Honestly, I really liked this volume. Did the plot advance significantly? No. Did I enjoy it despite that? Yes. I really enjoy slice of life/shenanigan-based series with female leads, especially because of the amount of yuri flirting present in this volume.

I do agree that the plot shouldn't come to a standstill for multiple volumes. On the flip side, if the plot advances too fast (think of Mushoku Tensei turning points or Conqueror of the Dying Kingdom) that's an absolute drop from me.

In the end, the thing that was most annoying about this volume was the bickering with Victorica. We could have removed that from the volume to improve it 5 fold.

@thomasce10 basically what @sorvani said. Though I would be extremely happy if 4 was already licensed and starting next week.

@blohmiller Yen Press has the manga.

for at the 58 5 few paragraphs before epilog, there line: .... he's barely used magic...

should be: ...he barely used magic...

This volume show that there are divine beasts capable of possessing humans. Wouldn't that mean non-saints are capable of ki possession with divine beast too?

No idea about their romance prospects beyond industrial composter effluent if they try to get the jump on Haruka.

@endoftheline The gauntlet has already been foreshadowed, Kaho and Sae brought up the topic of boys as soon as they started talking about classmates in one of their side stories - unless I'm grossly mis remembering things.

Anyone know the Reason this series drop/ Hiatus?

I rather enjoyed this little series. I liked the ending. I would have been just as satisfied without the epilogue, but it's a nice little epilogue.

@SalmonJones said in Level 2 Cheat Vol. 12 Discussion!:

And finally: Why did Tia's name change in this volume? Am I missing something there? My main man Calcium's honey used to named Tia and just kinda wasn't this volume.

Anime lip flaps. Trying to finesse the lines would've been like doing surgery with a rocket-propelled scalpel.

@TomoeZzzz Go to the series page and buy it.

https://j-novel.club/series/a-wild-last-boss-appeared

Having just finished this, I'm feeling a little deflated. I'm pretty sure this was the first time I saw "if you're having suicidal thoughts" at the start of a chapter in a light novel - and I'm glad that's becoming something of a standard and I see it quite often when appropriate in other media - but still, this volume was darker than I expected it to.

The writing's good, as usual, and I love how much they all feel like just like young people who do young people things, with a lots of mistakes and miscommunication that feels authentic. And I love that we totally don't get people stuck in the harem hell of "I'll be your rival from now on" and similar, but that they grow and move on as best they can.

There's been quite a few super powerful moments, with that confrontation between Natsuki and Reita over how Reita was basically just thinking of himself and not what Miori must be going through being my favourite, and I was teary-eyed for the last quarter of the book.

With that being said, I'm a little sad to see the chance of Natsuki+Miori go away. They had a crazy amount of chemistry together imo and I was rooting for them since volume 1, so there's a big "what now?" feeling after the ending of this volume.

So the new girl didn't join the harem, did the author think we already have enough candidates? It was a bit disappointing...but well, it's not like we don't know that this will either have an open ending or the little girl is going to win.
Looks like we learned the identity of the final boss...Zenos' other childhood friend who apparently has similar overpowered healing powers.

I was disappointed when I learned that Kelvin was paired against DarkMel but I guess it won't be a real problem now that there are more pressing matters to deal with.

I also have to admit that I wasn't really that interested in the parts about the girls at the academy so if this going to be the main focus for the next volumes I'm not sure how long I'll keep reading.

Also as a reminder after a book is published the pre-pub parts are out of date. Only errors found in the published ebook should be emailed in.

@kuali said in Safe & Sound Vol. 3 Discussion!:

In her defence, she left a child she'd essentially raised to the 'mercy' of an abusive family to have that life. Whether it was her choice or not, I certainly wouldn't blame her for feeling guilty about what Chloe went through after she left.

Yeah, but together with "must forever call you Milady even if you ask me not to do that" it was just too excessive. Feeling some guilt, yeah. Everybody would. Being sad about not being able to be there for Chloe, of course.
Ritually beating your head on a nearby surface for failing to care more about somebody else's child than your own family, that's Dobby-levels of caricature.

@kuali said in Safe & Sound Vol. 3 Discussion!:

I mean, would a name have made it better? She'd have still been a throwaway in Lloyd's 11th hour backstory even if the author had spent a sentence dubbing her Fridgie Mentora.

Fair point, if that was the only change. But, like, giving them a name is a step towards making them an actual character, who could be mentioned more than once, whose appearance in the memory could get some foreshadowing, a mention in the epilogue to show she's not forgotten, etc. The way the story does it is just so aggressively uninterested in who she actually was it really, really stands out.

@GeorgeMTO I much prefer shorter, well-written self contained series. Better for an author who’s willing to write multiple good stories than for it to be dragged out indefinitely.

Well that was an interesting ending.

Reacting to one of the Premium bonus stories:
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@GeorgeMTO

Ah, that's super unfortunate. Welp, thanks. Maybe eventually.