@zwabbit

It's a good list.

I'd add

1b) Udajima's connections
Udajima talked to someone in Zegelt city. Udajima has a lot to gain from getting rid of Akira. Maybe his allies do too.

5b) Tiol
Tiol was the one making Akira fakes before. Though this seems a bit sophisticated for him.

7a) Nationalists
Akira has thwarted them a few times.

7b) One of the Big Five
Whichever competitor was messing with the Sakashita transport may want to get rid of Akira too.

7c) Carol's enemies
She hired a bodyguard because she was scared. We may not have met the scariest people after her yet.

7d) Alpha's enemies
Most people have not figured out the connection between Alpha and Akira, but if someone did, they might want to thwart her. The method seems indirect but maybe it's less traceable that way.

I have a feeling it will turn out to be a combination of interest. Like Udajima plus one of the Big Five, or Mizuha plus Nationalists, or an AI and one of the hunter groups. For the plan to go smoothly it helps to have both city connections and people who can take shady action.

I wonder who cares about the Kuzusuhara depths. There must be vested interests for and against exploring them. As readers we don't have a lot of information about the politics of that. It seems like it is a big deal if the Big Five are fighting each other over it.

@Anderson38 Yeah, I got the impression people outside the military or government officials who need to know about them is just because they don't generally claim credit for their actions or make any public appearances, and not much is known about the members. It's pretty understandable for the general public to think an elite spy troop is a boogeyman of the Empire when this group has taken no action on record or been spotted in public, and nobody knows someone who's actually a professed member of the unit.

This illustrator is incredible. The expression on Tory's face is haunting.

The Otherside is just as weird and unpredictable as always. That twist at the end should make the next part or two interesting.

Gotta love En's logic.

Argh. Too bad I can't read Japanese... Book 8 came out in Japan back in October, and it hasn't started here yet.

They're probably waiting for me to spend the last of my credits, then post the start 3 days later, like last time.

I'm Surprised to see another volume of this and ya I don't remember any of this stuff past the web novel version ending. I was a big fan of the web novel but not so much the LN with all the stuff they adding. It also seems to be getting really convoluted.

@Kurzaa My take on that epilogue was to bring us up to speed up with the other six people summoned with Sora, set up the confrontation between the Demon King and the Hero, and set up something the Demon King wants that I'm assuming involves Sora.

Other than that, it's wait two weeks for the next volume to drop.

I'm happy that Seika was able to meet his mother and form a good relationship with her. She might not appear again in the story, but that gave me some closure, even if I feel a bit bad for her not k owing her son actually has a reincarnated soul.
The origin of the hero was interesting, although as people mentioned it left us with other questions that hopefully will be answered in the next volumes. There is also the matter with the emperor, that might turn out to be the final boss depending on what he's planning.

I'm enjoying more than I expected this stint with Anriette as the main heroine. Of course I don't believe they're going to stay in this world, and regardless there is no way Allen will be able to live doing anything so it I'll inevitably end as the previous one. The question is how much of an antagonist Riese is going to be and if the other characters will oppose Allen too.

@zeji13 To be more precise, my guess is they had school lessons on programming, not college or university modules on programming.

The trend seems to be that the more advanced the topic, the less accurate/detailed its coverage - e.g. the programming basics lesson in the middle of the book was decent (even if I still think it was pitched too basic for someone actively jobhunting in the field), but the smart frames were almost pure jargon and the All-RaWi system is kept very vague.

In all, it makes me think the author has had education only to around the level they themselves can fully describe - that is, the basics you'd teach a schoolkid in their IT class.

And no, I don't get where the idea that programmers think/say "hello world" came from, either.

Sound like this will be a Liner PoV volume, could be fun

Nice volume, and with the protagonist already having sex with three girls it's kinda hard to believe this is the same author of Zero believers.
After this big battle against a giant monster, I'm a bit worried that a school festival arc will feel a bit brand in comparison.

When you fast-forward through the sex and through the fights, the book really zips along. It’s not one of the better titles here, but it goes quickly.

There hasn't been any new chapters posted to the WN since Nov 2024.

There's just enough material remaining to publish a volume 7, which will finish the current school arc. So even if the series doesn't continue, at least it won't end on a cliffhanger.

It's interesting that the anima is your "true self" but Sora's anima is a being with history. Does that mean the original soul eater died and reincarnated as Sora In a kind of Hindu system?

Or did it override his original Anima as an opportunist attempting to revive itself?

I kind of get the vibes that his knowledge of Anima is more propaganda than fact. It just seems like anima users are people with corrupted/mutated souls of monsters inside themselves.

@Hylebos Could be Dozran, the fact that he waited till the final charge indicates to me that the plan was to have the spider kill either the emperor or Duke Raul, considering Volk took the place of Duke Raul to keep up the pretense of that objective hiding the fact that it was actually artilleryman #22. who killed Duke Raul

I would not be surprised if it ends up being someone in the Eins group.

I wonder if the spider is someone that Volk has successfully gotten under his thread thing that is close to Carmine as well.

Question about Ernesta considering the Mountain Capital.

I don't remember her backstory, but is she adopted or are side effects of heralding random? I mean - Karen's mother forgot about her, but did Ernesta's also? Cause her current banished mother doen't seem to.

The epilogue did a nice job of showing why they all care for him so much - he gave Nifl and probably others a home and a family when no one else would accept them.

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And while slavery in these wish fulfillment stories always give me a little ick, most of the time it's easy enough to look past. This one just kept putting it front and center in really uncomfortable ways.

"Thanks to me my dad, once a humanitarian noble, is now enlightened to the merrits of slavery" is wrong on so many levels that part of me actually feels like applauding.