Ore wa Seikan Kokka no Akutoku Ryoshu - Vol. 8 Ch. 38.2

[banjomarx]

Mister Demon's "How to shoot yourself in the foot 101"

 

[HDMI1]

Is the translation correct? Last chapter liam was talking down on the commoners about how nice it is for him to be a noble, resulting in this challenge. But this chapter started with commoners cheering for liam and characters talked about how the opponent had been talking about how nice it is to be a noble ("birthright wootwoot, commoners are tools!")? Feels like the 2 chapters are inconsistent?

Liam thinks he's just breezing through the classes because he's a noble, but it's actually because he's putting work in (even though it seems effortless to him). The Commoners are siding with Liam because they respect him for it.

 

[Diagus]

Next Boss

 

[darellku]

you're 4 months late compared to other scanlator, they don't cut chapter in half and already on chapter 42 few days ago

 

[skeleton637]

This guy actually has a fun arch compared to most. Hopefully they keep with the light novel.

Spoiler

He ends up leading an entire armada built to destroy Leon's tactics, then ends up losing because Leon changes things up based on this fight. If I remember correctly, he dies happy that he proved his tactics were correct and Leon had to change to beat him, grateful to have been given a chance. Causing the guide even more pain.

 

[DaemonWulf25]

you're 4 months late compared to other scanlator, they don't cut chapter in half and already on chapter 42 few days ago

Then why are you here? Just to comment?

 

[blacksaber79]

Then why are you here? Just to comment?

You need to corect your comment. It should read "Then why are you here? To bitch and moan like a useless piece of trash that complains for getting something for free?"

 

[Kireato]

The guide never learns does he? Liam has been winning this entire time and instead of letting him taste a loss here, the guide insists on giving him the win so that a loss later will be more crushing. Sure, I understand that a loss here isn't that significant (though one could argue he staked his pride and dominance over Dolph here, which is important for a noble), but still, the guide isn't even considering the possibility of failing at ruining Liam's life when he's never succeeded!

 

[comwes907]

just what i needed today - MORE autism!

 

[Slingerman]

Is the translation correct? Last chapter liam was talking down on the commoners about how nice it is for him to be a noble, resulting in this challenge. But this chapter started with commoners cheering for liam and characters talked about how the opponent had been talking about how nice it is to be a noble ("birthright wootwoot, commoners are tools!")? Feels like the 2 chapters are inconsistent?

Liam is out of touch with reality. His whole shtick is 'seeing himself as an evil overlord while he purges the galaxy of evildoers.'

Thanks for the translation!

 

[Zet1502]

Liam is out of touch with reality. His whole shtick is 'seeing himself as an evil overlord while he purges the galaxy of evildoers.'

Thanks for the translation!

Uhh... I could be misunderstanding something, but I think Liam thinks that the people he's "purging" are actually the "good" guys (except the pirates)

So, in his head:
Liam and bunch -> bad guys

His enemies -> good guys

But in reality, everything is reversed

 

[WhimsiCat]

Cheating senpai hacked the simulator to know what ships MC would use and his formation, it would be like seeing through the fog of war in Warcraft/Age of Empires or having the positions of every boat of a rival in Battleship in clear view..
We can't tell how MC would have done without that cheat, as the Guide did tamper with the simulator to make MC win.

Spoiler: Spoiler

I checked the raws of the manga and this event makes MC revaulate himself, he realized he can't simply bruteforce battles, even if he does in fact have good subordinates as he recruited all the exiled and unjustly treated space soliders, he thought he was getting bad subordinates but in reality he hired people too good at their job and too honest to function in the corrupted empire and nobles armies.
After this chapter MC informs himself on how much power he should have to avoid a defeat in case of the enemy having better tactics, and the answer his more ships to make it a impossible to defeat armada, so MC does exactly that and gets more ships, that for the demonio effect damages the corrupt noble that had old credit from the count family, the guy spread rumors that MC was low on finances so him repaying the debt with raw materials on a loss and then using credit to make a even bigger space force destroy his trust.

Actually

Spoiler

He WAS getting haughty.
Although when he was gloating to his classmates he was using Earth's standard of flexing of '10 years too early (to challenge him)' it ends up sounding humble instead.

It's only after Amagi react to his "there's nothing to learn here" and call him out for getting too full of himself that he start to reflect.

Then to add extra nail on that coffin, during class the professor say that recklessly charging in (assuming a more or less equal forces) is something 'someone trying to be a hero' would do.
Which obviously got him triggered and he ask what would be the expected difference in force before going YOLO charge is a valid, not suicidal option.
Professor replies about 4 times.

Thus lead into his next desire of increasing his fleet size to the point where doing a charge won't be seen as 'heroic'

 

[JJTheWeeb]

It's not that it is inconsistent. It's the usual wrong assumption about Liam from others. The fact that he was talking about how nice it is about being a noble and that it allowed him to enter without any issues means "nobles can enter without any skills" in the eyes of the commoners.

aka saying the hidden part out loud.

 

[Slingerman]

Uhh... I could be misunderstanding something, but I think Liam thinks that the people he's "purging" are actually the "good" guys (except the pirates)

So, in his head:
Liam and bunch -> bad guys

His enemies -> good guys

But in reality, everything is reversed

Yeah. That's the shtick.

 

[JJTheWeeb]

Then why are you here? Just to comment?

this git me curious so i went see this other scanlator. they don't typeset woth special fonts and use like arial or smt. So even if you were reading that one, the extra cleaning and work platinum scans does makes it an improvement

 

[WonderingSFaiz]

Look at Dolph
Gets upset about losing
Thinks the opponent is cheating because he himself is cheating

Don't be like Dolph

 

[ScryedParadox]

Yes guide. Yes. Keep building up the next mob to be reaped into juicy gratitude towards you!

You'd think he'd learn his lesson and just collect enough power to get the hell out of this reality and never return.

 

[Knighto]

....you know the guide could have just helped him win with the existing cheats. Right now he's straight up helping MC and the payoff he's looking for is exactly the thing the backfired the last 5 times he tried.

but other times the spirit dog pulled him under the rug, still funny how he saved him right now hahaha

 

[MadScientist666]

Ah yes, another arrogant noble ass who can't stand to be defeated. I don't think someone who has to cheat should be that angry...

 

[MadScientist666]

Dolph was playing Battleship while Liam was playing Homeworld lol

Ahh, Homeworld... Amazing story, but I never played it myself, just watched other people playing it. Maybe I should change that...