Thanks for the chapter, Soseki--but your good efforts were truly wasted on this manga.
Reading back on it shes not as young as i first thought, they slammed around quite a few ages in the chapter she was introduced(Sage rank at 12, At the academy at 14, source of a revolution 20 years ago), so shes over 20, best guess is early 30's, single, gambler, who sent "One of the legendary S rank monsters, the Hydra", at the capital to "Test" them.
I mean even not being as young as i assumed she was cause shes drawn like a child, you still want to take parenting advice from a deranged lunatic who gambles away all her money and instead of aiding with preperations against the "Dire threat", decides to potentially cause major harm before it ever arrives?
I prefaced young af with a question mark, because i didnt recall her age from when i read the chapter more than a full year ago.
Doesnt take away from her logic being angy baby toddler level.
lol They're still pretending not to get it. If it looks like a duck, moves like a duck, quacks like a duck--it's not a dog you've got, no matter how much the one who tells you it is tries to rationalize the idea. Like I always say, the mangaka who write this stuff know what they're writing.
Some things don't change: for example, the only thing that can stop lolipower is lolipower. No one could put the million-year-old, all-powerful loli in her place but another, all-powerful
er loli, and no one could stop
that one but the loli that showed up before the million-year-old one. This author's pretty shameless. lol
The difference between Meryl's (sue me, I can't be bothered to remember the spelling) and Elsa's depictions isn't lost on me, either: Elsa's hero power petered out and left her to wait for death, a loser; meanwhile, the only thing stopping Meryl was her potentially overloading on magic power--she could have kept going and would have crushed the million-year-old loli handily if she kept going as she was before. Such authors--and there are many of them--always make it clear, in
some way, whom the reader's supposed to favor and who's to be disfavored.