"You reject us? You have no need for money, no need for ties... what do you want, whelp?"

"For you and your conflict to fuck off."

Just being in Rhi's POV during the first few scenes was enough ick trauma for me. Shiver yikes.

I think Carlos is too used to thinking with his ahem.

The Crafters I saw coming.
The Newbie Alliance, that took me by surprise. It being spearheaded by one of Yuri's friends, doesn't.

So, if we have Baldy and Zansword fighting over Yuri, does that make this...Yuri-tama?

Yuri really is setting a new dynamic for the game.
Don't let anyone look down on you!
If you put heart and soul into your attack, Yuri will recognize you as their greatest rival for the duration of that fight.

Something about Mr Meyer's demeanour makes me rather suspicious of him, I must admit. The immediate assumption that the Flauberts would remove parts from one of their carriages and use it anyway - as opposed to, say, it being sabotaged - feels less like someone concerned for the princess, and more like someone trying to steer the investigation in the direction most convenient for them...

I forgot how atrociously down bad Fiona is.

Only a part in but I feel a bit bad since the chance she ends up with Seika seem pretty much nill.

Then again, this series seems like it could eventually shift into an actual Harem since he's a noble and all these women love him...

So I kinda want to see what would happen if the Pope turned into a katana aficionado...

I don't recall the name given to it, but the contract was described in volume 1 or 2 of the light novel. I remember it was some devil-adjacent creature or specific type of devil that is sleep related, and I think was noted for being unusual to form contracts with.

@Rohit-Bhute Prison Life is Easy for a Villainess. It's in the readers' library for those with the right subscriptions who haven't read it already. Though as a warning, it is somewhat darker comedy than this series tends to be.

@Libri-Liberorum said in The Petty Villain Plays by the Rules Vol. 1 Discussion!:

Reid will probably embrace his betrothal as an opportunity to get potion ingredients.

True. But I also suspect that the betrothal will end up being with the young foreign girl he helped earlier.

Surprised that a Japanese author would subscribe to the idea that the USA is the cradle of democracy vs Greece, although the president/secret service combo probably makes the point better than archons.

Abel's brother dying would make it very difficult for Abel to continue being an adventurer and Ryo's shenanigans pal. Who can save him when Ryo's water magic doesn't particularly have much of a healing component (or does it)?

Rats, I was hoping he was the Demon Lord or his son. Who cares about being the son of some dumb old king...

@Ingraman said in Management of a Novice Alchemist Vol. 1 Discussion!:

@imp000 said in Management of a Novice Alchemist Vol. 1 Discussion!:

Is this series still being released by JNovel? It has been some time since anything has come out. :(

“Some time”? It’s only been three months since the final part of v6 pre-pubbed… and the ebook was published only two months ago. I don’t know how many books are out for this series in Japan so far. Maybe we’re caught up. Maybe further books have yet to be licensed by JNC. Maybe they’re licensed, but the translators/editors are working on other books at the moment. There are lots of options. I’m looking forward to volume 7, but it’ll happen when it happens… :)

v7 is the latest book in the series, it came out in Japan in November of 2022. I'm unsure if it's the last book in the series per say or whether it got the axe or whether the author simply got busy with To Another World With Land Mines but whenever the ever rumbling licensing engine gets around to licensing it and whenever people's schedules align I assume they will start work on it.

@Lex Yeah, I felt the second half tried to hard to be deep/grand and ended up with just being easy instead

@LightningLeaf Or she is, but she still bears the scars of her previous life. In this very update, she mentions her lack of romantic experience. This is part of a larger genre pattern. A lot of isekai reincarnators had lonely and unfulfilling former lives as shut-ins, victims of bullying, office drones, overworked employees of black companies, and the like.

Their previous bad experiences drive them to make a fresh start in their new lives w/o a second thought. They had little to miss in their former lives. However, they also cause them to be as romantically inexperienced as the youngsters they look like. Esp. when they find themselves in premodern societies where teens dating is not so common an experience.

@arghc I haven't kept up with the prepubs (though I peeked into this week's prepub and wow >_>) but I'm pretty sure this is a standalone story, there's only one volume I can find and it came out back in 2023. From what I recall, all of the JNC Knight titles have been standalones so far with the exception of So Dearly Reckless and Finding My Way to (You) in This MMO World which have several volumes each.

@karasutengu I was thinking their would be an undead bone giant next week.

This should be interesting.

I wonder what that low life Prime Minister talked to Ikki about?

@T-Fontana Thanks very much! Now who's the most obnoxious? (hmmmmm)