Slime Seijo - Ch. 29 - Parent and Child

[JustSomeoneElse]

Spoiler: Major? Chapter 32 (newest untranslated) spoiler

Meeting with Lumir (the other human slime) next week! (in chapter 33)

Oh how I've longed for this to happen.

 

[Adelle]

I think the reason she became a saint is its a selection process like some revelation or some shit, instead of because she did something good. Like the villainess manga/novel saints that got chosen because they have something like Light power or they were chosen because of some flower or some prophecy that this girl will be a Saint.

 

[tremor3258]

Either the goddess was playing the long game, the old Jelly snapped, or the goddess is worse at reading people's intentions than slime Jelly.

 

[isoycrazy]

Father of the Year, ladies and gentlemen.

 

[Adelle]

Spoiler: Major? Chapter 32 (newest untranslated) spoiler

Meeting with Lumir (the other human slime) next week! (in chapter 33)

Thats actually the raw bruh

 

[ARealCoolGuy]

Having just read through this, I think the other human slime that inspired our slime to possess jelly's body (what a sentence, lol) IS actually the goddess, and jelly therefore really DID have a revelation that changed her.
That's just my theory so far though.

 

[RC1138Boss]

Jelly just want to eat delicious food in peace, but people keep appearing to bother her.

 

[Panther]

Fair enough I guess.

 

[Kamui]

We really need a clarification about how someone becomes a Saint. Even in-universe it was called into question, but Jelly still retained all the authority both her nobility and her status as a Saint gave her.

Perhaps is something noblemen's daughters get? Ange isn't precisely good either. Only Celestria seems to be a good fit for the Saint title.

 

[DLRevan]

I just like the fact that it seems as if the slime is becoming more aware of human norms and also appears to be turning more intelligent over time. She's still hopelessly clueless but her thoughts are becoming more organized, mature and knowledgeable.

 

[Hikineet]

Thanks for the chapter.

 

[quicksilvir]

Yeah, somethings up with OG jelly. Villanesses becoming cruel due to too much parental indulgence is a common trope, but the snap difference in the way she acted pre and post authority is way too stark to be natural.

Peeling her eyelids down with sadistic glee while a flower wilts, talking about loving hellish temperatures, the mocking way she called herself his treasure, challenging her dad to find an exorcist while laughing demonically. Even a self-centered sadist would feel bad if their father called them a devil, but she reveled in it.

The question is when something went wrong, since she was bizarrely prodigious to the point that the tutor chose to graduate her at the age of seven and acted nice until 10.

 

[ladiance]

Jelly' facial expressions - chefs kiss

 

[jvlg]

...Was the TL/N about the Aspic name necessary here? Having dad's tale about how he was too busy to do any parenting interrupted by a "btw, fun fact!" kinda takes you away from it all.

I'd understand if there was a scene where the pun comes into play and the TL absolutely wanted to make sure to lay the groundwork for it in the reader's mind (rather than let the reader look it up themselves). Far more justified than what seems to me like badly timed and barely relevant trivia right now.

 

[StormSen]

Goddess casually blesses Jelly w/o bothering to check her personality.
Goddess later checks and finds out how awful Jelly is.
Goddess: ... ... Oh shit! I totally screwed up!
Goddess: Hell, even a slime would be a better person than Jelly!
Goddess: Hmmm...

 

[Angelnickl]

Maybe the saintess ability was given to a body considering their future good deeds, and the fact that our Slime Jelly is such a good girl happened to give the original Jelly future good deeds. Like her death was always apart of the plan...

 

[EchoGirl]

"I vowed to raise you to be an elegant lady instead of my wife." Page 6.

Uhh, is that the correct translation? Because if it is, that means the father thought about raising Jelly from birth to marry her and replace his late wife?!

I think it’s “I raised you, my wife didnt”?? (Since she died after all) Tho Eng isn’t my first language either /shrug

I suspect that the "saintification" process does something to warp their personality, I think.

That would be a fucked up test but I assume maybe the goddess wouldn’t care and also give random ppl powers but I guess it’ll not be a problem now but I wonder how the dad and everyone else would react to learn that OG!jelly is dead, I think some servants might be relieved but it just be quite heartbreaking for a father for her to “change” And it was a possession all along

Baby Jelly was cute tho, thanks for the tl

At least him saying “leave the work to Me” means no more paper work tho surprised wouldn’t be someone to double check it as well anyways

 

[_idiot]

Consider the three sentences, all valid, all different in meaning, and all that could potentially be representative of the original sentence (I vowed to raise you to be an elegant lady instead of my wife):

1. I vowed, instead of my wife, to raise you to be an elegant lady
2. I vowed to raise you, instead of my wife, to be an elegant lady
3. I vowed to raise you to be, instead of my wife, an elegant lady

Through context, the most likely interpretation is 2.—raising her instead of his wife—but all three sentences are valid and natural ways to interpret the sentence in isolation.

How about "I vowed to take over for my wife and raise you to be an elegant lady".

 

[dragon123ker]

I feel sorry for her, she grew up without having much time with her parents

 

[cokelemon]

I was going to suggest "in place of" but it can be read in the same way. Probably would have to be like "I vowed to raise you as an elegant lady like my wife would've"

"in place of" reads fine to me. That was my first thought as substitution as well.