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I love the new bonus manga. Lieseleta’s picking up “cuteness is justice” from Rozemyne and Ferdinand’s reaction were priceless. :D
But unlike with Damuel and Brigitte, there at least weren’t any boken hears there (other than Tuuli’s anyway). And there is a small hope, that with the desperate need to keep her out of the loop now lessened, if not entirely gone, they might still make it work, if Karin were to ever visit Alexandria and happen to run into Benno there.
I’m really torn on this… on one hand in their world it’d be a great match, would get Benno a wife he gets along with well, after the hardships he endured with Liz and would get Karin out of an enviroment in which she’s likely stigmatized to at least some degree, in part for potentially being seen as “used goods” and in part due to guilt by association with her father, who cost his duchy quite a bit and was punished accordingly.
But on the other hand Benno is at least 15 years older than her (more than 17 Earth years by the way), which is more than Ferdinand and Rozemyne’s 13 years apart, and without the fuzzy factor of Rozemyne’s mind being a mix of the child born in this world and a fully grown adult from Earth.
That Tuuli was in love with Benno, even if just briefly, really caught me off guard. I never would have guessed this.
Damn… I already felt bad for Karin, from what little the main story gave us, but I never considered, how the other Klassenberg people might treat her, after coming back. Considering it was Klassenberg that forced through the purge, I would not be surprised if a certain level of vindictivness were to run in the entire duchy, not just the archduke (or rather former archduke). I hope Otto’s being mistaken here. Or alternatively, that Karin does find a way to come to Alexandria and win Benno’s heart… or rather convince him of the economic benefit of their marriage. I think without the need to keep business secrets from her, they’d get along very well, probably better than many other arranged marriage partners do. And with Benno now being associated very closely to a full-on Aub, not to mention the Divine Avatar of a goddess, even Klassenberg merchants should be a bit weary of messing with him and accidentally getting into trouble over it.
I am rather confused about the gods supposedly not approving of traveling merchants drinking alcohol in a bar… why would the god of alcohol exclude hard-working merchants? Maybe it’s a matter of some of the soldiers disaprooving of their haunts being “infiltrated” by “greedy money grubbers” and so the traveling merchants learned to keep a low profile in such places, and they just told their children about this being the will of the gods, to make them accept it more easily. We saw how hostile Lutz’s family was toward any merchant, and I doubt they’d exclude the traveling ones from their ire.
Nice to get some time with Renate. From the main series we know barely more than her existing and playing Karuta with Kamil.
Rico’s chapter was quite something… reading about the horrible conditions from Myne getting pretty much only a glimpse at it, before fainting was already haunting, but now to have the perspective of someone inside? Wow…
So Yurgenschmidt people believe the moon and the sun are the same source of light, with it being called moon, when it’s dimmed by the God of Darkness’ cape at night… so does that mean their moon is never in the sky at the same time as their sun, like it happens at times with our celestial bodies of Earth and consequently they never have lunar or solar eclipses?
The side-story was a bit confusing. First we hear that the second mixing invites extended family, only for the actual thing to have solely the parents and one of Thorsten’s brothers plus his wife present, with excuses being made for the missing siblings alone. Siblings are usually not considered extended family as far as I know. There’s also a sentence that makes it sound as if engagement feystones are exchanged at the second mixing, if the mixing itself goes well, only to once again be contradicted by the actual event, when the pair only makes the decision when to exchange the stones, and even decides to exchange them unusually early, rather than waiting for the third mixing. This feels like someone in the writing or translating pipleline mixed the second and third colour mixings together.
But the final scene with Angelica trying to copy Rozemyne’s mannerism was just adorable. :3
Though now thinking more on it… Kamil was described as a smat child, so shouldn’t he wonder how Myne even knew what a book was, much less love them, at a time, when they didn’t have a single scrap of parchament in their house? With the whole Divine Avatar of the Goddess of Wisdom, there’d even be an easy way out of the true explanation at hand, with which Rozemyne could dissemble. ^^
Even though I wanted to see the explanation to Kamil, I liked the story for Trauerqual even more. After all the suffering he went through and living a life, the endless sisyphus touling, that never showed any payoff and paying for the sins of his brothers, seeing him see the fruits of his labour for the first time since the war, was heartwarming. I hope what remains of the Werkestock population, will come around and be able to forgive him, for what the greater duchies and circumstances forced him to do… or that they’ll at least keep the old grudges to themselves, so they’ll die with their generation, rather then being passed down to their descendance, like it happened in Ehrenfest with the Leisegangs and Gloria followers.