This is getting more complicated by the week. I hope this is not one of these stories that are canceled midway because most buying customers didn't care to follow.

Hopefully Lutz's new katana isn't going to be a blade that only works when fighting other people with swords. I feel like it probably won't be a katana that causes people to want to kill themselves and self immolate though lol.

Kind of expecting an anti-fire demon weapon to be one that instantly freezes it's opponent.

I did not expect that twist. This week's part seemed unusually short.

Yay, it's back!

If only all those other people would disappear so Alexie and Ekaterina could live in peace.

Wow. Quiet week. I guess School Festivals aren't that interesting. Anyways...

Called it on Airi showing up. No surprise that dragging Eugene back to the Empire is top of her agenda. The entire love hotel debacle was outstanding, especially Eugene's brilliant skewer of "What would you have done if I'd told you?" with strong honorable mentions to Sumire and Sara's comments about Airi.

Still, those two knew he hadn't done anything with Airi, as demonstrated by them knowing when he did with Eri. I suppose just spending the night with her at the same place they wanted to spend the night with him at was sufficient grounds for their anger.

Speaking of Eri, I don't think her urgent summons has a single thing amorous about it. It's probably about the stampede.

@strangeattractor said in The Trials and Tribulations of My Next Life as a Noblewoman Vol 4 Part 2 Discussion:

Why not let Six eat as many rice balls as he wants? I don't follow the reasoning there.

Because, not having an actual, material, body, Six can eat all the rice balls in the world and never fill up?

@Almond-Magnum

His preferred beatstick to sic on his enemies. Like how his father had those two on his side.

Wow, overpowered much? Sera's comment seemed wrong (deliberately misleading?) surely it would be more difficult (and time consuming) to ensure that a blow is thoroughly incapacitating vs insufficient or fatal?

@T-Fontana at least the side stories are usually about people in the main characters camp. As compared to water magician where we have side stories about the villain

@lighthawk96 Why?

@lex Solomon seems to be the first Silver-Eyed King and a key person in the development of modern sorcery. Azazel acts like she's pregnant, so there's a descendant of Solomon to carry on the work. That would make Zagan a perfect storm of celestial and magical power.

I've been expecting Zagan to wake up with a massive increase in his power. If Azazel is his Grandma, and that seems likely, he's going to use that newly acquired power to save her, along with everyone else.

@GeorgeMTO it could be some of the after story content like arifureta.

This is such a weird yet heartwarming series.

Author said in a previous afterwords that there isn't much romance in this series, and it's definitely not focused on that, but the ship between Gwinn and Melty was plenty.
For the second part, the action was good and Lutz is definitely stronger than I thought in battle. Donaldo was handled well as a character, with a good redemption arc, and I liked how Claudia was able to acknowledge his atonement while still not wanting to forge a connection with him.

@Jon-Mitchell said in Path of an S-Rank Adventurer Vol 1 Discussion:

I think he's a bit of both, grimdark and tsundere. (or I have a different impression of what the term means)

In fairness to you, grimdark is fundamentally a genre descriptor, not a character descriptor, so I think there's probably a much larger degree of subjective variance here. To put it another way, I think we'd all agree this story isn't grimdark.

As for Hyse's grimdarkness specifically... /shrug. I'm not invested in arguing against it, but looking at that Wikipedia entry, there's a consistent emphasis on cynicism, nihilism, and "doing bad things even when doing good is an option".

It's for that reason that I pointed out the "giving the only remaining flower to Prescea" thing -- that's fundamentally not a grimdark thing to do, and it happened much closer to the start of the story. He also didn't directly take credit for it, and simply reported that he failed the quest because the flowers were corrupted in the fight (IIRC they only realised he gave the only saved one to heal the queen when the queen herself reported it or some such?).

But there's definitely room to disagree (I can't really defend him wearing all black).

Emperor: And don't ever approach my capital

Oh... This sure isn't going to bite him in the ass one day.