Lol her face when he was explaining entropy hahahahahhah so relatable (that's me whenever I try to understand astrophysics). This chapter was hilarious because when the FL thought that Nia "seems to love yapping on and on" I was reminded of how I'd read, not long before in TV tropes, that Nia's "true self" has a reputation for inflicting 17-minute-long speeches on his poor human victims... (so much so that one no longer knows whether you should feel sorrier for them because of this, than for what this "evil god" dude allegedly actually DOES to them...) He loves his torture of the 'less evolved' by incessant monologuing, this dude. ROFL
Still like it, but now want to see the ML get his head out of his arse. The unsolicited touching almost made her fall down a cliff in this chapter, bc she unwittingly stepped backwards trying to avoid it...
Dude, this is getting ridiculous. You've seen her reactions, so either pull her away from the cliff behorehand or keep your paws to yourself altogether.
...And PLEASE tone down on the casually prejudiced, over the top, condescendingly surprised constant comments: "Ooooh so, you're really not afraid of the dark?? I totally thought you would be!! (cause you - unlike my competent female subordinate, right here- definitely look like a wimpy girl who only looks pretty and never learned to wipe her own ass...)" After the 100000000000 time, it stops sounding like a (clumsy) attempt at a compliment, or even remotely funny...
He is a character from H. P. Lovecraft's famous horror stories, and specifically... he is...
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The "blind idiot" supreme alien god, Azathoth
Hahaha what a "warm" welcome... poor papa (￣▽￣'')
(Johan, you're the only one who can talk right now, so, why didn't you warn her first... lmao, first with the crown prince and now this, you stink so BAD at being a brother-in-law)
So the evil shaman drains energy from people till it kills them... just like granny said in chapter 54.
I read up to chapter 24 in other sites (not sure why chaps 23 and 24 are not here yet) but from what I could understand from a conversation between the demon kings in the hell realm:
1) Og human Isabella is stuck as a dog and is under the demon king Lilith's care;
2) the reason angel Gabriel attacked child Bella is because Bella being born as the new Lord of Contracts was a sign that Gabriel's own lover who'd gone missing, the previous Lord of Contracts, was already dead;
3) Dantalion might have a crush on Bella (the mc) and,
4) It wasn't Dantalion that sent Bella back to the human world (and stuck her in ahuman body), but Lilith (the overlord demon king) was the one who had something to do with it, and Lilith did it in order to *help* Bella solve some problem with her own soul or life force, that Bella herself was still pretty much unaware of... Last:
5) The human knight turned emperor that betrayed Bella in the past has been reincarnated again as a human in this lifetime, once more.
And now Johan gets a kiss for free... Lmao, first Rivena induced the FL to pretend being lovers with Johan, then Lizzie (the fake "Yurika") forced her to move in with Johan, and now this... Death-risks aside, I could "almost" swear the villains in this are acting like the best matchmakers EVER.
Just to some commenters babying Seth, or insisting he can't be judged "cause he's a god" (eye roll)... a friendly reminder.
Seth needs to atone (as he's been doing), and he was (and can still be) held accountable for his "crazy era", because:
1) Seth asked his followers to bring women and children to him to be sacrificed (some of them he even killed personally, in order to make himself a sword that was cursed and therefore would be effective against Osiris): in chapter 36, Seth and Osiris talk about how Seth killed women and children so he could make himself a sword with the "curse of the weak" to destroy Osiris. In chapter 39, Isis asks Seth if he had chased her in order to use her as another ingredient to make his cursed sword, just like he did with the human women. In chapter 60, Horus says that when he was a kid, women and children were sacrificed to the supreme god (Seth), and when he arrived where Seth was, as a kid, he was surrounded by dead children that he had killed. In chapter 93, Kuentamen says to Seth that they sacrificed their women to him, he reaped their souls. Then in chapter 95 the cursed souls call Seth a murderer, saying that he only killed the weak like a coward does, and that the reason he only killed women and children was because they were Seth's substitutes for wanting to kill Nephthys and Anubis. The souls tell Seth that they know he killed them and reaped their souls so that their misery would create his cursed sword, the only weapon effective against the undead Osiris. They accuse him of sacrificing their lives and afterlifes to make himself a weapon to protect himself from the undead Osiris. Seth admitted many times that he made the humans bring them women and children so he could kill them and feed their souls to his cursed sword, so that he would have an effective weapon against the undead Osiris.
2) The story says "gods" can be held accountable, and they are. Some of them even start cracking up and spontaneously start self-destructing when they stop self-denial and fully realize they've gone against their divine duty. Isis does in chapter 57 (her fingers start crumbling after she tries to flood the river to destroy Egypt) and Nephthys does in chapter 69 (when she willingly puts her own existence at risk by telling everyone how she ruined the peace with her infidelity, confessing like she told Horus she was willing to do in spite of the risk, and in the same chapter, once she starts her confession her headpiece starts cracking up) and we see Nephthys' headpiece cracking again in the flashback of chapter 162.
People, Horus didn't kill mirror Nephthys, he saw she wasn't even there anymore back in chap 193, which means that what we'd seen before at the end of chap 186 was Nephthys becoming whole again, thanks to Sekhmet and Isis.
ML: "Your moans are better than (listening to) a flute"
FL: 'Why is he talking about flutes? ...So random"
Me: 'Girl... if he's Azathoth, that *flute* can make him go to sleep... so, *maybe* it's the key to your freedom!'
The story's GOOD!! The FL's smart and the ML's an off-the-charts genius bodyguard puppy. The FL is hilariously making her cheating emperor husband's life hell by turning each of his mistresses into *official* royal concubines one by one, forcing him to keep dealing with them on a daily basis and drowning in their eternal fights and drama... (which is more than an incompetent idiot like him can stand). Absolutely brilliant!!
Well, done, ML! She got you those secret letters, so now you get her abusive sister stuck in prison by making the corrupted grandfather unable to go and get her out with brives.
...Haha, I called it. I predicted that not telling their youngest daughter the real reasons for giving their oldest an apparent "preferential treatment" would come back to bite these "parents" in the ass, later on... and it did. Now Blondie totally think they're throwing her under the bus compared to her oldest sister.
Rivena, how about I whisper "turn into a cockroach and stay that way" in your ear every day. ...Wait, that's an insult to cockroaches, so let's go for, "turn into feces and stay that way."
Horus: "How DARE you make me your mistress, only to discard me in order to go back to your wife!" (Me: "Well, before being the 'evil mistress' you where an 'Anubis-wannabe', so I'd say it's still an 'improvement'... Now, stop acting like a rofan villainess, Horus. You said you'd support his freedom of choice, now it's time to walk the talk")
We have a saying, where I live: "If you want someone, let them free, if they come back, then they're yours. If not, they have never been, and never will be")
I think it's implied that the mother's just continuing the cycle of abuse (where she is to blame for not thinking of even trying any better, like the clown she is): her own father, the western duke, used to treat her like crap, which is why now she treats her own unwanted child like crap (and, lady, were you THAT impatient to prove your father right, that you indeed are a worthless vermin, without an ounce of self-pride, to the point that so far you have only dared to shift your grievances on those unprotected enough to be easily preyed on without them being able to strike you back, while you yourself keep cowardly hiding from your "real opressors", like -allegedly- with your ex husband... or, while you yourself even keep *vowing* to them, like with your hated father?). ...I hope at some point they strip the "mother" of her status and send her to pile up horse shit for a living. This woman's so vile, all three of her daughters have grown up with huge issues because of her (because she's a spineless b-- who only knows how to take her misery out on those who -allegedly- can't strike back). She's just an abusive b--- with no concept of what real dignity is, and she's lower than scum.
Sure, go ahead. Now "turning back time" becomes the standard solution to every stupid little problem.
(...she's such an arrogant bi-- . As if I didn't have enough reasons to hate this baby-kindapping, human-experimenting who**... ***she did horrible things to a 'baby; so sorry, not sorry. She deserves that w insult***)
I feel like the husband might have become puritanical out of a constant lack of self-awareness about his own sheer naivete and lack of relationship experience... like, even the inexperienced FL herself might have a broader understanding of these things, than him. Most likely scenario is, that female friend of his is also aware of this, and thus has never seen him even remotely as a love interest (but girl... help a fellow woman by giving this guy a hint, about how to make his wife happy, at least... for jeezaz sake!!)
While it's not as common in Korean webtoons, in Chinese webnovels this is a usual trope: "villains being petty mediocre people who scheme to frame and bring down a talented protagonist, out of sheer envy and their own inferiority complex." This is such a prevalent, used and abused theme, they even have the label of "cannon-fodder villain" exclusively for these types of "pathetically-motivated" villains. They're so recurring, that I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out they had started spreading to the fiction made in other countries.