3rd time reading (my brain just won't lemme move on from this series!) and I haaaate how Amimin is such an afterthought to this story. Never see her in any boss fights, but she's clearly a front liner. Argh.. Just had to get that off my chest.

I suppose that Cercis and Calendula was never going to work out. She liked him for his confidence and the fact that he would pursue her despite all objections. But he liked her as an escape from his duties. What it comes down to it, those reasons are fundamentally incompatible; running away from his duties runs counter to the confidence she wanted.

She probably knew it would come down to this for a long time, because if he were really the man she wanted him to be, he wouldn't have let objections stop them from marrying. But I think she wanted to hope that it'd still work out somehow, and stayed longer against her best judgement.

@LightningLeaf I lol'ed at this.

I've got the impression the uncle could turn out to be a bit too much of a siscon and yandere and that might cause trouble later.
Anyway, Luna's wish for an happy family was granted..except for the part about having a normal child.

My theory on why Rani and the others didn't end up with Inglis and Tiffanier: Rani has gotten really good at controlling her own aether (we've seen that she's learning how to use it exponentially faster than Inglis did by watching her use it), and probably did something similar on her own without realizing it, and everyone else wound up with her. The Steelblood Front guy could have as well.

So the pontifex was likely offed by whoever has been providing the revelations, I suspect. It looked like her choker was set to detonate if she tried to reveal their identity.

I liked this volume, mostly because it was actually about Sansui. Had this series always been like this I would've liked it more, even if it turned out to be shorter.

@Libri-Liberorum said in The Villainess Speaks Not Vol. 1 Discussion:

Liliana is in a quantum superposition of ages 7 and 13. And her age is still mathematically simpler than (Roze)Myne's.

6 year olds acting like (and being treated like) very mature 13 year olds is very common in LN/manga/anime. I wonder if TV tropes has a trope for this.

These are bookworm-length years and no one can tell me otherwise. And the nobles train their kids like bookworm does.

@xdbx said in Dimension Wave Vol. 7 Discussion!:

Well, if/when V8 comes out, it will need to start with Yami pushing Kizuna off the cliff once again.

But afterwards, I'd like to see Kizzy and Shouko spend more time together. One of the more subtly entertaining aspects of V7 has been the steadily decreasing interval between Kizuna's repeated mentions of Shouko. It was almost like he was subtly going through withdrawal.

I think I would have enjoyed the end of this part more if he'd quietly reached out to Shouko first and they got to actually share some screen time solo before the entire cast piled on.

I waited until the Light Novel publication to read this volume. The story was surprisingly idealistic in the way pretty much all people behave sensibly and unselfishly. In particular Ryan, Layala and Carolus shown to be the ideals of chivilric kings without any of the practicality of needing levels of compromised exploitation to lead and rule a populace.

That on top of all the People of the Forest coming around the save the day rather then their earlier depictions as cautious secretive people who appear randomly and disappear just as quickly without risking their knowledge to outsiders (as previously described in the first two volumes). Of course I am willing to see that they bent their ethics somewhat to appeal to Misha.

Another thing that strikes me is a total lack of consideration for the taking away of Misha and locking her away from her duties as the scion of a noble house and hostage. Even if Ryan was not interested in the scenario her father would desire the care and looking after of his daughter.

Finally I was saddened to see the undercurrent of Lolita leanings with people being fascinated by Misha to develop to a full on underhanded symbolic confession of love between a 20 something and a 13 or 14 year old girl.

Otherwise it was a nice read, a bit less fairy-tale then the previous two novels, and the only danger being a half paragraph of slightly angry people gave it a very safe feel despite the theme of a plague outbreak. I think I liked Nel the most as he had the most sense of having his own agendas around his actions.

Perhaps the most fairy-tale thing about the volume is how so many people she encountered last two volumes all turned up to help at exactly the right timings.

prologue:
"me and my guypal chat over tea and cake"

ch03:
these mofos on a chill-at-home basis 🤭

bruh, you could change da landscape into an iceland and skurt circles around mofos
could be a hell of a team-play
also, Yu-Gi-Oh

Ryo, ya not-gf gonna be pissed

After leaving Kailadi, everything went smoothly until the morning of the second day.

suddenly, Majora's Mask

ch04:
Ryo,... you could've put the fire out

...an assassin joins the party 🤷🏿‍♂️

ch05:
the milk's a Trugun reference, isn't it?
Ryo, having one job: "i'm gonna finish my food first, then i'll sound the alarm."

ch05.1:
hell, yeah, femme!Ryo 🙌🏿

Kala, the swordswoman-cum-bodyguard, announced, commencing the meeting.

wut?

ch06?:

“They invite their neighbors to come at the dead of the night—let’s say two thirty in the morning— and they walk around as a group, holding torches and wearing white cloaks that cover them from head to toe... They can make the event even more atmospheric by wearing creepy white masks.”

. . . is that a Klan reference?
shit, didn't Forest Gump pull something similar? 😑
am i gonna have to cancel another manga?

z02:
lul Oscar gettin' older sisters treatment
and this mofo rejected it
...somebody fanfic'd that yet? 👀 Oscar rediscoverin' love and family, sticking with his newfound older sisters, letting go of hate, forming new defensive fire magic,... and then puberty uwu?
(i'm aware that the bs of masculinity in a society may require one to deny the greatest of pleasures etc. it's still funny, though)

wait, why's this party called Shootingspree- oh~

There was a mentioned that Raymond changed de to the influence of his fiancée, I wonder if she's going to be the real final boss, and the demon lord will become an ally of Lofus in this timeline. We already saw that Warm is now indebted with him instead, and the heroines are steadily joining his harem.
I also think the alraune lady is going to become his familiar in the future. The big question is what it will be of the game protagonist.
Also, reading that the author started with FFX-2 made me feel old since my first one was FFVII.

The ending was rather abrupt...Anyway, a fun volume, although I missed Zelos' love interests.

Wow. Soooooo much hot spring fanservice in that color illustration in the ebook. And a high-resolution version, too!

Nice ending. I think they should have let Ford know they were married and carved out some time for themselves.

Not happy this was axed. :(

@LeavesCat @pcj
I think it is a translation error on J-Novel's part. The terms God of Chaos (混沌神) and God of Destruction (破壊神) are both used in volume 1 of Knock Yourself Out!

Most of the time, in Knock Yourself Out!, J-Novel seemed to translate 混沌神 as God of Destruction instead of God of Chaos. But there is one line in Chapter 1 they translated that says "Sorry. To be honest, I didn’t think you were too different from an actual god of destruction." If you look at the Japanese Raw it says "すみません、破壊神か何かだと思ってました。" (Sorry. To be honest, I thought you were a God of Destruction or something.) It uses 破壊神 for God of Destruction. But everywhere else is 混沌神 is used.

If you look at Lazy Dungeon Master, the God of Chaos in spelled 混沌神 and through out the series this refers to Leona. In volume 17, when they refer to Niku as the God of Destruction they use 破壊神. This also lines up with the web novel as the author continued to publish parts for it and

I put a post in the corrections for volume 1 of Knock Yourself Out! but no one seemed to notice. I am going to write to support@j-novel.club to see if they will correct this.

Would both of you write to support@j-novel.club as well if you agree?

So when he comes into the world, it seems like the people that's had any interaction with pre-possessed Zil comes down to 3 people. And from them it seems each had a total of 5 minutes with the man. "Hey, I recruit you, here's a power, bye" Cause they are all surprised when he calls them to him and again when asked to see their abilities. So one of the "main issues" he has of needing to act like Zil seems to be a lot less of an issue than he makes it out to be. Like I feel they've had so little that they haven't had time to make strong impressions of him and his personality.

Second, I really tire of all the stripping and his letting the fanatic run wild. Like he thinks you're God, if you say, "hey, I actually don't want stripping" he'll come up with all the explanations for you and follow your rules. Letting him run wild seems like such an odd choice and the excuse that he needs to do so else he fears it'll destroy their faith and he'll turn and kill him for betraying his faith or something is also laughably ridiculous. And maybe I wouldn't mind so much if it didn't seem to take up a forth of the story. SOOOooo much seems to be about Kieran and Zil being annoyed by his actions or him spreading his religion. Like the funny one off has made itself a permanent and prominent feature and overstayed it's welcome.

The wedding were nice and so the fact that Shutola and Rion were able to have their first time.
The tag team battle was cool, although I hope the author isn't going to abuse the win by ring out, I'm especially worried for the battles against the guest characters since the author probably doesn't want to make them look bad.
The second battle was definitely less interesting, Rion was basically fighting a dummy and Dorothy herself is one of my least favorite characters.

That's such a perfect way to end the volume. Yep, three dragons. Not a problem worth mentioning, come and join the celebration of all these fancy new dragon materials that walked into our laps. How'd things go on your end?