"Look, I don't care about how the various factions of deities and demons or whatever interact elsewhere...
"But here? Here, we drink. Want some pretzels with that?"

Welp...

I'm not sure if there's more of these or not; the epilogue and parts of the afterword made me feel like this could be the end, but also the afterword talked about the web novel continuing, so.....idk.

Either way, it's probably over for me. I don't think I can take another one. It can be funny when Lavi monologues about R18 stuff in the middle of a fight with a demon, like that's all she cares about, but the bit is getting kind of old (and clearly not all she cares about, after this volume). I was excited when it looked like we were getting into some real plot development this volume. (Oh look, Jabi and the concubine ended the king! Everyone knows Lavi is Bel! Her Japanese husband shows up! We're going to learn about the origins of demons and sacred beasts now, right?) And in spectacular fashion...the epilogue speedruns the retcon with the help of time magic and false memory charms. All the while the pope is reading one of Lavi's novels to the church book club. I can't even.

I mean, I get that this is supposed to be a romance novel (sorta), and not like an adventure isekai, but come on. At this point, I would have preferred the author trolled us by having Lavi not show up at all in the volume after the first part where she says she's going to hide so well that no one will find her during "the game of hide and seek" (which is what I actually thought was going to happen as time went on and she was absent from most scenes). Turns out the author's trolling game was much harder than I expected, or could handle.

@nichtmalda said in Déjà Vute: Betrayal Begets New Beginnings Vol. 2 Discussion!:

"I'm going to see my murderous psychotic sister all alone!"
Rest in pepperoni. Bold choice to kill off the female protagonist halfway in the second book.

"Freesia! It's so good to see you! Would you like some tea?"
"...No thanks, I think I'm good."

Nice break point. Allen gets to meet another god, this time with a couple of warnings to not be his usual self. Picture is good too. Looking forward to seeing how the good of grand spirits reacts to Rohzen being there. My gut is saying it won't be the warmest welcome.

Let's see next week.

Still not sure about the nation with the #2 magicmaster feels like its a the road to hell is paved with good intentions type of thing. Hes super aggornat though holy shit.

Wow this whole scheme really must've gotten to him way more than it would've before, seems like last volume was the start of changes in him huh.

@henshaw33 said in Royal Spirits Are a Royal Pain Vol. 6 Discussion!:

Still can't stand Kamil, the guy is insufferable. Also Keith needs to be taken out back for that last comment.

Score her and her life'll get better too.

Why is Kamil's close aid treating Deir like an object? Why is he just assuming her life sucks in Belisario? Why is Kamil casually okay with these assumptions? Deir just got done roasting Deryl for making those same exact assumptions, so why is it okay when Keith and Kamil do it?

I interpreted it differently, but that's just my reaction of course.

Score her = successfully court her = win out over the other potential suitors that she's completely oblivious about like Derryl and Douglas.

Her life'll get better too = having a home in not-Hawaii will add to her happiness, without any implication that she's unhappy now. Keith and Kamil know that she will not be cutting ties with her family, and their king gave her permission to teleport back and forth without going through customs.

...I was not expecting this, but I am not sorry it happened!

Man, the discoveries just keep piling up and now we got us a hype boss fight. The stoke is real rn. Dang.

Curses! Foiled again by Raiza...

Tied up Ratatoskr from Mina's pocket:

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(after being used as a yo-yo by her...)

“Mark my words,” Myriad went on, his hands balled into trembling fists. “They are going to get themselves into trouble.”

Mweh-heh heh.

@KCPR said in Zero Believers Vol. 12 Discussion!:

@myskaros
It's been a few months now since the release of the final two volumes, does J-Novel have any updates you could share with us regarding the English release?
Seeing as it's literally the ending of the story I'm sure I'm not the only one itching to know if/when we can expect some more Makoto drama. :D

@myskaros already gave the official answer above.

I’ll add my unofficial answer, repeated many times: Lots of things can cause release delays, almost all unexpected. If JNC makes a statement, and then one of those delays crops up, the ones most wanting updates are typically the unhappiest that the original date wasn’t met. So it’s not just smart for them, it’s more fair to the readers, not to make any statements.

@infiniteriches for comedy’s sake it’s probably someone Krai messed with in an earlier volume

@Hylebos perfection.

Consider how many other young men have been set up to be romantic interests, only to have no follow-through.

It just seems to be the author does. At this point, I’m starting to ignore it.

I was kind of on the fence on this one because of the focus on basically 'slavery is great!' But yeah, that ending means I'm dropping this one.