@T-Fontana
Yup, let's hope for a quick translation :)
The last volume let us on a cliffhanger :(

Sounds to me like Livia is a fan of Miroku the Buddhist monk and his Wind Hole embedded in his palm. (lol)
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What a lovely chapter. Toor Deen is one of my favorite characters.

It's pretty clear that Geol Zaza is slowly staking is claim on Toor Deen. He's always around her and getting flustered over the thought of her marrying implies that he's been thinking about it. However, poor boy is not really in Toor Deen's mind. According to her inner thoughts, the first people she thinks about when reminiscing are her father, Asuta, and Odifia. Geol Zaza has a long uphill climb to win a place in her heart.

As for a potential cooking competition, I feel like that would be a great way to foster cooking in the Forest Edge, especially the distant clans not receiving direct tutelage from Asuta. They can see how much the local clans and the Ru subordinates improve and become motivated to take more lessons. Asuta would probably have to sit out, otherwise he would be the clear winner. But he needs to prepare at least 1 dish as an exhibition to serve as an example for the others.

Handing Gilbert the incense burner is about as bad a decision as trusting Charlotte with the bracelet.

The difference being that I like Gilbert. He's funny.

Welp, it wasn't a boyfriend, but Beryl definitely had to use his sword. Now bring out the brass knuckles and find out who hired Caina and the big man to kidnap kids.

What I don't get is why Carmine is dead-set on reclaiming the empire's land from the Southern Three. It seems a bit war hawkish...

Old sage Raid and Elluria leaving with Raid saying his new name sounds like a hero is quite a nice touch. He spent so long making a hero out of another self just for tvis so yeah he deserve that . Anyways uuuh yeah i get Alma was unsure how to explain this sincr huh...

Finished reading the volume. We are getting some long awaited answers, and it feels we are near conclusion.
I wasn't expecting Lydia to still be out of commission, I wonderbif this is the last tentative from the author to let the other girls catch up and give us an harem ending. If the Saint is the real final boss, we might only get to see the main heroine again in the epilogue, so I wouldn't be surprised if after the Saint is defeated we'll still have to deal with Shooting Star and whatever creature might be summoned into the world. I also don't think the Professor is the one we'll save the day, but I don't want him to die in battle.
It was good to see what Allen can really do, too bad it was in a battle that he had to loose. I hope the author won't nerf him in the next volumes.

Who's a good Pazuzu!

Second attempt at commenting on the second half of the volume here. (Lost the first comment to taking too long of a break.) But before that, I love how they handled the pages marking the first and second halves of the volume.

Part 6:
So Aides knew the letter was written by Wellmy this early, huh?
Really interesting stuff about the Lirouds having the special favor of elementals here, as well as the difference between elementals and familiars.
So that’s what vermillion eyes mean. Interesting…
Awww, the siblings really love each other!
I’m curious why Leo used to be sick.
See, I love some good old ribbing, but I don’t get the appeal of doing to get under the other person’s skin. To me, it’s only fun if the other person enjoys it, too.
Makes sense that as the Lionel house came to power in a rebellion, they want to avoid being on the wrong side of a rebellion themselves.
That’s an interesting effect of stronger magic.
I wonder how Wellmy was able to see through the magic hiding Iora’s eyes. Does Wellmy somehow have even stronger magic than Iora?

Part 7:
Leo got into a fight with his father? So much for Wellmy’s impression that Leo wouldn’t be willing to go against his father to protect Iora.
I wonder who the “girl who had been in the running to become the next saint” was.
Clever thing with Iora disguising her own hair to look dull again.
Hmmm… I wonder if the elementals have something to do with how Wellmy’s ability to tell if someone is honest works, and why it didn’t quite work properly on Clartes.
Oh boy. So Leo’s jealous of Wellmy, is he?
“That stupid promise she’d made.” LUL
Some of Aides’s comments don’t seem entirely appropriate to me.
I think Wellmy’s jealous of Leo, too.
Yep, definitely.
Cute illustration! Which one’s Wellmy and which one’s Iora, though? I’m not used to seeing Wellmy with her hair down.
I guess Iora’s probably the one in the back.
Man, that internal monologue from Iora… Oof.
Something was bugging me about Iora’s internal monologue, and I think I figured out what it is. Since Wellmy is the protagonist, it felt almost like second-person narration, which has always weirded me out.
“No advantages to offer the royal family”? “Slightly above average talent for magic”? You’re too modest, Iora.
Or she has low self-esteem. That works, too.

Part 8:
Oh boy, we’re getting Aides’s backstory?
Non-hereditary noble titles? In my Japanese fantasy? Impossible!
Unfortunately, I’m not so sure the good education Iora got made her less likely to be bullied. It might have made the bullies jealous, which would have caused her to be bullied more.
“He had looked so happy the first time that she had called him ‘father’ that she had decided to commit to it.” LUL
Savarin is getting hanged? Serves him right.
Definitely curious about that “caveat” Aides added to Arvine’s rather lackluster punishment, too.
“What a shame” that Aides’s deepest secret isn’t a weakness? Wow, Wellmy.
Between the cursed items that brought out Aides’s stepmother’s and stepsister’s darkest feelings and Wellmy’s mother’s apparently out-of-character behavior, I wonder if there’s a connection. I’m not sure whether I want there to be or not. Having everything bad that happens in a story being ultimately attributable to some singular “big bad” isn’t super realistic.
Wellmy has finally acknowledged her love for Aides! And that was a nice illustration to go along with it.
Oh, cool. Looks like we’re going to get to find out Arvine’s punishment, even if Wellmy doesn’t.

Part 9:
Seems Arvine has changed for the better. Let’s hope it sticks.
Looks like we’re going to be getting a contrast by parallels between Arvine and Savarin.
The ways Savarin’s brother and Aides’s father died seem suspiciously similar to me.
Savarin raped Isabella?! That doesn’t sound like the sort of thing that would engender her being in love with him to me. Hmmm…
Why I get the feeling that Savarin’s idea of “giving her plenty of love” wasn’t much like love at all?
Gordley was the one to suggest the second account book? Huh. Interesting…
And thus ends Savarin the scumbag.
“Everything had gone according to her plan.” Well, then. Like mother, like daughter, it seems. I’m guessing it was Isabella’s idea to have Gordley suggest the second account book to Savarin, then.
“He said, ‘I won’t tell Wellmy or Clartes.’” So how long until they figure out on their own? It’s definitely gonna happen at some point.
That was an interesting reveal about Gordley and House Schneiger.
Interesting to see Wellmy and Aides’s first meeting from Aides’s perspective.

Part 10:
“She refused to see her sister and Leo flirt in front of her eyes!” LUL
Feels like Iora has Wellmy wrapped around her little finger.
Cute illustration!
That bit with the play was hilarious!
So Wellmy’s pregnant now, huh?
That was a nice ending!

As this volume wraps up, I'm stuck by three things. The first is the amount of attention Eri puts into Eugene's health and well being. More than what one would expect from a casual fling. The second is her reaction to Eugene being more assertive. She likes it and seems to want more. The third is how Eri and Sumire/Sara play off each other where Eugene's (ahem) play time is concerned. The seems like they're going for a strange sort of Quid Pro Quo over Eugene's.

I'm hoping the author keeps up with the character development.

Rather hoping vol 7 starts streaming this year, for sure. Great series!

I have mixed feelings.
The beginning was fun, with Master Kacho and Suiboku undoing their own death after the former realized Sansui's training was still lacking.
I had great expectations for the climatic battle, but again the author didn't want to give Sansui the spotlight. We spent a lot of time showing the side characters, then our protagonist arrives to the scene and it's immediately over. I was hoping for a final boss for him to fight, but nothing.
The ending was bittersweet. We got to see Sansui concluding his journey to become a full fledged immortal, but he also ended up alone. It's something that was always in the air as an outcome given the difference in lifespan between him and the normal humans, but I was hoping at least Blois could've been made into an immortal herself. In the end, a new cycle begins, this time with Sansui as the master and not the protagonist.
This series had an interesting premise, but sadly I don't think the execution was as good as it could've been, at least for my tastes.

It was a fun read, and I liked the ew characters introduced, but as many people mentioned there were way to many side stories. I hope the next volumes won't be like this one, I don't want the story to progress too slowly because the author keeps writing fillers.
Anyway, I'm not sure if I'll ever get used to see the four fairy maids to be called with their proper names.

Hmmm I feel like what we learned about Alexandra and Sergi will be important. I wonder if it will be important to how Alexi treats Ektarina? I'm trying to remember, why did Alexandra hate their mother so much?

@Lex said in Isekai Walking Vol. 6 Discussion!:

So far the series has been barely interesting enough to keep reading. Halfway through this volume I thought about quitting, but with the big reveals about the demons and the goddess I hope it's going to be better from now on. I'll stick around for the next volume too.

I can't argue with that. Volume 1 started off with some original ideas but 2-6 have felt a lot like every other generic isekai story.

Hopefully the author does pull off something interesting with the possible conflict with the goddess...and doesn't decide to drag that out for another 100 volumes like Failure Frame did.

(rant! FF author you had the perfect setup for concluding the main arc. Then you or the publisher decided you wanted more volumes to sell.)

Kudo is in a position those in-world don't grasp.
He's still in school.
And he needs to fly under the radar back home.
He can get away with a surprising amount of stuff given what his home reality is like, but there are still limits.

Be interesting to see how things change once he reaches his majority back home.
Bet he still strives to fly below radar back there.
Still get a job and everything so he doesn't look too anomalous.

@PatrickPhelpsnpc - many LNs are short, almost all are much shorter than western fiction novels. Prices are based on the cost of licensing from the Japanese publisher plus the team to translate and edit the book. Those costs have to be paid for with a tiny number of copies sold compared to a Stephen King or the ghost of Robert Ludlum.

Of course some western books now sell for $20+ even as ebooks.

As for the quality and value of this particular light novel, it's a "meh" series for me so I'll read the prepubs thanks to my membership but am unlikely to buy the volumes to read them again.

@Min-Ro I like the way the author wrapped everything up so well. It was a joy to read this series. (and thanks to JNC for providing it)