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Seems a bit odd that in Effa's eyes, Rozemyne looked 5 to 6 years younger than Tuui and the gap appeared even bigger than what they used to have AFTER Anwachs gave Rozemyne the growth spurt. Everyone else commented how Rozemyne now looked her age... well the fake noble age anyway. If we took Effa's words as gospel, she'd look like she is just about to be baptized, which seriously contradicts what the nobles and even Tuuli said. I wonder if this is a translation mistake and she was actually thinking about how the visual age difference prior to the growth spurt, rather than after. Or she might be just as, or maybe even more, biased as Gunther, but going in the opposite direction. ^^

Keep in mind that Ferdinand is an absolute master in keeping his emotions hidden and putting up fake emotions that seem to fool anyone other than Rozemyne, and maybe his name-sworn, so it's entirely reasonable for the royal to not take him at his word, just because he says he doesn't want to be Zent.... not to mention I seriously doubt he bothered to ask Ferdinand, whether he wanted to be Zent. The only thing we know is, that Trauerqual essentially put an ultimatum before Ferdinand: Replace Sylvester as Aub Ehrenfest, marry Detlinde, or get executed. And as we've just seen in this chapter, he believed that had Ferdinand made a move for the crown, at that time, it'd have resulted in a civil war and thus needed to be averted. Ferdinand making a more to become Zent after marrying into Ahrensbach hadn't been thought of either, since it wasn't an option anyway at the time, and was a path only potentially opened up by the discovery of the magic cricle and the assumptions this lead to.

I very much doubt that Raublut is to blame for Trauerqual's reaction here. His words are entirely in keeping with what else we know of his true feelings. I also very much doubt that Raublut could have forseen Detlinde's action and the immediate reaction by the Sovereign Temple, making it unlikely he could have been able to get Trauerqual drugged up enough to alter his mind, between the incident and this meeting. I also don't really see what Raublut would have to gain from manipulating the Zent here and now.

This makes me wonder... does Yurgenschmidt have cats?

Considering there are cat-like feybeasts (Zantze, Fetze, Goltze line) and how at least some feybeasts and -pants have non-magical cousin animmals, it's entirely possible, but was there ever any mention or appearance, that I fail to remember?

Those paranoid nobles... "She helped us to an imeasureable degree and put all her card openly on the table, instead of keeping them as aces up her sleeve... she must be planning something suspicious!"

Back when the bride stealing ditter happened, I assumed that Hildebrand vented his frustration by saying he wished someone would save Rozemyne, in the precense of the drugged sovereign knights, thus inadvertedly causing the incident, but nope, this was clearly entirely Raublut's doing, since the knights didn't get anywhere near Hildebrand and had more information than the prince.

I don't know about the goddess of time... why would the goddess reveal to them, that Ferdinand was going to be engaged with Detlinde, but wouldn't actually marry her and then erase their memories of it?

If it wasn't for the specific mention of Ferdinand marrying "Aub Ahrensbach," I'd have thought someone tried to make him marry Alstede, or some other female Ahrensbach archduke candidate, but had to scrap their plan and used Trug to hide it ever existed. Could the use of Aub Ahrensbach be a mistranslation, or maybe a missing word, like Aub Ahrensbach's daughter?

Wow... just when a small spark of sympathy is sparked for Barthold, for actually caring for his sister, it is immediately squashed and my bad opinion of him made even worse. And I now also hate Oswald more than I already did. I really hope he'll suffer a fate far worse than merely sinking into obscurity.

That moment of Gunther internally gloating over looking like a knight, on the back of Damuel's highbeast was so cute and so Gunther. ^^

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.