It’s becoming apparent that Gankutsuou is an anime which can get quite confusing. The Count, as mentioned earlier, comes to eat dinner with Albert’s family. It is not very difficult to see the alien’s fascination with Albert’s mother, Mercedes, throughout the entirety of the meal. Through many rather large hints, the Count makes it apparent to the audience that he used to be close to the woman… a conjecture which is reinforced later, when the two privately meet out on Mercedes’ balcony.
During this meeting, they reminisce about a mysterious past, through the use of metaphors. The woman speaks to the Count, saying “those that have shared bread and salt under one roof are friends eternal”, a statement which the man obviously is not comfortable with.
Peppo, being the little rascal that (s)he is, spies on these two suspicious characters. Afterwards, (s)he gives Albert a hard time about it, telling him how the two were obviously fawning after one another. Albert really doesn’t want to believe that Mercedes’ is cheating on her husband (the man IS a General, after all… with lots of trophies). He’s forced to believe something is afoot, though, when he spots her on the balcony, gazing at a picture of someone who is not the General.
Albert then has a dream about Peppo, who mentions his mother’s locked chest, stating that it would be an easy task to pick the lock. The drawer mysteriously opens, revealing a picture of the Count.
On top of all this, Albert, Franz, and Maximillian are all invited to the Count’s estate, which is an indescribably beautiful and exquisite place, made entirely out of gold. We catch the Count talking to his servant girl, saying that hope was the one thing that remained with him when he was flung from the Chateau d’If into the vast, dark galaxy… (whatever that means).
The Count comments on Albert’s choice of clothes (pirate clothes, which Peppo forced him to wear). He then offers Albert his own sword, which he comments will come in very handy.
Albert for some reason has a vision of a portrait of his mother as he has a look around the Count’s paradise.
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