Nice choice of alias there. "Schwartz" is just German for "black."

Why does Lapis have to let her go?

I assume that she thinks that she doesn't deserve her or that she won't be good for her. Not an uncommon plot element to see in these sorts of stories.

What makes an isekai is the whole “dying and reincarnating” thing,

It's not. The "dying and reincarnating" thing only became a trend in isekai stories relatively recently. Most classic isekai stories involved traveling to another world through a portal or the like and ended with returning home.

Time travel can also be a form of isekai. Arguably one of the progenitors of the genre is "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" by Mark Twain (especially the trope of bringing modern technology and culture to the other world), and there are other examples like "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century", "Futurama" and "Planet of the Apes".

Maybe Alice didn't show up because she s not the protagonist of a folk fairy tale, but of a modern(ish) book.

This, yeah. Alice in Wonderland isn't actually a fairy tale, much less one from Grimm's Fairy Tales. It's a novel by Lewis Carroll from 1865.

BTW, I googled the exchange rate, and apparently the amount that she stole is equivalent to about US$14,000. So she didn't exactly get rich off of this.

Excuse my nitpicking, that just happens what I based my entire personality around:

First of all, we need to account in inflation. Assuming the story takes place in the futuristic year of 2006 (based on her mother leaving in 1984) ¥117'600 would equal about ¥176'428, which is more like 24 grand. Additionally, roughly approximating living costs via the BigMac index, these have a 50~100% higher relative spending power. So whilst it might not seem much, it's a rather realistic estimate for what a single-income lower-middle class household can build in savings over 3 to 6 years.

I actually really appreciate those kinds of details, so thanks!

BTW, I googled the exchange rate, and apparently the amount that she stole is equivalent to about US$14,000. So she didn't exactly get rich off of this.

Six years of living together and fucking is one hell of a long con to carry out just to steal the savings of a factory worker. Was this just impulsive and opportunistic when she realized how long she'd been stuck with the same sugar momma?

That confusion at the end made no sense, how would one mistake have my way with your body with making you a maid uniform? That was waaaay too big a stretch just to deliver the usual joke, I could have take it if maybe she mistook it with giving her a massage or something, but that just made no sense.

yeah I just assumed after reading this that it's something impossible or very hard to translate, it was very weird

For clarity, the original Japanese was おじょうさまのカラダあたしの自由にさせて？

Google Translate says that it means, "Let me do as I please with your body, my lady?" Which is, uh... theoretically possible to interpret as dressing her up but anyone would assume that meant something sexual.

Impassioned servitude. Ha! I just don't get what that nun brings. There was no need for more comic relief.

Lily's more involved in the conspiracy than she realizes....

I think the servant is assuming that the Princess will back her play and corroborate her story, and probably fake being more hurt than she actually is, to suit the Dowager's schemes. Still super risky to do without knowing that the Princess is actually on-board. Laying hands on a royal sounds like a good way to get brutally executed.

I have a great fondness for this one-shot. Kinda wish it was a series. I love the fourth-wall-breaking, the satire of the harem genre that examines how it treats its female characters, and the yuri twist ending.

Why hasn't this manga been adapted into an anime, even though it's finished? Because Yukiko-sensei doesn't want to or is there another reason?

Lots of manga don't get anime adaptations. Most of them, even.

I'm a bit surprised that we still are going with the Moderate amounts of sex tag.

This manga has "moderate" amounts of sex?!?!?!?

I'd love to meet the taggers who made that choice and ask them exactly what it is that they call lots and heaps and truckloads of sex.

I think the "moderate" is used since not their full body is shown during the r-18 scenes (the most important part is usually out of frame or pseudo-censored). I don't mind this at all though

This is just guesswork, but I think that the difference between "moderate amounts of sex" and "lots of sex" is what proportion of the work is dedicated to sex scenes versus non-sex scenes. There are definitely manga on this site where the majority of pages feature sex acts. Whereas this chapter had 17 pages of nudity out of 36, which is (just barely) less than half, so the majority of the chapter is not sex.

Am I missing something? Why would they need body armor?

I'm not entirely sure that it's functional armor and not just there for the aesthetic, even in-universe. One of the vests looks suspiciously like the ones worn by the adult ninjas in Naruto, and like those seems to have a seam (or even a zipper) running down the centerline in the front... a place that you absolutely do not want a seam on body armor, because that means that you're putting a gap or weak point right over the most vital organs. The other looks like fairly realistic tactical gear, but I can't tell if she has an actual carrier with armor or just a load-bearing vest that has pouches for carrying equipment and ammo that would be worn over armor.

Look it's not like I'm trying to be the bad guy here, but she just told this girl, who is supposedly her best friend and who she has been living with for a year, that she had a girlfriend this whole time and she never said a word because she was scared she would treat her like a creep. That's just mean.

I repeat: when was it ever implied that Fukami was Kaze's best friend?

It wasn't really implied, Kase says so herself. And people have been commenting on it, because I don't think any one of the readers saw them as best friends? So it's a bit ironic to have Kase randomly say that, while not having shown them act as friends at all.

Wow, okay, I completely missed that. Certainly didn't feel like they were besties in their previous interactions.

Look it's not like I'm trying to be the bad guy here, but she just told this girl, who is supposedly her best friend and who she has been living with for a year, that she had a girlfriend this whole time and she never said a word because she was scared she would treat her like a creep. That's just mean.

I repeat: when was it ever implied that Fukami was Kaze's best friend? They were assigned to room together randomly (as happens in college) and they don't seem to spend any time together socially outside of sports. Kaze had no reason to trust Fukami with with something so personal. (She also had no reason to let Fukami dictate whether or not she could move out, which is where the frustration with this arc comes from.)

What a crazy amount of trust to have in your """best friend""". It's not like you had a year to figure out if she was homophobic... oh wait.

Not her best friend. Hardly a friend at all. Just her randomly-assigned roommate that she doesn't even seem to have that much social interaction with or know that well. And they're both closeted, so I doubt either one of them wanted to broach the subject.

Yeah, it's tasteful and softcore, but there's explicit nudity with visible nipples.

My imagination of the Runa scene was a much more realistic and bloody image. In the manga she's strangely... okay looking? Like clearly fucked up but it's not like her cheeks were torn, she's not covered in a ton of blood. It's like she was "modified" in some way rather than "injured". Very different to the brutality with which Uruma treated her mother. It's unsettling in a completely different way from straightforward violence.

I had always imagined her face was brutalised too, but as soon as I saw her face in this chapter, I was like, oh right, she's become more of a Fourth Kind, that Satsuki did more of an otherside melt on her face than she did physical harm.

I feel like the book definitely indicated a brutalization, rather than a transformation. She had stitches and scars afterwards from the doctors' attempts to repair the damage.

Are the novels translated officially or fan translation?

The first eight novels have been officially translated and published in English by J-Novel Club, and are available for purchase wherever books are sold. I bought the ebook versions from Barnes & Noble.

This might be the chapter that felt the most like a blatant advertisement and was least able to hold my interest.

That last panel did a really good job of making her smile seem forced and nervous. It's subtle but impressive detail on the part of the artist.

This story was also originally a series of light novels, which are available in English, if one wants to read ahead that way.

now I haven't read the novels but I do wonder if we'll ever see how Satsuki sees all this herself, because like it's been made a point that Sorawo and Toriko's perspective on things change so drastically after treks to the otherside that like they've talked to each other in pure nonsense babbling that made sense to them because the way they have to look at things in the otherside is just so increasingly not-human.

Like Satsuki has to have gone through that but much much worse and I'd love to see a moment from her perspective one day where she's like "yes tearing out the eyeballs and skinning them alive the perfectly logical thing to do here"

After this point, the characters are pretty well convinced that there's nothing human left of Satsuki, if what they're seeing is even any part of Satsuki at all and not just something that the Otherside created in her form. In Book 7 they hold a funeral for Satsuki to get closure and put the Satsuki "ghost" that's been stalking them to rest.

^ The meme picture that it's parodying is Safe-For-Work in itself but it's apparently from the start of a pornographic video.