If you are at hibernation levels of oxygen then your brain, muscles, and senses will not be working as well as they should.

@karasutengu either is going to end soon or the author will add a thousand more mysteries in the next volumes as usual.

@Valanduin said in Water Magician Arc 2 Vol. 1 Discussion:

@heimdal7 said in Water Magician Arc 2 Vol. 1 Discussion:

It is hilarious that everyone is more invested in Sera a support character than they are the mc or any other character in the story.

Well I guess we at least know where she is and doing. It does sound that even being the representative of the elves marriage is not problematic as long as she is first wife (and only.). It is feeling like the author is trying to write her out of the story and has little to no plans of her being in this volume.

I don't think the text implied that she has to be the only wife, just that both Sera and Faith hold high enough status that anything less than first wife would be scandalous at best. I didn't think bringing in more than one bride would be beneficial to this story, but the text doesn't say it can't happen.

That went right over your head.

Mia's schemes all seem to be falling into place. But with Rafina backing her ans Sion opposing her, who knows how the plan will turn out.

Flio is still ever the pivotal character. Though im sure Uliminas is thankful for the increase sales. She loves making money.

The streaming break is this week. I miss the craziness of this story.

Seems like Arata will end up with a full army of wives before he finds the resolve to confess to Reina.

Well the meeting is off to a rocky start to say the least, but im glad to see they arent all dumb and the ones trying to pin it all on alus seem to be in the minority and possiblely aligned with kurama.

Them having to reveal the trump card hurts as now I bet kurama will find out about it, now its time for Berwick's crimes to be revealed, cuz he's uh he's done quite alot that is wrong on so many levels that I wouldn't be surprised if he is forced to retire soon after this. Dude is probably in deep shit for everything connected to alus if he reveals half of what's happened he's done for.

Cicelnia is gonna be pissed that she was blindsided by what berwick is gonna have to admit to keep the other nations from jumping them.

Partially based on the illustration, I was wondering at first if the cores represented his different sources of mana. But he didn't notice that because he made them all blue. So there is his original core, a higher power core, and now a dark energy core. Plus maybe a world core as he is so connected with it?

The whole five cores because he absorbed the cores of the other summons is confusing to me. Especially since he also created five barriers and there was one other instance of a multiple of five.

Good, looks like Fabio is loyal and competent. I'd started to wonder.

The two scariest characters combined to squash the third scariest. I almost feel bad for Nosfy.

Ok. The Dungeon Master on the cover bodes serious ill.

I was expecting some fireworks when Sumire and Eri finally met. I was not expecting them to become buddies. And kudos to Sumire for getting the closest things to a confession out of Eri about Eugene that I think we'll get until he confesses to her.

Side note: Eri knows that Eugene boinked Airi, but didn't spill that fact. The fact that Sara and Sumire didn't feel it is very curious, especially since Eri flat out said that they would. Could it be that he didn't go thru with it?

Ah, equals now and in love. A good story.

@LightningLeaf said in Proud to Be the Villainess Vol. 3 Discussion!:

I was unclear on why they didn't make a huge fuss and supervise the search more closely.

They were forbidden by their own embassy and were lied to about how much effort was being put into the search.

In other words, they believed the search was being conducted and they were purposely fed bad info and kept locked in their rooms. It was a plot orchestrated by another duke of their nation and local nobles.

And the "my fault" part wasn't really about him blaming himself. It was just an acknowledgement that it wasn't their will. They didn't want him to be left behind. Which would be an obvious moment if relief. "My family didn't hate me." Moment.

I assume the crown prince is at least somewhat aware the Margraves aren't dead set on remaining in the kingdom forever, which is why he's more willing to let Chris be so casual with him. The aides on the other hand, don't quite seem to grasp the dynamics at play here.

At some point I was convinced that the plot would lead to Eugene to be involved with the Vepar succession war, and the new Queen would become a recurring character if not even an harem member. Instead, they all ended in a dragon's stomach.
Fourth harem member fully unlocked, no surprise she's the princess childhood friend, now to keep things fair she needs her own contract.
A nice change of pace that this time Eugene shared the spotlight for the climatic battle with his best friend rather than a love interest.

@LeavesCat That's also a pretty good guess for why 'this' ritual failed while the others worked. And wasn't the original point of a Saint to be someone who could perform rituals using the crests the Sun Witch created...?

@TheGrimLich said in Déjà Vute: Betrayal Begets New Beginnings Vol. 1 Discussion!:

@b-scot-morgan Kalmia didn't, but I'm fairly certain her mother did. She likely didn't want to "worry her husband" or whatever excuse she might choose is, so she made sure he wouldn't find out. And given he's not exactly the most observant man... I imagine pulling the wool over his eyes would be fairly easy.

It would seem a little odd for his second wife to have that level of control over his household. You'd expect at least some of the servants would be loyal enough to the family to discretely inform the Duke of something that threatens their future...

That said, I do get the feeling this is one of those series, where information is only exchanged between people when it's convenient for the author...

@karasutengu You might be right this is less manic and more tastes purple.

Well, it took until the very end of the volume for the title character to appear. The good news is that it's someone we sort of know. The bad news is that she wants Ainrand Leslie very much to be dead, which is bad news for just about everyone.

Nice cliffhanger, author sensei.

@Hylebos

Aaand it's out :)