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

For instance, why the (still unseen) king has gone out of his way to order by royal decree that the Black Knight has to marry someone.

That's an incredibly unusual and suspicious decree, certainly not something a ruler would ever do outside of extreme- or specific circumstances, and strongly suggests that either the King has a personal relationship to Frost or she is of truly immense importance.

See this page: https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/i_want_to_make_black_knight_fall_in_love_with_me_ch02#19

Basically the king didn't want the high ranking noble house (and the associated territory) to go without an heir. How this matters when Frost was able to succeed the previous Black Knight is unclear.

That's not really a sufficient explanation imo.
I don't think I'm getting across just how outrageous it is for a king to have ordered the "patriarch" of a seemingly unrelated noble house to get married by royal decree no matter what. Not married to anyone in particular, just married.

It doesn't matter to a king who rules any particular territory and a noble house's succession prospects are none of their concern. Whether a noble house goes extinct or gets replaced by another doesn't matter to a ruler unless it's either their house, a house they care about for personal reasons or a house of immediately vital importance either to the royal family or the kingdom.

IE: Either Frost is objectively incredibly important to the kingdom or they have some kind of relationship with the royal family.

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That sounds metal, but I do not think that it's very plausible, for two reasons: first, the dragon was said to have been red, not black. I know it sounds somewhat silly, but color-coding is traditionally important in henshin plots. Secondly, while this page clearly shows that the BK armor corrupts its wearer in some way, it's quite a leap from there to turning into dragons. If the previous BK turned into that dragon from wearing the armor, I do not see a plausible sequence of events of how that armor ended up with Frost. IMO it still makes much more sense that the prev. BK was defeated by the dragon (possibly weakened by the corruption), and Frost took up her armor in her honor. She did not have to kill her mentor with her own hands to be traumatized by her sudden and gruesome death.

None of that is much of a narrative obstacle imo, nor is it particularly contradictory to my proposed theory.
Given that Frost summons her armor and it appears bonded to her beyond being simply something she wears, it's not unlikely it can change/is defined by the wearer to some extent, possibly even being a literal manifestation of the wearer in some way. (Curse? Hereditary power? A seal against great evil passing from vessel to vessel?)

Her predecessor's armor may simply have looked different from hers, such as incorporating more red into the design, because she was a different person; or it may have even been a different armor "set" altogether and each "Black Knight" manifests their own design.

Furthermore, it's also possible that turning into a dragon made it more red to be further representative of the wearer having lost control and becoming "corrupted" by literally shifting the color scheme, and her actual armor wasn't as red as the dragon.

Your other "points" are indirectly already explained with the above possibilities.

Actually, the more I think about it, the more I'm starting to think I might be onto something because pieces fall into place quite nicely. For instance, why the (still unseen) king has gone out of his way to order by royal decree that the Black Knight has to marry someone.

That's an incredibly unusual and suspicious decree, certainly not something a ruler would ever do outside of extreme- or specific circumstances, and strongly suggests that either the King has a personal relationship to Frost or she is of truly immense importance.

Like, for instance, being a Barrier Maiden holding off an evil force and thus inherently requiring an eventual successor... for example an offspring?

Calling it now: Frost is a Jinnchuriki.

Can we just appreciate for a moment how handsome the two leads look in casual clothes in this chapter? Also, the new pairing (Violet x Shion?) are very easy on the eye, too. I am assuming they rep the Graat company?

My guess is that the previous Black Knight was the woman whom Frost keeps seeing in her flashbacks. Frost must have picked up her armor after her death, which explains why she is so clumsy in using it.

My theory is that the "dragon" that attacked is the previous black knight and that's why the "Black Knights" are special compared to other knights. They have a unique power (The armor?) but it comes at the risk(?) of losing control and turning into a dragon and that's what happened to the last one. It's also why Frost is so closed off, because she had to fight (and kill?) her predecessor whom she cared about, and she's worried about getting close to anyone in case she ever transforms herself.

Fujiyama is truly peak girl failure and needs to be protected!

I can't read runes, is she exactly 2 meters?

Also, they are exactly the perfect height difference that Clarice could literally use Frost as a bed and her enormous chest as pillows.

Protag has big Kazuma energy only without the insufferable attitude, I love it!
Speaking of lovely things, BIG MUSCLE MOMMY KNIGHT, YES PLEASE.

I love that Frost is actually gigantic. Even in stories where the protag and love interest have a size difference it's typically because one is excessively short, but protag here is normal height and Frost is just a MOUNTAIN of a woman.

This "kyousuki" stuff sounds more fucked up than reality TV usually is. Teenagers?! I guess in a country where the "idol" garbage is acceptable I shouldn't be surprised, but still ...

...What's wrong with teenagers dating teenagers?

Wingman is winging it in more ways than one I see!

Should this be tagged “age gap”?

Not unless it turns yuri at some point.

Oh god. Nothing would ruin this more for me.

She's fucking TEN YEARS OLD. The other one is fucking THIRTY. That would be so fucking disgusting. Just gross.

Well you can thank the editor for that one because originally the Author wanted her to be a teenager which is still weird but still better than loli

I mean, as of right now, barring any future unknown changes, her being an impressionable young kid actually makes story more enjoyable.

It's also really the only thing keeping the basic plot together since an older person would've absolutely seen through Fujiyama's laughably obvious bullshit. Her naivete is literally a plot point that's much easier to accept thanks to her age.

Moving on:
New girl once again proving her chest bindings are the fabled chest bindings of legend, capable of binding even the most badonka of donkas!
Fujiyama tripping trying to get between them, she really is the ultimate adorable girl failure isn't she?

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I would not have guessed this was yuri if it wasn't for the tag. I didn't see a hint of attraction between the two, even while they were bathing.

I'm only worried that if they started anything that they would be burned at the stake for being lesbians, or unmarried, or literate.

I’d honestly be more worried about the fact that the witch lady almost certainly isn’t Christian. You could get away with a lot in the Middle Ages depending on where you lived and who you’re local leaders were, but religious differences? That was the kind of thing that got your house burned down by an angry mob. Especially during the plague, when people were especially desperate to find a scapegoat to punish for their suffering.

Also, I’m still not sure where the idea that it was illegal for medieval women to be literate came from. Nuns and nobles were oftentimes literate, and as far as I know there were never any laws prohibiting the lowborn people of either sex from learning how to read, even if it was uncommon. I don’t think there were ever any laws about women being unmarried either (although they did have fewer rights than even their married counterparts). Lesbianism, on the other hand… yeah, that could be an issue, but hey, maybe the lord in this story is cool with that kind of thing.

I doubt lesbianism would be held as an issue considering several other factors shown just in chapter 1 alone.
Firstly, the local Lord is so remarkably friendly and open that he's apparently out and about chatting with random commoners in town, even regional outsiders, and encouraging open-mindedness towards the supernatural.

If you've ever read a single page of medieval history, you'll know that's comically unrealistic for a medieval nobleman to even consider doing like this; showing that he's clearly (to the point of caricature) an idealized modern image of a "good nobleman" with few of the prejudices, fears or restrictions that a real one would've had. He's clearly there to smooth over some of the rougher parts of medieval society that the story doesn't want to deal with, at least yet. (That's not criticism mind you, I don't mind it, I'm just pointing it out)

Secondly, seeing as witches were believed to literally copulate with Satan and that all magic was derived from his favour, the fact alone that the locals and Lord are explicitly accepting of the "witch" despite presumably being faithful Christians and honestly believing her to be a witch already kinda renders lesbianism inconsequential by comparison. Being a lesbian at that point would be orders of magnitude less heretical, like accepting someone committing murder but then getting upset about jaywalking.

Holy crap, a HISTORICALLY ACCURATE isekai that actually teaches you real things about medieval europe!?

-And so, they were both tops!

A cute tomboy hothead in jeans, chest bindings and a leather jacket?
IS IT MY BIRTHDAY ALREADY!?

(Also those chest bindings are putting in WORK.)

they very much THINK is toxic

what

I don't see the confusion.
They think she was knowingly three-timing them behind each others' backs, which most people will agree is a very bad thing to do and quite toxic. She wasn't, but they think she was, that is their POV of the situation. The entire premise of the plot so far is that she fails to clarify this so disastrously over-the-top that it's supposed to be funny.

Not sure if I like how MC handled the situation, but grumpy girl is HOT so I'm in.
Seriously, the hair over one eye and the prominent fangly teeth, then the blush...

The fact that the MC is handling things poorly (an understatement tbh) could've been narratively fine, but the real issue imo is how all of her love interests are essentially (unintentionally) charmed into engaging in a relationship that they very much THINK is toxic but they're convinced to be fine with it because they "love her" enough to ignore the huge red flags.

Usually you want to make relationships with a start like this one work by clarifying that the red flags were imagined or a misunderstanding, but so far this story seems to be running on the premise that the girls still believe the red flags to be true and just choose to ignore them out of blind faith, which is absolutely NOT a healthy way to approach relationships.

This is literally how plenty of real abusive relationships start, ignoring someone's red flags until you're too emotionally attached to leave even after they become explicit and destructive. They're essentially just getting lucky the MC isn't actually a scumbag and won't actually take advantage of them knowingly.

The Legendary Hero put something in the genepool to make the frickin' Demons Gay!

Since when does checking out a club equal having signed up for it?
I hate it when characters make blatantly ridiculous leaps in logic just to facilitate a misunderstanding for the plot, and as interesting as this is so far, it seems to be absolutely running on that as it's bread and butter.

How does saying "I'll do all of it" bind her to join 2 clubs just she got a text message about visiting? No one who can misunderstand that is even there to hear it to misunderstand it in the first place! She's acting like she has to commit to something she just told herself and no one else knows about! At BEST she's promised to join the gardening club and the part-time job, and even the part about having to join the gardening club is debatably contrived too!

WOMAN. TALK. WORDS. USE. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

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Muscle Mommies are usually my jam, but Fuyama is honestly drop-dead gorgeous already and doesn't need to diet at all imo. Judging by how THICC the artist draws her normally, I have a feeling they agree anyways.

I just realized two things. First, the summary specifies that all the students at this school are orphans, which I don't think came up in the first chapter, but feels pretty significant.

Second, she's just starting middle school, so she's what, 12? That makes the "find a lover" command even more weird. Are there any other possible interpretations or connotations that could have been lost in translation, like the Villainess thing, or that she might be missing in universe?

"Lover" in japanese is not as much of a sexually loaded term as it is in english.
In Japan, a partner is typically called your "lover" regardless of age or actual sexual status, it's generally more of a straight-up synonym for boyfriend/girlfriend than in english.

The manga is literally called "the role of the femme-fatale" are we sure "villainess" isn't supposed to be translated as "femme fatale"? Especially since "Villainess" is a generic evil person whereas "femme fatale" is specifically associated with seduction, which is the only angle I can see as to why she was given the role because of her questionnaire answer.

I know that villainess yuri has become something of a genre in recent times, and it's one that I quite enjoy myself, but I don't think the term should be misused just to be fit into the genre if that's why it was done.

...I swear, for a solid minute there I thought she called the song "Maths 3-3 Koga Mitsuki"

...This mangaka's creativity is seriously underrated.
I was not expecting to see bondage wasps this morning, but here we are!

New kouhai!
...Shit, she's adorable. T_T

Intelligent lifeform without blood? Did I miss something? I thought she was a human before?!

I think "blood" in that instance is still being used as a metaphor for "magic."

Because the Protag didn't have magic at all in her previous life, she's now hypersensitive to it because it's something about her anatomy that's completely alien compared to what it used to be.

Though I agree it was a bit confusingly worded and took me a bit to get as well.