I really wasn't sure what to think of this at first, so much chaos it wasn't clear just where it was going. But after a few chapters . . . well, it's pretty funny.

This seems really good. I like to see a character with pizzazz. Not as indestructible as she seems, I notice.

Alternatively the simpler answer, this series isn't named "Smart Woman" :P

Point. :D

The WTF is strong in this one.

This is interesting. The one thing I don't quite get is, why are they running away? The wife would be a suspect, but she didn't do it and has a strong alibi. The girl who actually did it, there's no reason she would be a suspect. I mean, just try floating the theory as a cop:

"OK, hear me out here--What if it was some woman who doesn't know the guy and barely knows his wife, and she murdered him either out of a sense of justice for the abuse the wife is suffering that we don't know about, or out of a twisted attraction based on a kind of sexuality we'd prefer to pretend doesn't exist?"
"Uh, OK. Ah, do any of the possible bare acquaintances have histories of violence or extreme senses of justice or lesbianism?"
"No, but--"
"Soooo, that co-worker said he had a mistress; have we scoped that out yet?"

Their chances of getting away with it by just carrying on normally are very strong. On the other hand, if they run, that's like admitting guilt and the long arm of the law will be looking for them and trying for extradition if it finds them. Their chances become . . . fair. Plus they have to try to start their lives over from scratch. How is this a good option, aside from "it lets the story happen"?

This is the future that liberals want

liberals have better taste than I thought.

Well that got dark rather suddenly.

I love this, it's like the good ol' days of quarterly yuri hime but with more polish

Nail polish, to be precise. But yes, it does have that lovely old school yuri girls feeling.

Wait, wait! WHERE is her underwater hand?

Getting pedantic, but I don't think the lady in the mirror is a ghost. Well, she might be, we don't know very much about how she got that way. But the impression I get isn't so much girl dies-->haunts mirror as girl alive-->gets trapped in mirror, either as a whole or just her spirit or something. The difference being that once you're dead, coming back to life is generally not a thing, but if you're trapped, you could escape. Right now her plan is to escape by possessing our heroine, but it's all kind of vague . . . she doesn't seem to know how exactly. Given the general uncertainty about just what is going on and how it works, I don't think we've foreclosed on the possibility of her getting out in a more solid sort of way.

Hopefully the princess stands up and hits the stone cold stunner on that assistant

Prophetic words. Smack!

So this servant thinks that she can, in view of the Empress, push someone and blame the Empress for it?

I'm trying to wrap my head around why anyone would think this was a workable course of action. Someone tried that in a real Imperial court, I don't care if it's Asian or Roman or Persian or whatever, they would find themselves getting forty lashes double quick. This isn't a case of your word against hers--she's the Empress, your word is NOTHING, what happened is whatever she says happened. Heck, even if Yu Dingdang HAD pushed the princess, it would be amazingly stupid of a servant to say so, let alone in an admonishing way. I guess maybe she has some protection because she serves the Dowager, and she's probably a noble in some way, but still there are limits.

I'm thinking of a bit from Blackadder; the Queen and her stupid courtier Percy are playing some little ball game--
Percy: "Caught it! I win!"
Queen: "Percy. Who's the queen?"
Percy: " . . . Whoops! Butterfingers!"
This servant has not properly internalized this concept.

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"So why is it that you, the one who can't see anything, are happier than me?"
Well, I guess if you're determined to despise everything and everybody, the things and people in your life aren't going to make you happy.

"my Crush" Dying in Gay Panic

Before you get too excited, the original word was "my Oshi." The scanlators like to translate it to "crush" for this series but Oshi is actually used to refer to an artist you love and support

Yeees, although I've noticed a recurrent theme in stuff with an "Oshi" of how people aren't supposed to actually be in love with their oshi but they are anyway.

At this rate it might be best for Ruka if Suuna never learns what sex is. Poor girl won't be able to stand up for days if the beast inside Suuna awakens.

Ruka about to get the Stephen Hawking special

Extra appropriate since Suuna is dense as a black hole.

"since it's just the two of us we've been staying up late"
staying up late doing what I wonder? probably playing too much uno./j

I'm sure that's it.

Bla bla bla about romance, she should go poly, even the author continue drawn 3P because she is not convinced

Go poly? I don't think she even wants a cracker. Man, seems like there's a LOT of people into parrot play lately . . .

I like that the she's so frustrated to see the General she took it out on the grass. Gird your loins, General, battle will soon be joined.

I think she's looking for the kind of battle where you UN-gird your loins.

Cats DO smell like fresh sunshine. Particularly impressive since in theory they should smell like cat drool after licking themselves that much.

I like to have something to contribute to these discussions, but all that's going through my head is
CUUUUTE OMG SO CUTE!!!

Well, that's a lot of panic and disclaimers but it was so cute and touching and adorable that all is forgiven.

So uh, nobody's mentioned it here yet so I might as well.

https://twitter.com/masa_tsuka_/status/1777515695510790450

(asked my translator about this) Masatsuka attempted suicide a week or so ago and will be in a mental hospital for 3 months. I'll put it in the credits for the next translation but I'm not sure when we'll get to it so might as well say this here. Please support the author if you can.

Oh, jeeze, hope they're gonna be OK.

I saw people commenting on this at 4chan. There were even some fuckers cheering it and mas they didn't died.

4chan really is where the lowest of the low gather around.

They did what. Oh my god how can someone even be that much of a sack of shit?

He's hilarious, is what he is. Beyond that, I don't really care what particular kind of gender fiddling he might be doing or if he's just a pretty boy with interesting fashion sense.
I'm dying. Funniest chapter yet.

Missing the Long strip tag here, I think.

I thought the stripping happened quite quickly, though?

. . . Gotta admit, she has to be dead right about the degeneracy of her creators. In fact, in terms of pure naturalistic realism it's a bit far-fetched, but as biting commentary this could be good.

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"Let's make my only daughter the crown prince and heir to the throne. Oh, and also make her the wife of a powerful duke who will manipulate and treat her like shit. What could possibly go wrong?"

Hee! Yeah, this king's dynastic decision making doesn't make a ton of sense even in realpolitik terms.