"Are you feeding Onee-sama? Let me join you!" she exclaimed, her voice echoing loudly across the small room.

At that moment, I realized the programming-themed work comedy I'd originally been starring in was now a reverse harem romance.

"This should be nothing compared to those ultra-skimpy cosplays you wear every now and then."

Ai: "That's different! When I wear those, everyone else gets embarrassed! It's different when I'm on the receiving end!"

My development project, slated for completion in April, had been completed two months ahead of schedule thanks to the whole Arisa-chan thing.

IRL, coming in months ahead of estimates would raise one (or both) of two questions:

Which corners did you cut? How much did you inflate your estimates by?

To be fair, with a sufficiently large project it might not be questioned, and there are legitimate reasons why projects can come in significantly ahead of schedule, but if you cut 2 months off a sub-year project, that's a lot of the time you said you would need that you did not, in fact, need.

What's going on with Fiona?

I'm really loving the "finally" from the crowd...

@LeavesCat I'd be a mite more concerned that someone with knowledge of modern medical practises could use household magic to render the pushy Geitz 'sterile' ;)

I have a feeling the reason Mary was given that power was to deal with Nike because Nike was a mistake that needed correcting.

Cain did more damage to the noble by breaking the vase than if he had just beaten him.

If they break up, even temporarily, because Ryuto isn't telling Runa about the job, I'll ask the author to give me back the hours I spent reading the series.

@rsog412 said in D-Genesis Vol. 10 Discussion!:

The discussion of the price of INT rings in terms of political salaries seems totally naive to me. It's common sense to me that the ruling class don't make their money from their salary. Japan's annual government budget last year was 115 trillion yen. Even a small amount of control over where that money goes is easily worth a billion yen per year, to say nothing of the power of regulations to shape the flow of money that doesn't pass through the government.

Even an official who isn't involved in corruption would probably value them in similar terms, because they would need to defend their seat from corrupt rivals.

And they were assuming the politicians would spend their own money on the rings...

@syilphion said in D-Genesis Vol. 10 Discussion!:

Man, I don't know why, but I really don't like david, he feels half baked as villain and it just irritate me whenever I see him and his plan

I know why I don't like him. Early setup as a pragmatic but sinister cult leader/conman, but no payoff until that baroque plan to maybe nuke Tokyo where he'd apparently gone off the deep end. And his survival feels unearned.

On another note, kei getting worried about getting stabbed is really funny, because no people are going to stab him, stab as in, sharp object piercing his skin into his body

@Tacitus the "date" obviously, that's most likely the only thing that would move david as of now

Can Ms Maker even go to Shibuya?

@Cidolfas Good guess, but I don't think this is going to go the way either one of us is expecting. The end of this part is definitely not a good sign.

On a side note, I don't see Claude either letting Eugene live down what he learned about him and Eri or keeping his mouth shut about it.

And the battle has begun.

So, which of the famous magicians did we wind up with this time.

@ryandb said in The Bladesmith's Enchanted Weapons Vol. 6 Discussion:

@vilobion You know what, I wonder what would happen! I might be forgetting something, but Kyokasuigetsu has mostly been used to counter the innate abilities of living things, so I wonder if it would work against one of his other katana.

Gerhard and Lutz' conversation about Kyokasuigetsu in Volume 5 Part 3 (~45%) is enlightening (bold/italics emphasis is mine):

"The sheer amount of mana residing inside Kyokasuigetsu far exceeds that of any other weapon in existence. Even the divine blade of the federation, Amatersu, cannot hold a candle to it."

and

"It won't compel someone to kill themselves by simply drawing the blade...... it is just an ordinary katana"

and

"It will not allow your opponents to lean on their powers either. Whether they possess the power of self-healing, or an armor of flames, this katana will force all of your enemies to stand on the very same stage. It could even be said... Under the right conditions you might even be able to kill God."

Given the likelihood of Kyokasuigetsu breaking other katana, I am very vaguely reminded of Shieldbreaker from The Books of Swords series:

"I shatter Swords and splinter spears
None stands to Shieldbreaker.
My point's the fount of orphans' tears,
My edge the widowmaker."

I suspect no katana will stand to Kyokasuigetsu, and that those who become overly reliant on the enchanted properties of their blades will be the most vulnerable to finding themselves stripped of those abilities.

I don't believe it's an inevitability that the King who has been murdering prisoners with the gravity magic from his katana is going to end up in conflict with Lutz, but I find the possibility of it creates some great possibility space for the narrative.

True change has to come from within.
Imposing it from outside is a stopgap measure.
Sometimes you have no options but the stopgap, but imposing it can result in folks digging in their heels and hunkering down.

So asking questions to trigger self-reflection isn't a bad idea, if time allows.

Wondering if the inner voice the one kid was hearing was a remnant of Summoned Hero Conditioning.

He attributed Rosaria's good mood to the alcohol, but I think she was pleased about Carmine clearly wanting to vaporize the Divinity's head for badmouthing her. She's not the princess of a backwater, she's the current crowned empress.

@Lily-Garden Thank you.

Knowing Krai`s luck he'll get stuck in bowels of the city right next to phone shop

Others have already mentioned The Eminence in Shadow, but I'm also reminded of Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire.