@yzh4rjdzob6 said in Promised to a Dragon Vol. 1 Discussion:

While I appreciate fairy tale ending, I would be more satisfied see more of a comeuppance for the king and queen. Maybe the king loses all his hair, or all the chairs have 1 weakened leg or something. They seem to be terrible people.

The king only betrothed Rhi to Bro because he felt guilty that he sold his daughter to the witch as dragon fodder as it were. I feel certain that the king and queen don't realize what a rat bastard Bro really is. They need only stop and actually listen to their child to resolve things. If they actually didn't care then they could have just sent her to the dragon and not bothered with Bro or attempting to contact the witches' council to try to cancel the dragon promise.

The part was way too short!

@endoftheline

1k for the knights and 3k for Sugaru and both got the message. Given the fusion needed, the 800xp should've been enough for it to be classified as a disaster-class entity. It certainly looks the part.

I feel like Yuri is going to end up using a lot of the weird stuff she stole during the next three minutes. I mean, how many Gungnirs does it take to screw over a catgirl?

Item stolen: Hair Growth Cream.

Will this be kryptonite to baldy?

"You've only said why the Emperor wants you to do this. But what's your reason?"

"Because he ordered me to."

"...I see you have no reason, and cannot think for yourself. It's a waste of time to talk to you. Good day."

Seeing the panicked attempt to fake Simeon being ill... is probably the only time Duke Silvestre and I have had the same response to a situation!

Did someone sabotage Marielle's carriage? No-one knew in advance the princess would be using it... Unless Mace and the Ambassador were conspiring to cause the crash, but that seems unlikely when Mace was also driving it. So either Mace was willing to risk his life to do something with the princess (who definitely isn't in love with him and resenting Marielle for getting to marry her love)... Or someone wanted Marielle to have an accident. Possibly to ruin the princess' reputation if Marielle had an accident after meeting her...

So the matter of the adaptation was solved, and it turned out it was due to a producer that wanted it to be more about himself, like too many times happens in the real world. But everything ended well. Goodbye Canary, it was fun working with you.
Luckily for Iroha this series isn't written by Nozomi Kora so she doesn't need to worry that her crush would fall for her mother. Anyway, I'm happy that this separation arc lasted only one volume and now Aki is going to interact again with the rest of yhe cast, although I'm expecting the next volume to mostly focus on him and Iroha.

@HarmlessDave there is incredible lots of depth in that side story.

In the web novel original Benza just grows into the person within the premonition, without much explaination but that he was appointed by Allen as liason => gang leader /misunderstanding and suddenly the people flocked to Benza. It was unclear whether they followed Benza just because of Allen.

But that part of Benza described in that side story, completes the image which was lacking in the web novel. A little too much with the "premonition part" for my taste, but that also fits the story so far with all the teasers of this and that what is still to come in the future about the unicorn class.

If people liked the action and pacing of this volume - they can look forward for what is to come. It is like the plane has finally took off regarding the momentum.

In Japan there are currently up to six volumes available. And I like the next two very much too - with even more to be expected after that.

@Village-Idiot awesome then! Hopefully we get it soon then. Thanks for the anwser!

@zwabbit Only big ticket item is the advanced bike he got. Replacement gear sponsorships have already been negotiated by Hikaru, as there's already literally a line of home town companies wanting to sponsor Akira. I very much doubt hospital stay cost is going to amount to much in the grand scheme of things.

Plus they'll have the profits from the convoy defense and all the stuff Akira killed there which should be pretty good.

@xdbx
I think he's fiddling the books. She saw the real books, but he'll show the Duke different ones where the servants are decently paid and pocket the difference. They are from far away to make it unreasonably difficult for them to realize how they should be paid, even if they do realize at some point they'll be too far to get redress.

Returning to the capitol to see the emperor at his summons?

There's mischief afoot!
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@LightningLeaf said in Imperial Reincarnation Vol. 4 Discussion!:

Even with a victory, maintaining morale after such a loss of life is going to be tricky. I hope we see some of Carmine's finangling of both his nobles, since they took the brunt of losses, and among the commoners.

I'm not too worried. It's not hard to find people willing to rescue a victory. Since he decisively won in the East, and the West is mired in in-fighting, more people will lend him money, more lords will join his cause and so on. He also has more territory to draw levies from. And there are a lot of militiamen able to brag they followed Emperor Carmine himself into battle, that they were part of his legendary victorious charge against the pretend-Duke.

The lords' losses... Yes, that is a problem, but it should be manageable as long as he can reward them well enough. And maybe let the johnnies-come-lately do the dying for a bit.

Speaking of what people will say about the battle: I wonder how many militiamen (and, for that matter, imperial guardsmen):

will swear they saw, with their own eyes, Carmine duel the false duke, an adult man twice his size, and win? show off a scar and say they took an arrow for him? insist they're the one who personally finished the false duke?

(Not all three at the same time. Unless they've been bought a few drinks first...)

I've got a feeling that reading the next part will be painful.

I was hoping for Leila to become full part of the harem since the beginning and it was even better than I was expecting. Although the thought that at some point everyone except Yuki and Lefi will be dead was a bit sad. I wonder if Yuki's wives might be influenced by his evolution and gain longer lifespans.

That cliffhanger! No fair!

Anyone else starting to find it a bit too much how everyone in upper noble society has been influenced by demons?

@karasutengu said in Notorious No More Vol. 3 Discussion!:

Half a mo here. Is Mihail speaking figuratively or metaphorically here? How would a first son of the four major houses be subjected to such treatment?

Also yes, that seemed odd. The story went out of its way reinforce noble decorum and that does not line up at all.

I am interested to know what this lesser noble lady is really about from this weeks prepub. She seems half hapless, but she bears the blessing of a sacred beast and knows Lavi's appearance. I wonder why she was making the "Im not suspicious" statements. Normally a routine for a comical farce of a obviously guilty person failing to hide themselves. But the before and after conversations do not match. The girl might just be as delusional as Lavi, having her own conversations with her head.

I think you are going to have to somehow set things up such that Amane's wish can only be fulfilled by his loss. Such as his desire to see Ikki struggle. If he defeats Ikki, then he loses access to seeing Ikki.

Guy is going to end up a ice cube at the rate he is going.

It is funny at the start Ryo was thinking about he no longer had a libio or something like that. Then Sera showed up and that all went out the window.

While I was hoping for some spy action, I didn't quite expect that.
And where the hell did the agent get the museum piece of a pistol? Shouldn't they use something, uh, less unique? Or at least more modern?