Tensai Dai Ni Ouji wa Hikikomori Tai: "Koku Kaishi" no Mujikaku Musou - Ch. 3 - What a Fool I Am

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[Sugarbeef]

Wait, is the king aware of this part of "the plan" or is the older brother actually betraying everyone? It's cute so far, but all the scheming had better have a good payoff or it will push people like me off the fence.

Great translation though, thanks to the team for that!

 

[Miserys_End]

Wait, is the king aware of this part of "the plan" or is the older brother actually betraying everyone? It's cute so far, but all the scheming had better have a good payoff or it will push people like me off the fence.

Great translation though, thanks to the team for that!

Truely not a clue this time around. While it doesn't happen often, there is precedence for double crossing one nominal enemies. OTOH, the clichéd hier that slaughters his entire family to inherit early is so common a trope that it's almost strange for it not to be the direction the story will take.

I just can't piece together the crown princes motivation. His father seems to rely on his advice, or least cowed into following his orders, the family doesn't seem abusive in any way, and there is no question who will succeed the throne. He even seems to care about his family...

So the malignant prince route just doesn't feel appropriate here. We can only hope the next couple chapters will shed some light on the actions of this seemingly evil prince.

 

[cryum]

Im guessing the heroes will infact be present, allowing them to ambush their enemies in a "defensive" battle and cripple any invasion.

The brother is bait to seem sincere, and training for the brother

 

[Kireato]

Well, that was a strange development.

So, the girl who was a target for assassination, lady Sophia, apparently has a unique ability to teleport (which we thought was a lost magic Neet had somehow recreated), and is being used by prince Alec to go meet the king of a foreign nation who is planning some takeover with the Alec's aide. (See page 14 where there's even a flashback to the assassin in question) I have no idea why the foreign king thought that a dead daughter would allow him to blackmail the family, but it's pretty ballsy of Alec to bring the very person the king was trying to assassinate with just a tiny mask.

We do know that the prince had a plan he was talking to his father about, so I guess this is it, but I wonder why the foreign king trusts him - what does he expect Alec's motivation is? It's not like the prince isn't also mixing some elements that could be viewed as truths - after all he was quite mad about not being informed of Neet's enrolment which was an action by his father and the king did appear quite sheepish about it so it seems like he might genuinely believes his father is a bit of a clown. Though I guess the bigger clown is the one who would be getting fooled, so the foreign king.

I'd also say it's pretty insane to suggest for some powerful general to specifically target his brother, but then again he's also received the report from the girl (off-panel, she had promised to not speak of Neet's actions, but since she's his bodyguard/courier he just pressured her) that his brother has an invincible barrier up at all times when outside.

So yeah, Prince Alec has some nefarious schemes, and the kings of both countries involved (his father and King Batron), are just doing their own things that might mess with his plan (carrying an assassination enrolling Neet into school...).

I guess we'll see what the plan is.

 

[k4shira]

The story is all over the place, but the pet is cute

 

[vhr2121]

Today's word is...

 

[AMicrowave]

Today's word is...

 

[MisterMango]

I think it's a ruse but I have to read chap1 again

 

[yoshiii]

It's hard to follow the flow of this manga

 

[colorlesseatstomboys]

Wait, is the king aware of this part of "the plan" or is the older brother actually betraying everyone? It's cute so far, but all the scheming had better have a good payoff or it will push people like me off the fence.

Great translation though, thanks to the team for that!

Definitely not betraying anyone since he's the most aware out of everyone of how OP his brother is.
What his plan is though I guess only the author knows.