Okay wait...

So there is a king and queen, and they're both alive.

That means Delphine, as the former queen consort, was the second wife of the former king, making her the current king's step mother, and making Lily his sister.

To me, that means Felix is the son of the current king, and so Lily would be his aunt

The other possibilities are that Felix is also a son of the former king, and therefore the King and Lily's brother, or Felix is the son of the former former king, and would be Lily and the King's uncle.

Now, of those two possibilities, the former of the two can't be true because the first part of the book mentions a niece-uncle marriage, not a sibling marriage. That would mean the latter would have to be true. But in both of these scenarios, Lily becoming queen by marrying Felix would be contingent on the current king not having a son, as Felix would only be heir presumptive until the king has a son.

Therefore, the only thing that makes any sense at all, is that Felix is the King's son, Lily is his aunt, and the author either made a mistake, or doesn't know how family trees work.

She doesn't seem to consider that if her sole interest is Seth, he'll be easily bored. She needs to learn about other things if she wants to hold his interest.

@HarmlessDave said in Isekai Walking Vol. 3 Discussion!:

He didn't enslave any new girls because reasons yet, so I'm sticking with it for now. Hopefully the academy arc won't be too generic.

Ciel has enough playmates so they've been spared for now.

@TrinaBear the second volume has begun streaming. The discussion thread for it is here: https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/9028/they-don-t-know-i-m-too-young-for-the-adventurer-s-guild-vol-2-discussion

@Blizzaraetx said in Long Story Short, I’m Living in the Mountains Vol. 1 Discussion:

Even if this ends without ever explaining the anomalous side of things, i would still be satisfied.

The chicken just make a slice of live hilarious.

I was thinking about it as I was reading this part... I think what is making it work - for me at least - is even though there's acknowledgement that these aren't normal... it's all still played straight. It's a comfy slice of life that just happens to have mythical creatures in it, even though it's not a fantasy world at all.

Makes it a bit surreal at times, but perfectly grounded as well.

It helps that the chickens are hilarious with their individual personalities.

@pcj And I pretty much NEVER read these blurbs for fear of just this kind of spoiler, but I clicked on it not realizing it was for volume 5 and then started reading by reflex before I knew what had happened 😭

@mangabee I'm pretty sure her current job is to get the two of them laid 😅

@LeavesCat Asking the big questions about fantasy metaphysics! Are the gods ageless, timeless extradimensional life? Are they long lived superpowered aliens? Are they empowered constructs of the worship from lesser beings?

My pet theory is that the Creator God is the author, and that their world doesn't have a past so much as a backstory. Gods and everything else sprung from the Creator's head fully formed.

I don't know about anybody else but some of these girls are very cringeworthy. I just want to kick them away from Allen because they act like immature leeches. Way too clingy and he just isn't interested in them enough to tell them to get out of his face. He is either clueless (yes!) or is just too polite to push them away. (Yes to that as well.) Some of the girls act way too much like spoiled entitled brats for my taste. I know that they are from super rich families but give me a break. Someone needs to serve a certain young lady an entire humble pie before I vomit. Hopefully it will make her character a bit more likeable or mature. I want to continue this series to see Allen grow up and mature but I feel like these brats know he has great potential and have hitched their proverbial wagons to this star and are just holding him back a bit. Do they really have to be so nosey about where he goes, what he does and play "monkey see monkey do" with him so much? There seems to be lots of petty jealously issues too. What will happen when school lets out for the summer? Will they invite themselves to his family home then? Gosh the problems that would cause in Allen's backwater town not to mention with his family! I do want to know more about his older brother so I hope that big bro gets some screen time with Allen in the city!

Two days to get from village to out of the forest. Bet he makes it in one next time around.

Honestly, what is the point in beating these idiots if they don't finish the job?

3 members of the Church of Dickbutt were lying on the floor and they just leave them there? On the other hand, another rando who just received some cheat abilities joined them again.

I can't even remember the names of the villains anymore, there are so many of them and they just keep coming.

Will this series resolve anything at all?

@Zeteni said in Imperial Reincarnation Vol. 2 Discussion!:

I'm actually kind of glad that Rosaria isn't able to stand on top of every issue.

I was thinking the same thing. I'm glad even a genius kid can't just drop into another country and intimately and immediately understand all of the political ramifications of the secret plannings of other factions. Instead, she gets a bad case of motion sickness. Haha! This just means that she has room to grow and our story has something to do, right? Perfect!

Oh no.. cliffhanger. I am wondering what pranks Carmilla is pulling in the lodge.

Ana's going to bloom into a monarch from this and take control. I wonder if she will spare Frances?

@hornet65 true. No author wonders if their creations have free will.

So he will eventually become able to summon WMDs. I guess it's already too late for the asshole empire who attacked them.

...OK, that's it, time to remove every beastfolk from this city and send them to the place Noor just got set up. And we're not talking about buying them. I mean full-on mass kidnappings — and if the scum who call themselves "owners" complain? Two words: fuck 'em.