Madougu no Shuuriya Hajimemashita - Vol. 1 Ch. 2

[MangaDex]

 

[dokidoki]

HOLY mannnnnnnn talk about having ZERO IQ
Girl almost gets raped because she was too stupid to realize she was working at a brothel and THEN is like NO BRO I NEED TO GO BACK, leaving is IRRESPONSIBLE

No wonder this shit got cancelled, I thought the badly made character was the hero but it turns out so is MC

 

[Sir_AL]

That receptionist at the adventure guild should be fired for not explaining things properly.

 

[OWMWO]

That receptionist at the adventure guild should be fired for not explaining things properly.

Tavern wench was normal and considered common sense back then.
Remember what is the oldest business known for woman.

 

[JACGohu]

I wanna see what happens when the guy and the King find out what that li'l bitch of a Princess did. His Majesty seems kinda chill, and the Hero wasn't the scummy type. I expect he'll be quite upset.

 

[GreenDude1]

HOLY mannnnnnnn talk about having ZERO IQ
Girl almost gets raped because she was too stupid to realize she was working at a brothel and THEN is like NO BRO I NEED TO GO BACK, leaving is IRRESPONSIBLE

No wonder this shit got cancelled, I thought the badly made character was the hero but it turns out so is MC

"Oh NO i AlmoST gOT RApEd, BUt tHEN AgAIN hE DId paY FOr IT So I SHould gO back aND aPolOgIZe"

 

[HaikenEdge]

I mean, she did say she'd so anything:

Is it really the clerk's fault for taking her at her word?

 

[PinkManiac]

HOLY mannnnnnnn talk about having ZERO IQ
Girl almost gets raped because she was too stupid to realize she was working at a brothel and THEN is like NO BRO I NEED TO GO BACK, leaving is IRRESPONSIBLE

No wonder this shit got cancelled, I thought the badly made character was the hero but it turns out so is MC

To be fair, she realized it was her misunderstanding that caused that mess. Going back immediately is a poor idea, let everyone cool off. Having the guild mediate rather than going back at all would be the best idea, but I'm assuming she will need to pay a monetary compensation for assaulting a customer and running out on a job everyone assumed she understood with this world's standard of an explanation.

 

[w4nzxtxgrgn]

oof... surprise jk haru...

That receptionist at the adventure guild should be fired for not explaining things properly.

p11:

the only openings right now are for waitstaff. And... they're all night jobs.

That seems to be a pretty standard euphemism, yeah? In that same panel, there is internal dialogue of "Night shift?" indicating Setsu was unsure about something, but does not try to clarify. I think the receptionist explained it well enough in-universe. The problem is a mismatch of understanding: Setsu can "hear" the words, but she doesn't necessarily "understand" them due to background, other world, etc.

There's other scenes where Setsu sees something, but it doesn't trigger as a flag for her.

p16:

Setsu... You've had it rough too, huh? Rough?

I read this as, you must have had a difficult time in life to resort to prostitution. Again, we get that mismatch where Setsu doesn't understand why the lady would say this, and does not try to understand.

And then the next page p17, Setsu overhears the exchange "you've had too much to drink" between a man and a woman on the second floor and thinks:

There's an inn upstairs... right? Even if you get drunk you can just go straight to a bed.

Ok...

Setsu sees things that doesn't quite make sense, but she doesn't play the tape through and register it as something potentially dangerous.

 

[Roorem10]

That receptionist at the adventure guild should be fired for not explaining things properly.

Translator here!
The receptionist says the only openings are 給仕 (kyūji) jobs, basically serving/waitstaff work, and then adds どれも夜の仕事ですし, literally “they’re all night work/jobs.”

The important part is Setsu’s internal response. She changes that into 夜勤のウェイトレスさん？ essentially, “A waitress working the night shift?”

夜の仕事 and 夜勤 are not the same expression. 夜勤 specifically means an ordinary “night shift,” while 夜の仕事 is broader and carries a nightlife-work implication. So Setsu interpreted what the receptionist said in the most innocent, literal way possible.

p11:


That seems to be a pretty standard euphemism, yeah? In that same panel, there is internal dialogue of "Night shift?" indicating Setsu was unsure about something, but does not try to clarify. I think the receptionist explained it well enough in-universe. The problem is a mismatch of understanding: Setsu can "hear" the words, but she doesn't necessarily "understand" them due to background, other world, etc.

There's other scenes where Setsu sees something, but it doesn't trigger as a flag for her.

You pretty much got the right idea overall. The mismatches in understanding are present throughout the chapter in the original Japanese: Setsu hears what she’s being told, but misses all the implications.

I tried to preserve that in English without translating everything too literally. So... “waitstaff” and “night jobs” were chosen to keep the same ambiguity in English.

 

[FloorRoof]

I guess this world is well educated if being good with numbers isn't already a high-tier skill that could land you a nice job. Or maybe a sexist one where it doesn't matter.

 

[HaikenEdge]

I guess this world is well educated if being good with numbers isn't already a high-tier skill that could land you a nice job. Or maybe a sexist one where it doesn't matter.

More likely explanation is the author didn't think about it because they wanted to get to the near-rape right away.

 

[instantmagic]

Ah I initially thought it sucks it got cancelled the world seemed good enough for me and thought mc was good too, the cancellation is fine afterall