So that's how the anime knew how to name the maids.

More skip content today but yay we made it to the end of volume.

@LightningLeaf said in Repeated Vice: I Refuse to Be Important Enough to Die Vol. 3 Discussion!:

Aw, it's so difficult to let a loved one go even when it's time. Poor Warm.

So Carlos approves of Fol. I do wonder if Ludens will acknowledge her?

I feel like from what we've seen that's just going to require her to demonstrate her value to him. Ludens is ruthlessly pragmatic. Fortunately for Fol, that more or less overlaps with bringing value to the kingdom if it's within the Lightless family's lands.

That said, he might also have higher standards for his approval, and just this first suggestion may not be enough (especially as he's clearly planning on it anyways. But it'd be a start for sure)

Nice volume. It would be great if at the end Rouga could end together with his ex party member, maybe after they save her sister.
Speaking of sisters, curious to see the last one and how the story will proceed when all of them will be "defeated ".

@freee12341 said in Moon Blossom Asura Vol. 1 Discussion!:

(...) sometimes it is written as lina and sometimes lna so I hope they will fix these soon. (...)

readin' it through a digital library and it"s still like that 🤷🏿‍♂️

basically, Moonflower Blossom: if one swings, we all swing

...does Lumia know of Asura's perversions?
is this gonna go somewhere interesting? 🤔

i see Lumia too enjoys Dynasty Warriors

didn't expect Punti to look so damn young

Part 2 Chapter 5:

“Are you...saying that I’m easy to use?”
“That’s a compliment, Marx.

lul

[Lumia mentions a whip]
yo, wtf? 😐

“You did amazing. If you want, I can give you a pat on the head.”
“I don’t want one. More importantly, are you really going back?”

love this weird-ass mother-daughter-reverse-groomer dynamic 🤭

“Now then, I hope you have a good day. The sunny weather makes for a fine day to despair.”

...Mother scares me 😐

After that, she reached down with her left hand and pulled Reko up.
“Don’t touch my boobs.”
“What boobs?”

bruh
is Asura that much of a perv or is she just assuming based on his age?

P2 C6?:
wait... was Lumia bein' a hypocrit when upset about her evil!daughter doing what she considered a moment earlier? 🤔
that reminds me of a realization i had...
you know how the Green Goblin's a Jekyll Hyde situation? and how he's a corruptor of others? says and does what he thinks will turn a person into more like him? . . . 😐
(i'm sayin' evil!Mother's a groomer)

P2 C7:

“U-Um...how does it feel?” she asked timidly.
“Hmm.” Asura slapped Salume’s butt a few times. “It’s not bad.”

...so she is a perv

“Why didn’t you pick me?” Reko complained. “I’d love to be your chair, Boss.”

'ey yo, Reko, wtf?
(the fact that i'm more bothered by Reko than Asura right now is interesting 🤔)
bruh, what in da shit is this dynamic? (positive)
me, answering my own question: ~it's incest!~ :D

He went so far as to wonder whether she was a peak-tier monster in disguise. Creatures capable of such things were rare, but it wasn’t as if they didn’t exist.

dun dun duhn~
Asura reincarnated just to fuck shit up confirmed

The Demon Lord—the enemy of humankind that takes pleasure in death and destruction—laughed in the exact same way that she does.

...oh~. oh, no~
we are fucked

(i still would, though)

Are you comprehending the words that are coming out of my mouth?

Rush Hour meme. didn't expect that

[a mofo basta get fucked up with the king as a witness]
bro, you signed a deal with the devil

So, J-Novel Heart series has first hint of romantic feelings of the heroine at the end of volume 5. (This is entirely reasonable in-world, as she is 11. It is just odd that a "J-Novel Heart" would have five volumes to get her to age 11.)

@Village-Idiot Not sure if I would call it a cliffhanger ending, but I will say that it just opened up a huge can of worms. As the author said in the Afterword, a prologue to the next arc.

19 volumes in and no actual retirement in sight for Alus. Something tells me that the suspected trap is about to be sprung and whoever is behind it is going to try to pin the murder on Alus, facts be damned.

The Afterword also confirmed, more or less, that Alus and Loki's relationship isn't likely to change any time soon, which may be good news for people shipping Alus x Tesfia. (Is there anyone shipping Alus x Alice?)

Anyhow, all we can do now is wait for volume 20 to drop. I'm betting on two to four months.

@GeorgeMTO Having broken down and read the rest of this arc in the WN, I had my suspicions.

So Tsukikage Could see the future, and it was bleak. At least now he has some hope.

that was a nice send off for Jean. He did terrible things and all, but he really got the short end of the succession stick.

I do like the old lady. Kind of extraordinary that an art appraiser would happen through.

Do all the people who reach the mermaid village settle down there?

@holatuwol True, he is still inside the shrine and is a 'moving statue' right now, they could think he is a phantom they have as an ally, lol that would be so funny.

@endoftheline Sure, but those casks are probably made of the same wood that the larger production versions are made of, that's not something I think would happen with an possible treant wood brewing. If this stuff is eventually going to get exported, it needs to be able to be moved long haul without major changes to the flavour.

Can we say Tam-Tam is OP?

What a truly interesting chapter. I can’t wait for more.

What an excellent illustration of Helen and Diana preparing to fight Cromwell and his flunkies. The expression of glee on Helen's face is priceless. Kudos to the illustrator.

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@zwabbit

It's a good list.

I'd add

1b) Udajima's connections
Udajima talked to someone in Zegelt city. Udajima has a lot to gain from getting rid of Akira. Maybe his allies do too.

5b) Tiol
Tiol was the one making Akira fakes before. Though this seems a bit sophisticated for him.

7a) Nationalists
Akira has thwarted them a few times.

7b) One of the Big Five
Whichever competitor was messing with the Sakashita transport may want to get rid of Akira too.

7c) Carol's enemies
She hired a bodyguard because she was scared. We may not have met the scariest people after her yet.

7d) Alpha's enemies
Most people have not figured out the connection between Alpha and Akira, but if someone did, they might want to thwart her. The method seems indirect but maybe it's less traceable that way.

I have a feeling it will turn out to be a combination of interest. Like Udajima plus one of the Big Five, or Mizuha plus Nationalists, or an AI and one of the hunter groups. For the plan to go smoothly it helps to have both city connections and people who can take shady action.

I wonder who cares about the Kuzusuhara depths. There must be vested interests for and against exploring them. As readers we don't have a lot of information about the politics of that. It seems like it is a big deal if the Big Five are fighting each other over it.

In a previous volume, Scrael mentioned having met Sapphia a couple of times, and that she visits their village occasionally. Ricky mentions that Ameithys and Ornyx only descend when there's some huge disaster.

The phrasing of

She was the third child after Torpaz and Ruvi, whom I'd already met before

makes it sound like Akira's met both of those other gods, but I'm pretty sure he's only met Torpaz. Torpaz didn't seem disappointed in Ameithys, but he's the god of the beast-heads.

It makes me wonder if Sapphia's gripes with Ameithys's 'slacking' stem from the fact that he's passively allowing humans to enslave long-ears. We don't know to what extent the gods can actively interfere with Do-Melta, but there doesn't seem to be any restriction on them just speaking with the mortals. If Ameithys descended and just told humans "stop that" about the slavery, that'd certainly have a huge effect. The fact that he hasn't means he either has a reason not to (could just be, as the top god, he wants to minimize interfering with the world) or he doesn't care enough. As it stands with what we've seen of Ameithys so far, either seems equally likely.

@Anderson38 Yeah, I got the impression people outside the military or government officials who need to know about them is just because they don't generally claim credit for their actions or make any public appearances, and not much is known about the members. It's pretty understandable for the general public to think an elite spy troop is a boogeyman of the Empire when this group has taken no action on record or been spotted in public, and nobody knows someone who's actually a professed member of the unit.

This illustrator is incredible. The expression on Tory's face is haunting.