Akuyaku Reijoutachi wa Yuruganai - Ch. 12

[14Darius28]

you can also notice that deep down he knows she's smarter than him, like even after many years he doesn't realize Bernardetta as a kid was vastly knowledgeable, like those words felt like an incantation but years later he should realize what she was actually saying, he still respected her when he saw her talking with their dad how she was glowing saying the same incantations, but in the end his mother poison won (she clearly made the tutors praise him too).

when she was teaching Aini he felt her disdain for her inability to learn as a personal attack as he knows he's inferior, he shouldn't feel like that as he himself said he's the top grade student, sadly he doesn't know she was asked to let his brother surpass her. Also he let his simping took him over.

I think your overreaching here. Your view is based on the condition that he knows more about his sister then what he actually knows. For him he thinks his smart sister simply stopped trying at some point. He actually thinks he's now the more intelligent one. Why? Because he has spent no time with her since then. Then his used to be smart sister doesn't bring in the grades that she should. He believes she just slacks off because he can't that there might be a reason his sister's grades aren't high.

Next he wasn't exactly wrong about her teaching method. His view that a commoner who suddenly has to know what an aristocrat knows in a short amount of time would be innately difficult is true. It would be hard and we have seen other stories where the newcomer often struggles to learn all the aristocracy had to learn. This is where a lot of library scenes happen.

This leads to the 3 main problems. 1st we have a mish-mash of personnel. We have a brilliant person teaching a person who is not trying to learn and a tag along who gets in the way. See unlike those other protags the saint holds no drive to learn. She doesn't care. The tag along can't see the fault in the saint and stops all tries to reprimand the saint. Lastly our brilliant lady here did make a mistake in trying to hold her level to the standard but that's because she doesn't know she is extraordinary. She holds no knowledge of her value so easy things to her wouldn't be easy things for anyone else.

 

[Kinkaiser]

only thing, we can actually see that Aini and Sauri are kinda right, she's just teaching in a monotonous voice because she doesn't give a single f*ck about this task,I would say it's the plot in the works to not make Sauri actually teach her, but we have already seen that there's also a faction battle between the church and the royale faction, so the Marquis doesn't want Sauri to fall in love with her, as he and the church faction wants the saintess to take the position of Queen.
author keeps cooking with the series.

I think its just that she's like many extremely smart or knowledgeable people that have a hard time teaching because its difficult for them to grasp what is "simple" or not. Imagine how hard and frustrating it would be for someone that permanently memorizes everything instantly to teach.

 

[Kaarme]

Now that I think about it again, I might have misjudged Seraphina. It could be she actually has nothing against Bernadetta marrying a foreign prince. But she wouldn't want it to happen during Bernadetta's darkest moments, so that when she moves abroad, she would feel like she's being saved. That would leave her only loyal to her new home country. But if Seraphina can make Bernadetta satisfied and happy first, then when Bernadetta marries abroad, she would also keep her old home country in her mind, to be point of keeping Seraphina informed about anything relevant, almost like a spy nobody can touch.

 

[Gudachiz]

i like that they make chapters like this, its to hammer home that these people are pieces of shit that mc and her group should look down on

 

[riflow]

I actually was curious about the younger half-brother; whether he was a twisted product of a scheming mother vying for personal power within the House, or if he himself was the genesis point of rot, and thus (in my view) that much more detestable.
It's one thing to be an entitled and haughty noble in this sort of setting, believing yourself due the fealty or admiration or loyalty of others simply because of your name.

But like in the case of Sauri here, we can see that he's a product of the "Nurture" side of things. His mother sought power and prestige, and actively lifted her son up at the expense of his half-sibling out of envy and ambition.

It wasn't a cold, unfeeling desire for control, either - we see it in the expressions she makes towards Bernadetta throughout. If I had to guess, it's because Sauri's mother was not the first wife.

She was even described as a concubine; a mistress, and thus would be seen as "lesser than" in the eyes of noble society as a result. With the first wife dead, her jealousy and ire were turned against the surviving daughter who would also become the heir: Bernadetta. And as she was still a child and thus vulnerable to the machinations of the adults around her, Sauri's mother was able to supplant her son in Bernadetta's place, all the while heaping him with praise and obtaining the best resources and opportunities possible to secure his--and more importantly, her own--place within the House.

And Sauri grew up in that environment, lifted up regardless of his successes or failures, while Bernadetta was crushed down. He saw his mother's hatred toward Bernadetta, heard her words of poison and bias, and internalized it until it became his truth, and he could perpetuate it because "surely it can't be wrong".
And when Bernadetta never pushed back, he was rewarded with confirmation of his skewed view of things.

It is interesting, and I'm curious what happens now that Bernadetta is standing tall, being empowered by the Queen-to-be, and has found her spine and her resolve again in forging her own path.
Sauri will have to reckon with this sooner than later, whether Bernadetta returns to claim her right as the heir of her House, or renounce her name entirely and go her own way - because while Sauri might believe he is a worthy successor, there is no confirmation that he is capable of actually stepping into the role of his father and maintaining the Marquis' prestige and prosperity.

And I like that we get his history and the process of his conditioning here and now, so that once that moment of clarity arrives and he is forced to confront the "truth" of what his mother made of him and that he will fail before Bernadetta's earned success, the fall is that much greater.
Perhaps he will receive some chance at redemption, if he realizes the way he was manipulated and coddled and how unfairly Bernadetta was treated at the hands of his mother and their father, but it would take a real moment of growth for him, which we have not seen as of yet.
So, time will tell.

It really is a well executed display of how one sibling can be poisoned against another.


Being scared of the other, a poorly timed chat to mum wanting to hang out with sister, an angry and resentful mother, an insecure and inadequate father who is resentful himself of his family's history with fem leaders.

A part of me remains angry at him for just going along with it when he seen how his sister smiled at their dad initially. When he seen how smart she was, but he never seemed to question is outwardly or actually want to connect with his older sister.


If he can be redeemed, his mum and their father certainly can't be, he's going to have to put a lot of work into rebuilding his sense of self and apologising sincerely and without reservation to her.


Especially all those barbed comments and their dad telling her to dim her light so he can look smart....god. absolutely infuriating.

 

[Laxtir]

Hoping for Sauri's doom.

 

[AsteroidCreator99]

This is not of my interest, at, all.
But I guess it can explain some things

 

[rozert]

I can't find the words to express how little I am interested in Sauri's (or the other ex-fiancees') story.

The only interesting thing is to see them in misery after they realize how f**ed they are, but we need a context for that

 

[Wizardrone]

thanks for chapter

 

[Arkuses]

Nah bro just wants to keep her

 

[BanzaiYuri]

Explode, riajuu.

 

[larcek]

Hoping for Sauri's doom.

just read previous chapters. his step-sister stepped up her game and he'll likely fall very low.

 

[halcer]

looking forward to seeing when he starts having regrets about his life choices

 

[looc64]

I think your overreaching here. Your view is based on the condition that he knows more about his sister then what he actually knows. For him he thinks his smart sister simply stopped trying at some point. He actually thinks he's now the more intelligent one. Why? Because he has spent no time with her since then. Then his used to be smart sister doesn't bring in the grades that she should. He believes she just slacks off because he can't that there might be a reason his sister's grades aren't high.

I'd go even further: I don't think he ever fully realized she was smart. The time Bernadetta tried to explain a book to him and the time he saw her talking to their dad were some of the first times he'd seen or interacted with Bernadetta ever/before she was suppressed and both times he was too young to even get that she was saying smart things.

So yeah he probably thinks she's always been mediocre and only knew more than him initially because she's older than him.

Next he wasn't exactly wrong about her teaching method. His view that a commoner who suddenly has to know what an aristocrat knows in a short amount of time would be innately difficult is true. It would be hard and we have seen other stories where the newcomer often struggles to learn all the aristocracy had to learn. This is where a lot of library scenes happen.

This leads to the 3 main problems. 1st we have a mish-mash of personnel. We have a brilliant person teaching a person who is not trying to learn and a tag along who gets in the way. See unlike those other protags the saint holds no drive to learn. She doesn't care. The tag along can't see the fault in the saint and stops all tries to reprimand the saint. Lastly our brilliant lady here did make a mistake in trying to hold her level to the standard but that's because she doesn't know she is extraordinary. She holds no knowledge of her value so easy things to her wouldn't be easy things for anyone else.

That part made me think it was sort of a shame that the saint and stepbrother have been characterized as solidly unlikable.

Like you don't get to fully explore Bernadetta being bad at teaching because she's up against people with none redeeming qualities.

 

[TinsleyNocturnal]

Any words spent on this piece of shit's story would be better spent describing the taste of manure.

 

[Peechaya]

This team credits page is always a jumpscare

 

[d_a_renoir]

only thing, we can actually see that Aini and Sauri are kinda right, she's just teaching in a monotonous voice because she doesn't give a single f*ck about this task

It's not that she doesn't care, Bernadetta is just too smar. Sauli was complaining that all she did was just go on and on and on down the list of names and ranks. That's because Bernadetta herself probably just read the whole list and remembers everything without breaking a sweat, and so she doesn't understand that "normal" people can't do this.

 

[jagfanbb]

Can't wait for this simp to get put in his place

 

[Zeesnowflower2002]

On the one hand I think this is and Sauri's attitude towards Bernadette is biased and flawed on the other hand Bernadette you do actually have to go at your student's pace if the student isn't getting it the fault lies in the teacher and if you can't conceptualize that other people learn at different paces in different ways to you maybe you shouldn't be a teacher someone else should be doing this

 

[Zeesnowflower2002]

I can see his downfall from the planet mars for how hes easily manipulated

I mean they're all children so