And that children, is how Auntie Alia wiped out the vampire clan once and for all.

Interesting ending. Karla is obviously still alive, perhaps she teleported away? While I doubt she would have left her prey alive like that, maybe if she sensed her rivals mentor in the area as someone else suggested? Though my first guess is that is where the vampire corpse landed given the physical nature of the attack. It could also be Alia herself, but the blackened skin and similar combat style definitely would support the fiend arriving, who I think was also following Karla? But were is Nero then?

And that children, is how Auntie Karla frightened the dungeon into a hundred years of slumber, never again to create another entrance to the labyrinth for fear of her return.

@Lex I feel the same on the ages, these people are much too mature for 12 year olds. Though I also try to apply a time period modifier. In these fantasy settings, the age of consent is often much younger due to shorter life spans, poverty, and family obligations. So while a 13 year old having lived on his own and joining the military at the age of 10 is weird, I just add a few years in the back of my head to fit modern day standards.

When the explosion circle wasn't found on the roof, I was wondering if it might have all been a rouse to insight panic and cause our side to take unnecessary risks in trying to escape. But the fact that they were planning to use a skill that only a high level individual, like the Holy Woman, could possibly use made me toss that idea out. But with Sanada knowing about Players, possibly even being a player given his sudden change in personality and lust for the power of a necromancer, the rouse was an excellent way to draw out possible players.

As for the Holy Empire's inside player, isn't Discord related to one of the seven deadly sins? Whoever is coiridnating with the Holy Empire is definitely being compelled to sow discord and chaos.

It's finally here, Volume 4!

Looks like this is a one shot from DRE. I really enjoyed it and would have liked to see more of Anrietta and Dalion.
I wonder why JNC chose to call it vol.1.

I have doubts about the "mature woman" thing, but I can definitely say she was very cool, at the least. This was a really fun part.

@idoerr said in The Trials and Tribulations of My Next Life as a Noblewoman Vol 5 Part 2 Discussion:

Unfortunately, she has demonstrated extreme competence in front of Reinald, and he's not going to let that be.

It was over the second Reinald learned she was picking the old dude over him.

@rsog412 said in To Another World... with Land Mines! Vol. 14 Discussion!:

@Ingraman said in To Another World... with Land Mines! Vol. 14 Discussion!:

Is Elmy a reincarnator who’s pushing the otome plotline?

The classmate batch came in as wanderers, fully formed into the world with no family. Elmy is the daughter of a baron, so unless a reincarnator managed to convince a baron to adopt them, sponsor them for the academy, and then let them run loose seducing princes, it doesn't seem likely.

It's possible that she's a reincarnator who came in as part of another group that had a different procedure, but so far, I don't think we've seen any evidence that Adavastalis or any other deity brought anyone else in.

I think, most likely, this setting is just the kind of world where things like that happen sometimes. A world where what Elmy is doing is scandalous, but not unthinkable.

I doubt it is someone from her class, but a reincarnated person who picked landmines like Satomi/Tasha chose might be able to pull off the adoption route.

I’ll admit, I’d probably read the spinoff series, To Another World… with Land Mines: The Linium Royal Academy is actually an Otome Game?

The spoken lines from the shogunate in this week's part reminded me of a segment of a podcast-style interview with Undertale's English-to-Japanese translator Keiko Fukuichi, where she talked about translating Papyrus's lines.

https://youtu.be/e7kgmo9pnsE?t=1883

So now when I see the reverse (something in Japanese being translated into all-caps in English), I'm left a little curious as to whether the Japanese really involved shouting, and what the original Japanese might have looked like to lead to an all-caps English translation decision.

If the problem is that Haibara is convinced that everyone's life is miserable with him around, only his friends can actually help him by showing that it's not true. I wonder if in the process they'll also learn his secret.
They were right in believing Miori took his virginity, but they cannot imagine the actual circumstances. Meanwhile Miori has one more reason to feel guilty.

@LightningLeaf said in Return of the Corpse King Vol. 3 Discussion!:

Am I a dummy? That's probably why the demon didn't kill the kids, he didn't want Shio gaining their powers as he did from his previous classmates.

He doesn't seem to hate humans the same way other demons do, and he respects Shio as the real and forgotten hero.

He's a follower of the real demon lord not Bael and isn't one of the fake-Helheim aligned demons working to resurrect him. That would be the top-hat guy who tried to give not-Kouki a spine.

I think it was mentioned a few parts back something like his ability could force others to answer questions but not harm them? The text then mislead us into thinking any false answer caused death not just endless magic sleep. It's a magic-induced coma so death from starvation and dehydration are apparently off the table.

I am reading vol.1 and I realized I had missed a lot of details in the pre-pub phase. Ryuta Kuga was one of the engagement candidates of Tsuguho. She must be happy she dodged bullet there. And she is actually moving up by getting a boy of the first ranked Ugetsu house.
I wonder if even Red doesn't know his pedigree since she severed the connection to his soul stone in Samidare.

I think Grandma's spirit was destroyed after she brought him safely to the end of his soul cleansing journey to reach the state of void.

@LightningLeaf said in After-School Dungeon Diver Vol. 6 Discussion!:

I'm enjoying this adventure with Melmel. I wonder what she could do with the OTC meds from Kudo's world.

Well there's one way to find out...
Hey Kudo! Gotta request for ya.

@ryandb said in The Bladesmith's Enchanted Weapons Vol. 7 Discussion:

@TheGrimLich This series has taught me just how easy it is for someone who is perceived as weak to snap the moment they get ahold of any real power. Yeah, it's just a story at the end of the day, but I could see it happening.

Reminds me of a quote from Robert A. Caro:

“But although the cliche says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said ... is that power always reveals. When a man is climbing, trying to persuade others to give him power, concealment is necessary. ... But as a man obtains more power, camouflage becomes less necessary.”

That's right Gori, there's nothing better than a nice long swim after dinner.

So I missed the first chapter but we now have "body controlling" worms making the possible alliance that was shown on the cover a reality. Welp, didn't expect the story going that way.

So Ernesti finally summoned his full knight order, I can't wait to see what upgrades he did to Ikaruga and what kind of gattai transformers he put in to satisfy Addy...