Is... is that a god damn cloud-penis on page 15??

...I kinda hope this leads to her helping Aya trim her nails for the symbolism of it.

I can actually see a reasonable explanation for the food being left out; Both of them missed dinner and the school has a responsibility that their students eat so they probably keep tabs on if everyone shows up for the meals, so they left their food out assuming/hoping they would eventually come back and find them. The fact that they're placed together isn't necessarily an expectation that they will "eat together" so much as... well, it's the cafeteria. They probably just put the meals for the students who missed them in the same spot because why not?

As for who keeps tabs on it, I think after some consideration that the answer is the same as for who might've "spied" on them eating it to confirm they passed their tests; the dorm manager. The cafeteria is technically a spot she could plausibly be checking on in general even after hours.

Still, if I was them, I'd absolutely be getting creeped out after finding out the school somehow knows what they did together at night in private. They didn't see a single soul around them, and that close to the deadline is one heck of a coincidence for someone to just happen to be around to pass them without being noticed unless they were already spying on them to begin with.

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At the risk of pulling on a string not meant to be taken too seriously, but how did the school know about them "passing" their tests together late at night essentially in private? That has some worrying implications.

Prince is obviously set up to be gender ambiguous so far, and while I have a feeling they're going to be female in the end, it's worth noting that "witch" is actually a gender neutral word and (at minimum) a fourth of accused witches in history (both accused and executed) were male.

...Huh, I swear she's definitely been drawn to be taller than 214cm, especially since the main source on making her look huge is how tall she is next to Ten who is apparently also gigantic for a japanese woman. (175 is FAR above average)

If I had guessed her height before the 214cm statement, I'd have guessed a minimum of around 240cm+.
Her size varies between shots, but I would rarely but her less than 50% taller than Ten yet apparently she's just about 22% taller.

THE NUMBERS, MASON! THEY DON'T ADD UP!

Cute and fluffy as always, but I kind-of wish the makeup didn't completely hide her scar and she learned to accept it, but because it would have differentiated further shown the differences between her and the witch and because it raises questions about why the witch didn't just use some makeup, if the scar bothered her so much.

The original Witch seems to have been deeply traumatized and driven primarily by spite and anger at past grievances, so the scar probably bothered her for mostly embodying said trauma moreso than for being unattractive.

She obviously didn't socialize with anyone, so she probably didn't care about it "being seen" as much as she just obsessed over it being there at all, hidden or not.

On a characterization level, I think their different ways of handling the scar illustrate the major differences in character between Maria and the original Witch.

The original Witch did nothing to change herself or face her problems and instead forced her surroundings to conform to her, covering the mirrors in the house and scaring people away rather than try to compromise "herself."

Maria does the opposite, covers the scar so "it won't bother anyone" and tries to find a middle ground between her and other people to make peace wherever there's friction even at her own expense and even though she's not actually the one at fault. She "compromises herself" to adapt and make peace whereas the original Witch clung to the past and obsessed over herself at the expense of being able to co-exist with others.

...Though yes, I do agree it would be nice if she comes to accept the scar without hiding it.

On that same note, the old Witch became so miserable she eventually rejected her life entirely and assumed someone else's, while Maria does the opposite and wholeheartedly accepts a new one that was forced upon her.

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I'm still a tad confused about the ending, because it either means they're kidnapping her younger brother, taking him with them and lying about their circumstances after the sister has already proven she's willing to murder him in cold blood OR they leave him behind to validate the idea that it was a burglary gone wrong but also dumping the motherload of all traumas on him when he wakes up alone (or in police custody) and finds out what's happened.

Both implications have serious issues that go entirely unaddressed.
Scenario 1: The little brother should have serious questions about why they're suddenly running away, where their parents are, why none of the other siblings are with them, why they can't go back home, why they suddenly need to avoid the police, don't have a home or school etc etc.

Scenario 2: The little brother saw the the sister's "new friend" and will be able to identify her to the police, even if he doesn't connect that she's supposed to be the "robber" who broke in; the police will ask him what happened and he'll tell them about the "friend" and she'll become suspect number 1 regardless of his ignorance.

Both scenarios pretty much have the robber girl decide to become complicit in murder for not much reason (and potentially framed for it in place of the actual murderer rather than simply being complicit), and are likely to get them caught very quickly regardless of anything.

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I'm still not sure what her situation was.

Was she the only one taking care of the grandmother, and after she died because she didn't get her medicine on time, she basically snapped after realizing no one else in the family even noticed?

...Mission Successful.

Lesbian Sheep Syndrome

Sheep are literally useless lesbians? That's actually kind of poetic...

Surely they're in garden they cannot leave unless they have sex.

I see I'm not the only one who thought exactly this!

In all fairness to the PC, his "slave" was literally just a bot when he got her, it's not his fault she's now magically become a real person bound to the constraints of a bot.

As far as Isekais go, this one looks pretty fine so far. Nothing revolutionary but nothing atrocious.

Hoping for Yuri beyond just fanservice though, even if he's technically still a guy in a woman's body.

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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.

If you really want to approach it with this logic, how does it make any sense whatsoever that Serina would reveal that she wasn't injured at all and that he doesn't need to do anything for her (she literally says this) if she was trying to deceive him for status or money? She would obviously maintain the charade if that was her goal.

Because acting like something wasn't a big deal and saying "you owe me nothing" only to then make "requests" that you "totally" don't have any pressure to accept (but remember that time you hurt me and I didn't make a big deal out of it?) is literally politics 101?
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.

Think about the event that forms the entire basis of his character. He is someone who is ultimately middling in talent and continuously gets upstaged by his social interiors which brings constant frustration to him. My statements line up perfectly with his character. Yours does not and ignores some very crucial circumstantial evidence like the following which I will repeat again:

Just because your deduction makes theoretical sense enough to be possible doesn't make it proven.
Yes I agree that he has inferiority issues; No I don't agree that it entirely defines his character so far.
It's an issue he has, but it's not defining his every decision and I don't believe it's the drive behind his outburst towards Serina in this chapter just because it also contributed to it.

He did not once talk about Serina's well being. It's why he is shocked by her recovery. You might say that he was busy. Let's have a thought experiment. If you shot someone by accident, would you never bother to check up on their well being because you're "busy"?

...I honestly don't see how this is enough to make any kind of assumption. Why would he check in on her? If something happened, he'd be notified, and he knows she's being taken care of and has no reason to doubt the quality of the care considering her benefactor.

While I'd totally understand feeling compelled to check in on her, I don't think it's a universal thing that just everyone with a shred of decency in their body would do and consequently, I don't think it really proves or supports emotional callousness.

Oh, and also, you keep claiming that my take is "charitable" but you have yet to provide any kind of justification for why his disbelief in her magical healing would not be genuine.

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I'm assuming their relationship will take a larger step now that she's been forced to recognize that this isn't just a game anymore and that real people aren't necessarily like their game versions. I'm looking forward to how that change in perception affects her decisions from now on.

Actually I think that's slightly off.
I don't think that "the real people aren't like their game versions" necessarily, I think it's more a case of "a game can only show you so much of a character and the real them have sides she couldn't see through the game's medium."

Basically, less "these are different people" and more "they all have depths and nuances to them that the game didn't convey."

I think the real "message" she learned was that nothing and no one is as simple as she thought it/they was/were just because she was familiar with the game versions, and she needs to be more open to the idea of things deviating from her expectations.

Finally we're getting somewhere!

she robbed him of the chance to take responsibility and fix things like a proper king should.

This part here is what I believe I'm taking issue with in your logic, because it hinges on the assumption that the prince truly believes and accepts that Serina was injured and just so happened to perform a medical miracle out of nowhere, in order for it to then make any sense that his outburst was solely because of being denied the ability to "fix his mistake."

I don't believe that he believes that in the moment, and consequently it makes no sense in my mind to assume that his anger isn't completely genuine because he really does believe that Serina was trying to scam him into being in her debt; he's part of the royal family, that stuff probably does happen to him every day.

That's not to say that his confidence issues don't go into his angry outburst, but IMO they're clearly not the cause for it and therefor doesn't reflect them.

My read of him at this point is that he's ultimately well intentioned but rash, a tad ignorant and has trouble dealing with things that are completely foreign to him.

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Ah yes, the classic "I don't have any proper argument so I'll just say you're wrong and pretend that arguing is beneath me." method! The hallmark of people stuck in their ways and refusing to even consider the notion of anything else.

No, I'm just not gonna put the cart before the horse and argue about his actions afterwards if we can't even agree on the basic premise of the incident. What's the point? Your entire defense is predicated on him being scared for his life. But he wasn't, as the author has made clear repeatedly. I have quoted the manga and provided images to prove point and you have whined about misandry that doesn't exist when nobody gave Lord Sil shit for being hostile to Almelia in earlier chapters.

You have not proven a point, you have proven that the previous incident went through his mind at the time and motivated his actions.

That does not in any way shape or form contradict my take on the situation; that he panicked and did the first thing that he thought to do without thinking it through.

Even then, in the interest of engaging with you honestly on this and assuming you've not just dug your heels in, whether he did truly panic or not actually doesn't change my ultimate point that he explicitly acknowledges that he screwed up and will both apologize and make amends for it to the best of his abilities.

If he was truly the ego-monster you accuse him of being, he wouldn't have acknowledged his mistake, wouldn't have decided to apologize when he really isn't under any real pressure to do so and he most certainly would not have "lowered" himself to work on the amends personally rather than have his serving staff just whip something up for him like literally any other noble would have.

He messed up, acknowledged his mistake and has objectively gone farther than what he could've gotten away with and still, you people are somehow seeing this as a negative indicator of his characters.

That is why I call you misandrist, because I can think of no other motivation to the laughable amounts of hate and black-and-white shade being thrown at him for actually having reacted very reasonably to his circumstances.

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No, he didn't have a life or death panic, he literally flashed back to when he was humiliated, which by the way, was not a life or death situation. As in, he was remembering the time he looked incompetent next to Almelia. Do you just literally not look at the pictures the author drew? Like I don't understand how you can miss this literal fact.

https://i.imgur.com/wtEXBti.jpeg

Like come on he literally was thinking about Almelia killing that cockatrice right there lmao. Why would he be thinking about that time she made him feel like he has a smol pp if it wasn't about his ego? Like seriously the author went and made it expressedly clear that he had no reason to react the way he did and you're still trying to do mental gymnastics to make excuses about how he's just a scawed poor widdle boy.

That honestly goes for the rest of the nonsense you wrote anyway. Do you think the author had Almelia point out that he didn't care to check up on the person he mortally injured for 10 days for fun? That his offhand comment "let me handle it i can handle it myself" to the steward was just a throwaway comment? Or perhaps the author is trying to indicate something!!!!

Ffs media literacy is dead.

You're the one making mental gymnastics to justify a position of outrageous bigotry and judgment lol.
You honestly arguing that getting attacked by a giant monster is not a high-pressure situation provoking a reaction you haven't had time to think through just because said reaction had previous events build into it.

That honestly goes for the rest of the nonsense you wrote anyway. Do you think the author had Almelia point out that he didn't care to check up on the person he mortally injured for 10 days for fun? That his offhand comment "let me handle it i can handle it myself" to the steward was just a throwaway comment? Or perhaps the author is trying to indicate something!!!!

Oh look, a point we can agree on! I do agree that the author was trying to show something actually, it's just completely the opposite of what you're thinking.
You think it somehow shows him as being condescending. (Somehow??)
I think it shows he's actually being genuine about the effort since, you know, he's a literal prince who doesn't need to do anything but he's doing this personally anyway even when his servants themselves are arguing he doesn't have to.

I don't see any point in addressing anything else you wrote when you cannot accept the very basic facts of what occurred.

Ah yes, the classic "I don't have any proper argument so I'll just say you're wrong and pretend that arguing is beneath me." method! The hallmark of people stuck in their ways and refusing to even consider the notion of anything else.

Whatever I will ignore that as well as accept the concession from you then. I can tell you don't even know the origin of 'misandry' or by who started to spread it. I don't even know who you are fighting for, a dumbass prince in a yuri manga or for yourself. If it's for yourself, then buddy, I don't care that much about you to even attack you no matter your gender, go take a walk.

Oh look, another one right there! Must be in season.

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So much misandry in here, sheesh

This has to be a joke. Misandry? Did you really read any of these comments or is the prince's tendency to overreact and misread situations shared? I'm really not sure how we're not getting what the author is communicating. This chapter doubled down to make things even clearer, even more blunt, yet still? He has major character flaws, and they were the focus of these two chapters.

The fact that you think this chapter made his character less nuanced is absolutely wild to me.

Man sees a monster attacking and panic-attacks it, accidentally injuring a bystander in the process.
Man acknowledges that he screwed up and pledges to apologize and make amends however he can.
Man (rationally) thinks he's been scammed when the victim is suddenly magically healed of an injury that is widely known for a fact to be impossible to recover from and (rationally but incorrectly) assumes it must have been a ploy to garner influence over his family, the ROYAL family.

"Wow he's such a toxic person!"

Are you serious?

Trying to pretend misandry isn't real.
lol

Can you think of examples where so called misandry has shaped laws, institutions, or systemic practices in a way that disadvantages men? Do not include the ones that are born from patriarchal ideals and toxic masculinity, but purely from believing men are less than women. I am gonna wait.

And what part of "misandry" says that it has to be part of a system of government in order to be misandry?

Are you just dumb?
Do you not understand the basic concept of "If you assume a thing about someone exclusively because of their gender status as a man, not because there are any facts supporting the assumption, that is misandry."?

friend, i know you think you're rolling with the punches but you're actually just making yourself look more foolish. maybe take a minute to reflect why everyone is disagreeing with you. here's a hint, it has nothing to do with the specific details of the characters' actions in this fantasy story.

It doesn't matter how many people shout that 1+1=3 it's still not true.

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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.

Yes it resulted in disaster and yes it wasn't a good solution, but spur-of-the-moment panic reactions seldom are.
Furthermore, the story does explicitly state and show that he acknowledges his mistake and fully intended to both apologize and make amends in whatever way he could, to such an extent that he wouldn't even allow his servants to take over the responsibility of arranging it even when requested to do so by said serving staff.

The fact that you lot somehow are under the delusion that this is in any way indicative of deep callousness and narcisissm on his part is absolutely wild.

Not out of a sense of guilt or compassion. Because in his words, he is capable of "clearing up the mistakes he caused." Since he was surprised by the regrowth, he evidently not once bothered to actually have someone tell him about Serina's condition and how she's doing given that she had her arm obliterated by him.

This is literally just you leaping to random assumptions to validate your irrational judgment.
You don't know if he felt any guilt, and the mere fact that he is apologizing and working on the compensation personally despite being a literal prince who could've just not bothered and been just fine is evidence to the exact opposite of what you're supposing; he clearly does understand that he messed up and does sincerely feel a need to make genuine amends.

You can't simply "assume" he doesn't care just because he hasn't asked about the specifics of her health in a few days, he's a literal prince ffs, he's got shit to do and he already knows she lost an arm and has no reason to think anything about that has or would change.

You'd think her mental and physical condition would be on his mind, but it wasn't. (probably because he didnt give a fuck, but what do I know.) So once again, it's about his ego - which was why he wanted the steward to not get involved or assist him, so he can prove himself strong and capable.

This is literally just more assumption bullshit.

So instead of being happy that nobody got maimed, he assumed he was fooled by, in your words, a ploy. Which in his own words "makes a fool out of [him]," indicating that his rage is the direct result of looking neither strong nor capable.

There is no choice being made in this situation lol, he lives in a medieval society that, while yes it has magic, it's well known and established that regrowing limbs is simply not possible.

Therefor, when someone he believes he has maimed by mistake shows up with their limb magically back, how would it in any way make sense to assume she just happened to randomly performed a medical miracle?

How does it NOT make perfect sense to instead assume something much more rational and possible?
For instance, that the person was clearly never actually injured in the first place, since healing said injury should be medically impossible. But why would they then have lied about being injured? Oh right, he's a crown prince of the f***king kingdom who probably gets people trying to scam their way into the royal family's influence on the daily.

His assumption makes complete and utter sense from his perspective, it just so happens to not be true, and does not in any way actually indicate any undue ego beyond what would be required to hold his station in the monarchy.

He is garbage. And you are making excuses for him when it is literally all about his ego to prove himself strong and capable. Is it a human response? Oh yes, I've met many people like him in the past. They're the type of scumbags that bludgeon their wife to death with a golf trophy over their feelings.

More baseless assumptions of malicious intent completely disregarding any and all context and the specifics of the situation. I'm beginning to see a pattern here.

Misandry
lol

Trying to pretend misandry isn't real.
lol

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Misandry isn't real.

And like that, you've invalidated everything you could possibly have to say about the matter.

Seriously, how do people say things this crazy and not hear it themselves?

So much misandry in here, sheesh.

The prince attacked a monster in a moment of life-and-death panic and someone got hurt by accident, a perfectly human reaction, and then he went out of his way to apologize and try to make up for what he caused.

He only got angry with Serina because he assumed the injury must have been staged or something as a ploy to get the royal family indebted to her since no one can regrow limbs, he made a perfectly logical deduction that simply happens to be wrong in this particular case.

Jesus, some people here are so quick to cry "garbage" at male characters just for being male and making mistakes.

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H-Holy crap Raimu is stacked!
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/im_the_only_one_for_miyaji_miyuki_ch05#17

First chapter had be iffy because it felt very unfocused but 2 and 3 have been great fun and digestible.