Oh my.
Some of those look to be the sort that you really shouldn't read if loud roars of laughter would disturb people...

Part 8:
I don’t see why they needed to hide that the ship was headed toward the royal palace. That doesn’t contradict the possibility of it being an accident.

Who was Ripple, again? Was she from when Inglis picked up Rin?

“‘I was just in the mood for someone to attack me. Thank you.’” Dang it, Inglis!

“‘I thought maybe he was being generous.’” LUL

“Inglis didn’t know how hieral menaces were created, but Ripple seemed to consider as the beast as one of her own.” That seems like evidence that hieral menaces are created from normal (counting demihumans as “normal” here) people.

I wonder what’s up with Ripple, and why she gets like that when a magicite beast suddenly appears. Some sort of past trauma, perhaps?

A vivid red dress? Guess that’s what Inglis is wearing on the cover.

That’s a nice illustration of Rani(?) and Inglis.

Part 9:
Seems like magicite beasts are just teleporting in. Hmmm…

“Fighting magicite beasts, gorgeous dresses, delicious food—everything Inglis Euclis liked was right here, but apparently mixing them wasn’t a good idea.” LUL

That’s a cool illustration of Inglis there.

Something’s wrong with Ripple? That doesn’t sound good.

“[Hieral menaces], too, once lived on the surface. To take on the duty of protecting this land, they sacrificed themselves to become hieral menaces,” huh? Sounds like more evidence that hieral menances might be people fused with artifacts.

“We became hieral menaces to protect to the surface from magicite beasts.” It can’t help but notice that they became hieral menaces, which implies that they weren’t originally hieral menaces. I’m almost certain that hieral menaces are people fused with artifacts at this point, but this slso implies that hieral menaces were given a choice in the matter, which is not what I expected.

Inglis, you need to stop being so overprotective of Rani.

That’s a nice illustration of Inglis, Rani, and Theodore.

Cyrene is Theodore’s sister, huh? Interesting…

Part 10:
Sorry, Inglis. Theodore and Rani are totally gonna fall in love in with each other, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

It’s really nice how much Liselotte and Lione’s relationship has improved.

Part 2:
Alright, Lavas seems to be a bit too well informed about Lina, and he’s doing the thing where he’s acting a lot nicer to Lina than would normally be warranted by the situation, so I bet he’s the bad guy this volume.

I wonder if Lina’s sister is at all like the protagonist of Neechuu’s big sister.

Does Zain have some sort of short-range teleport ability, or something?

What exactly am I looking at with this illustration after Lina casts Flare Arrow?

“Gourry, you rock! If only you weren’t as dumb as one!” LUL. I wonder what that line was originally, because I doubt that pun works in Japanese.

And Lavas’s brother, Veisam, is supposedly the one doing all the evil stuff? Yeah, Lavas is definitely the bad guy. Besides his name sounds close to “Lavos.” Coincidence? I think not! (Alright, that last bit is a joke.)

Hmmm… Everything seems does seem to be pointing to Lavas being the bad guy now. However, it seems a bit early in the volume for the bad guy to be revealed. Should I stick to my guns, or switch my prediction to Veisam being the bad guy? Hmmm… I think I’ll wait for more information for now. I’d say guessing that at this point, it’s early enough in the volume that guessing that whichever one Lina decides is the good guy is actually the bad guy is a pretty good bet.

Man, Lina and Gourry have pretty silly-looking outfits in that illustration of them at the door of the bedridden guy’s room.

Alright, yeah, I’m changing my prediction to Veisam being the bad guy.

Part 3:
I have to wonder who this “masked man” is.

I just had another idea: maybe Lavas and Veisam are actually working together.

Deformed children? Oh my.

Part 4:
Dang. It’s looking pretty unlikely that my guess that Veisam is the real bad guy is correct.

Zain is talking about his kingdom being destroyed? Is he from Sairaag, then?

Wonder how Lina’s gonna get out of this one.

I just had a thought that Wizer might be the real bad guy. I can’t exactly change my prediction to Lavas it this point, so let’s change it to Wizer.

Well, it seems like I wasn’t entirely wrong about Veisam being the bad guy, but being the main guy they have to actually fight wasn’t quite what I meant.

Nope. Apparent Lavas is the real boss they’re going to have to fight.

Well, that was an afterword.

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Hello,

Just a heads up, Volume 3 will start pre-publication a little later today.

https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/4957/i-ll-never-set-foot-in-that-house-again-vol-3-discussion

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reads blurb
Hmmm, I guess this could be alright for a catchup read

gets to the dramatic reveal
Okay, so the blurb is a fake out. I'm on board, let's go.

Vol 18 was just announced to come out on the 25 of that month (https://over-lap.co.jp/灰と幻想のグリムガル　level.18　わたしは世界に嫌われている/product/0/9784824000248/?cat=BNK&swrd=)
The cover is fantastic. Beware tho the very first sentence just before the blurb seems to be a huge spoiler (it wouldn't be the first time Overlaps does that kind of thing).

Part 1:
Sweet! More Asuka!

So, Asuka’s still wearing her school uniform, it seems.

10% interest per day?! Holy crap! That’s insane! For reference, if you were to start with a loan of one dollar and never pay any interest, by the end of the year, it would be up to one trillion dollars with that kind of interest rate.

“Those Who Writhe in the Shadows” Well, that sounds ominous.

Is the girl with the ponytail in the illustration Melissa, perhaps?

I wonder what was in that “last resort” bottle. Some sort of poison, perhaps?

“He wouldn’t be satisfied to see it end in such an unsatisfactory way.” Who’s “he”? Sudou?

Part 2:
Ah, so that’s who the woman on the cover is.

That fact that were not finding out what Ryoma’s plan is now bodes well for it.

Wow. That was quite the internal monologue there, Ryoma.

Part 3:
“A Restless Heart” That’s an interesting chapter title.

I don’t think “curse mark” is the best term to use for endowed thaumaturgy, since that would imply the item was, y’know, cursed, but whatever.

Alright, I guess they’re called “curse seals” because they’re mostly used on equipment used for enslavement. Makes sense.

Part 4:
I’m guessing that mirror is in some way connected to Grindiana.

Yep.

Oh, nice. Grindiana is quite pretty.

There are differing levels of beauty in addition to just being gorgeous, you know.

Can I just say that Julianus I reminds me of Alfred from Realist Hero?

What’s actually in the letter, though?

Part 5:
So, I looked it up, and cutaneous respiration actually is a thing in humans, which surprised me, but it’s nowhere near important enough in humans to where making it impossible would cause us to suffocate.

“Faithful but incompetent” cough Mikhail cough

Part 6:
Who the heck is “Sleia”?

This has been bothering me for a while, but are the terms for “east” and “west” switched?

I wonder what news that new runner brought.

Part 7:
“Chapter 5: The Church of Meneos” Oh boy.

Oh, so the people who picked Asuka up were knights of the Church of Meneos, then, not the Holy Qwiltantian Empire.

Well, I was right about Menea’s mother being an otherworlder, but she was from America, not Japan.

What the heck are “fraternal half-brother” and “fraternal half-sister” supposed to mean?

Well, if someone was to successfully use thaumaturgy to return to this Earth, how would the people of the other Earth know?

Ah. So, levels refer to how many chakras a person is capable of opening, then?

So, now that Tachibana knows of Ryoma’s existence, might Tachibana and Asuka start making their way over to Ryoma?

So, is this hooded man Kouichirou, perhaps?

Carrying a Japanese katana? Yep, that’s definitely Kouichirou.

I didn’t quite drop this series at the end of the month, but I just kinda got bored of it and didn’t read enough to finish it before it fell off catchup. (Having to constantly mentally correct typos and grammar errors didn’t help, though.) I’ll probably finisn catching up next time this goes on catchup.

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@sillymel - Ryoma is very perceptive and it seemed to me from the text that he understood her circumstances. Also, so far he's been attracted to women but doesn't go out of his way to chase them.

He's also left the sisters alone despite their feeling for him because he hadn't fully committed to living his life on this world. So far his character seems pretty good.

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Part 1:
Woohoo! Another Asuka portion!

And, of course we end that portion like that!

Count Salzberg disgusts me.

Well, if it specialized in tea brewing, it wouldn’t really be a coffee shop, now would it?

Yeah, I’m liking Thomas Salzberg less and less.

Part 2:
“The human intellect couldn’t fathom just how high the price that decision would go on to cost them.” Oh my.

“In Search of New Power” Hype!

Woohoo! Time for Ryoma to learn thaumaturgy! Also, that was why Asuka was in pain at the beginning of the volume, wasn’t it? (Because she somehow used martial thaumaturgy through Ouka without her body being used to it)

Or, I guess it would technically be endowed thaumaturgy, actually.

That’s a nice illustration of the Malfist twins.

Part 3:
Stop! Don’t give me a portion from Shardina’s perspective! You’re gonna make me like her!

The “beast of the north”?

I’m guessing this is a false retreat.

Part 4:
The Empire’s “true enemy”?

And, finally back to Ryoma’s perspective!

Part 5:
Well, that meeting at the beginning of this part was ominous.

“That spot”? I wonder what spot Ryoma’s trying to get to.

That’s a pretty view in the final illustration of this part.

Part 6:
“Merciless Hellfire” Well, that’s a really ominous chapter name.

Who’s this other girl in this illustration? She has a pointy ear, so is she some sort of elf? (Or, more likely, a dark elf, given the apparently dark skin tone she has.

I assume the pirates are using “it” and “that” to refer to the dark elf girl in that illustration? Ugh.

Part 7:
I feel like if Ryoma were to rescue the dark elves the pirates captured, that would serve as a crucial bargaining chip in potentially getting the other demihumans to ally with him.

That’s a nice illustration of Simone.

Dang. Seems like the epilogue doesn’t contain Asuka.

That poor maid. I can’t wait to see Count Salzberg get his just deserts.

Part 1:
Wow. That maid uniform really emphasizes the size of Laura’s chest.

Woo! More Asuka stuff!

Well, at least they didn’t end up in O’ltormea.

Welp, never mind. Same story, different country, it seems.

“To serve as his company for His Majesty”? That doesn’t sound good. That doesn’t sound good at all.

Uh oh. That sounds like a subjugation spell.

“‘Would you kindly get your filthy hands off my granddaughter’” Woohoo! Calvary’s here!

“Two heavy, unwieldy swords,” huh? Those wouldn’t happen to have come from that one ninja clan, would they?

Are Kouichiro’s katanas also Divine Swords, perhaps?

Part 2:
I’m still annoyed by the overuse of the word “murder” and its variations, although that hasn’t been a problem for a while.

Although I get that there’s no reason the people of the other world would call their own world “Rearth,” it still makes things confusing.

Seems we won’t be getting our answers as to how Kouichiro knew about this world just yet.

A “Thaumaturgical Sword,” huh?

“That man, who was living in reclusive retirement in his territory to the north,” huh?

That’s a good point from Helena about Lupis messing up the procedure.

Part 3:
Finally back to Ryoma’s perspective!

Do the gold and silver scales on the serpent stand for Laura and Sara, perhaps?

That was a nice little segment about Ryoma and the Malfist twins’ relationship.

Dude, is it really necessary to kill Wallace Heinkel’s family, as well?

I wonder what the condition that Gennou set was.

Part 4:
Is there any sort of illustration of Yulia?

I get the feeling that Count Salzberg is just trying to impress Ryoma.

Or maybe not. Also, Julia is definitely hiding something about how they got their salt.

Initially, I was thinking of dropping the series with that bit where Ryoma made love to that maid, since I’m not into series with protagonists who play around, but the scene afterward is suggesting that the maid might actually be better off that way, so I guess I’ll keep going. Also, that could potentially lead to Laura and Sara being more assertive, so that’s fun. Also, also, why do I get the feeling the Salzbergs are going to try to take Laura and Sara?

Well, I definitely don’t think it was because Ryoma was weak to women like Yulia seems to think.

Yeah, I don’t see any way Laura and Sara don’t find out about this.

Oh, so Ryoma does know that the Malfist twins have feelings for him, then.

Part 5:
Was that man in the lobby of the Christof Company a pirate, or something?

Part 6:
“The Oppressed” That sounds kinds of ominous.

Hoo, man. That illustration is… OOF.

Oh man. That whole section up until the end of the part was really rough, honestly.

Part 7:
So was the beginning of this part (including that illustration of Melissa) up until the end of that chapter. Wow.

On a (somewhat) lighter note, more stuff from Asuka’s party! Hooray!

Is carrying a canteen of brandy around illegal? I wouldn’t know. I guess it is in Japan. It’s not really the sort of thing that strikes me as being “naturally” illegal, though, but I’m not Japanese, so whatever.

Is this Menea person’s mother an otherworlder from Japan, perhaps?

I guess these are knights from the Holy Qwiltantia Empire.

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