Thanks for the chapter.
I kind of want to see her getting her shop set up instead of a direct timeskip. Like, creating new products to fill the shelves, sourcing and scaling ingredient production, etc.
The devil’s advocate argument to that is she provides an easy, reliable, and well-known way for people to commit suicide. Leaving her or rather officially allowing her existence there can also be taken as a tacit allowance for suicide. That causes a social issue.
The other, more cynical...
I have plenty of thoughts on this was wrapped up and complaints, but it can be summed up as:
"I'm disappointed."
That aside, thanks and congrats for the scanlators for wrapping this up despite how it went.
I find it kind of funny, that Otamegane is the one character Kunai had to put the most effort to recruit. (Though position-wise it kind of makes sense).
All others non-hostile characters, male or female (especially females) pretty much quickly went “sasuga Maou-sama” and at least became admirers.
It's true, talking and sparking conflicts is easy when you don't think about what you would have to lose from said conflict, and they better remember that even if you win there's no guarantee you'll get them back.
Tbf, more people in real life need to keep this in their mind.
Reminds me that gouriki was only shown used like once in a real battle.
Kinda wish that more things they practiced got shown in more details and performed in real battle more often before things inevitably turn into a melee.
This seems to be an unnecessary risk for the one person holding everything together to take.
If we want to talk about conspiracy, destabilizing, followed by sending a force to “protect the populace”, and eventually taking over the area is a better conspiracy used since ancient times. He even...