Now that is what I call a Genki girl. She radiates it, awesome.

Also looks like someone is having some pretty gay dreams about that 19 year old, mmhmm

What? They hugged and then got soaking wet. What's so gay about that?

Wait, I'll come in again . . .

LMAO!

The reality is relationships are hard. Building a life together is hard. I appreciate how the story handled the couple's naïve idea that they could just run away together, live in an idyllic countryside, and all their problems magically go away.

As a wise man once said, "Wherever you go, you're still there."

I dunno about this. Relationships aren't THAT hard when the world isn't throwing crap at you. And where you are does matter--places are not all just the same, and going somewhere else can genuinely solve problems. So for instance, if your problem is that you're gay and it's illegal for you to get married, and you go somewhere that it's legal, that problem just magically went away.
The kind of fatalism that says it doesn't matter what place you are in is ultimately not different from the fatalism that says nothing can change in the place you are already at.

It was a good chapter, but I don't understand its title. "Japanese Rowan"? What is that?

The credits have an explanation.
Meanwhile, at this point is there some reason she didn't just TELL her the broken sword was a fake?

But how would they have drama otherwise? You can't just have people behave like reasonable adults, there is no content in that.

She's explains (and the manga has shown) that the princess is in a terrible mental state and depends on that sword to keep her somewhat mentally stable. "Somewhat," yet she still hasn't been eating, barely sleeping and is so unhealthy and weak that she faints regularly. She could barely complete basic magic because of her state. She is clearly, dangerously depressed (with little care for herself) and there's no knowing what she would do if she found out that the sword, which she thinks holds the memories of her family within it and her only current purpose in life, were fake.

That made some sense until the sword BROKE. Which would be harder on a person?
1. Believing that she is holding a fake version of the important sword she depends on, but the real one presumably exists somewhere and she might be able to retrieve it (and incidentally the reason she can't contact her parents through it is not that she's inadequate but that the sword is fake),
or
2. Believing that she not only does not have the important sword she depends on, not only failed to use it properly, but it no longer exists at all, because SHE BROKE IT, making her responsible for irreparable damage to her kingdom, and, in general, everything ALL HER FAULT?

At this point, the "avoiding sword-related trauma" ship has sailed. The truth strikes me as a LOT less traumatic than what she currently believes.

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It was a good chapter, but I don't understand its title. "Japanese Rowan"? What is that?

The credits have an explanation.
Meanwhile, at this point is there some reason she didn't just TELL her the broken sword was a fake?

I smell a time-skip, or at least some serious compression. This chapter cleared the deck for Nagisa to head for his endgame, which it's pretty clear is:
Graduate, move out, get into the kind of study he wants, show some awesome, court her as an independent adult

If we want to fit that into the couple of chapters before the (axe comes down?) end, that means a rather quick push forward.

This feels like one of those comedy bits where someone shoulder-charges the "locked" door only to have it opened just as they get there.

When I was reading the bit where she thinks about smile and frown lines and her story on her face, I was imagining the mangaka saying "Yeah, so I want to write a manga where the main characters are old, because their faces are so much more interesting to draw!"

What is it with Japanese girls and horse heads?

I've been a sucker for this kind of story in the past, but I'll be honest--the driver for running away together has to be a bit bigger than "I feel kind of angsty and aimless and I don't feel like my fairly adequate stepmother understands me".

I mean, nobody has even told them they can't be together, let alone pushed the rich girl into an arranged marriage or something. Sometimes kids are actually just being kind of dumb.

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Are the othe Vampires/Lilu guys not immortal too?
Why are they chill with eternity then?

If nothing else, they're mostly a LOT younger.
Also, they're idiots. Probably takes longer to get tired of eternity if you're an idiot.

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In a way, all these isekai-into-a-story-you-have-read stories are in effect time travel stories already. So I guess it's "Hey, I heard you like time travel! Here, I put time travel on your time travel so you can . . ."

in my opinion she is the biggest victim in the story.

In a story that didn’t have any victims at all until she came along and started creating them . . .

Yes, well, I think she's the biggest victim because she is by far the closest to the person creating victims, which is to say her. She's her own biggest victim.
It's not unrealistic, mind. Some people have really crappy instincts that just lead them to do self-destructive things.

Awww man, so if it's the last week of their contract, we won't see it for quite a few chapters. Unless we have a short time skip, which would suck worse since the premise will end sooner

How far are they in the contract at this point (chapter)?

She said they only had 23 days left, so assume they've been together at least seven days. So we've got quite a bit left

Well, presumably it will get either extended or transformed in some way, rather than just end, so I'm fine whether there's a time skip or no. Well, it would be a bit jarring if they just did the first 1/4 and skipped the rest entirely, but I can certainly see the time moving a bit quicker now that they've settled into thing a bit.

It was nice. I was kind of surprised it turned into a fairly long series, really--at the beginning it seemed like a sort of three chapters or so kind of thing. So I feel like I got a lot more than I had any right to expect.

Surprising a cat . . . with a cucumber?! Do cucumbers surprise cats? What is this?

Sensei: "You want me . . ."
Girl: "Yes!!!"
Sensei: "That wasn't the end of the sentence."

As a french guy, wtf was that french sentence??? It is really weird x)

It was a bad attempt by a Japanese teenager.

Have you seen this ghost? Cause she is cute.

Meanwhile--so it was Jiang's first kiss, and it apparently affected her deeply . . . and she's rating the other side's kissing skills.

....idiot couple

Yes, well, they're IDIOTS, and they're going to be a COUPLE, but I'm not sure that's quite the same . . . "couple of idiots" more like. :D

On the latest chapter intro page: I'm sorry mangaka, but it is not a mystery.

Well, I'm glad they stopped at pinkies. For a moment it looked like they were going to go all the way to handholding in ch.2!

Man, that was some of the most heavy-handed "subtext" I've ever seen.
Not that I'm complaining, it's fun. But it's to the point where I'm thinking "Oh, come on, you CANNOT be oblivious to what you just said there!"

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p.s I assume her lower half on the credit page is a photoshop job- no way that topless image is from somewhere in the series right?

Her being topless is a photoshop, but that image is from the chapter where she and Michiru do a photoshoot after school with Airi stripping down to her bra and the headmaster lady assumes that Airi is being bullied.

It is not a photoshop, it is from a later chapter, Chapter 47 to be exact.

(Fans self) Getting hot in here.