I was expecting a dashing prince, not a stone cold serial killer. Though I guess it makes sense.

It's not a harem, it's a triangle plot. She's stuck between the gentle, dashing and heroic heroine and the utilitarian but harboring a secret soft side villainess

Natori after being summoned declares she has foresight, much like Lapis's sister. Who I am assuming is Aurora.
That person probably died in front of her trying to save Lapis.
Here again Lapis notes how Natori resembles her, and goes on to warn Natori not to follow the same fate.

It's odd, because Aurora says "the flowers all belong to your family", along with oneesama.

But Lapis does say "in the Tenebrae family".

So I wonder if actually a cousin, or an illegitimate half-sister. Something to be of yet not of the family.

While Lapis is nobility, she points out that her sister was a commoner.
So am guessing half-sister

this is like My Next Life as a Villainess but if it was actually a yuri

It's not a harem, it's a triangle plot. She's stuck between the gentle, dashing and heroic heroine and the utilitarian but harboring a secret soft side villainess

not a big harem fan, but i always love it when it shows up as an option. this is def going to tease the 1) villainess 2) heroine and 3) prince options, but we all know what the ending is really going to be like!!!

again, as with every chapter.... @god when
i wanna be an OL with a villainess wife TT

I very much love how Diana was ready to stab a bitch that whole chapter and how jelly she got at the end. I'm still rooting for the 2 mc's to be endgame of course, but Diana scored alot points with me this chapter

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Poor MC, the last thing she wants to be is a Mary Sue... yet the heroine just said "Suki!" to her, and she's been inadvertently winning the heart of the villainess, and now she has accidentally started the romantic route with the prince.

Has she isekai-ed into the universe of the game, or the universe of a Mary Sue's fanfiction of self-satisfaction? It's a perfectly valid question.

By that logic every isekai mc who gathers a harem of adorers, starting with Bakarina herself, should be a Mary Sue!

I was expecting a dashing prince, not a stone cold serial killer. Though I guess it makes sense.

Congrats, you managed to thoroughly baffle me. What the hell are you talking about? Does the prince look like Ted Bundy to you?

Honestly, rooting for Diana, Lapis, and Natori to be poly. Not expecting it, but hoping for it.

Diana doesn't know how gay she is for natalie (natori)

Surprised nobody commented on her plan to dismember a rebel, throw their limbs around town then kill all the commoners who have the gall to get uppity over that. It'll be interesting to see if she's as cold as she makes herself out to be.

Surprised nobody commented on her plan to dismember a rebel, throw their limbs around town then kill all the commoners who have the gall to get uppity over that. It'll be interesting to see if she's as cold as she makes herself out to be.

Yea, I am wondering myself whether the current Lapis is gonna turn out to be just an edgelord chuuni who gets in way over her head as the original game's story progresses and sees no other choice but to double-down until someone kills her.

edgelord chuuni

omg LMAO

probably Natori is gonna have to reverse all of this lol

Why do I feel like Lapis is trying to make commoners hate her, and only her? maybe she wants people to have a reason for revolution, but why does she want that? she doesn't seem like someone stupid enough to think she can get rid of the commoners, she seems like someone who wants the commoners to get rid of her(nobility), maybe that's why she wanted befriend Diana, because she's a powerful commoner, and maybe that's why she told Natori that if one day she's seen as an enemy to Natori, it's for her not to save her, because maybe that's exactly her plan. (or I'm just trying to find a reason why I don't think Lapis is 100% psychopath).

I still feel like at a basic level, Diana seems nice but not particularly interested in Natori herself considering she gets her name wrong constantly. Lapis is paying attention to Natori closely, and that makes for a better relationship.

Natalie is one of their names, so I think Diana is just doing what nearly everyone is with Natori. I would just say that Lapis needs Natori much more than Diana ever could.

If it was one of her names she wouldn't be correcting people about it.

Why do I feel like Lapis is trying to make commoners hate her, and only her? maybe she wants people to have a reason for revolution, but why does she want that? she doesn't seem like someone stupid enough to think she can get rid of the commoners, she seems like someone who wants the commoners to get rid of her(nobility), maybe that's why she wanted befriend Diana, because she's a powerful commoner, and maybe that's why she told Natori that if one day she's seen as an enemy to Natori, it's for her not to save her, because maybe that's exactly her plan. (or I'm just trying to find a reason why I don't think Lapis is 100% psychopath).

Lapis = Lelouch?!

Lapis = Lelouch?!

what an interesting twist this would be

I kinda want to see things back to the office for a brief moment, like "oh my God, the moment we fired the person who was supporting the whole office, the performance in general decreased in 30% but (((why)))?" .

That was part of the plot in the Sexiled books iirc.

The guys in the party ditch Tanya because she isn't good enough eye candy, and replace her with a sexy slutty catgirl. It later turns out that the Adventurers Guild wants every party to submit a ton of paperwork every week -- and Tanya was the one who always took care of that, and nobody else in the party has the first clue how to handle it. Cue lots of pain and wailing and pulling of hair.

I kinda want to see things back to the office for a brief moment, like "oh my God, the moment we fired the person who was supporting the whole office, the performance in general decreased in 30% but (((why)))?" .

That was part of the plot in the Sexiled books iirc.

The guys in the party ditch Tanya because she isn't good enough eye candy, and replace her with a sexy slutty catgirl. It later turns out that the Adventurers Guild wants every party to submit a ton of paperwork every week -- and Tanya was the one who always took care of that, and nobody else in the party has the first clue how to handle it. Cue lots of pain and wailing and pulling of hair.

Same with almost any series where the hero party fires the one member one or more of the others deem useless in battle. It's pretty much inevitable that things start falling apart after that and they're forced to acknowledge how much that person helped them in other ways. Prime example on the yuri side would be this one.

I kinda want to see things back to the office for a brief moment, like "oh my God, the moment we fired the person who was supporting the whole office, the performance in general decreased in 30% but (((why)))?" .

That was part of the plot in the Sexiled books iirc.

The guys in the party ditch Tanya because she isn't good enough eye candy, and replace her with a sexy slutty catgirl. It later turns out that the Adventurers Guild wants every party to submit a ton of paperwork every week -- and Tanya was the one who always took care of that, and nobody else in the party has the first clue how to handle it. Cue lots of pain and wailing and pulling of hair.

Same with almost any series where the hero party fires the one member one or more of the others deem useless in battle. It's pretty much inevitable that things start falling apart after that and they're forced to acknowledge how much that person helped them in other ways. Prime example on the yuri side would be this one.

Wow, I just did a search and color me surprised! I didn't know there were SO many series with that plot premise (hero fired from adventurer party, gets revenge owoa).

Wow, I just did a search and color me surprised! I didn't know there were SO many series with that plot premise (hero fired from adventurer party, gets revenge owoa).

And I wasn't even thinking of the actual revenge ones here. :D

Just in case people are wondering, pixiv comic and the nicoseiga page for the series currently have the raws for Chapters 5 and 6 is anyone wants to view them ahead of time.

True isekai fantasy: when your OL filing and report skills are actually useful in the new life

This makes for an interesting contrast to This Isekai Maid is Forming a Union. I'm not sure how the protagonists of each series would feel about each other.

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I think the prince immediately getting Natori's name right while Diana still fails to makes Diana seem even less likely to be successful in a love triangle.

This makes for an interesting contrast to This Isekai Maid is Forming a Union. I'm not sure how the protagonists of each series would feel about each other.

Diana sure wants to form a commoner's union

if you know what I mean

I said that this chapter would reveal what type of story this really is and in a sense it did so. By making things more ambiguous on purpose of course.
Perhaps the bi-harem has been avoided (for now), thank the stars. But the prince is giving strong mixed signals. Airheaded, yet cunning. He seems to care about Lapis as her being happy and more relaxed around Natori seemed to excite him. On the other hand he is overly prying and may have more unsavory reasons to go so far as to use analyzing magic without consent (I do not buy the familiar mania explanation).

I am not quite sure what to think of Diana. She is being portrayed as strongly hostile and aggressive, utterly possessive, which does not seem to fit her early characterization. I doubt she was quite like this in the original game's lore, threatening people with cuttlery on their first meeting and all. The plot mostly focuses on characters being different behind the screen than how they appeared in front of it, but this is rather drastic. I have no interest in going as far as to label characters "yandere", because it is nearly always a complete exaggeration, but Diana does show a modicum of mental imbalance, just as she did by realizing that attacking people with deadly weapons and dragons can actually hurt them only a couple of weeks ago.

Lapis is surprisingly the most straighforward. She has a divise plan that she can predict will make her an enemy to many, but she cares about people, especially Natori. She is acutely aware of her strong points and starting to act a little tsundere. Adorable.

I think the prince immediately getting Natori's name right while Diana still fails to makes Diana seem even less likely to be successful in a love triangle.

Your obsssesion with the name matter is honestly baffling. Is this perhaps supposed to be a running gag of yours?
In case it is not: Natori and Natalie are pronounced almost the same in Japanese. That is the entire joke. Natalie would be a more understandable name in a Western style fantasy world. If you want to go any deeper than that you can call it a nickname or a character quirk and be done with it.
This is the least important, relevant or significant part of their entire chemistry, so perhaps it would be foolhardy to hinge the entire relationship on it, wouldn't you agree?

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