In 2019, before the twitter version of Princess of Sylph had even started going, Kamejiro published a 2-part doujinshi covering Sara meeting Natalia and taking Sylpheed in her place. There were some heavy retcons after, but parts of it remained canon to the later series.
And it looks like chapter 9 and 10 will be following roughly the same story. Major differences in that version include:
- Sara being concerned Sylpheed's ritual itself would kill Natalia, in her poor health
- The minister encouraging Sara to try taking Sylpheed because of this
- There being no replica of Sylpheed
- Sara tricking Natalia by putting her to sleep with magic
- The lack of Sara's backstory, which is probably being saved for later.
The first half ended with Sara going off to the spirit tree, same as 9.
Instead now Sara's alone and somehow Natalia has to not find out about any of this. But there's a few exciting things from part 2 which are very likely to happen again. As noticed, the blood's going to be important.
While this chapter feels like the calm before a storm, there's still things that stand out as a reader of the old version. You now get the full picture of how isolated Natalia is, idolized and reliant on maintaining the peoples' faith in her. That faith became one of the core conflicts at the end of the first arc.
There's also some foreshadowing in the extra I feel like highlighting. It's a bigger spoiler, but I'll be vague.
Natalia's headache could be because of mana exhaustion. And her armor is arranged a certain way.
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