So because of the way the FE3H equivalent to Leslie getting thrown into a fire wouldn't give her a fear of fire, except maybe by a big stretch, so I just gave her a fear of dark. cramped spaces.

In the thread I'm doing with Dimitri, this meant that the equivalent to "setting fire to a carriage that Leslie is locked in because the only way for her to escape would be to use her powers and prove she has them" turned into "he threw her in a dark closet in the basement and locked the door waiting until she confessed to it."

Except in this chapter, Marquis Sperado is planning to use "leave her into the dark until it breaks her" in canon, except instead of a closet he installed metal bars on a storage room in the basement.

And like. With the barrels and such that make me think it's a storage room and the fact that he thinks about how he recently installed the bars, that would suggest that he also recently installed the shackles on the wall.

And he left a chain in the basement that is an old family heirloom with the magical power to bind the sort of magic Leslie has.

So his plan is to throw her into a dungeon that did not exist before he figured out how he wanted to get Leslie back, wrap her up in a chain, and then on top of that presumably shackle her to the wall.

And then leave her in the dark until "that stubborn brat will go back to the way she was," which is to say she used to never talk back to anyone and keep her head down and do what she was told.

And I thought I was being bad with the closet. I don't know how to think like a Sperado.

damn, he's evil

He's. Pretty bad.

He doesn't plan to sacrifice her in a fire any more! ...Because he thinks that now that she's awakened her powers he can just send her off to the battlefield to gain money and glory for the Sperado family.

And this plan apparently has since been upgraded to marrying her off to a poor mercenary literally only because then she won't have enough money for food for the rest of her life because he's angry she defied him LIKE WHAT IS UP WITH THIS GUY

(he's evil, but like this guy is just so incredibly thorough about being unpleasant. he blindfolded Leslie on the way to the place where the sacrifice was supposed to take place and since she was supposed to die there I can only imagine he did it because he had an extra blindfold hanging around because he didn't use it when she was being lead to the fire)

...Also I'm pretty sure this chapter that Leslie's older sister now plans to murder her for the crime of possibly ending up with higher status than her, and also we find out that one of Leslie's first responses to a recurring nightmare about a what if in her future is to try to get back to sleep quickly so she doesn't worry people by looking tired.

THIS COMIC DOESN'T STOP.