My theory on why Rani and the others didn't end up with Inglis and Tiffanier: Rani has gotten really good at controlling her own aether (we've seen that she's learning how to use it exponentially faster than Inglis did by watching her use it), and probably did something similar on her own without realizing it, and everyone else wound up with her. The Steelblood Front guy could have as well.

So the pontifex was likely offed by whoever has been providing the revelations, I suspect. It looked like her choker was set to detonate if she tried to reveal their identity.

@LightningLeaf said in The Canon Fodder’s Ascension from Pawn to World Unifier Vol. 2 Discussion!:

Was it Stella who killed her at the end?

I’m not sure, but I don’t think so. I got the impression that she knew her killer but that we didn’t. So I’m guessing it was another member of the Overlord’s faction that will show up later.

The Sapphias tale was a bonus included in previous novels but it's still a fun read. The political calculus that went into Duke Redmoon throwing his lot in with Mia's faction and give his full support into Mia's ascension to Empress was a nice peek into Tearmoon politics. Even foreshadows how Ruby got the support during the Civil War in Bel's timeline

It's also nice to see Mia and Anne gain more adult perspectives on things. A big hint to the future too, since I believe this is the first time its mentioned that future Anne has a kid (and likely a spouse). I bet it's Ludwig.

@Leon_97 I don't think he's gonna tell them he's reincarnted.

@Phabiohost Given the framing (i.e. everything in the related memories - apart from the anime itself - being non-violent), I assumed it was meant to be a play on He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. Just simplified enough to turn moral risk into moral equivalence. Though the two flashbacks might not have been meant to be thematically linked? shrug

Live by the sword probably does fit better either way.

so many kingdoms and empires and whatnot with internal divisions to boot. I need a graph. 8-)

I liked this volume, mostly because it was actually about Sansui. Had this series always been like this I would've liked it more, even if it turned out to be shorter.

@Libri-Liberorum said in The Villainess Speaks Not Vol. 1 Discussion:

Liliana is in a quantum superposition of ages 7 and 13. And her age is still mathematically simpler than (Roze)Myne's.

6 year olds acting like (and being treated like) very mature 13 year olds is very common in LN/manga/anime. I wonder if TV tropes has a trope for this.

These are bookworm-length years and no one can tell me otherwise. And the nobles train their kids like bookworm does.

I-I-It's not like I wanted to save you, ok? I just wanted to punch you and cannot do that if you're dead.

@Travis-Butler said in The Isle of Paramounts: Reborn into a Slow Life Among the Strongest in the World Vol. 3 Discussion!:

@pcj said in The Isle of Paramounts: Reborn into a Slow Life Among the Strongest in the World Vol. 3 Discussion!:

I'm not convinced that Snow is controlling her powers any better with Reina than with anyone else. After the previous part I think Reina is just that strong to be able to handle it now, and Arata isn't realizing it.

I would be very surprised if Reina were stronger than Tailtiu, who's still having serious problems.

Tailtiu has a different excuse... She's cold blooded. She doesn't have her own body heat to counter the cold with.

@xdbx said in Dimension Wave Vol. 7 Discussion!:

Well, if/when V8 comes out, it will need to start with Yami pushing Kizuna off the cliff once again.

But afterwards, I'd like to see Kizzy and Shouko spend more time together. One of the more subtly entertaining aspects of V7 has been the steadily decreasing interval between Kizuna's repeated mentions of Shouko. It was almost like he was subtly going through withdrawal.

I think I would have enjoyed the end of this part more if he'd quietly reached out to Shouko first and they got to actually share some screen time solo before the entire cast piled on.

@b-scot-morgan You're forgetting that as she said, they have a Mansion pretty close to the Royal Palace. in the Capital.

Ofc she's better off than commoners. Now if someone's ego would've allowed them to make any kind of money to feed the familly and keep the place somewhat warm, the first Patience might've not died.

Pretty sure even the hand-me down she received could feed commoners for a while.

She's better off than commoners and yet she isn't. Shrodinger's famine or something.

I think Wellmy and Aides becoming a detective agency hunting down the cursed artifacts distributor would make a decent story. That's more or less what happened with Reincarnated as a Discarded Princess after her revenge tour.

How could I have known she would the man who had saved her young life and elevated her to sainthood

Of course. Of course the plot of the whole series started by Allen being his usual self.

I waited until the Light Novel publication to read this volume. The story was surprisingly idealistic in the way pretty much all people behave sensibly and unselfishly. In particular Ryan, Layala and Carolus shown to be the ideals of chivilric kings without any of the practicality of needing levels of compromised exploitation to lead and rule a populace.

That on top of all the People of the Forest coming around the save the day rather then their earlier depictions as cautious secretive people who appear randomly and disappear just as quickly without risking their knowledge to outsiders (as previously described in the first two volumes). Of course I am willing to see that they bent their ethics somewhat to appeal to Misha.

Another thing that strikes me is a total lack of consideration for the taking away of Misha and locking her away from her duties as the scion of a noble house and hostage. Even if Ryan was not interested in the scenario her father would desire the care and looking after of his daughter.

Finally I was saddened to see the undercurrent of Lolita leanings with people being fascinated by Misha to develop to a full on underhanded symbolic confession of love between a 20 something and a 13 or 14 year old girl.

Otherwise it was a nice read, a bit less fairy-tale then the previous two novels, and the only danger being a half paragraph of slightly angry people gave it a very safe feel despite the theme of a plague outbreak. I think I liked Nel the most as he had the most sense of having his own agendas around his actions.

Perhaps the most fairy-tale thing about the volume is how so many people she encountered last two volumes all turned up to help at exactly the right timings.

It was refreshing to have a different point of view.

@T-Fontana
I thought she'd try to control Noa directly.

Um. Why is the Effluent God's name so much like Krai's?

I'm surprised that with all the hammering noise happening with the ax forging that the monster hadn't slowly moved toward them to see what was going on.

@PeachyGreen said in Water Magician Arc 1 Vol. 6 Discussion:

@Hylebos but certainly I'm not the first person to have brought up that some of this LN is original content. Is it off topic to ask where that original content in the light novel starts?

You had asked about the sequence of events in the web novel version, which seemed a bit more like an in depth discussion than simply asking where the light novel original contents starts. Sometimes web novel events get shuffled around so such discussions about differences or order of events can easily spoil stuff further down the line in the translation of the light novel, which is why I believe they have that rule in the first place.

Anyways, I thought the afterword was pretty clear:

And now you know why the extra 120,000 characters are there. It comes in the form of a new chapter called "Prelude," which serves as an introduction to the episodes of volume 7—and that also means a lot of intense action.

My assumption based on that is that everything starting with the Prelude at the start p14 isn't present in the webnovel, anything more detailed than that should probably be safely quarantined elsewhere, not that I'm exactly the guy enforcing the rules, just seems better safe than sorry.