Tensei Shite High Elf ni Narimashitaga, Slow Life wa 120-nen de Akimashita - Ch. 40

[DIMOHA25]

ITS JUST SO PEAK.

That being said this chapter could not have any more setup an event where Wynn and his allies/friends are on the backfoot/in mortal danger, and our MC comes in like an angry demigod to kick ass and lend a hand. Wynn doesn't need his dad, but that doesn't mean his dad can't help, kind of a thing. If that doesn't happen I'll be disappointed.

Also this is the manga that one manga about an immortal shape shifting thing  wishes it was

...yeah. To your eternity really lost me near the end of the first modern arc. Still haven't picked it back up even after many many months, maybe over a year at this point.

 

[R4nd0mGuy]

that doesn't make sense considering aesir is actively getting letters from wynn, i think aesir just likes laxxing instead of going as fast as he can, he has no destination, he's taking a leisurely stroll

Is he "actively" getting them though? Someone like him who seek new stuff would have read those. That pile of unread would more likely if it was sent via third party (the elf caravan), who, not being to find the MC, instead keep them safe while seeking info on his whereabouts.

At least that how I saw the whole pile of mail. You could very well be correct & the artist/author just haven't addressed this until now because they want each chapter to revolve around 1 event instead of messily inserts bunch of information. I still think that if MC have access to those letters, they could have hint it before in other chapters & it could have been used as foreshadowing before the big "help!" letter arrived.

 

[YamiTheWitch]

Is he "actively" getting them though? Someone like him who seek new stuff would have read those. That pile of unread would more likely if it was sent via third party (the elf caravan), who, not being to find the MC, instead keep them safe while seeking info on his whereabouts.

At least that how I saw the whole pile of mail. You could very well be correct & the artist/author just haven't addressed this until now because they want each chapter to revolve around 1 event instead of messily inserts bunch of information. I still think that if MC have access to those letters, they could have hint it before in other chapters & it could have been used as foreshadowing before the big "help!" letter arrived.

Well, there doesn't seem to be any narrative gap in wynns letters. Which means no letters get lost in transit. Either they have killer magic UPS in fantasy land or the distances are short enough where you don't have to worry about losing letters across long distances. Also, the letters are adressed to Aesir and reach him, he is constantly on the move, the only way they could arrive at his location is if the letter is much quicker than he travels to reach him.

 

[nielspeterdejong]

Well, there doesn't seem to be any narrative gap in wynns letters. Which means no letters get lost in transit. Either they have killer magic UPS in fantasy land or the distances are short enough where you don't have to worry about losing letters across long distances. Also, the letters are adressed to Aesir and reach him, he is constantly on the move, the only way they could arrive at his location is if the letter is much quicker than he travels to reach him.

Wynn likely sends them to the Elven Caravan, which is very well known at this point. The Caravan can then pass it on to Aesir. Meanwhile, Wynn is moving about and doesn't want to be discovered, for good reasons.

 

[TNT261]

There's something so very sad in the fact that Wynn is ashamed about having to take lives and him specifically lying about that little tidbit. Aesir is someone whose strong enough to settle physical confrontations near instantly with no threat to himself or his enemies. Most people aren't and Wynn is having to learn the cruelty of the world. I do hope he can become a "hero" in his own right. One thing Wynn doesn't seem to understand is that Aesir is mostly hands off because of how much power he has and that he's of such a long lived and powerful species. He's far beyond even the regular elves and has become well aware of that. Aesir's wonderlust is ultimately just wonderlust. He does immensely help those he meets, but he also doesn't see it as his place to incite change. This is also shown really well here with Irenha. Wynn unlike his father CAN be a major force for change. It will be hard (emotionally and physically), but I love the idea of him going to his harsh and plain and simple racist region and fighting to make it a better place with the skills he's learned from Aesir and others. Wynn should correct himself a bit: yes, Aesir COULD solve this conflict in seconds, but he also just wouldn't because it's been going on for so long and he doesn't see it as his place to rewrite the world with his godlike powers. At most he'd try to protect those being persecuted but he'd stop at that and wouldn't try to stay for long. I just hope that Wynn knows that he's doing his best and that means something (arguably more than if Aesir was there).

 

[AlvoradaGD]

I'm still confused on something like.. is he asexual ? 🥲

He used to be human, but like he has no interest in anyone and when it comes to aging, it's not like he wouldn't have elves around him that could live as long as he does

as others already pointed, there is the difference in lifespan between races and also the low sex-drive that most elves have in fantasy settings. It's also the fact that, if he gets more involved, that would probably delay his travels (unless it was someone who could follow him).

 

[The_Fapper]

I can't help but be worried about Wynn. Though I'm more worried about what will happen to the continent if Aesir finds out that someone has harmed him.

Wynn is maturing at his own pace and doing quite well.
He'll have his own hardships to go through but he's no fool, so he'll be just fine.

 

[Sandmann1st]

Wynn going a more bloody path to make a community for the people he cares about, and Aesir finally coming back to Kaeha and going on a journey back home. What a lovely chapter. Thanks for the scanlation 💜

 

[Diagus]

Next Boss

 

[nielspeterdejong]

I'm still confused on something like.. is he asexual ? 🥲

He used to be human, but like he has no interest in anyone and when it comes to aging, it's not like he wouldn't have elves around him that could live as long as he does

Please don't include any of that "asexual" nonsense XD

First of all, the Japanese as a people are still somewhat normal (for the most part), so they don't use concepts like "asexual" or other made up nonsense to make themselves feel special.

Second, back in the days before the "sexual revolution", very few people had sex out of wetlock, because it would be stupid to do so. Your family was your insurance, not the government, but before that you first needed to build a stable family. This is why you didn't have women sleeping around all the time like what is happening now, and women instead devoted themselves fully to a reliable partner, usually a childhood friend or the son of a friend of the family. That is why you had far less divorces, because it was intentionally made hard to divorce, so people were stuck together and forced to tolerate each other's shortcomings. Once they did so, they were able to "pair bond" as they say these days, and from there love blossomed.

Aesir not only has less drive to find a partner as an elf (due to their long lives), there is also no porn in that medieval setting, so less oversexualization all the time when compared to our lives. He likely has a healthy drive, he just lives in a less degenerate world setting (for better or worse), and is wise enough not to fool around unless he finds someone with whom he can settle down.

Plus, Aesir is a high elf, so it is much harder for him to conceive children with non-high elves, even with elves. Due to how complex his species is (even when compared to elves). So he is unlikely to even have children with an elven woman. Plus, he doesn't strike me as a Rudeus Greyrat, so he doesn't have the ridiculous sex drive of the Greyrat family XD

 

[Ninoren]

Please don't include any of that "asexual" nonsense XD

First of all, the Japanese as a people are still somewhat normal (for the most part), so they don't use concepts like "asexual" or other made up nonsense to make themselves feel special.

What has it to do with special or whatever ? 🤨

I was just referring to the literal meaning of him not being sexually attracted to x, nothing more

Sorry that the dictionary refers to it as such, wasn't me who came up with it 😐

Then again you're reading way too hard into it, was simply asking because he so far has not shown interest in any woman himself (elf aside he used to be human)

 

[Narmaya-]

ah yes the ol classic ninja cutting onion

 

[nielspeterdejong]

What has it to do with special or whatever ? 🤨

I was just referring to the literal meaning of him not being sexually attracted to x, nothing more

Sorry that the dictionary refers to it as such, wasn't me who came up with it 😐

Then again you're reading way too hard into it, was simply asking because he so far has not shown interest in any woman himself (elf aside he used to be human)

Alright, perhaps I came over as a tad too rude there. But it's just that that term is only really used in the west. In the rest of the world, it isn't that odd to wait until people get married before doing anything, and commit themselves to other goals until they do so. We in the west are also overly stimulated by media to constantly think about sex (see porn), so in a world without that it wouldn't be too strange for people to just do other things until they find a partner. He will end up with someone else as a partner (not going to write it here as that would be a spoiler), which likely means that they did commit to "the act" then, but even then they don't really mention any of that as it isn't that important and is just a private matter between them. I guess without too much drive and stimulation (like the humans have) there really isn't that much of a rush for him, as he's happy being busy with his hobbies.

 

[Hunter_Main]

I feel like this one of the few isekai stories where you can completely forget it's isekai

 

[Ninoren]

Alright, perhaps I came over as a tad too rude there. But it's just that that term is only really used in the west. In the rest of the world, it isn't that odd to wait until people get married before doing anything, and commit themselves to other goals until they do so. We in the west are also overly stimulated by media to constantly think about sex (see porn), so in a world without that it wouldn't be too strange for people to just do other things until they find a partner. He will end up with someone else as a partner (not going to write it here as that would be a spoiler), which likely means that they did commit to "the act" then, but even then they don't really mention any of that as it isn't that important and is just a private matter between them. I guess without too much drive and stimulation (like the humans have) there really isn't that much of a rush for him, as he's happy being busy with his hobbies.

Hate to say it, but i think the "waiting till after marriage" nowadays is the minority really.. since media doesn't only exist in the west, it's the "world wide web" 😶

Honestly persists globally as issue, japan actually also being big on it 😐

 

[nielspeterdejong]

Hate to say it, but i think the "waiting till after marriage" nowadays is the minority really.. since media doesn't only exist in the west, it's the "world wide web" 😶

Honestly persists globally as issue, japan actually also being big on it 😐

Well yeah, but the setting isn't modern day, it's a medieval fantasy setting. And without constant bombardment of porn the people would not seek it out as much until they got married. And although Japan is also affected, at least their family unit isn't nearly as much devastated as ours in the west is. Thanks feminism. There they still have common sense, so things like "transgenders" are seen for what they are: a fetish. Which they call "futa" instead.

Japan is a tad strange in that regard: On one hand, most Japanese are just normal people with very conservative and common sense views for the most part. So kinda like how we were 30 years ago, thanks to their language barrier. On the other they also condone people writing stuff and drawing stuff that are just the most messed up kind of fetishes. Which is why you have some really messed up adult cartoons and manga where they push their fetish on one hand, yet for the most part draw things of beauty and consider drawing and making shows an art instead of a way to push an ideology.

 

[Grikath]

"And without constant bombardment of porn the people would not seek it out as much until they got married."

In the "western" medieval era, you had quite a lot of "porn". In a sense more so than nowadays. The monks actually drew most of it, if you get to know the symbology they used. And there's plenty to find what "common folk" considered "erotica".

It was more a matter of "this is this, and that is that". Marriage was important because child-rearing was hard, and had its own dangers. Not to mention the inheritance/politics issues around combining families, even among commoners.
The "porn" was for the peeps who didn't get to marry, or couldn't.

Medieval times are actually pretty raunchy compared to modern-day attitudes. It's really not until the 17th C that attitudes swung towards "prim and proper" , culminating to the ....rather extreme... attitudes of the Victorian/Edwardian age.
And that's only in the Anglosphere... The UK, and the US that copied and then "improved" on it. Other nations/spheres of influence had a far more pragmatic attitude towards sex and eroticism, and "Puritans" never held much influence, or got booted out, to the US.....

But never forget the first examples of eroticism are as old as cuneiform and hieroglyphs... And people always read Playboy for the Lifestyle Articles.... And....

 

[nielspeterdejong]

"And without constant bombardment of porn the people would not seek it out as much until they got married."

In the "western" medieval era, you had quite a lot of "porn". In a sense more so than nowadays. The monks actually drew most of it, if you get to know the symbology they used. And there's plenty to find what "common folk" considered "erotica".

It was more a matter of "this is this, and that is that". Marriage was important because child-rearing was hard, and had its own dangers. Not to mention the inheritance/politics issues around combining families, even among commoners.
The "porn" was for the peeps who didn't get to marry, or couldn't.

Medieval times are actually pretty raunchy compared to modern-day attitudes. It's really not until the 17th C that attitudes swung towards "prim and proper" , culminating to the ....rather extreme... attitudes of the Victorian/Edwardian age.
And that's only in the Anglosphere... The UK, and the US that copied and then "improved" on it. Other nations/spheres of influence had a far more pragmatic attitude towards sex and eroticism, and "Puritans" never held much influence, or got booted out, to the US.....

But never forget the first examples of eroticism are as old as cuneiform and hieroglyphs... And people always read Playboy for the Lifestyle Articles.... And....

Oh I am aware of what some of the monks drew back in the day However, I also know that there wasn't as easy access to porn back then due to the lack of the internet. Funny thing, the internet was created in order to get easier access to porn and to spread it. From there, it became a tool to spread information around the globe. So saying that there was "more porn" back then is a tad ridiculous, let's be honest now. There were ways for them to get some, as we have always sought that, but it was more limited.

 

[nielspeterdejong]

But let's get back to the elf story
Like I said before, I love how well this manga portraits the point of view of elves, whose long lives means that they have a vastly different and more loose grasp on time. Yet, on the other hand, if they are forced to act quickly they can easily outdo the humans on any task they set their mind to, due to their greater intelligence and magical/spiritual affinity. Give the elves some drive, and they become unstoppable! This is a minor spoiler, but the Elven Caravan is going to be huge in the future, for very good reasons.

 

[DeepSeaDingo]

I'm still confused on something like.. is he asexual ? 🥲

He used to be human, but like he has no interest in anyone and when it comes to aging, it's not like he wouldn't have elves around him that could live as long as he does

I was laughing at how many replies you got. I bet that notification icon is gonna be lit up for a while.

But nah, he's not asexual. He actually has shown attraction before. The prostitute that approached him while he was heading east definitely had him feeling flustered.

We still have a longways to go with this series, so we may see a relationship at some point. I think the novel is 8 volumes. A comment i read somewhere said that we're currently in volume 4 or 5. Don't quote me on that though.