sure that Alan doesn't realise that he has feelings for Catarina! MARY DON'T BE MEAN TO THE POOR GUY I KNOW YOU DON'T WANT COMPETITION BUT DELIBERATELY MAKING HIM DOUBT HIMSELF IS JUST CRUEL.


• ... Also honey bold of you to assume that he's not already competition.


• Catarina: She must love him so much! I hope that he loves her and not Maria!


• Sirius: Excuse me, I just need escape my crowd of adoring fans!


• I'M PRETTY SURE THAT SIRIUS IS A ROMANCE ROUTE THAT CATARINA WAS UNAWARE OF. AM I BASING THIS ON HIM HAVING ENGAGEMENT OFFERS AND NOT ACCEPTING THEM? SURE AM FRIENDS.


• CATARINA FINALLY REALISES THAT ASKING PEOPLE WHO THEY FANCY IS MAYBE NOT THE NEUTRAL SMALL-TALK THAT SHE THOUGHT IT WAS. Also I think that Sirius is the first person to outright say no when asked that.


• I like this music as well! I have no idea what it is.


• Oh look, the bullies are angry at Catarina some more. Is it because she can talk to Sirius like it's nothing? Is it because of how many people have crushes on her? IS IT BECAUSE THEY'RE ROTTEN TOERAGS WHO NEED TO GET IN THE SEA!


• And lo, the prophecy came to pass: Catarina forgot to do her summer homework! As someone who has also left my homework till the last minute, and answered questions with "I started it!" for doodling on a page... This is too real.


• Is Keith doing her homework FOR her? Keith no.


• Okay, so in her playthrough she actually got Alan and Keith, which makes sense. ... Was her resentment of Catarina so much that it reincarnated her AS Catarina? Is that what it is? (I'm assuming this conversation means that Geordo might be the intended love interest, and also that nothing Acchan said there meant that I was WRONG about Sirius being a romance route.)


• Catarina: *is left unsupervised for five minutes* *immediately falls asleep on the piece of homework she'd been doing*
  WHAT I'M SAYING IS THAT CATARINA IS A WHOLE ENTIRE MOOD.