dunno what she's worried about lol, if she can uproot trees, she's got hurricane level strength - I doubt any chains or walls can hold her. ML's got a better chance with puppy eyes than yandere eyes with MC
Cuz MC never pretends to be a dude, right? Everyone acknowledges she's a woman and she has to face all the challenges that come with being a female soldier, and what she does isn't exactly...crossdressing, right? Isn't it more that there isn't really equipment designed specifically for women?
I wouldn’t call this crossdressing. I think it’s very misleading that it’s labeled as such. Because then you think that she’s disguising as a men, which whoever read this, knows it isn’t true as she suffered a lot because she’s a woman.
yep, that's what I figured too! Still somewhat thankful for the tag because it helped me find this absolute gem of a story when I was just looking for self indulgent gender-bender fluff
late reply, pauli hid her gender initially when she was still in the previous army (not the emperor army), it's very important for her because female unable to join the army normally so it's a valid background story.
gender-bender probably not the right genre, but can be used as a tag. so it's not completely wrong since mangago doesn't have separate tag for something like this
I mean, "Sweetie, sweetie, sweetie" is somehow worse than your generic isekai title, I don't think that word is used even once in the story? It doesn't even have any fantasy/isekai flavor whatsoever, how am I even supposed to know what kind of story I'm picking up??? Might as well call it "read the tags and description you lazy mfs"
Argh, why am I mad at a perfectly good story for such a dumb reason??? ...well, I'm glad I found it tbh. And that it's probably ending soon-ish (right? I hope there isn't some temple arc after this).
Actually it was used once but that's , "Once", and the main leads themselves didn't like the idea of calling the other sweetie but maybe it'll change near the ending since they tried that sweetie nickname in the earlier chapters where they still felt a little awkward with each other, so maybe they'll be more comfortable with the nickname now
noooo the tags don't have horror! Don't tell me half-demon boy is going to just turn out to be some misunderstood badboy!
Still...what's with his personality switch pre-post evil book? He lost a lot of his silliness (probably to suit the tone shift in the story), but I don't see why he was all about retiring peacefully at the start when he was clearly working towards something bigger. Was it that he already took his revenge on the OG betrayers and had no clues about the book so chose to give up or something? Doesn't really match with how tenacious he is after the book reveal, did author just find a cool resolution to the story they wanted to tell?
I'm not complaining tbh. The author does a good job of making him competent and slowly driving up the threat scale. It never feels like he's unbeatable to me. Embarrassingly, I didn't pick up on the "third rate villain" thing being part of MC's skill/curse condition until he literally spelled it out for me. Maybe once this ends, I'll read a wiki or something to figure out what the actual overall timeline was like.
...well, it honestly doesn't have much in the way of romance or pervy moments as of chap 28 at least. At most it has a little too much male gaze centric art, but otherwise it's more like an action manhwa with a few romcom-esque scenes?
MC goes from powerless to OP in the very first chapter, so that steals away some of the tension. Also feels like MC doesn't have all that much of a personality besides 'hypercompetent/overprepared'. Also steals a bit of thunder from the girls due to him being too OP. I really hope they stop making the other charas irrelevant tbh - it'd be a lot more fun if he was more like a weakling most of the time who was the main stratergist for his OP friends or similar - or at least if he didn't outclass them in every way every single time.
I'm still interested in seeing what all the girls turn out like tho. OGProtag seems like she's pretty motivated and fun despite her baggage. OGBoss is your standard kuudere, but she also has her awkward charm. The chancellor is a bit of a creep, especially if she's hitting on one of her students - but I'm chalking that up to this being a harem for now.
> King asks MC to marry an 8 year old
me: wtf, does he want to kill her love life? And scar a child while he's at it?
> King: see, the evil duke who's manipulating said 8 year old wants to get me to betrothe his 12 year old daughter to the kid
me: And you can't just say no? wtf, aren't you a king?
> King: so the only solution is to marry this 8 year old to my 20 year old knight.
me: Or, you could take him under your protection. Or give him a retainer. Or just outlaw child marriage. Take your pick.
> King: He's also loaded so you'll finally have enough money to pay your debts!
me: Or, you could pay her. For fighting in your war. Like a decent employer/ruler. You stingy mf.
> MC: Wow, duke bad! daughter mean! Little boy adorb - must protecc!! I know, I'll marry him!
me: Why??? Can't you just, idk, adopt him or something?
> MC: okie, I spent a few weeks with the child and married him, I'm going to ice myself for a 10 year time skip
me: ...What? So what was all that about protecting him or whatever, you just disappear while the main baddie has full access to the 8 year old? Why even have this premise if you're too much of a coward to explore its implications author-nim?
> MC: Oh how convenient! My 8 year old husband is a very convenient 18! And everyone else is the same age(and position) as pre-timeskip!
me: how nice that you're technically not committing a crime. And how nice that the passage of time affects no one but the child characters.
> MC: Oh? Why is my former child husband so unruly? I didn't raise him like this!
me: You didn't raise him at all - you just f-d off into hyperspace a few weeks after meeting (and marrying) him! Your subordinate who trained him raised him more than you! The evil duke was in his life longer than you! Hell, even his dad who he last saw when he was 3 raised him more than you!
> former child groom: the lady who I saw for a few weeks when I was 8 (and subsequently married) is back! And I love her romantically for some reason!
me: child, how do you even remember someone you met at 8 for a few days? I don't even remember my teachers anymore! What magical memory do you possess???
Thank you for your summary, I didn't go past chapter 3. It's more than enough, not appealing at all.
I thought it was stupid and pedo since the chapter 0, and your summary confirms it. If anything it's actually worse than I thought. Thanks
ooo, nice touch where doing the deed once isn't an instant pregnancy (at least not all the time). haha, there's plenty of melodrama and insanity even without a hidden baby. No clue what happened to the old fiance, did he die or something?
...exhausting archmage. Cuteness doesn't make up for that flavor of literal-minded reality warper.