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Oh, you like plain salted fish? SALTED FISH FOR EVERY MEAL FOREVER! 🤣

Pretty sure that the sweet potion is the mana-syncing potion he gave her to search her memories that is also used for syncing the mana of married couples, as she learned at the Academy.

As long as I have a new part to read each week, I'll hardly notice. And all props and thanks to Quof for doing such an amazing job. I'd rather they take the time to do it right, and a longer volume isn't a sadness at all!

I think barrels of poop is ideal, maximum insult and also trackability, while being completely reversible for any innocents. I get why Gunther finds it shocking though!

I am sure Hartmut will gush at Gunther given the chance. :-)

Ferdinand's bitterness about being sent to the Temple instead of Veronica - I think that is pretty interesting and very human though also probably wrong. I don't think the temple could have contained Veronica or protected Ferdinand from her, and the damage she would have done getting out would have been enormous.

I loved this section - Effa's point of view, learning just how far her daughter has risen; Gunther learning his sickly daughter is now leading a squadron of knights; and Ferdinand, hearing phrases like there's no point in saving a country without you in it, and his thoughts about how he's never been anyone's top priority before.

I am even more curious about the circumstances of his adoption, though - it seems he was smuggled out? So maybe he was someone's top priority, once, just before he remembers. I wonder how Aub Ehrenfest became involved in that - and I guess his sister? Did someone just decide to stop sending Lanzenave mana (and man, what a weird way to do it!) or did someone become fond of him in particular? And then what did happen to his mother?

For that matter, I assume the death of the Aub's sister / Ferdinand's guardian was at Veronica's hands.

I love Bonifatius and also the misdirection where everyone thought he was going to swing his weapon at the invaders.

YESSSSS! I'm so excited! This next section is going to be SO GOOD animated - and we're getting the work of Studio WIT!?!?

I can't wait to see the scene where she creates Lessy.

Somehow in my head I have to fix that Giebe Gerlach is now a wholly different person and not Grausam. There were a couple of times where I got confused about who was doing what to whom until I realized there was a new person in that office.

Thank you for posting this - what an interesting interview!

Since I cannot read the source material, I am now curious about how many light novels that I experience as weak or trite are actually higher quality in Japanese and then butchered by machine translations versus just being pulpy in the original. I have been having this reaction more and more lately but didn't realize this was a possible reason.

It's not just text that needs translation for literal meaning, but metaphor. A good translation carries the intent of the author which includes handling some phrases in a non-literal way.

In the short term, if the reading public has no way to know the translator, then yes, speed will win. But in the longer term, as I start more series and find them unsatisfying, will that end up hurting sales across the whole genre?

Quof, if you're reading this, or if any other decisionmaker is, I disagree that the story alone is why I read. Bookworm is by far the best light novel series I've read in English and I directly attribute that to the synergy of Kazuki + Quof. Once really invested in the characters, there's motivation to find out what happens, but that's only present because of the strong writing I enjoyed back in the beginning. So thank you.

Ferdinand doesn't have any legal authority over Rozemyne at this point and I am pretty sure that Rozemyne knows this. She chooses to give him authority and follow his direction in the role of her most trusted advisor, which he is and remains.

I think it would be clear to anyone in Ahrensbach that Rozemyne is giving him that authority and I can't imagine anyone from Ahrensbach even questioning it particularly.