A Livid Lady's Guide to Getting Even: How I Crushed My Homeland with My Mighty Grimoires

not sure how I feel about the collateral here. poor folks holding fake coins get wiped out and that is just the plan working. still a great episode but the heroine part is doing heavy lifting

my favorite beat was Tida crying on the street then flipping straight into rage mode. she lost everything in that little purse and turned it into a fistfight. respect

The layered thing with using her own new shop as bait so the old company would walk right into the Biot partnership is genuinely nasty work. Not a social snub. She is literally printing the weapon that guts the treasury and everyone thinks it is a trade deal

You clock pretty fast that Roselia is the only one actually running this country. Prince flies off to fire a tutor because Silvia felt mocked and mom is drowning in documents. That whole trade off says everything

I could not stop laughing when the King puffed up proud of his son closing the Biot deal. Dude has no idea that handshake is the funeral

the coin splitting open thing got me. one hunk of metal and suddenly an entire empire's economy is on the table. Elly just does that casually

Ellie acude al Consejo del Gremio de Mercaderes de Imperio para una nueva oportunidad. También se da cuenta de que hay alguien muy capaz en el reino de Haldoria. Espero que use persuasión y no venganza con esa persona capaz.

Sunscreen. She sold sunscreen at the beach. Free vacation moment and Eli still closed a deal before the sand dried. That woman never misses an opportunity and I respect the hustle

The mafia scene was wild. Misha dropping those thugs showed her training paid off and then Eli grabbing one by the throat demanding to see the boss was pure cold blood. Beach vibes instantly gone

Even at a private beach with perfect water this woman is allergic to not closing a deal. Sunscreen prototype? Instant overseas trade pipeline. Runoa asking if they should be working instead was the funniest beat all episode

Rosaria ripping that tax proposal in the prince's face made my whole week. He really thought squeezing shopkeepers harder would fix his budget after Eli already gutted the palace finances. Zero brain cells in that palace besides hers

I keep watching Sylvie waiting for the mask to slip and it never fully does. That cold calculated look she hid while reassuring Freed gave me chills. She's either going to ally with Eli at the last second or get scorched with everyone else

That back alley scene where Misha just decked two thugs without breaking stride was too clean. Then Eli grabs the last one by the throat and demands to see the boss like she owns the port already. This show knows exactly what it wants to be

I keep going back and forth on whether I should root for Ellie. This episode she got special merchant status by outsmarting a whole council then immediately turned around to plan the destruction of an entire kingdom. She's not the misunderstood villainess trope. She's actually evil and that's what makes this work

The council scene was so tense. Watching Ellie walk in with that sealed letter knowing she had the contract ready for every objection they'd throw at her. Dark Hawkins tried so hard to block her and she just had a signed piece of paper waiting. Capitalist King energy

NOT THE DOGS is real and it's worse than the memes make it sound. She's not helping beastkin she's building a dependency economy so she can weaponize them against the Kingdom. Absolutely chilling pivot at the end there

The beastkin cosmetics line is genuinely terrifying. Ellie saw a cat girl suffer and went straight to demographic targeting. This is not a hero story and honestly I'm kind of here for watching her burn it all down

Omg I was not expecting that mass murder … I was not expecting that

Cort sitting there scheming with his buddy until the penny drops that he was the one being played. that little pause before he panics is doing a lot

Every female character in this show exists to make me feel unwell. The nun robbing corpses. The maid who is secretly terrifying. I am going to need a spinoff immediately