"Inside I am but an old man in his fifties"
The hell you mean you were in your 50s???
You don't even look 30 in the execution scene!
(lol nvm I read a few pages further)
She even understands the concept of people being jealous of hogging their loved one's time based on her earlier comment.
Either that or she's been taught a ton of stock phrases by her etiquette teachers without being taught the context or meaning of them.
She also seems aware of the optics of...
If this hypothetically was a real offer by the bank, and not a scam by the gang, I feel like the bank would have a halfway decent defense in that it's not them threatening him economically, it's the government.
To prove duress, Howler would have to prove he had the (reasonable) expectation...
My theory at this point is that if the lava rock is working as a magnet for "things of value", then it makes sense that that "value" is also magnetic but of the opposite polarity. Put a big enough stack of cash near it and it's the rock that will get pulled in instead.
Only real flaw I can see...
Howler is looking more and more pathetic and incompetent with each chapter.
I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if these stand users turn out to be just completely bluffing him on being his subordinates.
Whether their actual boss is another investor like the bank or someone after the lava...
I know a bit of time in-world has passed since chapter 4 where they said it, but didn't one of those noble snobs say that the record for the lowest level adventurers had reached was the 8th floor? How do people have access to materials from the 26th floor? Unless he meant the 26th floor of that...
It's rather interesting that despite being a disease stand that can affect multiple people simultaneously, it seems like it only has one stand per affected person instead of a swarm like you'd expect from something imitating bacteria/virus.
Also, is Jodio implying that the ambulance...
Uhm, has this crappy "heroine" forgotten that the "villainess" can read minds? It's been a while, but I'm fairly certain that was part of the game story, not some secret that the protag discovered when they reincarnated.
Or was that mental "declaration" intentional?
So obviously touching the rock to the rights/deed to the mountain will bring the paper to them, but what then?
I suppose the reasonable answer is that the principal will have some forgery expert make it look like it was legally transferred to her.
But maybe if the lava rock is "absurd" enough...
It's one thing to say you should interrogate him instead of killing him, but recruiting him?
Just because he didn't actually kill those cats and is a super sloppy assassin/thief hardly makes him a good person.
That and the fact that he's basically been 1-2 steps above comatose for a while now, so he hasn't exactly had much opportunity to use his adult mind, which would make said regression even easier.
My question is, will one of the remaining human fighters be snubbed their chance due to Buddha switching sides, or will they find a way to sneak/shoehorn an extra fight in?