@iurychiga Chapter 4, where it starts "Most buildings erected by the demons were built by the Corvut family", would I think be equivalent to WN c150 "魔族の建造物は、その多くがコルヴト族の手によるものだ。"

@Gamen Mainly the surreptitious photos and videos of his students, as well as some of his thoughts about them in his inner monologue.

Sara and Allen both lacked grace this volume. Allen moreso of course. Well, they are their ages. Resolution felt a bit cramped, but was nice overall.

@Geezer-Weasalopes Thanks for the input. I'll add it to my other operating notes I've accumulated.

I don't know what I thought was going to happen next, but it wasn't abducting a vampire(?) princess(?) and doing good cop bad cop - which she knows about for some reason - that was a weird sentence.

I do kinda feel bad for her, it's pretty safe to assume she isn't lying since she knows about his mind-reading, which would means she' a mostly ordinary non-combatant that just got accosted by basically deities randomly. Interesting that her skills are sewing related when the reason they're there is because of a torn sail, I wonder if that'll come up.

Is Londium called the city of bridges because of how often they fall down?

So, when this was announced I decided to skip because I previously read another series here about a blacksmith and found it incredibly boring.
I then found myself with a bit if free time before yhe volumes expiration date and decided to try reading it, thinking I'll probably drop after a couple of parts. We'll, I'm glad I did that because it turned out to be much more better than expected. It definitely helps that swords are my favorite weapons, even if I'm not at the same level as the characters in the story in terms of obsession.

5 (thick) slices = 1 school week = 1 slice each day for breakfast.

toast with jam (carried in mouth when running late to school)
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@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Management of a Novice Alchemist Vol. 6 Discussion!:

Because we know she's gonna end up as the new lord.
Since she's there, has already established strong relations with the regional power structure, and has demonstrated to the country's leadership that she can be relied upon.

Not just the regional power structure… she’s also rung up big points with both the villagers by cleaning up the bandits without any of the innocents getting hurt, and with the sailors by being a strong leader.

She’s gonna get it from all sides… mweh-heh-heh.

Added version 0.25.1 to the OP.

This version has updates to the automatic volume importer (more series correctly detect chapters now) and the css importer (fewer series should fail to format text because of malformed css).

There's also a tweak to the chapter editor (left hand pages that have no content set will now be hidden instead of displaying error messages).

The series Deathbound Duke's Daughter, I Refuse To Be Your Enemy, and The Apothecary Witch Turned Divorce Agent have all been migrated to the UI omnibus builder.

@Lily-Garden said in The Apothecary Diaries Vol. 9 Discussion!:

@Marina-Van-Eysinga-0v7x1dl I actually like the unusual vocabulary; I think it adds to the historical tone of the story

Yeah... and I like learning new words, which this series has made me do on a few occasions

I thought for sure we were going to have the winged warrior girl in the harem but seems like the author will go with the fanatic hero girl instead.
I mostly like the humor of this series but I hsve to agree that Zelos acting like a pushover on occasions can be annoying, even if the author is trying to give an explanation in universe. Stilllookimg forward to the next volume, though.

Checking the authors twitter they have started doing some more work on this series. Hopefully that translates into a new volume. This series is one of my all time favorites

@Whacka yeah, I saw that several books I follow have their new volumes ready for part 1. It's going to be a good week.

@Tacitus said in Imperial Reincarnation Vol. 3 Discussion!:

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Didn't he have a choice of words for Carmine after the storyteller showed up? I think he's got some line now that the Emperor shouldn't cross.

I don't think so? He said he'd follow carmine whatever he decides as long as carmine thinks it's in interest of the rotahl dynasty. I.e. he knows the sword properties and will support carmine even if he decides to use the sword or try to conquer the continent.

I think the conflict may be much later in the future if never at all. Carmine doesnt believe in divine right or trust his descendants and doesn't expect them to always be competent. so he hopes lead the empire in a direction where the emperor position is no longer necessary someday, though he considers it a necessary evil right now. Obviously turning the empire into a Republic or democracy would end the dynasty Alfred is trying to protect. But that seems far into the future and probably not when carmine is still alive, let alone Alfred who's much older.

"Mischief, thou art afoot, Take thou what course thou wilt!"
Methinks Zen has his work cut out for himself as he works to get the evidence against Stoga and survive (along with Mina and Elysia).

I'm not a huge fan of trying to portray Ikki's father in a more positive way. We'll see how the author will handle that.
Shizuku has to stay an hardcore brocon imouto forever. And that stupid guy has to suffer immensely for what he did to her.
Ikki's fight with Sara was good as usual, and we even get some sort of revenge against the scary swordswoman.
For a series with a established main couple since the beginning, the author doesn't mind making girls fall in love with Ikki. So far there aren't real signs it will go full harem in the future, so it might just be another Sword Art Online.

It was better than I was expecting, especially when he learned that Zen is a good fighter and mage and the series introduced some action instead of just having the protagonist doing paperwork.

Part 1:
Is Nakai secretly Undyne?
That pre-isekai section was quite fun! I do wonder if the car the protagonist got run overby was driven by one of his colleagues, though. They were at a drinking party….
I’m enjoying this a bunch so far, but there does seems to be a bit too much telling rather than showing at this point.

As I said before, I’m enjoying this. However, I’ll likely end up purchasing these anyway for the mech specs, so I need to prioritize the other series on catch up this month that I really want to read. Especially since my free time this month will be limited due to needing to study for a certification exam.

What a payoff... had me grinning all the way!

Its nice to see this kind of pure romance in this age of overblown cat and mouse games.