Could be worse. Could be India.

Whoa. Quite the bad stuff she went through. Hope she's doing well.

You know, it occurs to me that the title of this is pretty misleading. I haven't actually read the last few chapters because the tenor of the conversation here kind of warned me off. But what I'm saying is, the title would imply that first you get the Sturm und Drang, and then afterwards it gets happy. But as far as I can tell that, like, doesn't happen at all.

I love when romcom/slice of life stuff randomly just inserts some sort of supernatural shit and plays it completely straight

Not sure "completely straight" describes anything going on here.

You know, I have totally lost track of what's going on in this. I'm not sure I can even remember who any of the characters are, let alone what their deal is. Somebody likes drinking, at least one person is into them . . . and . . . stuff . . .

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And from that day on, Itou became hypervigilant about sex jokes.
(projecting)

Learning to recognize crude jokes and how to use them as expected was a difficult skill that took up so much of my time as a teenager. Masking is exhausting...

Of course, now that I've learned the skill, I feel obligated to use it when the opportunity strikes.

I never really got the hang of the typical North American version of that . . . I learned the Monty Python era nerd variant with roots more in British humour.

Guess next chapter will be the last with the protagonist getting executed ...

... don't really get what's specifically "matching" with those outfits, gotta say ^^#

Looks to me like the protagonist has an extra layer, but sticking out from under and above the black over-whatever you can see what looks rather like the same skirt edge and stuff.

"Would a normal person really talk so casually about wearing human skin?"

Says the person who's casually holding said human skin like a shawl. They be matching each other's freak

And indeed, the person knowledgeably discussing the spices needed to preserve human skins so you can wear them.

By itself, that stuff would just mean these two are serious psychos. But now I have bigger questions about the setting.
Apparently, not only does the princess know about spices that can preserve human skins so you can wear them, this is just a known thing in the culture, so a random antagonist can be saying "So, could be this princess will kill someone and try to wear their skin because that's a totally normal thing for a princess on the run to be doing, better check the spice merchants to see who's been buying the 'Human Skin Preservation' Dan-D-Pak."

WTF?!

"Normal is different for everyone"--wise words, little sister, wise words.

Smol!Bat!Shirotae is adorable.

Yeah, I'm iffy on this, but I think I'll keep reading it for the bat.

Normally I'd make a lewd joke about putting her clothes over a pillow to hug/smell while she sleeps or masturbates to but this is a smol child and that would be gross.

This comment is oddly unconvincing coming from that particular avatar.

Fancy restaurant's food is a bit odd. The deserts look very good, no problem there. But the main course . . . so you have some minimalist well-presented spaghetti, sure, that's fairly fancy or can be. A big slab of . . . salmon? Tuna? Well, reasonable, but it doesn't look like they did much with it, it's really basic. I dunno.

But then there's what appears to be salisbury steak (aka hamburger) with a fried egg on top and some thick-cut fries . . . really? So the most exclusive restaurant in town is serving diner food. Annnd, there's some bacon and eggs. So the most exclusive restaurant in town is serving ALL-DAY BREAKFAST diner food. Do better research, people.

Bro thinks that what constitutes upper and lower class cuisine remains static over time

Oh, please. I know a fair bit about food in different European time periods, and to the best of my knowledge that has never been an upper class thing. There was weird medieval upper class food; it did not resemble modern Asian or North American diner food. In any case, the setting is basically 18th century vague Europe without guns, so not that far back. The whole concept of "fancy restaurant" didn't really exist in medieval times. The hamburgerish-steak with a fried egg on top is mostly just a modern Asian thing, probably never existed before fairly late 20th century, although maybe it existed in real US diners somewhat before that and disappeared since the Asians borrowed it.

Next time think for two seconds before you get snide.

Oof, that was hard to watch. I trust Elsa and Yvonne to put a stop to it, but to think there was that kind of black market under the capital... what the hell is the royal family doing ?!

I think it's a rule lately that all isekai-setting webtoons with nobility and stuff have to include at least one degenerate illegal slave auction scene.

This is a serious speedrun.

They've confessed mutual love, and NOW people are saying it isn't getting anywhere?

Funny, I had this weird intuition. Normally, I read a manga chapter, then probably go to the comments. This time I thought, "For this manga, I think maybe I want to go to the comments first and see whether I'll hate the latest developments". And lo and behold, I hate them. Might bother to read the chapter, might not, but at least I'm forewarned--thank you, fellow commenters!

As we always knew: It's not easy, being green.

I feel like my baseline understanding of how this manga works has been seriously violated. They appear to have introduced a character who is not an idiot.

Fancy restaurant's food is a bit odd. The deserts look very good, no problem there. But the main course . . . so you have some minimalist well-presented spaghetti, sure, that's fairly fancy or can be. A big slab of . . . salmon? Tuna? Well, reasonable, but it doesn't look like they did much with it, it's really basic. I dunno.

But then there's what appears to be salisbury steak (aka hamburger) with a fried egg on top and some thick-cut fries . . . really? So the most exclusive restaurant in town is serving diner food. Annnd, there's some bacon and eggs. So the most exclusive restaurant in town is serving ALL-DAY BREAKFAST diner food. Do better research, people.

Most of her behaviour might scan for oblivious and vaguely self-absorbed, with or without specific mental disorder explanations. But I remember that one scene with her and the husband. He was unhappy, and I believe worried she would hurt Hikaru, and the response was something like "What are you gonna do about it?"

That isn't ignorance. That's "I know I'm gonna fuck shit up and I don't care". So no, I don't buy an ignorance excuse. She's either being written as lying or self-contradictory, or the manga itself is inconsistent.

Plan A: Make use of the caravan of villains.
Didn't work.
Plan B: Screw it, just kill them all.
That's so much like what my tabletop RPG players would do.

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Oh please, since you came back in her life you only treat her like your little toy, a puppy you can play with and discard at anytime.

Which, of course, would also be an unforgivable way to treat a puppy.

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Wait, wait . . . BE KILLED?

Something screwy going on. That isn't a threat . . . kid cop there doesn't seem to have a ton against the MC, doesn't seem like the killing type, and the only crime MC'd be accused of at this point is squatting, due to not realizing they own the place. So, if the cop wouldn't be killing them . . . who would? What kind of creepy underbelly does this town have? Is it just that those brick-throwing hicks would go full-on lynching in time and nobody would stop them? Or is there more to it?

You know, there is a wrestling-as-fig-leaf-for-sex gag somewhere in this chapter.

There is a wrestling-as-fig-leaf-for-sex gag EVERYWHERE in this chapter.

I'm definitely liking it so far, but that woman smokes too much. I was thinking "this looks good enough to be worth reading despite a smoking tag", and I'm thinking I was right, but damn girl you should really lay off those things.