Akira: OK, yandere stalker guy, you're hired for this doomed expedition to hell.

Lol villain with more plot armor than Mary

Man I do not want to meet the authors sister like ever.
Finally all this revenge nonsense should be over and we can get to some actual plot.
All these repeat descriptions of how deplorable Sharanla is were arduous to read through

An Isaac part, yay! Kind of nice to learn he didn't take that jackass's insults to heart.

@LightningLeaf Look, him raising another Perfect Assassin was going to happen sooner or later, we just rolled "sooner".

Oh, the question has been answered already, of course he'll save Lilka. Or let Raymond do so.

Pleased to see this back so quickly.

@endoftheline Only if you know about them. D-Powers is famous, but not as top explorers. The canon top teams are all tied to national governments, and are known quantities to each other. Also, there are a handful of independent teams headed by top 20 rankers, like KingSalmon and The Campbell Witch. That's the known top teams.

Then D-Powers becomes public knowledge, but as orb sellers and people-who-know-too-much. Not known for their delver power, because no one famous has ever gone delving with them. At best, some people suspect they're the top team, but they don't even know who is on the team beyond Miyoshi. Not that rank G spaghetti stalk Yoshimura!

@HarmlessDave Nice reference spot. A song almost as old as I am! Does anyone else get a post-apocalyptic vibe from the music video and song? Like, is the future nuclear bright? It has little of the thematic vibe of the song Indian Summer by Pedro the Lion. "It's my pleasure to annouce, in conjunction with the FED, and my recent popularity-- Thanks in part to mother nature it will never rain again. It should do wonders for the GNP."

Then she opened the Command Prompt and began tapping away at the keyboard.
Let's see what she's doing... Yup, no clue.

That... really doesn't sound like inner monologue of a genius programmer. (At a fundamental level, that sort of 'I don't instantly understand it, oh well, moving on' response tends to come from people seeing something well outside their interests and/or competencies. But to a professional developer, even one who doesn't regularly use the command line, it still shouldn't be so alien that she writes it off so easily.)

As I listened to her rapid-fire typing, it occurred to me just how much more difficult this would've been without her.

I presume without her insistence on using the glove you would have just installed whatever VRChat equivalent is most popular in Japan on a headset from the app store and gone straight in.

"This makes you pretty nauseous, huh?"

You know, I've never met anyone who had that issue with VRChat. Some other VR experiences, sure - racing games tend to be the biggest issues in my experience, because they give the largest dissonance between your eyes and your inner ear. But it's hard to tell how you'd get it by standing around and talking to people...

"Uu!"
"Nyaa!"

...Yes, I've watched Haiyore Nyaruko-San. Not in many years, but the OPs were catchy.

Matsuri and Maria are played by the same person, aren't they?

@TheGrimLich said in The Reincarnated Mastermind: Sundering Fate with Magic Swords Vol. 2 Discussion!:

"Good news! You're going to the Academy! This is not a request."

"After all, you already passed the test for the special class with honors! All the other examinees who were there agree!"

@arghc I doubt it was damaged beyond repair since it and the sky-ship it rammed remained afloat and did't plummet to the ground. However, whether the damage was severe enough to keep it out of this conflict with the empire remains to be seen. I certainly hope not since it could be an over whelming asset in the battle.

The Manga version serialization will begin on August 12, 2026.

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As ever the series makes me question how much is Akira just being a Doofus? Or how much is he either being interfered with or being influenced by his original hero gifts? You can never quite tell with his absent mindedness.

That said the dark urges which unlike Akira not realising only started with exposure to dark mana and the planets cracking are clearly Something affecting him. I am curious if we will learn more or like the unreasonable fear and discomfort in the past will end up going unexplained.

A new topic of interest is Akira's Deification. Not in the gods of planet management sense of immortality and responsibility, but in his surrounding companions. He has been acknowledge by the forest equivalent of a gaia tree as lord of the forest, and now we find not only do they revere him as a master but worship Akira as the supreme being, above gods. At least that explains them constantly looking down on Aion and the other gods as mere things who brought harm to their god.

Having his companions see him as a supreme being is quite a step up from being the guardian figure. And altogether I do not think any of his followers understand the concept of him just being a friend and helper.

Side notes from this volume:

The summoning kids being even stronger then the forest guardians both makes sense, as they where potential heroes to overthrow demon lords in the gods game of fates. But also interestingly worrying as this forests guardians are much stronger then normal ones. Those kids as missionaries might very well result in interplanetary warfare over recognition of Akira's Divinity.

Are the golems being affected by Akira's slight dark mana corruptions? Leader is getting quite menacing. But then again we had animals being very scared of him before the recent events. Who knows?

I look forwards to the Cerberus' awakening and any complications from its strange birthing. And perhaps we might even find out more about what the apprentices where up to with the Angels and Cerberus.

Ropes transcendent existence seems to pose a lot a practical problems as an absent guardian of this planet outside of maintaining authority over who can enter or leave the planet.

As always, loved the reading experience and looking forward to more.

@Eternal-Wanderer it looks like it's a skip week, so the next part will be coming next Monday.

If you haven't given their other series a try I enjoyed it: Defeating the Demon Lord's a Cinch (If You've Got a Ringer)

Unlike Krai, that MC is a total badass.

@Phabiohost It could trigger an event or something, though, where the ones who kill Santa become Santa.

Her names are even Sharon and Charlotte, S and C like Santa Claus. Whether that's just a coincidence remains to be seen.

@PeachyGreen said in Imperial Reincarnation Vol. 6 Discussion!:

What I don't get is why Carmine is dead-set on reclaiming the empire's land from the Southern Three. It seems a bit war hawkish...

It would happen at some point anyways. His main motivation is to clear out his borders to hostile nations before he attacks the other empire because he's worried about a 2 front war with the empire.

And they did, declaring war on him during his wedding. He would have attacked them soon anyways but they were the ones that chose this timing.

Also from his dialogue with Charles, it seems he thinks the divine empire is behind all the countries declaring war on his empire.

Looks like things are smooth sailing for now. But with Snow on full defense mode, I doubt anything will go horribly wrong.

I'm hoping Stella attains desperado status in this fight with Haboob. She needs to arise to Ikki's level to continue fighting him.

The ogre girl seems a bit of an airhead, she should be fun to have in the story. Meanwhile Narva should be compatible so I guess both girls will join the harem at some point.
The corrupt nobles didn't do proper research if among all the means to try killing Caim they chose poison.