Why does the shadow demon want the body?

Gulaf Zaza's developing the mindset that cooking is a strength worth exercising in competition, which will probably drop a bombshell on the next clan meeting where they discuss doing business in town.

After all, Toor Deen, Asuta, and Rimmee Ruu have all already participated in such a contest at the castle. Viewed through that lens and with the benefits of competition between The People of the Forest and the Castle cooks allowing deeper bonds, I suspect Asuta is in for a very big surprise when he's anticipating harsh resistance from Gulaf and said resistance just doesn't manifest.

@Min-Ro I like the way the author wrapped everything up so well. It was a joy to read this series. (and thanks to JNC for providing it)

Looks like we have a streaming break for this week (June 11).

@LeavesCat or he weakens the imperial empire such that it allows a transmigrator to take control, similar to how he took over control of a weakened empire at age 15.

But really from what we know so far, seems this is the kind of story where transmigrators are not uncommon and not that strong inherently. First the imperial empire didn't suppress his empire or develop any advantage (tech or otherwise) in the hundreds of years BEFORE he was born. Second, his main advantage as a transmigrator is that it fit so well with his circumstance of birth and bloodline.

The other four transmigrators I can recall, one of them is topping out as butler to a countess who can't even imagine beating Carmine in a magic duel, one was killed by the butler in a duel and was never gonna change the world much, one of them (OOPARTs woman's father was apparently set up to be killed by the church) and his biggest impact on the world was educating his daughter, and one of them fled the main continent to become jesus which eventually became the main religion but it didn't seem like he was a conqueror or anything.

In any case this is a world where inventing shampoo or mayonnaise isn't gonna make you a central figure.

@GeorgeMTO I'm curious to see if Shio will stay weaker than in his first summoning or he'll find another way to get power ups. So far he seems to be progressing fast, but we don't know how many abilities he had.

Hyse trying to be solo yet he keeps making friends. Hahaha. This is an interesting dungeon. I wonder if it recreates worlds or if it assimilates worlds that have been conquered?

Fran: "You can't take me hostage, I'm taking myself hostage."
Lastiara: "Me too!"
Tiara: "Stop copying me!"

Never a dull moment in this series.

@LeavesCat said in Looks like a Job for a Maid! Vol. 3 Discussion!:

So her mistress is also a battle maid, and suggests that it's part of being a true maid. Did Nina just not get to that part of the curriculum yet?

That will be the next subject once they get to Nyxnox.

Mewi was late coming home? Face it Beryl...it's definitely a boyfriend. (get your sword ready)

I read the entire volume thinking that while the overly protective father is a bit overused as a trope, the comedy was good and we got to see once more how awesome Ikki is.
Then I thought the Blazers from Cradleland were interesting characters, but the tournament better not take more than a volume, since Ikki and Stella's matches are already decided and while I'm curious to see howctue king fights, I'm not so invested in reading a lot about Ikki training him and the two girls,
Then the author decided that it's time to get serious and give us some tragedy.
Definitely not expected, and it changed completely my impression of this arc. Of course I want this Puppet King to due in the most painful way possible, Ikki better have no mercy for him.
One thing I have to say, the series is going to be more interesting now that the scope is becoming broader than school shenanigans.

As with any book, movie, song, or other work of art, I strongly encourage everyone check it out and draw their own conclusion.

That's all the nice things I have to say.

@Lex I don't see her as the suicidal type, though perhaps in the original timeline she became that disillusioned with the ruling class. We don't know the full story of parts one and two of the game, but perhaps the viscount was finally successful in dispatching her father, leaving her with little will to fight on.

@arghc there was one interview of a JNC contest winner two years back or so. I was expecting more of it. I get that probably not every author is comfortable doing interviews and stuff but at least a summary of how things are and where the contest winners are at now or something like that would make a good newsletter article.
But I am done defending JNC after the whole bait and switch membership fiasco, when I still haven't seen any communication beyond the stock responses. Some of my favourite series are available here and I like the forum community where I get to discuss with other readers. That's what keeps me coming.

The book’s over already… ;_;

Updated the OP to version 0.26.2

This update adds the following edited volumes:

Tearmoon Empire 16 Tearmoon Empire Short Story Collection 1 AOAB Manga P2V11 AOAB Manga P4V6 Apothecary Diaries 16 VTuber Legend 10

It also contains a rework of the Tearmoon Empire omnibus, giving a consistent part->volume->chapter structure, instead of the mixture of some parts splitting chapters by volume and some parts not.

@Paul-Nebeling Yes indeed (ha, ha).

@Paul-Nebeling Vepar seems the obvious candidate. Khimari and Gremory also should get some leftover crests.

@GeorgeMTO I doubt JNC would hold it up, but I could see the publisher adding stipulations to the licensing as anime's are primarily just a form of advertising for the source content, at least from my perspective. I also highly doubt they would license a single volume of a series, unless it is part of a multi-series deal from a single publisher, legal fees are expensive. But definitely possible if there are multiple volumes Earth Star wants translated. Its also possible 15 was already licensed with the last batch of agreements, as the publisher would have know prior to April that the author was contracted to release another volume in the spring. I just tend to be pessimistic and am surprised when a volume appears.

While there's been no official statements from JNC, some of the authors have mentioned working on a v2, though I don't have memory of who has said what off the top of my head.