About the prince's name, i believe the whole pea brained prince thing might have shown up in japanese as robert -> robaato (in romanji) -> rokudemonashi ouji (useless prince) or something to that effect.

Just a guess, since i havent read the source material. Maybe robert is spelled out differently. Fun to speculate about it tho.

I just got around to reading thos volume 's ebook. It is amazing to read some of the stories (like Oswald's) without a week's break in between.
I absolutely loved the translator 's notes which was a nice bonus and also gave a nice comparison to how it is on the original. Thanks a lot to the team for that!

This could've gone very poorly for the Devinians, all because Alshunna had Creed put on an act. Although apparently he wanted to try and have a crack at Luna, so he might not be much better.

Whoa,

@xdbx Neat idea!

@Hylebos

Woops! I've made that mistake a couple times when I read multiple volumes in the same window.

@bf3ubvf said in The Ideal Sponger Life Vol. 15 Discussion!:

Complaining that your execution was unjust is such a boss move.

I know, right? What a boss.

@lighthawk96 said in The Ideal Sponger Life Vol. 15 Discussion!:

It wouldn't be right to not have an episode of the the three trouble making maids in a volume. Except this time, they seemed to keep out of trouble. Maybe they'll be back uo to theor usual antics in the next volume.

A pleasant surprise. My favourite problem maid chapter for a while, actually.

@Phabiohost said in From Villainess to Healer Vol. 4 Discussion!:

@HarmlessDave said in From Villainess to Healer Vol. 4 Discussion!:

@Phabiohost said in From Villainess to Healer Vol. 4 Discussion!:

@HarmlessDave said in From Villainess to Healer Vol. 4 Discussion!:

@Phabiohost said in From Villainess to Healer Vol. 4 Discussion!:

and very evil god.

But well-intentioned, like Stagnate in The Faraway Paladin. They don't want suffering or torment or domination, they want peace. It's just not the kind of peace that most people would sign up for.

Uh, they wanted domination. They believed that by running over all life there would be peace. But that's explicitly wanting to dominate. "For the right reason" doesn't change the action being taken. It's a cop out.

They wanted control to impose absolute order, but I don't think either wanted domination in the sense of bossing people around for their own enjoyment like some human rulers and managers in companies do.

That's a distinction w/o a difference. When it comes to removing free will it's the action that matters more than motive. Because, for evil or good, I'm still shafted.

The god wanted absolute control over the world. That's evil. Full stop.

I don't disagree, I'm just pointing out that Flaudia (and Stagnate) isn't the kind of evil that wants people to suffer, or that enjoys having power over them. Certainly the kind of evil that takes away free will.

@Chervilious I was already thinking that maybe the author, Umikaze Minamino is focusing on the anime adaptation for Kunan The Sorcerer but I guess that make sense if it was on May 1st then that's at least minimum of 6 months until it's on JNovel

I really wanted another chickens POV.. I got the impression that this volume got over pretty soon.

Me at the start: Liliana's story? boo! I wanna read more about Fii and bread!
And then I proceeded to forget about it for months.
But I eventually returned to it, and I do like reading about this hopeless mess of a person. And unlike Fii, she's actually honest.

...or so I thought.

until part 7: "I've carried this despair with me for fifteen years"
whoa, hold up. 15 years? That means from the very start. I thought it was only recent! Has she been lying too? And the reason she was so hyperfocused on Seth and being happy was to distract herself from her perpetual sorrow?

And then basically confirmed near the start of part 9.
Oh so that's why she said she couldn't taste chocolate earlier. She couldn't taste anything.
Ah, and then explicitly confirmed at the end of part 9.

Also, what the heck? As an aside, this is the second LN I've read where the (isekai'd) protagonist seems to think that 3 hours of sleep is sufficient. Is this some kind of Japanese thing? Though unlike in the other instance, she does end up passing out from exhaustion. So it seems the author at least knows (hopefully) that 3 hours is absolutely nowhere near enough.

After Liliana's reincarnation incident was described, specifically the part where she tried to save a child from the truck, and then she approached Nana for the first time in the church and noted that she was childlike, I suspected that that child was Nana. And indeed revealed to be true later.

Makes me wonder, what if this whole place is some sort of purgatory, and everyone is reincarnated?

Though, from what I can tell, all the remaining unexplained strangeness is connected to Nana, so maybe it's just the three people.
There could be another volume, Nana's PoV, but it would have to be a very different story, and possibly even a different genre. So I doubt it'd get made. I would like to see the remaining loose ends tied up though. Maybe a few short stories or extra chapters would do it.

The true gold of this novel is Blanc been a silly goober just eating and nomming away nodding along to then suddenly drop thr bigg3wt bombshell ever and then shrug it off for when asked about why she did not try on other things. Also Blanc making even Lyla go all nice and motherly when she mentioned she forgot to feed her vampires is funny. Like.... Lyla and Leah as calculating and cruel they can be still feed their workers!.

So I waited after part 1 for all the parts to come out to binge. Having learned my lesson from book 1 that this series is fairly frustrating read week to week.

Gotta say, I actually like the issue between Alan and the MC. Yes, proper communication could have resolved this faster, but unlike the nef issue of book 1 this wasn't unreasonably stupid. This was a very human immature reaction as opposed to the universe conspiring to make everyone selectively stupid.

I like that it was resolved quickly, because let's be honest these types of problems are usually resolved rapidly irl.

But I also agree with the sentiment that their relationship could have used more time in the oven. We need more scenes of them actually being together as a pseudo-couple. Because they seem like less than friends but more than strangers with how little they interacted outside of work in these last few novels.

Awkward flirting is awkward. That being said, Beryl's constant protestations that he can't see Allucia romantically? The swordsman doth protest to much, methinks.

Honestly, rather than awkward A/B flirting I'd rather see how the sword turns out. I wonder whether it's going to be forged in the Damascus style with the hard Lono Ambrosia material folded together with softer elven steel?

@Lex I'm for die an ignomious death.

Alright, so as I feared/figured this is gonna end in a romance between him and his God damn dead ex lover who shafted him for politics! W.e idk if I'm gonna do vol 2 tbh not a fan of the illustrations, the plot or the romance that's gonna be building.

@Paul-Nebeling Yeah, maybe. It's hard to say with different universes. In D&D, elves don't become adults until age 110, so 50 would still a pre-teen. In Frieren, adult elves start at around 100.

How long is it going to take to collapse this country?

A sword X swordsman fetish?

@rgray9 said in By the Grace of the Gods Vol. 16 Discussion!:

Volume 17 out in JP on July 19, 2025; judging by how long it takes after that, maybe we'll get a translation around December 2025

I guess it's out now, as of June 19, 2025 according to
https://firecross.jp/hjnovels/product/2037