I knew it. The miserable goatkin works for the Demon Lord.

Successfully acquired one child. A little odd that there's not a potential love interest already to be the "mom" for her, but still the "adopted ignorant battle child" has been gained. Already had the cute pet of mysterious power. Now we just need to add 1-4 love interests with some of them likely being or have also been slaves and he'll complete the light novel party. Of course there will continue to be no close male associates other than the occasional mentor and advice giver.

Man, it honestly frustrated me that Alpha let Shiori "swindled" Akira.
I kinda doubt Shiori intended to put Akira at disadvantage; it's probably more like Akira would miss out something that he would have not realized was possible.
But still it feels shitty for Alpha to let this happened.

I'm guessing she just didn't want Akira to have connection with other Old Word characters.
Of course this isn't the first time she hid things from Akira, and he also knew that she did. I know that she always prioritizes her goals.
But Akira would likely to follow Alpha anyway, so it's annoying that she didn't say anything.

Also, I kinda like Yumina. Her dedication to Katsuya was off putting, but I like how logical and observant she was.
So, this assassination plan makes me dislike Alpha lol.

@thomasce10 said in Finding Avalon Vol. 5 Discussion!:

So far the trend is MC wants to do nothing then the heroines and sub heroines do something that forces him to act or the scenario doesn't go the way he wants to.

Yup. He doesn't move the plot. The plot moves him. So in order to move the plot along, you need other characters instead. So if falls on those around him to make the MC do anything plot relevant. He can't proactively do things on his own since that would require something he doesn't appear to have, agency.

@Makine To be fair, the author's intended message with that comment was It only looks complicated because I wrote Fii to deliberately mislead the audience, not You only think its complicated because you're all stupid!

Not that that made the 'mystery' any better. shrug

As I mentioned waaay back at the start of the volume, this one seems to have worked better as a Manga. The impression I got before I stopped reading was that Fii's inner monologue is just less entertaining than the manga's artwork was. And trimming some of the dialogue for page space probably didn't hurt either.

That said, I will remind however few people remain that there is a third volume in the series that was presumably licensed alongside these two. Despite how final the afterword seemed.

Though in the interest of not getting anyone's hopes up...

@lighthawk96 said in Cooking with Wild Game Vol. 27 Discussion:

Ai Fa was sure caught off guard by Asuta there. I almost thought we might have a development there, but, alas, I'm too familiar with this story not to get my hopes up. But he surr did push some pretty big boundaries there.

Definitely understand where you're coming from there.

I'm gonna be generous and count it as progress, even if it's just a smidgeon of progress.

And, I'm sure Morun Rutim get her wish. Just a prediction on my part.

She gets her partner and her new clan gets better cooking. Everyone wins! 🤞

Please ping when release date for next volume on Jnovel Club is announced :D

"I could never be a succubus! Fallen angel? Yeah, that's fine. But succubus? No way!"

If he wants to unite the continent without invading Rozern, isn't a political marriage with their princess the only way to do it?

This series should really be titled “The ecchi-LN I’m reading can’t be this thought provoking!!!”

The climax and resolution was definitely something out of left field. As always, I enjoy authors exploring morally gray issues. Bonus points for calling out our ever dependable class president of class presidents.

I’m putting this series on my wish list of series to acquire, though it will be some time until I catch up with other ongoing series in my “buy” list.

@Schattenkobold The app is different from the downloaded ebook. You can download the ebook from your JNC library here: https://j-novel.club/user/library

Hmm first time author? I have definitely read much worse, the balance isn't bad most of his special powers come from just having 40 years of life experience above his age group and seeing the world though different eyes yeah volume 2 seems worth a shot, also is it just me or did it read like Dio was his maternal grandfather?

Next volume should be the final one.

@Makine Can't say for certain, but at a brief glance I only see Volume 1 floating around in webnovel format. So if nothing else, it had its origins in that arena. And yes, I was surprised there was no wrap-up as well!

@HarmlessDave J novel is as deep as I go man this is literally the first time I have ever heard of this book and probably wouldn't even have found this site if I hadn't gotten board out of my skull during covid and watched the bookworm anime.

Not so much prop up a weak challenger as the boy was to be discarded anyway perhaps really challenge his heir apparent or kill so he had clear reason to start over more of a final test before he discarded this batch.

Coulda punched Nord in the face, but I'm mostly sated.

@Hylebos so, not done at all then. This felt like an ending what with the lack of a see you next time in the author note, but guess not.

@Hylebos bwahahahahahaha, this was a good story, and I like that it didnt overstay its welcome.

@elkensteyin You are correct that he lacks common sense regarding marriage.
I think that his character is what the author intended.
Because he is such a character, he was so adamant about his engagement to her.

@Planguy same, i was sure volume 8 was the ending.
tbf 9 feels more like an epilogue/start of a new part of the story, so it's possible we're either beyond the original WN now and this is new LN only content.