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Well, the artwork alone is so stunning that it is worth the purchase imo but this plot summary leaves no choice but to give mothy the money he deserves. I like the direction he went with it. Now for happy fun time; I'll try to make this as clear as possible for what I could extract:

Muzuri Conchita: Banica's dad and the sixth generation head of the Conchita territory. No statements about his place on the hierarchy. Their noble title might still be as barons or they could've moved up the chain. Nothing is stated. Muzuri is not a Levin believer.

Meguru Conchita: Banica's mom whose maiden name is Glassred. She is the daughter of the prime minister of Elphegort. This makes her either Gumina's direct descendent or a distant descendent (though I doubt her dad married and had another kid personally).

Banica Conchita: Our delightful sinner. She is known by two names, one as "Gourmet Noble Banica" and one as "Evil Food Eater Conchita". The former was for her work that ended up enriching Beelzenia's poor food culture and the latter was for her descent into insects, poisons, and cannibalism and other disgusting things.

Carlos Marlon: He was always sickly, he took the ink of a certain dish (apparently made with a Very Amazing Octopus) called "とジズ･ティアマ" and sprinkled powder he got from sharpening the Golden Key (I guess Kachess kept it in the family for a while). All his diseases were cured when he did this. However, golden key+deadly poison=certain death. The earlier said combination detoxifies the poison (I assume this blogger mentions this because of what happens later).

Arte & Pollo: The ones that inherited the soul of Hansel and Gretel in this era (ie, the blogger states they are H&G reincarnations). They have been with Banica for while but haven't changed their 15 year old appearance in all that time.

Baemu: A species of pig so rare that it is said to be a phantom (Japanese: バエム). It has red hair growing at angle from its head. There is a legend among Levin believers that it is of the devil and that calamity will befall those that eat it, so its forbidden. It's apparently very delicious.

Major points here:


 * Banica seems to have been pretty much destined for her fate since birth. During the feast celebrating her, a baemu was among the things gifted for it. Muzuri had no issue with this and it was eaten. The creature apparently somehow had the demon-possessed wineglass in its stomach. Conchita ate the internal organs and had gluttonous hunger (within reason) to always want to eat.


 * I believe it is stated that AB-CIR was consulted instead of a doctor and she was largely ignored.


 * Muzuri pulled a Riliane: heavy taxes were imposed and then a crop failure led to a famine. Meguru made her ten year old daughter eat everything. Her scolding was very harsh, such as forcing the food she left over into her mouth. Blogger thinks the song's line "If you leave left overs, I will be angry" probably comes from this.


 * Hard to tell what is being said here but it seems Meguru tried borrowing Muzuri's sword for something (has to do with dead bodies and corpses) but he resisted and ended up killing Meguru with the sword (not sure if on purpose or accident). Blogger thinks history made a mistake by blaming it on a heart attack.


 * Empress Juno (another roman god being a Beelzenian Emperor here) didn't take too kindly to this and stripped Conchita of his territory.


 * At 14, Banica got engaged to Carlos and they were acquainted for about a year. Apparently her dinner habits though ended up completely breaking off the engagement.


 * There's a dish called "溺れるジズ･ティアマ"; the assertion is made that the Very Amazing Octopus can be found in the sea between Marlon and Levianta.


 * When Muzuri died in EC 321, Empress Juno had control of his territories and chose Banica as the new family head.


 * Main novel apparently begins here in EC 323 with Ron and the twins (that or this book goes through the entire life of our Evil Food Eater)

I think this is enough for now while I let myself rest.