Watashi no Kokoro wa Oji-san de Aru - Ch. 18

[Roumaan]

I don't disagree with the sentiment, but that's why I said it's silly in context. He is the one who brought this idea/job up, she is replying to him about it, and then he goes "you can't always reason with people, you know?". To put this another way, if she had replied: "I'll make sure to strike first!" wouldn't he have said: "Whoa, slow down buddy!"?

We can say he read her attitude, but I feel like his comment is a bit out there nevertheless. "That's a philosophy for the strong." is a pretty strong statement, ironically. He didn't just tell her to be careful, he flat out told her that simply wanting to talk is dangerous, which seems a tad extreme. I don't know, maybe he is traumatized. XD

The idea is that she only has the choice of attempting to reason because she is strong. The girls she only gave a little bit of a stern talk were about to kill a person because of their prejudice.

 

[Madologist]

“Evil race” is becoming a rarer fantasy trope. I’d welcome it If this world’s dark elves in general are ”evil” (subjectively, as per humanity’s values,) and the MC being an outlier would make it special.

I miss evil species. Everyone just singing kumbaya and being able to be friends in every fantasy world, but aren't because of some "minor" misunderstandings that the MC of course can easily solve, has gotten tiresome.
Harumph Say I, who lives in a world, where disagreements between AxB and BxA shippers are minutely occurrences and would leave to war between nations, if the two shippers arguing who is the top were feudal monarchs. And all these authors claim that different species would get along and not actually have completely different values that are truly incompatible, to the point that we are talking about "orange - blue morality" axis, when actually dealing between the species.

So for once, I would welcome - if we don't count goblins and orcs - some species just being "incomprehensibly evil", because they are just that different from us (humans or pov species). Atleast we have Frieren.

Cody: Pacifism is for people who can throw hands.

"You can’t truly call yourself “peaceful” unless you are capable of great violence. If you’re not capable of violence, you’re not peaceful, you’re harmless."
Came to mind.

 

[Yurisivel]

Cody with the suspicious advice. Maybe he has a point, but maybe it's a translation issue, but I don't see how roughing up kids who are hostile to Haruka won't create a zealous lynch mob after her.

 

[mdqp]

The idea is that she only has the choice of attempting to reason because she is strong. The girls she only gave a little bit of a stern talk were about to kill a person because of their prejudice.

Yeah, but that's the kind of stuff people go to prison for, and I hope it's not a common occurrance (as in, you'd think talking things out is still the reasonable solution in any society, or the society collapses). Then again, she did get dragged into a dark alley just for being chill in the first town, maybe the setting is even more messed up than I am thinking.

This does feel like the author is setting things up for more unreasonable attacks or events to happen to her later on, though.

 

[dokidoki]

I interpreted Cody's warning as saying that talking things out is not an option against someone who is stronger than you and unwilling to listen.

I understood it as Cody telling him that if he wants a pacifist run then he NEEDS to get Stronger aka become the strongest so you can Talk No Jutsu out of your fights

Also find it funny that no ones talking about the Aunt at the end of the chapter LOL, we FINALLY get to see another ADULT looking woman besides that Witch mage girl we haven't seen in like 15 chapters

 

[rkkn]

Should I recognize the character on the last panel

don't think so. seems to be a new character
twins' relative

 

[hullmat991]

Hmm.... I see the dream is different than what it was in the WN. Looks like we are getting more deviations.

 

[zephyrnepres]

okay so my speculation is that i think the prophetic dream is about the soul of the original owner of haruka's body resurfacing at some point in the future and she actually is the god of destruction or whatever people are wary about, which is why she attacked sara who is part of a faith that loathes her. she's many many degrees more powerful than any other magic user shown so far, her body itself is abnormally robust, she was dropped into the world without any memories nor reason to believe that she had completely replaced the original owner's soul/consciousness and there are just too many missing details for me to believe the story won't elaborate further upon her isekai

however, from haruka's perspective and not the meta perspective of a reader, i find it a little strange that 1. she immediately assumed she would be an enemy of the oracle faith in the future given that sara seems to want to stick around (the servant thing) and non-lethal spars are a thing that happen for mages improving their skills and 2. haruka didn't ask more questions about the method of attack and spell usage, her own appearance and equipment in the dream, lethality of the attacks etc. she's known for being exceptionally thorough and sara had clear enough memory to note details like that she had a higher viewpoint (was taller), was wielding a staff etc. if it was clearly a traumatic experience to sara then yes haruka definitely wouldn't push given her personality, but she's willing to divulge information about the dream just fine here

it may just be a plot contrivance but it smells off to me

 

[MathMols]

Luckily still no romance in sight, hope it keep being this way

 

[Zhangar]

Yeah, in a setting where your species makes you kill-on-sight, pacifism is absolutely a luxury for the strong.

Everything we've seen in this setting indicates that dark elves are just elves with melatonin, but multiple areas are xenophobic enough to consider dark elves to be lynch-on-sight, and the main religion of the place accuses them of being inherently evil.

Maybe we'll get more insight about what the hell is going on when we finally see more dark elves.

 

[Claith]

For a bookmark, Sara explaining her dream in the web novel is chapter 69.

There are differences and additional characters before this so there is merit in starting from the beginning.

 

[Eals]

“Evil race” is becoming a rarer fantasy trope. I’d welcome it If this world’s dark elves in general are ”evil” (subjectively, as per humanity’s values,) and the MC being an outlier would make it special.

special as in how? most people that feel strongly against her race would just lump them together and attack first without any words needed

 

[falconx8]

Testicular torsion casters are always acting tough! Right until a wizard casts, Mend Buttcrack!

You rapscallion!

 

[damadicius]

special as in how? most people that feel strongly against her race would just lump them together and attack first without any words needed

In the usual cliché, she’d eventually make name for herself and be remembered as “the good dark elf,” that opens a whole bunch of story telling choices.

 

[gooberthefish]

Well, we gonna get some lore and I'd rather have better established stories than wishy washy idealism.

Or we could go with shameless tropes that pump themselves up to 11.

Aight enough lore time for yuri seg

 

[Valten]

After reading the WN, I am picking on so many little details in the manga that it feels weird.

 

[Melkkkkkkk]

STOP SEDUCING SHOTA YOU DAMN DARK ELF !!!!!!!!!!!

 

[welcome2atlantis]

Indeed. If one wants peace, one must prepare for war.

 

[Sheo_]

Her aunt? OHH you mean the racist expert...

 

[gooberthefish]

“Evil race” is becoming a rarer fantasy trope. I’d welcome it If this world’s dark elves in general are ”evil” (subjectively, as per humanity’s values,) and the MC being an outlier would make it special.

Basically tokyo ghoul but oversimplifie.