Behind it lay nothing but a vast, empty hall.

Yeah, kinda like this story arc...

@Cidolfas Yeah six is sketchy as hell, if he works for anyone I reckon it would the emperor directly. As it was mercs that did the dirty work it wouldn't have taken too much to get a hold of them and promise a large bonus if the marquessate was wrecked during the operation, oh and by the way here is a set of recent maps & plans six drew-up that mark what needs destroying in priority order. It would explain her friend knowing what was coming and urging her to get out asap before things had started as her friend is now one of sixes flunkies.

"I can cancel your magic."
"Who needs magic? I'll just punch you to death".

@Salkeaner yes, posted previously in the thread.

I wonder how Zofina (Elder) would take learning that Zofina (Younger) is getting a job so she doesn't end up a drunken ne'er-do-well no-gooddess like Telbyress...

Ah. She has fallen for that smile. 100%

Alice went to see the spirit boss as expected. Her having a future as a shaman is interesting.

@GeorgeMTO

Given this week's part, I'd say that it's basically guaranteed that the lion and Alice are connected. But why did one turn into a little girl and the other didn't?

Just read the last three sections.
With Monkey Island OSTs playing in the background. Completely unintended, but hey!

Gilligan's Island
Star Trek
Minecraft

"To boldly go where no Pekkle has gone before."

@Kotenmaru said in My Fiancé Cheated, But a New Love Rings! Vol. 1 Discussion!:

@T-Fontana While it's true that they're trying to sell it as her and a knight being dead, that doesn't always work. Especially when more sensitive information, such as national secrets, is involved. With how involved it seems Sophelia was in policies, I suspect that the King and Queen might be more cautious and insist on finding a body to confirm her death. If they do, then it seems likely that the cover story will fall apart, especially under closer scrutiny.

I thought the ruse would be hand waved accepted like most LNs, but it look’s like you were correct. Still, the title of the royals side story is “Farewell” so I’m hopeful that the royals will decide that it’d be too much of a headache to contest the bandit story and pursue her.

@Garbag3Tast3 The Fox Fan Club will think she's the Imperial Family's secret weapon or something. The Imperial Family will think Fox came to kill her in order to get rid of loose ends.

@Phabiohost my guess is that the first tier of magic controls what is readily available, while the advanced tier is more creating something from scratch? So earth users can readily move the ground to create pit traps and walls as the materials are already there. Metal would be summoning or creating swords and other objects from "thin air" and there would be enough iron, steel, or what have you in the immediate vicinity to draw upon and reshape. As Mercedes has knowledge of the concept of gravity, being generated by the mass of the earth, she doesn't need to "create" it, just manipulate what is already there.

On the other hand, magic is somewhat arbitrary, broken up into 4 elements, 6 elements (light and dark), or in this case 8 elements. Sometimes healing is classified as water magic. I doubt the people of this world are familiar with spatial magic, yet modern day physics associates gravity with the manipulation of space, so perhaps spatial magic will be "assigned" as a new advanced class of earth magic. When she does unlock metal magic, will she also be able to call upon the earths molten core? Essentially giving her access to fire magic?

@GeorgeMTO What I found interesting was Number 2 was in cyrosleep. Why would they need to put someone into cyrosleep unless perhaps the purple hairs are the original settlers of the island continent. One of them, Ashton, then left to found the Knightly Kingdom while the rest are cycling through cryosleep, presumably keeping tabs on the akuma and angels while watching over a less advanced civilization.

@Phabiohost I can understand your frustration. I had the same problem reading the final two volumes of "Enough with This Slow Life! I Was Reincarnated as a High Elf and Now I’m Bored".
The author knew the end of the series was set at Vol 8 and starting skipping 50 year cycles (or more) in each release without any major explanation. Many readers (myself included) bemoaned this fact since it affected the story line so much.

@dragon3010 - 3 volumes out so far, Vol.3 was released end of december '24 with an average release rate of 6 months since Vol.1 it will be sometime before volume 4 starts translation (assuming it comes out at all)

Glasses better be taking good care of that cat if he wants to live when Alicia catches up to him.

@Almond-Magnum IIRC the stat reading devices phone home to do their processing on Miyoshi's new living room furniture, but the card detectors worked on-device.

I forget if Miyoshi talked about obfuscating the card detector's bytecode or if that was a forum conversation. It can be hard to tell some time with this series.

@Outinthegardener true, wilfried would deep six the alliance and he wouldnt even realise it until 5 seconds after! At least albert stopped himself.

@Sean-McCann said in Otherside Picnic Vol. 9 Discussion!:

It's very much a mess of katakana in the JP text, but the Japanese fans apparently figured this one out, and someone was kind enough to point it out to me before I worked on the part. Which was nice, because it saved me the trouble of digging through Project Gutenberg to (attempt to) find it myself, even if I did opt for the "leave it as an incomprehensible mass of romaji" approach.

Interesting. :)

The quote is:
"Aimer, ce n'est pas se regarder l'un l'autre, c'est regarder ensemble dans la même direction."

I had several years of French language classes from elementary school through high school (more than a few years have passed since then), and couldn’t make anything out of those long chains of letters. Well, I did see “gyaru” twice, once in each sentence. Couldn’t figure that out. Since you spelled out what we were supposed to be seeing, I presume that the “gyaru” belonged to regarder. ^_^

Which works out to something like:
"Love is not looking at each other, but looking together in the same direction."

Too rusty. That sounds good to me. :)

So it seems like Gandiva has taken after Liz's father, if we trust Hiro's comments. That would explain why it was the first to choose Liz over him, although I suspect the others aren't far behind. I wonder if Gae Bolg wants to return to Scathach, at least enough to heal her, or if it has other plans.

@karasutengu said in Abducted Princess Running Rampant Vol. 1 Discussion!:

Demon King: Heavy sigh...
Grood: Yada, yada, excuse...
Demon King: Deep sigh...
Grood: Another excuse, yada, yada, wimper...
Demon King: You did your best I guess. You're excused...

Ah, come on. A Demon King is supposed to be a ruthless, blood-thirsty, monster with no regards to life, not a book-club attendee sipping hot tea with lemon. Reduce Grood to mush for failing your command dammit.

Wasn't it implied that that's how he normally handles such situations and that this was an exception?

@TheGrimLich said in Abducted Princess Running Rampant Vol. 1 Discussion!:

@Kotenmaru He's sending her with her brother, he's gonna notice that loophole. Now, if he's a younger brother, him noticing it won't matter; can someone remind me if we know birth order for these two?

I don't recall if we were informed of birth order but I think it's probably a safe bet that Crowell is actually stronger than her brother anyways.

My guy really should learn to control his powers better. If he could level up his mastery, taking out a hundred people shouldn't be that difficult. And they even had the leader close to them, a perfect opportunity wasted.