Akuyaku Reijou Level 99: Watashi wa UraBoss desu ga Maou de wa Arimasen - Ch. 21.3

[AReadingAddict]

Wait, so can the female mc see the mc finally after leveling up a bit?

 

[Salfaro]

Good ancient meme in the credits page.

 

[RayREI]

I guess after basically slaughtering packs upon packs of monsters on the way up(with Yumiella attracting more monsters with her flute and giving Alicia an EXP buff amulet), she leveled up enough to see Yumiella properly. A nice change of pace to see an actually kind OGMC.

 

[User1569]

Bro. If the stories are different for every adaptation, I might actually go and read through all of them

 

[DavidAre]

For what I read in the webnovel there are parallel universes with differents outcomes, so all version can coexist
I hope we can get a good look in the manga of the Holy Dolkness Empire <_<

 

[saifors]

She is beginning to believe definitely like this take more than the anime feels like it might commit to making her a likeable companion/kindred spirit

 

[AMicrowave]

I didn't read WN but I did buy LN and insta dropped it lol

so in LN vol.1 , (A bit long cuz I wanna rant lol)

Spoiler: LN vol.1 spoiler(from what I recalled)

Alicia is your usual flower head girl who read too much fairy tale about Witch Vs Saint blah blah blah so she firmly believed that Yumi. The dark magic user is gonna be enemy she has to defeat sooner or later. Like in fairy tale she read.

the level up section here in LN was she got forced to leveling with Yumi. Yumi went with spartan teaching because Alicia is wimpy and that make her scared shitless and into Do or Die mode and feel no grateful to Yumi after leveling(adding more PTSD on top of her delusion to dislike Yumi)

before Vol.1 end. Patrick and Yumi relationship is similar to manga. patrick asked her to change her growth amulet to protection one. to give him peace of mind so he can focus on fighting in kingdom and more flirting scene.

then the hero party(Yumi,Alicia and 3 capture targets) went to Demon king castle. The boys are kinda neutral to Yumi compared to their first meeting at this point and everything seems smooth so far. They fight their way through and reached demon king castle. Yumi went first and going to open the door , just in worst case there're ambush or trap lying so she planned to clear the way first.

That's when Alicia got her chance and stabbed Yumi with OP light javalin(iirc) in the back(which dropped from leveling arc) Yumi fell down.

the boys went "WTF DID YOU DO" while alicia try to convince them that Yumi is totally gonna turn evil sooner or later so I had to do what I must when I got a chance blah blah.

Demon king show up during their argument and laugh at how stupid humanity is , to fight among themselves before fighting him and attack them. The fight barely in their favour. They got destroyed hard by demon king. Protection amulet managed to save them from dying but demon king about to finish them off.

Then Yumi recovered before the worst come(or maybe the best ?) she fell down and didn't stand up right away because seeing light javalin stabbed through her heart shock her "a bit"

Level 99 Yumi overpowered the demon king. job done. Kingdom saved. Yippee!

The epiloge is , Yumi and patrick are talking about aftermatch. Alicia got locked up as punishment due to whatever crime she did. Can't rmb about the boys much but Iirc, their punishment aren't that harsh so they probably making trouble in Vol.2 again.

Spoiler: in the wn

it's pretty similar except everyone but the prince dies to the demon king

 

[DedBeet]

She has been corrupted converted!!!

 

[darkeden112]

Light magic min maxxer in the making.

 

[SunSun]

I prefer it if Alicia stay as a kind character like this. I'm tired with isekai stories where FMC reincarnated as villain and turn out the original protagonist that supposed to be kind and pure is actually an evil 2 face or something.

Agree, had enough of subversions.

I'm also tired of "oh the villain is actually sympathetic and has a long ass back story". No just, no. Some people are villains for no other reason than to be an ass and that's fine.

 

[TheVanguardKing]

Oh no, there's two of them now.

 

[lordb1]

This sounds different than the LN and WN spoilers I've read, is this a fourth alternative or did I read bad spoilers?

Spoiler: Other Media

WN, she supposedly hated our MC for no reason (Just wasn't fleshed out)
LN, the spoilers claim PTSD (mostly the grinding adding to the terror) led her to backstab MC
Anime, the plot controls the heroine to complete important events

#3 makes no sense because the story never tries to right anything else in the entire first book. I really hated that shitty twist in the anime.

 

[BatCrow]

That last page oml

TOOOT THAT FLUUUUUTE

 

[PhoenixDen]

Something I think is interesting is that considering Yumi's level 99, that means she's likely to have jumped up at least 10 levels, I'd estimate. I wonder if the 'must defeat a Dark monster to trigger the Tutorial Complete' flag went off, so all the experience she SHOULD have gotten is given to her all at once now.

 

[Deoxyribo9]

#3 makes no sense because the story never tries to right anything else in the entire first book. I really hated that shitty twist in the anime.

Spoiler: Anime Spoilers

It's set up in the anime she's basically stuck in a fugue state having to deal with the narrative forcing certain things to happen because she's the protagonist. At least its set up before the climax unlike the WN

 

[StormSen]

I prefer it if Alicia stay as a kind character like this. I'm tired with isekai stories where FMC reincarnated as villain and turn out the original protagonist that supposed to be kind and pure is actually an evil 2 face or something.

Spoiler: LN 1 Spoiler by Implication

LN Alicia isn't evil. More accurately she's: culturally biased against black hair; too boneheaded to see that she's wrong; has a self important view of herself; and in the end puts her own survival highest. And 2/3 of her boyfriends are just fools. That's part of what I like about it... A person who does wrong is but isn't caricacture level evil. Rather, she's just normally not good.

Clearly manga Alicia is being handled differently. And it's true that there are several "I became the Villainess" stories where the heroine is a very bad person -- so that's been done. But... I think manga readers try to avoiding people -- including "normally not good" people -- hence we don't get the LN version.

 

[unime]

She converted the heroine into a lvl junkie too xD
Manyt thanks

 

[StormSen]

Yes the artist has said on Twitter that the manga will be taking an alternative approach, with consent by both the original author and the editorial department.

Author's Editor: "This isn't what you wrote, but trust me I know how anime works, and this will be more successful and make more money, so you'll get higher royalties. And your LN sales will go up, so more people will read your version, and you'll make more money.

Author: ... ... "More money is a win."

I'd wager it went something like that.

 

[ansonh92]

"In the end, she even surrounded her entire body in light magic and threw herself into a pack of monsters!"

Huh?
Wait, Yumiella!
What have you done to poor Alicia!!!

 

[kremil]

Wasnt expecting a Dominions meme