If anything, if he truly suspects she's the sort of person that would fake an injury to indebt a member of the royal family to her, that's absolutely something he could accept she'd do

That still doesn't make logical sense as a plan compared to just continuing to fake your injuries.

People do these sorts of fake injury scams all the time in real life. They don't go to court and then say "actually it wasn't that bad dw about it lmao"

think it's a universal thing that just everyone with a shred of decency in their body would do

I would say anyone who feels a shred of decency would show some guilt and personally apologize over exploding someones hand off. Or in extenuating circumstances, at least take a remote interest in their condition and have someone relay info to them, instead of telling everyone to fuck off and let them handle it because I'm soooo capable.

But go ahead and wave this all off as an intepretation, I'm gonna call it instead of going in circles for another hour because reading between the lines is too hard. If anything, this is the hallmark of of the media illiterate - "the story didn't explicitly spell it out for us like we're toddlers so its not true."

One of the more interesting parts of the chapter is how our Gal’s preexisting views of both the Prince and the Villainess were flipped. On the page before Amelia's punch: she thought the Prince was just "rough around the edges but nice" because of what she knew from the game, but it turned out she was way off, and that seemed to shock her (another example of the author being straightforward). She felt she "must've misunderstood something."

It's honestly heartbreaking seeing Serina about to blame herself for his anger and violence.

Yeah, definitely wasn't a good situation. Threw flowers in her face, immediately yelled at her, called her a wretch, gave her no chance to explain and all in public. Plus, she was fans of all these "characters," so there's the element of meeting and having expectations of your favorites only to find they're not a good person. She found out in the worst way. Even with that, I'm more concerned about the consequences of Amelia's decision. Serina can pick herself up but we'll see what they try to do after that public rejection. Maybe that punch will have some recalibrating effect.

He will likely go after Almelia/Serina and get utterly humiliated and either renounce everything about his former attitude (since he was being garbage) or he will go down fighting while getting ostracized by everyone and become the new villain, is my guess.

Right now Serina has already won over Sylvester and Estelle as allies among the main cast, so the last one is that 3rd guy I forgot the name of. It's following a similar pattern as the game except Serina is the unsuspecting protagonist.

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In certain ways, this girl is too talented for this world to believe. And so the dude truly screwed up and paid for it. But on the positive side, that's that hindrance out of the way and now she's starting to awaken to feelings for her mistress as well. ^_^

He didn't pay for shit (yet) unless you count his bruised ego

I hope he does tho :^)

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He will likely go after Almelia/Serina and get utterly humiliated and either renounce everything about his former attitude (since he was being garbage) or he will go down fighting while getting ostracized by everyone and become the new villain, is my guess.

There's many places it could go. I think it depends on how those around him view the situation. He's very vain and prideful--likes his role as a noble, seeks to live up to it but is drastically (and now shown to be dangerously) insecure. That's a large part of why he wanted to "step up" to have this grand apology to Serina in public. He desperately seeks to fulfill his role as a "good, honorable" noble. That desire could lead him in a few different directions....There's also the chance he's just gone and that's that. Now that I've described him, he reminds me of Anis's brother from MagiRevo. Same type, same Noble insecurity, same recklessness.

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He will likely go after Almelia/Serina and get utterly humiliated and either renounce everything about his former attitude (since he was being garbage) or he will go down fighting while getting ostracized by everyone and become the new villain, is my guess.

There's many places it could go. I think it depends on how those around him view the situation. He's very vain and prideful--likes his role as a noble, seeks to live up to it but is drastically (and now shown to be dangerously) insecure. That's part of why he wanted to "step up" to have this grand apology to Serina in public. He desperately seeks to fulfill his role as a "good, honorable" noble. That desire could lead him in a few different directions....There's also the chance he's just gone and that's that. Now that I've described him, he reminds me of Anis's brother from MagiRevo. Same type, same noble insecurity.

Honestly I totally wouldn't mind if he just fucked off out of the story at this point, we have another dude to go through still anyway lmao

And yea, he's basically the same without the sympathetic angle of still loving Anis and looking up to her. Though I'd still call that guy garbage too for nearly murdering a girl.

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He will likely go after Almelia/Serina and get utterly humiliated and either renounce everything about his former attitude (since he was being garbage) or he will go down fighting while getting ostracized by everyone and become the new villain, is my guess.

There's many places it could go. I think it depends on how those around him view the situation. He's very vain and prideful--likes his role as a noble, seeks to live up to it but is drastically (and now shown to be dangerously) insecure. That's part of why he wanted to "step up" to have this grand apology to Serina in public. He desperately seeks to fulfill his role as a "good, honorable" noble. That desire could lead him in a few different directions....There's also the chance he's just gone and that's that. Now that I've described him, he reminds me of Anis's brother from MagiRevo. Same type, same noble insecurity.

Honestly I totally wouldn't mind if he just fucked off out of the story at this point, we have another dude to go through still anyway lmao

And yea, he's basically the same without the sympathetic angle of still loving Anis and looking up to her. Though I'd still call him garbage for nearly murdering a girl.

For sure. Garbage still sticks. People get called garbage for much less, without fuss.

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I will admit, I am a little sad that the handless arc didn't last longer

As I already discussed and was emphasized by the maid this chapter, no he was not in a life or death situation, his guards had it under control, not to mention Almelia. You do not start thinking about your wounded pride like he did if you are about to die, you think about your impending death. His disproportionate response was all about proving himself strong and capable.

I didn't say he was in a life-or-death situation, I said he had a life-or-death panic, which is not the same thing.
He saw a giant monster show up out of nowhere right in front of him and had a perfectly normal fight-response to a perceived threat against his person and the people around him.

I don't really want to get involved in this whole argument, but I do want to address this part. These are monsters that the prince was fighting on his own (with knights to watch out for him) at the age of 12. He is currently 15. Presumably, it would be like a trained hunter being faced with a boar, but also he's not alone. He has his knights, and Almelia is there who he knows has killed one by herself before.

We're not talking monsters in the way they would be treated in a much darker manga, and the prince isn't powerless. His magic is really strong. If it's something he could done at the age of 12, then it stands to reason that he vastly overreacted not 3 years later. If it is panic, panic from insecurity seems much more likely than panic from fear.

Ominous "at that time, I thought" https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/gal_maid_villainess_only_miladys_happy_end_will_win_ch10#32

I don't really want to get involved in this whole argument, but I do want to address this part. These are monsters that the prince was fighting on his own (with knights to watch out for him) at the age of 12. He is currently 15. Presumably, it would be like a trained hunter being faced with a boar, but also he's not alone. He has his knights, and Almelia is there who he knows has killed one by herself before.

We're not talking monsters in the way they would be treated in a much darker manga, and the prince isn't powerless. His magic is really strong. If it's something he could done at the age of 12, then it stands to reason that he vastly overreacted not 3 years later. If it is panic, panic from insecurity seems much more likely than panic from fear.

Yes, that's totally fair. No one's denied that he acted wrongly.
The fighting is essentially about what this whole incident tells us about him rather than if that thing he did was wrong, because even he himself admits he did wrong.

The conflict here is about how some people think this solidifies him as a complete scumbag and I don't agree that it does at this point, for various reasons elaborated on in previous posts.

I don't really want to get involved in this whole argument, but I do want to address this part. These are monsters that the prince was fighting on his own (with knights to watch out for him) at the age of 12. He is currently 15. Presumably, it would be like a trained hunter being faced with a boar, but also he's not alone. He has his knights, and Almelia is there who he knows has killed one by herself before.

We're not talking monsters in the way they would be treated in a much darker manga, and the prince isn't powerless. His magic is really strong. If it's something he could done at the age of 12, then it stands to reason that he vastly overreacted not 3 years later. If it is panic, panic from insecurity seems much more likely than panic from fear.

Yes, that's totally fair. No one's denied that he acted wrongly.
The fighting is essentially about what this whole incident tells us about him rather than if that thing he did was wrong, because even he himself admits he did wrong.

The conflict here is about how some people think this solidifies him as a complete scumbag and I don't agree that it does at this point, for various reasons elaborated on in previous posts.

Well I would say there are two competing aspects to this for me. On the one hand, it's hard for me to think of any 15 year old in this situation as a complete scumbag.

On the other, he is literally the prince of the nation. He treats his fiancée terribly, in public as well were it not for reminders from his staff. He treats commoners and lower nobles terribly. He really has no sense of responsibility and duty as far as what we've seen. He kind of just sucks.

Like the comparison here should be the other characters in the story, and Sylvester, Almelia's brother, comes out looking the best. Almelia realistically would also probably suck were it not for Serina to make her better, and she really only has Serina. Everyone else in her life has kind of treated her terribly. The prince has so many more advantages in his life and he's way worse than Almelia at her worst. What good is there to say of him?

Even if we treat it under the idea of he made mistakes and he can grow from them, well that's fine but at the moment he hasn't done any growing from any of the issues we've seen him tackle.

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Just want to put my two cents out there, but I think that punch would have been the perfect opportunity for Almelia to not only declare the annulment of the engagement, but also hug Selina to both stop her tears and show the public that she is not, in fact, some cold heartless villainess.

We still got the embrace in private, which is arguably better, but hugging her in public (and maybe thumbing away her tears) would have done something positive for her public image.

Wow the last two pages have been dumb. There's certain keywords that signify someone's posts should be scrolled by without reading and following a policy like that makes the Internet much less intolerable. :)

Also jeez poor Gal just suffered non-stop this chapter. She got horribly injured, it was suggested she become a fucking concubine for the misogynist who injured her, dealt with a week straight of miserable unending pain in regrowing that hand to avoid that awful fate, gets attacked and insulted for doing so and blames herself for it, and then feels guilty for a situation she had zero responsibility for between her mistress and the misogynistic piece of shit who is actually responsible for everything. Hopefully, unlike with her hand, they can pull the bandaid off this wound fast by having him rush off and do something unambiguously worthy of death in public so they can kill him and be done with it :) Maybe one of those "I'll prove to you I'm a big real manly man who's definitely not weaker than women by relying on the strength of this demon I made a pact with" situations.

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I am really enjoying this manga, it's pure awesome. Look at 8-9 pages of comment...Eh I will read everyone comments and thoughts later, it will be interesting to see everyone thoughts about this nice isekai otome series XD

My thoughts from ch.1-10 (Sorry for possible long comment post/Rant)

Heroine of the otome game:
Loves nobility's good high quality food (She can't go back to eating her bland commoner bread and soup anymore lol).
Friends with the MC (Gal) and Villainess...Knows Tsundere Villainess has feeling for MC (Gal) but isn't going to tell the MC since Otome Heroine wants to still live and don't want to risk agrooing the Villainess if telling MC trigger her...She already getting enough Agro from MC fangirling over her and Villainess getting Jelly.
Otome MC here wants to help MC(Gal) and villainess to get along when noticing their minor emotional conflict which shows off her good nature...but ironically the conflict is helping her not get a strict iron claw of jealous to the face lol XD

Villainess brother(Jill):
Basically misunderstood her sister due to how talented his sister is and how his sister (Almeria) acts all proper noble like...Basically tense, upright and not showing weakness (+Being very strict) along not being able to see her smile out of of kindness or happiness till seeing her smile at MC....RIP to big bro here for getting trauma again when lil sis got very jelly...Let just hope they can still fix their relationship and the big bro can give his blessing when Almeria marries the MC (He is going to have to learn not to touch MC tho or else he will get a punch to the face again...) XD

[Leonaldia (Leo for short)- The prince]:
His personality and relationship with Almeria (His finacee and the villainess of the otome game) is mostly due to likely what I suspect is a inferiority complex...You know how in family a parent will fawn or praise one kid over the over, praising and speaking praises constantly to 1 kid while the other kid is neglected.
Prince also misunderstood Almeria (Villainess) reason of killing the cockatrice was to protect the knights and people from it's surprise attack...Basically having only 1-2 mins or few seconds at worst to act to protect people. Basically a inferiority complex due to being compared to his talented beautiful fiancee who took down a powerful magic beast at age 12-13 which he would be unlikely be able to do despite his stronger magic power (MP).
If Almeria had explain her reasoning about why she took down the monster then relationship might not be as bad or shaky but that is not very like Almeria's personality (Honestly the prince should just remember the servants and people talking trash about him/comparing him to Almeria and make sure to send them to isolated places in the future as punishment instead of having unfair resentment toward Almeria but sadly he is immature and not wise enough)...The prince(Leo) would love to be with someone breedable and submissive lol...Prince is used to being praised by his teachers/people around him and not used to be being bad talk/compared to someone much more talented/superior than him. It sadly doesn't help that Almeria's proper upright/uptight personality (Due to how she was raised) clashes with the prince.

The reason why (Leo) fire off his OP fire magic at the cockatrice was due to The danger from the situation + negative feelings/inferiority complex from years ago (3-years ago when they were 12-13 when they first met.). The danger level of the situation was only like a 10-20% chance of death with all the knights around...dangerous but not hopeless and the death chance is only due to if they were being careless with the monster (Tail bite, possible poison?).

You know...It funny and dark to assume if MC(Gal) was not there then Almeria would be possibly dead or at best case scenario if she survive the OP fire blast from the prince...Heavily scarred with burns with possible 1-2 arm or leg missing...Almeria could have avoid or block the OP fire magic if she was paying attention but her attention was on MC(Serina) due to worrying about MC possibly getting involved and hurt...Though without the MC there would be no butterfly effect which let them encounter the Cockatrice but then Almeria would be facing the bad end of the otome game without MC there to help...

[Ch.10 part for Leo/prince]
Now here is the funny part...The prince saw how he had almost killed his finacee (Almeria) and how MC(Serina) block his OP fire blast just barely...though it was more like block then deflect it upwards and Leo, Almeria and all the knights there saw MC's missing her hand....it was fking gory and full of blood (Filtered)...Prince is just dumb and letting his emotions control himself...falsely accusing MC of faking her losing a hand from his 'ACTIONS OF ALMOST KILLING HIS FINACEE'...Prince leo...dude...stop being immature and dumb to learn how to use your brain and logic...If MC want to make you owe you a favor then she would not heal her hand and even purposely destroy her hand to get you into debt...MC(Gal) only healed her hand due to not wanting to let Villainess and prince feel guilty...it a good thing Serina just need to be aware about the genes/DNA in his body instead of knowing complex information about each cell in body and how DNA divides/make more molecules/cells...Good old OP Magic XD

So unless illusion magic exists then Prince leo needs some serious growing up to do...A prince and future king of a country need to learn to control his emotions and learn to think/rationalize people's possible actions instead of letting their immature, emotions and any feeling of inferiority control them...I really hope Prince learn from this experience...That Almeria does not even fking like him and enjoy being engaged to his stupid immature butt and only did so due to her so-called noble responsibility to her family and how she was raised. He waited a whole '10 DAYS' for them to come to him instead of visiting the infirmary to see how MC is doing...This just shows how spoiled and immature he is...

I just hope Leo grows up and learn to be a better person in the future after this experience instead of any possible resentment or negative feeling from the punch. That punch shows how much Almeria cares about Serina, so hopefully a idiot like him gets the message.

The fact and feat of healing a missing/cut off hand is amazing feat of magic (Likely the most that magic could heal was perhaps a large stab wound and that would be mostly closing the wound + Accelerating the healing rate...). MC just show off the most OP legendary heal in history in that world lol~

I am so glad Almeria fking punch her finace or ex-finace [A kick to the face would be even better~] and finally managed to apologize/reveal her weak side/emotions to the MC...One step closer to Serina and Almeria end game relationship , I can't wait till end of Feb arrives for new chapter XD

[Almeria/Almelia/Villainess]:
The so-called Villainess of the otome game.
Extra Personality traits: Minor tsundere and minor yandere aspect alongside of Villainess nobility personality
Born talented, beautiful and with strong magic but work hard at everything she does so not just relying on her talent/strong magic alone.
Was raise in one of the big 4 noble family, grow up with likely high expectation from her parents/family and in turn affect her personality to be strict/upright/compose (Not show weakness/ refusing to apologize when feeling she is in the right or her actions are in the right like killing the magic creature about to sneak attack the knights...Knights need better fking training in stealth~). But despite her strict and spartan personality Almeria/Almelia is a kind and caring girl deep down inside...Just her words/strictness often make her be misunderstood by people.
MC (Serina) is her future waifu and pretty much the only person who shown the most kindness to her and know Almeria the best(Which is cute but kind of sad), Serina been raising Almeria's affection points non-stop with her clumsy clueless Gal flirty lol XD
Chapter.8 shows off how Almeria was forcing herself and just hearing MC(Serina) wish for her happiness and for her marriage to the prince finally broke her weak minor facade of trying to stay with her noble upbringing and duty when otome heroine MC confront her about Serina...Hearing it in reality just hurt different and the idea that MC(Serina) won't be there with her forever when marrying the prince hurts.

I just hope Almeria parents won't be too much of a pain to deal with after she broke her engagement with the prince (The only reason Almeria is even going along with the engagement)...Honestly Almeria could have put some kind of spin about how she is justified in breaking her engagement due to possibly almost dying...and if that route doesn't work then she just need to gather enough wedding funds to run away with the MC(Gal/Serina) or secretly gather power (Both money and social power) to overthrow the royal family if they try to force her to still marry the prince in the future...

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My main issue with the chapter is just me wondering how the hell she grew her arm back from just “oh maybe I can use genes” like how tf is that related to magic lmao. Or was it some weird alchemy she made up on the spot combing knowledge of magic from the game and the knowledge of a C student gyaru from a public school?

My main issue with the chapter is just me wondering how the hell she grew her arm back from just “oh maybe I can use genes” like how tf is that related to magic lmao. Or was it some weird alchemy she made up on the spot combing knowledge of magic from the game and the knowledge of a C student gyaru from a public school?

Nanomachines, son!

My main issue with the chapter is just me wondering how the hell she grew her arm back from just “oh maybe I can use genes” like how tf is that related to magic lmao. Or was it some weird alchemy she made up on the spot combing knowledge of magic from the game and the knowledge of a C student gyaru from a public school?

Apply magic directly to the forearm.
Don't think about it too much, probably.

So unless illusion magic exists then Prince leo needs some serious growing up to do...

Throwing a public tantrum is pretty pathetic either way, honestly, even if he thought he was being deceived (which is still a ridiculous assumption - who fakes an injury and then goes "jk im fine lmao dw about it" before getting anything out of it?)

Also Almelia crying while apologizing is so precious. This is why I can't get enough of villainess stories, inject that shit directly into my veins.

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It doesn’t even make sense why he’d believe she was after his money… if that was the case, she wouldn’t have healed up and let herself be crippled until after she got the money

Idk how tf strengthening the magic in her cells helped, or how she even could feel all her cells but whatever lol

Really hope Serina starts developing feelings for Amelia.

This series is too good, it got dark a little bit with the handlessness and was able to stick the landing after the quick turn. Honestly curious what Estelle's reaction to all this is gonna be but overall so happy Serina and Amelia got vulnerable and comforted each other.

That punch was also hilarious and well deserved. His lordship got what he asked for with his impulsive and dumb as hell reaction. Serina deserves the world!

the way she grew her hand back makes no goddamn sense but its funny so whatever lmao
on a completely unrelated note, i wonder if the way female villains would be considered misogyny to some people

the way she grew her hand back makes no goddamn sense but its funny so whatever lmao
on a completely unrelated note, i wonder if the way female villains would be considered misogyny to some people

That would depend entirely on why they are considered villainesses in their story.
There is a big gulf between a slightly sexist "she is an arrogant woman so she's a villainess" and a probably not sexist "she committed war crimes so she's a villainess."

Of course, I love both of them regardless.

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the way she grew her hand back makes no goddamn sense but its funny so whatever lmao

Yeah, I really can't figure out how "I'll strengthen my genes!" makes any sense in this context. It's not like she has an understanding of her own genome, so what exactly is she doing? I guess maybe since she's the only one who knows that bodies are made of cells, she could slowly regrow it cell-by-cell, but that's not what it says.

on a completely unrelated note, i wonder if the way female villains would be considered misogyny to some people

Misogyny can definitely be a factor in how female characters, including villains, are depicted. Exactly how can vary, but lots of works of fiction depict women who don't fit into traditional roles as antagonistic figures who then get "put in their place" by the events of the story, including those that you might not think of in those terms, like comedies. There's also the recurring trend of having female villains be dressed provocatively and sexually aggressive, because a woman is supposed to be demure and chaste and having her express sexual desire is "sinful" and indicates her wickedness.

In the case of the sort of "villainess" role that stories like this one are subverting, they're romantic rivals to the protagonist who lash out in their desire to get or keep the attentions of a man. There's definitely a stereotype directed towards women as "jealous" and "catty" and constantly fighting over men's attention, which certainly has its roots in misogyny and presumptions about women's roles in society being based on their relationships with men. Which is to say that, yes, even stories written largely for (and possibly written by, although that's not always the case) women like otome games do often have elements of internalized misogyny, subconsciously reinforcing the expected social role of women and negative attitudes towards them in the audience.

I don't think she literally "strengthened her genes," she just knew the body of made up of smaller building blocks than her peers and so focused on making as tiny changes as possible.

I think the most interesting part of this chapter was Serina realizing that the prince isn't just "rough around the edges," that he's actually an insecure egotist who lashes out at anyone who upstages him and the only reason you didn't see this in the game was that you played as a commoner girl that he viewed himself as permanently above. It's a neat little implied critique of romance stories that have a female villain who's objectively not nearly as bad as the ML but gets punished way more severely.

Caught up like, when was it, yesterday? The day before? I think yesterday...
Looking forward to more.