Really not fond of those 3 old men just getting made significantly shorter, when your dealing with a god you'd think their souls would be sent to the equivalent of hell or something for their insolence.
"But stealing is wrong!"
Dude, the guy got a holy sword, something that SHOULD NOT be owned by a individual and the goddess is literally telling you your justified in stealing it, come on.
I mean if we ever get to that technological level, it's likely that ships will be the equivalent to cars and people's love of cars is well known, so it's really just a extension of that.
Because it's a normal looking creature in a room of horrors, i believe it's related to the uncanny liminal effect, aka where something normal feels far out of place and not supposed to be there.
In most stories i'd say yeah, but this isn't shounen, it's seinen, this story has NTR, rape and genocide aplenty, yes it has it's comedic parts but slavery is not even close to the worst thing that happens in this series, especially since slavery can also act as a geass effect.
That being said...
His 2 childhood friends were the only 2 that really needed too much convincing, since they are natives of the kingdom, the others are either natives of the empire or a third party and are probably willing to go along with their friends since it means none of them get left behind.
There is also...
Not gonna comment on all of this, but i do want to point one thing out, we know why he's doing it, the end of the chapter heavily hints at the cause, anna told the king that if she doesn't get engaged to the prince she'll leave the country.
Again this is a ABSURDLY stupid thing to do on so many...
The problem i see with this is that it's a zero sum game, this won't work, 5 seconds of logic from her would make that clear, the smart thing to do would be to
I think the implication is that the temple lost the divine blessing, thus they have to either purge that temple and accept another temple as their ruling group (think if baptism or catholicism was branded as heresy by jesus himself kinda thing), basically, anywhere that supports that temple will...
It's barely a trope at this point, men can be at each other's throats and be best friends 5 minutes later, it's probably a part of our native survival instinct, since surviving a battle against a enemy likely meant either you or they would likely have switched sides or come to some kind of...