In fairness, chicken kat-su is pretty good. The cats-up used is more spicy and flavorful than Heinz red stuff. So maybe her cats-up spaghetti isn't as bad as is sounds like? (Meow.)

@seltzermx Wandering aimlessly all over a plain of misery and grief. I long for an end to the suffering. Maybe this quest to retrieve Yume's forgotten item will be the end of it.

Looks like Sora has Iria right where he wants her now, so let the soul gobblin' continue.

@Segoth said in To Another World... with Land Mines! Vol. 11 Discussion!:

I like this part, we got some good information this time around. We learned Satomi escaped and that it was the landlord that set fire to Mary and Metea’s old home. I still think it’s Satomi’s fault though since her sect caused the chaos in the first place. I also doubt that Satomi would try to get revenge either, at least right away. My guess is she’s going to try to find a safe haven first. Either way I’d be worried, because if she acts up again it’s the commoners that are going to suffer the most. Haruka was right, they should have finished her off in the first place to make sure others won’t get hurt in the future.

The landlord would have probably used any sort of disturbance to do it, so it's more that she provided the most convenient opportunity for what he wanted to do.

Anyway, I wonder if whoever was (likely) manipulating the cult behind the scenes triggered the escape. Assuming they have designs to revive the cult somewhere else they'd still need Satomi, there's perilously few other possible people who took those skills that are still alive.

@morbelek i mean could be a coin too which then begs the question why you using a coin as a hair clip thingy !!!!!!!!!!

Enjoying this story so far! :D The whole getting memories of past life only after stuff has gone down deal is very compelling. And that the previous instincts and thought processes are still in reach for the MC??? Love it <3 Also the art is super pretty! Love seeing them pop up in the chapters! I haven't read many novels that are in the first person like this one. Very used to the omniscient 3rd person usually haha. Even so, this feels like one of the better written first person stories I've read. Very easy to read and the MC's pov is very interesting! Great translation so far! I can't wait to read more. It's nice to have something to look forward to every week like this even if I'm dying to read more ^^

@LightningLeaf I'd love it if that's what happens, the Princess being a copy of her mom and his first love with how that all went down just leaves a bad taste in my mouth, both of them deserve better then to let the dead control part of their heart that way.

@xatrah sounds hype, it'd be better if she went into the arena to save one of her students and that's how she's outed :) saving someone and wrecking some poor sap who annoyed her enough to do so.

Damn this part was short and brutal

Obviously Seika has some plan. No way no how he abandoned people he's formed a connection with. He's just being smarter than he was in his first life. Using subtlety rather than brute force.

I imagine he'll rescue them while securing an alibi or removing any concrete witnesses. And after they admitted to various crimes like kidnapping, coercion, and enslaving innocents there is exactly 0 chance those "brothers" make it out of this safely.

Well unfortunately it looks like the mech was a barely functioning prototype.

With wood thrusters.

@LeavesCat said in Crest of the Stars Vol. 1 Discussion:

I can definitely believe that a father would prank his 8-year-old daughter by telling her she was half-cat, not realizing that she would believe him wholeheartedly and get traumatized for years.

@zwabbit said in Crest of the Stars Vol. 1 Discussion:

@LeavesCat You're giving Lafier's father way too much credit if you think he didn't realize exactly how she would take it. Or too little. Not sure which here.

I just watched the first four anime episodes of 'Crest of the Stars' today and this very subject was part of episode 3 where Lafi explained to Jinto what her father did to her, and how it affected her at the time. It showed her as a small girl staring into a mirror checking her face for cat signs and then checking her hands wondering whether they would turn into paws or develop retractable claws. So it did affect her mentally as a child (according to the anime). Whether her father knew it would or not was not addressed. She did say that she resented him as a child for doing it even if it was in jest.

Edited to add the following anime image of 8 year old Lafi crying while staring into a mirror.
(note matted image is exactly like it is in the anime for memory purposes I suppose)

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The accessory Eine made sounds beautiful. If you want less light put it under the leather armor or something. Its light could be useful in dark places.

Definitely an interesting start. I love genre subversion stories so that is an instant + for me.

I doubt it's the case but considering he keeps mentioning Simon, I can't help but wish he was actually a gay man just to throw all the nobles harem preparations in the trash lol.

Some day it will happen!

Something I'm actually looking forwards to is if his physics background comes into play. Considering it was mentioned and that feels like a very specific thing to mention and definetly offers implications about his intelligence It could be a cool angle. I always appreciate when stories dive into mixing science and magic.

Oh and I absolutely think Mary's story is true but that she is a rare case. Considering we know that there are slave work camps I don't believe for a second that the kingdom is actually just in having slavery. (Not that there is a just way to have slavery) But I did appreciate the MC's instant "nope" out of there even if he let them talk him around to it. I hope he still rejects her anyways until something happens that forces the change rather than him just giving into the system of slavery.

He kissed her out of the trauma of a near-death experience

...yeah, I agree with Anos here. The God of Demise is an idiot.

I hope there will be some more story from the perspectives of her parents and brother soon. They should have gotten her letters by now, right? I'd like to know if her mother's very capable spies have been able to keep up with all of her achievements?

That would be a great short story, come to think of it. Just imagine the insane feats that mother's spies would have to perform to be able to keep up with Sharon, while avoiding notice and detection by either the foreign government or Sharon herself.

"This wasn't a quest?"
"...Why did you think it was a quest? FISHING!"

Lily White reminds me of Touhou Project.

Never played any of the bullet hell games, but I often used to play Danmaku, which was a spin-off card game using characters from that universe, with friends from school.

@wandering-dreamer or the boy sage should could have dedicated his life to resurrecting his beloved cat? Thus leading to Lilybell's reincarnation or even just her memories being re-awakened?

But yeah, the final champion is bugging me as well. It logically shouldn't have been the boy, though I doubt she would have abandoned her previous owner long enough for her absence to have been noticed.

I have to say that I like that Caim is not so 'OP' that he cannot just curb stomp whomever, plus, in the words of Merlin: "there's always something cleverer than yourself!" - both the Butterfly and Deed are above the 'level' of the main party. Deed outclasses Caim in combat ability (and is apparently immune to poison) and the Butterfly just renders Millica's plan as irrelevant (and her sorcery seems to be on a whole other level)

we've seen this previously in the series, Caim (and the crew) grow as a characters when they face/overcome challenges. This is by no means deep literature but does not fall for the worst cliches