Akuyaku Reijoutachi wa Yuruganai - Ch. 12

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[Elhao]

I can't find the words to express how little I am interested in Sauri's (or the other ex-fiancees') story.

 

[Nivek]

I can't find the words to express how little I am interested in Sauri's (or the other ex-fiancees') story.

Yeah feel filllerish very like to.see what they lost but for me is pure filler

 

[Amimikamoon]

Ugh, his mom really is the root of all evil here. Not just trying to secure her child as heir, but actively taking away things that make Bernadetta happy. Regardless, I'm eagerly looking forward to the moment Sauri's worldview is utterly crushed.

 

[MoonMurder]

My genuine reaction to this chapter and this dumb piece of wasted space and resources

 

[piay123]

Ugh, his mom really is the root of all evil here. Not just trying to secure her child as heir, but actively taking away things that make Bernadetta happy. Regardless, I'm eagerly looking forward to the moment Sauri's worldview is utterly crushed.

I think his mom's main goal was just that she was afraid that Bernadetta would get close to their father and be favoured for inheritance. Making Bernadetta sad was probably just a bonus for her.

 

[Chaosrunewiz]

Thanks for the chapter!

 

[Reivax_Erubiza]

... Isn't this just medieval modern day? No father to guide, no mother to be loved by, sees the first woman who gives him attention, turns into a simp.

 

[MagnaDrake]

I can't find the words to express how little I am interested in Sauri's (or the other ex-fiancees') story.

For the most part I agree, but Sauri is a big cause of why Bernadetta ended up like she is now so I see it as a story vessel to explore Bernadetta more. I'm letting it slide just this once.

 

[UdenEmpati]

For the most part I agree, but Sauri is a big cause of why Bernadetta ended up like she is now so I see it as a story vessel to explore Bernadetta more. I'm letting it slide just this once.

These chapters are in pursuit of fleshing out the characters that readers (ostensibly) actually care about.
It may seem like annoyance, especially as certain titles like these are released monthly and/or over a time period wherein we're left waiting for each installment of ~30 pages while the creators write & illustrate them.

But, it's as you say here - they are important in expanding the world and creating a more complete picture of primary individuals for whom the story exists in the first place. Having the perspectives of the antagonists gives additional angles and dimension to the protagonists, that we would not get if we only perceived the story through the lens of the latter.

Completed and collected into volumes, chapters like these really don't pace badly at all, when you can turn the page and move onto the next segment without waiting a month (or more, depending, and that's not including the time waiting for translations). The disconnect, and I suspect the discontent, comes from the duration between each release that requires patience on the part of the reader base.

 

[UdenEmpati]

I actually was curious about the younger half-brother; whether he was a twisted product of a scheming mother vying for personal power within the House, or if he himself was the genesis point of rot, and thus (in my view) that much more detestable.
It's one thing to be an entitled and haughty noble in this sort of setting, believing yourself due the fealty or admiration or loyalty of others simply because of your name.

But like in the case of Sauri here, we can see that he's a product of the "Nurture" side of things. His mother sought power and prestige, and actively lifted her son up at the expense of his half-sibling out of envy and ambition.

It wasn't a cold, unfeeling desire for control, either - we see it in the expressions she makes towards Bernadetta throughout. If I had to guess, it's because Sauri's mother was not the first wife.

She was even described as a concubine; a mistress, and thus would be seen as "lesser than" in the eyes of noble society as a result. With the first wife dead, her jealousy and ire were turned against the surviving daughter who would also become the heir: Bernadetta. And as she was still a child and thus vulnerable to the machinations of the adults around her, Sauri's mother was able to supplant her son in Bernadetta's place, all the while heaping him with praise and obtaining the best resources and opportunities possible to secure his--and more importantly, her own--place within the House.

And Sauri grew up in that environment, lifted up regardless of his successes or failures, while Bernadetta was crushed down. He saw his mother's hatred toward Bernadetta, heard her words of poison and bias, and internalized it until it became his truth, and he could perpetuate it because "surely it can't be wrong".
And when Bernadetta never pushed back, he was rewarded with confirmation of his skewed view of things.

It is interesting, and I'm curious what happens now that Bernadetta is standing tall, being empowered by the Queen-to-be, and has found her spine and her resolve again in forging her own path.
Sauri will have to reckon with this sooner than later, whether Bernadetta returns to claim her right as the heir of her House, or renounce her name entirely and go her own way - because while Sauri might believe he is a worthy successor, there is no confirmation that he is capable of actually stepping into the role of his father and maintaining the Marquis' prestige and prosperity.

And I like that we get his history and the process of his conditioning here and now, so that once that moment of clarity arrives and he is forced to confront the "truth" of what his mother made of him and that he will fail before Bernadetta's earned success, the fall is that much greater.
Perhaps he will receive some chance at redemption, if he realizes the way he was manipulated and coddled and how unfairly Bernadetta was treated at the hands of his mother and their father, but it would take a real moment of growth for him, which we have not seen as of yet.
So, time will tell.

 

[yoshiii]

Meh always with that evil step-mother shit.

I hope she gets hers too, but we'll see.

 

[Knighto]

I actually was curious about the younger half-brother; whether he was a twisted product of a scheming mother vying for personal power within the House, or if he himself was the genesis point of rot, and thus (in my view) that much more detestable.
It's one thing to be an entitled and haughty noble in this sort of setting, believing yourself due the fealty or admiration or loyalty of others simply because of your name.

But like in the case of Sauri here, we can see that he's a product of the "Nurture" side of things. His mother sought power and prestige, and actively lifted her son up at the expense of his half-sibling out of envy and ambition.

It wasn't a cold, unfeeling desire for control, either - we see it in the expressions she makes towards Bernadetta throughout. If I had to guess, it's because Sauri's mother was not the first wife.

She was even described as a concubine; a mistress, and thus would be seen as "lesser than" in the eyes of noble society as a result. With the first wife dead, her jealousy and ire were turned against the surviving daughter who would also become the heir: Bernadetta. And as she was still a child and thus vulnerable to the machinations of the adults around her, Sauri's mother was able to supplant her son in Bernadetta's place, all the while heaping him with praise and obtaining the best resources and opportunities possible to secure his--and more importantly, her own--place within the House.

And Sauri grew up in that environment, lifted up regardless of his successes or failures, while Bernadetta was crushed down. He saw his mother's hatred toward Bernadetta, heard her words of poison and bias, and internalized it until it became his truth, and he could perpetuate it because "surely it can't be wrong".
And when Bernadetta never pushed back, he was rewarded with confirmation of his skewed view of things.

It is interesting, and I'm curious what happens now that Bernadetta is standing tall, being empowered by the Queen-to-be, and has found her spine and her resolve again in forging her own path.
Sauri will have to reckon with this sooner than later, whether Bernadetta returns to claim her right as the heir of her House, or renounce her name entirely and go her own way - because while Sauri might believe he is a worthy successor, there is no confirmation that he is capable of actually stepping into the role of his father and maintaining the Marquis' prestige and prosperity.

And I like that we get his history and the process of his conditioning here and now, so that once that moment of clarity arrives and he is forced to confront the "truth" of what his mother made of him and that he will fail before Bernadetta's earned success, the fall is that much greater.
Perhaps he will receive some chance at redemption, if he realizes the way he was manipulated and coddled and how unfairly Bernadetta was treated at the hands of his mother and their father, but it would take a real moment of growth for him, which we have not seen as of yet.
So, time will tell.

you can also notice that deep down he knows she's smarter than him, like even after many years he doesn't realize Bernardetta as a kid was vastly knowledgeable, like those words felt like an incantation but years later he should realize what she was actually saying, he still respected her when he saw her talking with their dad how she was glowing saying the same incantations, but in the end his mother poison won (she clearly made the tutors praise him too).

when she was teaching Aini he felt her disdain for her inability to learn as a personal attack as he knows he's inferior, he shouldn't feel like that as he himself said he's the top grade student, sadly he doesn't know she was asked to let his brother surpass her. Also he let his simping took him over.

 

[ironhant]

I can see his downfall from the planet mars for how hes easily manipulated

 

[UdenEmpati]

you can also notice that deep down he knows she's smarter than him, like even after many years he doesn't realize Bernardetta as a kid was vastly knowledgeable, like those words felt like an incantation but years later he should realize what she was actually saying, he still respected her when he saw her talking with their dad how she was glowing saying the same incantations, but in the end his mother poison won (she clearly made the tutors praise him too).

when she was teaching Aini he felt her disdain for her inability to learn as a personal attack as he knows he's inferior, he shouldn't feel like that as he himself said he's the top grade student, sadly he doesn't know she was asked to let his brother surpass her. Also he let his simping took him over.

Indeed.
He also remarked aloud about how her grades weren't at the top, and then in his internal monologue talks about how Bernadetta "shelves her own position and abilities".

She did nothing of the sort for the first; that was his mother literally shoving Bernadetta aside and installing Sauri himself in her place. For the latter - a case of "well, is she actually not smart, or is she purposefully dumbing herself down, Sauri?"

He knows he is not her equal, but a lifetime of false and inflated praise has given him an ego that refuses the truth for the sake of its own preservation.

A tale as old as time, really.



And the even more pathetic (and humorous) part, is Aini the Saint is now the one doing the same as his mother has done. Honeyed words of praise from the cradle to the present, with the added dimension of Aini being a pretty peer who fits the requisites laid out by his mother in searching for a partner in marriage.
Aini has her own designs, of course, but Sauri is still falling for the same trap a second time before ever even noticing he was caught in the first.

 

[Resound]

lil bro just admits how stupid the saint apprentice is multiple times in this chapter and he didnt even notice it

 

[ARealCoolGuy]

It's now beginning to feel like the wheels are spinning in place a bit. There's no real plot development going on, as we all know the outcome, and we've already gone over all the characters anyone is likely interested in... except the saint - who I suspect is, as is so standard these days, a modern conniving isekai girl or something... but we're probably going to slowly go through every possible character before getting to the saint.

Are we going to see things through the step mum's perspective too?

 

[Mandobard]

Time for an atomic slap

 

[Knighto]

Indeed.
He also remarked aloud about how her grades weren't at the top, and then in his internal monologue talks about how Bernadetta "shelves her own position and abilities".

She did nothing of the sort for the first; that was his mother literally shoving Bernadetta aside and installing Sauri himself in her place. For the latter - a case of "well, is she actually not smart, or is she purposefully dumbing herself down, Sauri?"

He knows he is not her equal, but a lifetime of false and inflated praise has given him an ego that refuses the truth for the sake of its own preservation.

A tale as old as time, really.

And the even more pathetic (and humorous) part, is Aini the Saint is now the one doing the same as his mother has done. Honeyed words of praise from the cradle to the present, with the added dimension of Aini being a pretty peer who fits the requisites laid out by his mother in searching for a partner in marriage.
Aini has her own designs, of course, but Sauri is still falling for the same trap a second time before ever even noticing he was caught in the first.

only thing, we can actually see that Aini and Sauri are kinda right, she's just teaching in a monotonous voice because she doesn't give a single f*ck about this task,I would say it's the plot in the works to not make Sauri actually teach her, but we have already seen that there's also a faction battle between the church and the royale faction, so the Marquis doesn't want Sauri to fall in love with her, as he and the church faction wants the saintess to take the position of Queen.
author keeps cooking with the series.