I officially ship Kid and the princess.
Anyway, a nice volume. I'll never get tired of seeing Ernie and the Ikaruga going wild.

Ayame could technically have a chance, if Light tells Khaos that a political marriage is useful to him. Of course, he's not going to give such and order to one of his retainers.
Anyway, it was a nice volume, I'm looking forward to the next one.

@Geezer-Weasalopes I've grown up in the happy unsafe days when there were tall swings with a plank for seat and chains holding it. Tall enough for someone to stand on the plank and swing strong enough to do a full circle. It was crazy luck that I survived after all I did as a kid, but my parents really had it rough.

But a swing doing a 270 degree turn? And then I guess stopping somehow? Now that is a certain death.

@Ingraman the seventh volume just released about a month ago

Ok, still on my catch up and was going to wait to comment tell I finished the volume but I just found out about granny Rina looking, essentially, the same. She is nuts. It is pretty hilarious. And I'm guessing I know who her husband is.

Pretty funny that young Rina's reaction to finding out her future fate is a resigned "Yeah. That sure sounds like something I would do".

I'm in the process of catching up but I have to say that Bel's story was lovely. I legitimately teared up. It would have honestly been a good place to end the series. This series has done its various arcs really well. I'm guessing Bel will be back for awhile, but I do wonder when she will leave for the future for good.

Time sure is flying. Seems like Mia should already start looking like her 17 year old self by now, right?

@diablo8x There can be multiple reasons why a series's translation is paused: licensing later volumes needs to be ironed out, the translator needs to be replaced, the translator's currently got a large enough workload that they can't handle anything more being added...

The only other thing I can add is that JNC has only ever dropped one series, and that was because it was cancelled and removed from sale in Japan and the JP publisher told them to axe the series.

@Makine I took it as an etymology pun, fwiw

I started reading this volume expecting a very slow romance with the protagonists changing from rivals to lovers over the span of many volumes. It turned out instead they are head over heels from each other from the start. Well, I'm not complaining.
It seems like this will be a very fun series to read.

@Vick_detri said in My Quiet Blacksmith Life Vol. 9 Discussion!:

I don't understand what happened to the northern delegation.

They have no idea where the protagonist has come from, they went to a foreign country that they have no real ability to threaten or force the hand of.
Even when they know he is already a protégé of powerful people they demand to take him back? Were they planning to hold their breath until the nobles gave in?

If there's a leak of vital national information, you either kidnap or kill him.

yea, might be a cultural difference thing- odd sort of diplomacy:

Nordic Delegation: "we'd like our asset back, since he is your retainer and not your subject (citizen) there is no problem, right?" local powers that be reply : " he is neither our subject nor our retainer - he lives outside of our sphere of influence, and is an independent contractor- we won't compel him to do anything" Nordic delegation doesn't want a diplomatic incident, nor to lose face. They compromise by planting a spy/asset of their own in the capital (Karen/last chapter) believing that she might gain the skills that the asset has (?)

I don't believe the Nordic folks think Eizo represents a leak of national secrets, instead they realize that he is a heretofore unknown national treasure (and may have knowledge of 'ancient forgotten arts') ....Imagine if some hermit (in present day) knew the recipe for greek fire, or is making violins like Stradivarius, or just so happened to know the proof to Fermat's last theorem...and Harvard wanted to recruit him

Bonus story!

Miranda has fought Cere’zhula (and/or multiple dark elf ladies) multiple times over the years, and it all comes down to boobs for her? Wow…

A brief history of (ladies’) underwear was unexpected. Punnishness not intended. Gelf tries to educate Alia, but it doesn’t seem like it’ll ever stick.

@MFDelta No. No. No. He got her pregnant in less than three months.

@topgnu
Whoot!
Maybe even a Praise be the Gods! as well.

Thanks for the info.

Everybody wins! The villagers get their revenge, the duchy gets their water, Liz gets a feather in her cap as well as gaining an ally, the beastfolk get their peace and the money to rebuild the city correctly, and Hiro gets to do something for his girl and gains information that he needs.

Winning all around!

Nice volume, I'm especially glad that the matter between Slaine and Monica was solved quickly with a wedding and they didn't have to keep their relationship a secret for several volumes.
Curious to see if there will be a coup in the Empire staged by either the crown prince or the third, and/or if Florenz will get help from a third party that finds advantageous to manipulate him for some scheme. Usually I'd say a demon, but this seems too low magic for that...

@Jathuamin it's possible. I've always been curious if his ability to slow his perception of time was simply a metaphor for him being really concentrated or there is more to it.

I wonder, if Adai realizes that Seikei is his brother in reincarnation, will they unite somehow? Because "defending Ei's corrupt government" feels like an L, and "Surrendering to Gen" feels like an L.

What is the theme? Which group's commoners have the best lifestyle? Who do I root for?

I've finished the book and I still have no idea what the big deal with the guidebooks was. Like, couldn't they have passed notes? Talked to each other? Do literally anything more practical than crossing out words in guidebooks, or whatever it was they were supposed to do?

Not gonna lie, for a moment I thought that Lucia was going to put Tino to sleep with the tea and then go in the bath thing, but in the end it was all just a dream Tino had.

It was a nice volume. I wonder if this arc will end with the wicked god or the fallen angel as the final boss.