A bit late, but AFAIK the word used is similar to a single edged blade(-ed weapon), more or less. Though I could be thoroughly wrong on it as I haven't seen the raws, just context clues.
Here's to hoping, though I don't have much faith in that ever happening. She's way too cutesy for that (as an antagonist in a non-gore horror schlock) and this is a manga. Either she dies poignantly offscreen with a few glittering tears, she gets got by something she did herself in an ironic...
Wait a minute. While we obviously don't know the specifics yet, it seems the ghoul(?) got sperated into halves when transforming and dislikes the situation. What do we see here? It readily separating into two things, which merrily go their separate ways.
Either there is some big factor we don't...
Nah, he's most likely the noodle parasite or a really rotund red herring. A central master chef with suspicious knowledge of the superior nippon cuisine went to the palace, then disappeared. Yankee-cite suspected it might might already be within the king. Here we see the the, well, well fed king...
"Toxic" might be the understatement of the century for a bloody handed, murderous sadist à la Elizabeth Báthory. Not that I disagree lol, dude's a douche.
Well, ain't those ghouls way too fucking convenient. That awkwardly easy sequence of [introduce mcguffin]->[Oh, look! It's the mcguffin we just descussed!]->[deplay mcguffin and resolve situation] aside, the ghouls themselves are pretty interesting. Without having to rely on some "In this land...
Good nutrition both isn't and wasn't that hard to obtain, especially with the resources a superhuman with a symbiote could gain. Eat your greens, eat fish or the like to get a decent profile of micros and then start sweating the small stuff. Either this is a pure in-universe/in-character...
Unlikely, thankfully. The first princess deeply cherishes the little shit, but her reputation, demeanor and the rampantly backstabby courtly intriques prevent this from being shown, either to the other two in the royal family or to the wider public.
The mom (queen) is busy trying to keep both...