The Executioner And Her Way Of Life “At The Evening Ball” Review
The Executioner And Her Way Of Life “At The Evening Ball” is the ninth episode of the Virgin Road anime. Following the tense ending of episode 8, Menou uses the ball to infiltrate Libelle Island in order to find evidence implicating Manon in monstrine production, but she encounters Ashuna, who challenges her to a duel. With no other choice, Menou battles Ashuna and is able to evade her, but loses her chance to scout the castle. Meanwhile, Akari regains her memories again and realizes events in this timeline have diverged significantly from the previous one. Manon then approaches her, revealing she knows Akari is a Lost One. Determined to figure out why the timeline has diverged, Akari follows Manon. Momo infiltrates the monstrine production facility and opens the iron maiden, finding the girl inside. However, this triggers an explosive trap that leaves Momo incapacitated from a poisoned spike. Learning of what Momo has discovered, Menou asks Pastor Cilica to have the authorities surround Libelle Island since they now have enough evidence linking Manon and the Fourth to monstrine production. As the authorities lay siege to the island, Akari confronts Manon, intending to get answers from her.
Spring The Trap
This was definitely one of the best episodes of Virgin Road. Akari is finally stumped by her own powers, though this isn’t the first time things have been slightly different, and I have a feeling Manon is going to do whatever she can to use Akari as a pawn to bring Menou down. Unfortunately it’s looking good for Manon, the final fight between her and Menou will be legendary but Menou has to go after Akari first, which she will undoubtedly do.
It’s likely the change in future was caused by Menou and her constant changing mind on how she feels about Akari but it could always turn out to be something more than that.
