The story actually reveals very little about her, and despite dropping hints about deeper connections to the wolf beastman tribe and the Fenrir family, there's nothing more than hints and leading lines where you think are going to be expanded on later but they never are. So what you get is a couple of sentences here and there about oh maybe she's from here, and apparently she cursed the duke's family because of this, and Melodia's family maybe knew etc, and speculation the Wolf Witch has ties to the wolf beastman tribe which itself is mysteriously hinted at and also never gotten into.

The story sets the Wolf Witch up as this huge antagonist who has been preying on the kingdom for a thousand years and who has cursed the duke's bloodline to the point that generation after generation of dukes have dedicated their lives and the very existence of the Fenrir Knight Squad to hunting her down and yet the story implausibly states that her existence is secret and the public is completely unaware of her and thinks witches are just legends. Supposedly the kingdom managed to keep her secret because the ducal and royal bloodlines are related and so the kings have always suppressed news and classified reports involving the Wolf Witch. Oh, and the Fenrir Knights are a private force belonging solely to the Fenrir Duke so the official kingdom military/knights have never been directly involved with hunting down the witch or apparently have any knowledge about her.

So they make a big deal out of the fact that they've been hunting the Wolf Witch for a thousand years and have to kill her in person, but most of the time they only end up killing her magical "clones" that they hunt down after a crime/mu*der/kidnapping has already been committed. Then the end of the story reveals that actually, the duke's family has long known that the Wolf Witch's home base is in the swamp, but they gave up trying to attack her there because over the centuries, every attempt ended in failure with most of the people killed or vanished.

Additionally, they never requested help from the kingdom/other knight units to take down this evil, evil witch that's been haunting the kingdom for centuries because of their own pride and also they just never thought to request backup from the kingdom, and they were afraid that the other knights would look down on them or be scared because of the duke's curse that turned him into a giant dog.

So they knew, they KNEW where she was hiding, but never thought to, I don't know, burn the whole swamp down, or work in tandem with the kingdom to at least set up a perimeter patrol around the swamp, or request a bunch of powerful mages as backup to help the knights kill the witch, or... nope. Their whole plan for generations amounted to, "Eh, the swamp is too hard for our single squad to handle, guess we'll just keep doing what we've been unsuccessfully doing for hundreds of years, which is wait for the Wolf Witch to kidnap or kill someone and then try to track her down, even though 99% of the time it's just a clone and we won't actually kill her."

When Melodia suggests they ask for help from the king, the duke and his brother are mind-blown and reluctant because they're afraid nobody will want to help them, because both were totally unaware of how all other knights revere the Fenrir Knight Squad with awe and desperately want to join them. Needless to say, they get way more volunteers than they hoped for and all of the highest quality and everyone gets along famously.

Then when they finally infiltrate the witch's decrepit keep, Melodia admires the giant crystal chandelier overhead, and someone else shouts a warning and the duke and his men barely leap back in time to avoid it crashing down and killing them. The other person is like, "I noticed Magic Soldier Melodia looking at the chandelier so I looked too and saw it was moving and that she must have realized it was a trap, so I shouted the warning!" And Melodia just kind of nods and is embarrassed because really she was just thinking how pretty it was, while at the same time she's horrified because no wonder previous knight units never returned from the swamp, they all must have been killed by this very same, very devious trap!

I...I can't even...

The curse is broken before they finally hunt down the Wolf Witch (and the breaking itself is vague and unsatisfying in its depiction) and he never returns to dog form. And no, he and Melodia never get it on or do anything questionable in animal form. There. I said it, you degenerates. It's not like I kept on reading with a secret thread of WTF-curiosity as motivation while wondering if the story was going to actually go there, ahem.

In one of the extras, Melodia gets pregnant and gives birth to three puppies but it's from the maid's POV in diary entries and she's shocked and wonders if Melodia turns into wolf every sundown... and bedroom activities are usually at night... and she decides NOPE immediately and stops thinking about it. Also, the pregnancy is summarized in one or two lines, like the maid writes an entry that Melodia-sama is pregnant, and then the next entry states that Melodia-sama gave birth to three puppies.

So there are no details about how the pregnancy works with her changing forms, and the story sort of acknowledges potential bestiality and then immediately veers away from it. Um, great. (Also, no, we never get any actual extra chapters about the children or Melodia and the duke's life after marriage or as parents.)

It gets weirder because the duke has spent nearly his entire life as a dog and retains doglike habits as a human, such as running up to Melodia and licking her face, and being excited whenever he hears the word "walk", and other things that I think are supposed to be comedic and cute but come off as kind of creepy and weird. Why would he get excited when he hears the word "walk" unless everyone around him treated him like a dog and took him on walks? Then my brain starts working too much and wondering how the **** he can walk on two legs immediately, use a sword and dining utensils and other things that require the use of hands and fingers, and knows social cues and how to behave like a nobleman? How on earth have the dukes kept this dog-curse a secret for a thousand years???

I think maybe I've forgotten some of the details of his curse and background because they were probably throwaway one-liners. He was the puppy that Melodia found and adopted as a child, but I'm pretty sure in one of the extras where he's acting creepily doglike Melodia states that he spent his entire adult life in dog form. So I guess he periodically turned into a dog throughout his childhood, and then became stuck in that form when he got older? I can't tell if I don't remember, or if the story was unclear or contradicted itself as it has done with other details.

• Whether or not the secret Lou Garou/wolf beastmen village still exists somewhere, and whether or not other beastmen (wolf or otherwise) exist in society. This also includes Melodia have a complete and total disinterest in finding out more about her heritage or investigating if there are other beastman and I don't mean she proclaims any of this, I mean that the story literally never even brings this up as a topic. She's just not curious and it's never mentioned.
• The details of the alleged relationship between the Wolf Witch and the original first cursed duke: We get a sketchy speculated summary of a few lines, and I thought we'd find out the real story with tragic/dramatic details, but nope.
• The actual identity of the Wolf Witch: Was she also a wolf beastman and/or had ties to the Lou Garou tribe? It's also heavily implied but never actually confirmed that she had something to do with Melodia's parents' deaths, and Melodia's parents left behind half of a secret method to kill the Wolf Witch and a s*upidly vague warning to Melodia to beware of witches. How did her parents know about the Wolf Witch and come across or develop this method to kill her?
• The other half of the secret magic was in the possession of the current duke's father, who knew Melodia's parents, and while it's made clear that they did know each other, it's unclear how or why, and to what extent they were collaborating against the Wolf Witch. We never find out anything further than that. I guess maybe the parents knew about the Wolf Witch from the duke? But again, how did they get to know the duke when it seems like they would have never normally crossed paths considering their different statuses?
• For that matter, where did this ultimate light magic come from? How did they discover it, and why did each of them have half of it? It doesn't seem like any of the three of them (Melodia's parents and the old duke) were powerful mages or academic researchers, and nobody else seems to know anything about it.
• There's multiple hints raised that the duke's bloodline possibly has some connection with the Lou Garou (they are the FENRIR dukes, after all) and the original cursed duke was apparently intimately (?) involved with the Wolf Witch, but yeah no that plot thread is never woven into anything.
• How exactly the duke's bloodline has been unbroken for generations if they get cursed into the form of a dog since at least childhood and apparently permanently as they get older. Again with the hinting at bestiality but never fully addressing it. The duke's younger brother isn't a dog so it seems like the curse only affects the duke or maybe heir apparent (but the story doesn't say), so maybe the dukes either had children very very young (ew, don't want to think about that) or had siblings who had offspring, and then the duke's oldest nephew inherited the curse? Again, the story never says, and it's a pretty weird and complicated setup if so, and also weird because you'd think in a thousand years, things would have changed in the Fenrir family as far as inheritance goes and the duke would have been a figurehead with title in name only as the second son would be the actual power and... yeah, I've already put more thought into this than the author did.
  
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