Hello, hello! Translator here quickly chiming in about Wellmy and Iora's secret identities!

I'm always for keeping the original nicknames, but we unfortunately did have to go for something a little different from the Japanese for a couple of reasons.

For Iora, I simply chose to romanize her Japanese nickname (アロイ, aroi) as is. It does make it Iora backward in English, which I thought was an added, silly bonus.

As for Wellmy, she actually uses the nickname Zumiano gave her (ミィ, mii). We (as in Emlyn the editor and I) concluded in Vol. 2 that we sadly couldn't keep it. Spelling it as "My" looked a little jarring, and it could've made some sentences hard to understand at a glance, and "Mii" was too far from her original name to really be an option. The Japanese version of the book has Wellmy's name romanized as "Wellmy" on one of the first illustrations of Vol. 1, so spelling her name differently preemptively wasn't an option either. That's why we settled on "Wellie," as it felt like something Zumiano might come up with.

Since she uses the nickname Zumiano has given her, her identity is obvious from the start, so we chose to keep it the same.

Hope that's a satisfying explanation!

Wow, so Sharanla is so much of a parasitic human pest that even death and annihilation of her body are not going to keep her down. In all evidence, she is going to be the leading core and dominant will of the gathering crowd of vengeful souls of the former heroes that Metis and the Four Gods used and discarded. And their growing undead gestalt is already eating people and developing in the next big menace. She has nothing to envy of the most tenacious supervillains.

Glad to see that the MC at long last confessed to his love interests that apparently welcome the idea, even if the shock sent one in a software crash, while the other is probably already planning the wedding.

The author seems to give incredibly inconsistent rules about how the youth potions work, when and how they can be used safely, and how many times. Personally I'd welcome the MC rejuvenating himself for good with its vast resources and magical expertise for the sake of his love interests and transition to a different stage of his life.

The 'middle-aged guy bemoaning his age and feeling inadequate for romance' side of his character concept has really exhausted its narrative usefulness and overstayed its welcome if you ask my opinion. It seems one of those cases when an author puts a gimmick in the title and then feels bound to keep it around beyond any reasonable narrative justification.

Yeah, it felt a strange volume with how little Sora had to do, but where at a point where introducing a worthy enemy for him requires a lot of planning. Instead we git more harem development, that isn't bad in itself.

Beware the walking Christmas trees!

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Yeah. Kinda knew Geyes wouldn't take that well. Not that he had a choice either way, but still.

One of my favorite parts of this series is the attention to detail on the swordsmanship. The anime really nails it, but I've been trained on the techniques Beryl uses. Solid work on that aspect.

@JoeCrystal It's actually possible that since Japanese doesn't use gendered pronouns the way English does her gender might not even have been mentioned all the way back in volume 2.

Through no effort, the heroine gets a super genius spy as her henchman, and then every opponent super vulnerable to spying. This makes her victories feel not earned, but just handed to her by the author.

Hmm, another hint that the Ashton bloodline was once more than village knights. Perhaps an ancestor was the hero before the one the Heroists worship?

That would be before any of the history mentioned in the game so outside of Ren's knowledge.

@kuali said in Housekeeping Mage Vol. 10 Discussion!:

Looks like Shiori and Alec inadvertently managed to convince the Snow Wolves that the solution to unwanted puppies was to just dump them on the nearest humans...

The Fenrir Distribution System.....

I'm still keeping my fingers crossed for both timelines to reach their ending but we'll see. Anyway, now I'm tempted to stop reading the parts and wait until the volume is complete.

@arghc Yeah and iirc it was mentioned a few volumes back that "embroidering your name on someone else's undershirt" is seen as explicitly romantic in this kingdom, the interest seems to be genuine!

@Phabiohost my guess is, from experience with other novels: spells tend tobe eficiente by practice and contusión, hne wh enough the spell was more eficient than patching it up. Patching it up is nonstandard, but it is still the same result. Morphing the spell is more expensive because you no longer can rely on training and rqefinement, which means you rely on energy to pull you through.

I believe the usual triangle is: efficiency, speed, freeform. Spell praticd are quick and efficient. Rituals are slow, but free form and effiicient. Whatever Lera did was quick, and freeform, so not efficient.

Monsters tend to break the rules because "instincts" and "natural magical pathways", which is to say because they are monsters.

I do wish the novel had at explained explained this, if I am right, though. I have no memory if it ever did.

Grr, work was such a blur I wasn't able to read this until now. And, uh oh at that ending. Looking forward to the next volume indeed.

"As a villian, I wanted to win against them by making [monsters] edible."
Earlier... "It's so tasty, and every time I eat [monster meat], I feel like I have complete dominance over the creature! How evil!"

I'm pretty sure the win against monsters isn't your real motivations there.

The doctor held up his finger and started monologuing. [But I'm far more interested in the doctor's long and pale finger.]

...I wonder if there's a relevant euphemism for that. Given humanity, I wouldn't be surprised, but do I really want to know...

It shouldn't be surprising, but I'm still somehow surprised that the doctor is dedicated to Mistress Lettie just like the rest of her territory's citizens.

I'd love some land about half the size of the whole country.

Honestly, I'm not sure how Weiss would expand her land as king. By expanding into the wildlands or marrying her. Probably both. In any case, she'll have more territory to govern and she'll want to take back everything she said just now.

Even his punches explodes?!

A baseball can too! If it's traveling a significant fraction of c...

@Mark-Logue I remember 2 of your suggestions from the wn MTL. Author has just started updating again

Yeah, I kinda saw the whole griffon rider thing coming from a mile away.

So one main couple wasn't enough and now we got also Sage Raid and the demon lord.
I wasn't ready to say goodbye to Raid and Eluria and apparently neither the author since we are getting a new arc and a new villain.

Tory is a real one for taking the fall to save lives. She truly embodies the spirit of a medic.

Hopefully our runaway gets to see the error in her ways and subjects herself to endurance training anyways because it's 100% an essential skill in their line of work.