@Cidolfas Yeah six is sketchy as hell, if he works for anyone I reckon it would the emperor directly. As it was mercs that did the dirty work it wouldn't have taken too much to get a hold of them and promise a large bonus if the marquessate was wrecked during the operation, oh and by the way here is a set of recent maps & plans six drew-up that mark what needs destroying in priority order. It would explain her friend knowing what was coming and urging her to get out asap before things had started as her friend is now one of sixes flunkies.

@xdrfiredogx said in The Tiny Witch from the Deep Woods Vol. 1 Discussion!:

I don't think she'll try and kidnap her or anything, but she will probably tell her how to contact her Uncle as well as how to disguise herself.

I like this much better, than her kidnapping Misha back to "her own people". Especially when she is slowly healing on this trip and Geord seems to have understood her.
What would also be cliched and dumb would be misplaces anger of Leyas friend who places a curse on Misha's father and family. I wouldn't mind the wife being cursed. But I would hate for Misha to lose her father also.

I look forward to the thorough flensing Goldolphen will receive next week.

@Tacitus What's going to shock the prince more the trade agreement they negotiated or the fearsome defences of the kingdom?

Anyway, putting that aside, the kingdom still needs to negotiate their stuff, somehow I feel it's going to be a tad more difficult to do in the face of what's happened.

"I can cancel your magic."
"Who needs magic? I'll just punch you to death".

@Salkeaner yes, posted previously in the thread.

I like how Akira doesn't put up with city officials attempting to intimidate him into doing things. It's odd how often they use brute force, or the threat of it, as a first resort.

Most of the people involved here would benefit from developing a softer, subtler approach.

I wonder how Zofina (Elder) would take learning that Zofina (Younger) is getting a job so she doesn't end up a drunken ne'er-do-well no-gooddess like Telbyress...

Im forever suspicious that we never see Chue and Ukyou interact.

Ah. She has fallen for that smile. 100%

Alice went to see the spirit boss as expected. Her having a future as a shaman is interesting.

@GeorgeMTO

Given this week's part, I'd say that it's basically guaranteed that the lion and Alice are connected. But why did one turn into a little girl and the other didn't?

Just read the last three sections.
With Monkey Island OSTs playing in the background. Completely unintended, but hey!

Gilligan's Island
Star Trek
Minecraft

"To boldly go where no Pekkle has gone before."

@Kotenmaru said in My Fiancé Cheated, But a New Love Rings! Vol. 1 Discussion!:

@T-Fontana While it's true that they're trying to sell it as her and a knight being dead, that doesn't always work. Especially when more sensitive information, such as national secrets, is involved. With how involved it seems Sophelia was in policies, I suspect that the King and Queen might be more cautious and insist on finding a body to confirm her death. If they do, then it seems likely that the cover story will fall apart, especially under closer scrutiny.

I thought the ruse would be hand waved accepted like most LNs, but it look’s like you were correct. Still, the title of the royals side story is “Farewell” so I’m hopeful that the royals will decide that it’d be too much of a headache to contest the bandit story and pursue her.

@Garbag3Tast3 The Fox Fan Club will think she's the Imperial Family's secret weapon or something. The Imperial Family will think Fox came to kill her in order to get rid of loose ends.

@Phabiohost my guess is that the first tier of magic controls what is readily available, while the advanced tier is more creating something from scratch? So earth users can readily move the ground to create pit traps and walls as the materials are already there. Metal would be summoning or creating swords and other objects from "thin air" and there would be enough iron, steel, or what have you in the immediate vicinity to draw upon and reshape. As Mercedes has knowledge of the concept of gravity, being generated by the mass of the earth, she doesn't need to "create" it, just manipulate what is already there.

On the other hand, magic is somewhat arbitrary, broken up into 4 elements, 6 elements (light and dark), or in this case 8 elements. Sometimes healing is classified as water magic. I doubt the people of this world are familiar with spatial magic, yet modern day physics associates gravity with the manipulation of space, so perhaps spatial magic will be "assigned" as a new advanced class of earth magic. When she does unlock metal magic, will she also be able to call upon the earths molten core? Essentially giving her access to fire magic?

@GeorgeMTO What I found interesting was Number 2 was in cyrosleep. Why would they need to put someone into cyrosleep unless perhaps the purple hairs are the original settlers of the island continent. One of them, Ashton, then left to found the Knightly Kingdom while the rest are cycling through cryosleep, presumably keeping tabs on the akuma and angels while watching over a less advanced civilization.

@Phabiohost I can understand your frustration. I had the same problem reading the final two volumes of "Enough with This Slow Life! I Was Reincarnated as a High Elf and Now I’m Bored".
The author knew the end of the series was set at Vol 8 and starting skipping 50 year cycles (or more) in each release without any major explanation. Many readers (myself included) bemoaned this fact since it affected the story line so much.