That was some nice background of Shumaril and Vina, and of course, the time when Asuta caught thr sickness. I like these filler sections. They kinda bring everything together.

Finally catching up, and Part 10 hits me with a gotdang Simpsons reference.

And nobody in here thought to mention it. For shame.

@HarmlessDave Well that is good to know. I have heard it has to pay new license fees for any volumes not bundled with the original. IE ones that get published after the agreements on the earlier material is made. So I had thought there are chances that low selling series might not get new volumes when they come out later.

Good I know I was wrong. That is rather generous of J-Novel Club. Its been quite a nice business to get e-books and physical books from.

@Whacka XD they even made sure to spread it around so he cant even deny it!

@El-Pampel You mean like a manga and anime? I think the manga passed the novels at volume 9, and who knows how much the anime will cover. And the anime is actually licensed and airing this season.... (though like the manga the adaptation might diverge from the novels in ways big and small)

Gonna keep it real. This series has just gotten more boring with each new chapter since he went Lvl1 Fighter. I had to fight to finish this volume.

Count Lubhuta, from Furla’s perspective: v3p4: His massive body looked soft and flabby from the excess fat, while his unseemly face was beet red. His sinister, small, sluglike eyes kept darting around.

Count Lubhuta -> Lu bhuta -> bhuta -> buta -> pig

If only more butas could be like the suave one in Kurenai no Buta: Porco.

I’ll assume that the wedding accessory that Agnes and her husband brought back from Hihime was Sonia.

@Hylebos thanks. You're the best.

@b-scot-morgan yeah I thought the same. Looking at the colour images in the epub it seems that they only have a resolution of 387x543 or 631x456 so hopefully it's just a mistake from when the epubs were created and will be fixed. I have sent an email to j-novel club support about it.

Another great volume with great fights. Glad to see how the series continues after the manga.

"Did you really think 700 million years can compare to seven months we spent together" was beautiful.
Looks like now it's time for Anos to wreck havok in the realm of the gods.

With volume 5 coming out in Japan on June 10, 2025, is JNC doing a simulpub?

Interesting that Foret Noire chose to disable rather than kill the wyverns.

With the addition of the locals, maybe they'll get some information on why the city seems unguarded.

I hope Broccoli Lion's back feels better.

@HarmlessDave said in Let This Grieving Soul Retire Vol. 7 Discussion!:

It's also fun for me how he's clueless but also so hardened by all the past bad luck that the author keeps hinting about that he stays calm in the face of peril. "Huh, that was my last safety ring" -- still stands there. "Hmm, dragon in my hot spring bath", "Oh, it's the fox spirits again", etc. He ignores things, but doesn't run away screaming.

Which is most of, if not all the time, because he's misunderstanding the situation. Sure, part of it is being used to crazy shit and never being harmed. So he doesn't think his life is in actual danger.

The Dragon didn't freak him out because he thought it was a feature of the hot spring. Like a friendly dragon/pet kind of thing. And he didn't freak out when the dragon attacked him, due having his safety rings. And also thinking the attack was actually just a playful prank from a friendly pet if you will.

The Foxes don't freak him out because despite their power, they are nice, polite and even give him gifts.

And then it was against one of the bosses in the arena. He had no idea the guy was there to kill him. That he was an actual enemy and a member of the criminal fox. He instead thought the guy belonged to the fan club. He truly thought all he needed to do was apologize. You don't need safety rings to apologize to someone. And the guy tossing lightning was down anyway. It was only in the epilogue when he barely started to realize who that guy actually was the boss of, and the kind of danger he had actually been in, that he decided to just turn his brain off. Stop the gears from spinning as he called it.

Otherwise, I think he would have freaked out without his safety rings. He never does, because he truly believes he's safe in any given situation. Almost always due to his own misunderstanding. He wants to be hard boiled. And he believes he's managing to fake it at times outwardly, while he utterly fails internally. That's why he considers Krahi the real him, while he himself is the fake.

I think the joke here is that Krai absolutely is the kind who would run away screaming. Or at least he considers himself someone who would. Because that's normal for regular weaklings like himself. But he also never actually thinks he's in the kind of danger we the readers, and everyone around him, knows he's in. So he never runs away.

@Jon-Mitchell said in From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman Vol. 1 Discussion!:

Hero worship/ veneration for sensei - seems to morph into hot for teacher if he is of the opposite sex- (but I cannot see why none of the 20-somethings, nor the head of the magic corps have a significant other- surely even if they 'have a type' someone out there would've scratched that itch)

Allusia has been plotting to capture his heart since she was a little girl when she said she was going to marry him, and she's now schemed to bring him to the capital to work by her side. So her not having someone else makes perfect sense.

For the others I guess we have to accept that Beyl set a standard for them and they haven't met anyone else who surpassed it.

And so it ended. Only disappointing part is that we got a proposal only for Krone and not for Chris and Olivia.
If I understood things correctly the rest of the story is only available as WN so we won't get more here. Still, this wasn't a bad stopping point, although I want to see more of Ein and friends so I'll check if I can read the source.

Okay, I'm not surprised that the merchant got away, because that's the kind of dumb stuff I expect from this series, but the way it happened was extremely stupid. Which I guess is also expected of this series. They all just kinda stopped fighting for no reason.
The destruction dragon was losing the fight with Celes and Dramom, but because it was ordered to distract everyone else so the merchant can get away, it was suddenly able to pull itself away. And Celes and Dramom just kind of let it do that with zero consequence.

@PeachyGreen i have found that the art of reading these kinds of books is by willfully ignoring the weird shit and focusing on the wholesome stuff

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@TheGrimLich
That was my thought. Elizabeth is being positioned to get Felix in an obvious way.

I thought it was striking that Wes made no mention of nobles improving their land or lowering taxes to reduce hunger.