Akuyaku Reijou no Nariagari - Vol. 2 Ch. 7

[MangaDex]

 

[inkindoug]

Bumper size chapter. Want to thank the staff for their crazy hard work on this one. We've got the best team...

 

[LtRamen]

she’s been wearing like damn Uranium or something around her neck lol

 

[blablablub]

Too bad the empress took our girl's autism as proof for the rumours.

 

[Mister_Susan]

she’s been wearing like damn Uranium or something around her neck lol

Do these gems happen to… y'know, glow a lovely soft blue under the moonlight? Or a wonderfully ethereal green? And they're always slightly warm to the touch?

 

[NellAnder]

Do these gems happen to… y'know, glow a lovely soft blue under the moonlight? Or a wonderfully ethereal green? And they're always slightly warm to the touch?

I'm thinking either that or the lovely green that nobles used, arsenic =D

 

[Fushiginiku]

she’s been wearing like damn Uranium or something around her neck lol

Do these gems happen to… y'know, glow a lovely soft blue under the moonlight? Or a wonderfully ethereal green? And they're always slightly warm to the touch?

I'm thinking either that or the lovely green that nobles used, arsenic =D

Most radioactive substances do not glow visible light, but the one that does, Radium, is basically entirely responsible for our perception that radioactivity = green glowy stuff.

But rather than radioactivity, I'm more prone to imagine heavy metal toxicity. If someone fashioned a necklace of galena crystals, for example, the wearer would be getting a dose of lead. Cinnabar is basically the ore of mercury, the cause of mad hatter's disease. So many possibilities.

 

[outinthegardener]

Yeah, "Cursed" is the prescientific version of "Toxic heavy metals will absorb through your skin and kill you."

Seems like she's about to be proven correct. That's good! And then, she's about to fall in love for real. For real! That's great.

 

[Jampolo]

"You are judging this girl over baseless rumors, then have the gall to expect me to be better than that?"

 

[lesseffective]

Page 13 sending Eliza to outer space~

 

[shadowmasstitan]

I am guessing that the female lead is part dwarf. That explains how she finds gems that are small in the river with such accuracy most need a siv. Also explains how she knows of curses. Also her face when she finds gems is like a dwarf finding diamonds and gold.

 

[mgRdr]

There's been many opportunities now for the girl to explain herself, or for the others to press on about what she meant, but the author thinks whatever the reveal he's prepared where the girl goes "Aha! That's why this necklace is considered cursed!" is well worth the minor contrivances along the way

 

[pgerryan]

I am guessing that the female lead is part dwarf. That explains how she finds gems that are small in the river with such accuracy most need a siv. Also explains how she knows of curses. Also her face when she finds gems is like a dwarf finding diamonds and gold.

DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE?

 

[UdenEmpati]

There's been many opportunities now for the girl to explain herself, or for the others to press on about what she meant, but the author thinks whatever the reveal he's prepared where the girl goes "Aha! That's why this necklace is considered cursed!" is well worth the minor contrivances along the way

we're told why she doesn't say anything in this very chapter.

Because all her life, she's tried to explain herself, but because she can't always put it into words well (smells like autism/spectrum stuff to me), she's endured a lifetime of hardship of people not believing her, to the point of spreading baseless rumors and vilifying and persecuting her and by extension her family.
She's come to simply not trust that anyone would actually listen to her. And she was trying to speak of danger to a queen of a foreign, adversarial power, while being a guest on her own with no support base beyond a prince who was acting purely on ulterior motives in bringing her over in the first place.

And she found out that the same "gem-eating villainess" rumors had made it all the way to this empire, as well.

It's entirely reasonable as to why she didn't actually speak out. Experience has shown her again and again that most people wouldn't listen, much less understand, and she would simply be further hated and reviled as a result, only this time by a second set of literal royalty.

And--she still doesn't trust the prince, because she has been conditioned to believe that no one will actually trust her, and that she's simply here under the terms that she assists him with the counterfeit gemstone issue he expressed. Everything in her life up to this point has shown her that no one actually cares about her and that getting her hopes up that "at least one person finally sees her for her", is a fool's errand.

This is arguably pretty well-written up to this point, given that setup.

 

[vandalbear]

Her rad counter is above survivable limits lol. She shouldve been wearing a power armour... Thanks for TL! 🙏

 

[Kireato]

I don't know much about why a gemstone would be considered a health hazard, so I've got no clue what the cause is aside from the guesses of radioactivity or metal poisoning provided here, but wouldn't those mean there's no cure?

So maybe we should still bet on it being some sort of voodoo stone and that she'll be able to cure the empress through a ritualistic dance while being half naked and wearing body paint. It'll be funny to move on from that to becoming the crown princess.

 

[medrus_358]

The son just went -I´m not mad, just dissapointed- on his mother giving 0 fucks about protocole; he takes to the heart the phrase "For my waifu i´d give my laifu"

 

[OWMWO]

DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE?

It really is a DEEP ROCK.
We salute you.

 

[TheEnd478]

Too bad the empress took our girl's autism as proof for the rumours.

Worse thing about that is

Spoiler: As her son calls her out on and what happens later in the following Chapter

She really DIDN'T believe the rumors, as he pointed out, FMC was just like her and in the SAME POSITION of being misunderstood. It's a SAD case of her always telling herself she would be helpful and supportive to anyone in her position so they wouldn't feel alone like she was.....yet sadly in her old age, she went FULL STUBBORN and did EXACTLY what the assholes of her past did to her instead because of bias! The necklace was the last item of a dear friend! It was EASIER to believe she was EXACTLY as the rumors say and punish her as such then to admit that even if she didn't do it right, to hear a single thing she has to say so she doesn't have to admit the truth that she might have been right about the necklace, ESPECIALLY as she was feeling weak since getting it! She even crossed the line by the fact she KNOWS she raised her son right, yet it was EASIER to pretend he was "charmed/tempted" by some pretty villainess into acting as a mouth piece then it was to believe he WAS acting of his own will, ESPECIALLY in regards to HER safety AS HIS EMPRESS AND MOTHER! Hence his "disappointment in her" as she did EXACTLY what she told HIM never to do, ESPECIALLY being a victim of that same rumor mongering shit like what happened to FMC! Because she would have at least QUESTIONED why she acted like that, instead of condemning her there and then and wanting her out! She became what she hated, and even questions why she would save her because a small part of her is still STUBBORN, but now clinging to "Royal/Noble Politics mode" where any Royal/Noble SHE KNOWS would have left her to suffer her fate in a "serves you right" manner! But she didn't do so, and her explanation shames the Empress (Not FMC shaming her, she feels ASHAMED herself for putting her in that situation/mindscape over a STUPID NECKLACE! Her dead friend would be ashamed of her! Especially since it almost took HER LIFE as well if FMC hadn't already been preparing an Antidote to the negative effects that she knew of because well it's out there already, people just ASSUME the "Cursed Jewels" are at the site of the forbidden zone that they never factor ANYONE would smuggle them out, much less MAKE THEM! Last I remember, FMC brings up the implication that this WAS an assassination attempt, the type that has an innocent KILLED simply to lower the REAL TARGET'S guard into making themselves vulnerable to the very thing that killed that innocent! But that's where my knowledge ends as the uploaders of Mangadex are catching up which is the next chapter I believe, it's been a month or so) even MORE for "grasping at grapes" if you will for her own selfish stubborn reasoning (ready to condemn a girl which is VERY out of character for her! She's not mind controlled as I say this, more when you do something out of character because you let a bias or whatever get the better of you

 

[TheEnd478]

The son just went -I´m not mad, just dissapointed- on his mother giving 0 fucks about protocole; he takes to the heart the phrase "For my waifu i´d give my laifu"

It's cause his mother taught him better! Nothing is more disappointing then seeing your parent/figure fall for the same shit they spend your whole life WARNING YOU AGAINST!

Spoiler: For the whiners who think this is really a spoiler

In his mom's case, the Empress WAS in FMC position, being labeled and misunderstood, usually by other people on PURPOSE and even FRAMED ABIT as an evil person! She swore never to be like those people, and yet as you saw with FMC, to not risk having to throw away what she feels is the last remnant of a dear friend away. She didn't even WANT to think on what FMC said, she used her outburst and refusal to explain as PROOF the Jewel Eater Villainess rumors are true after all, and severely punish her by immediate deportation, even though she HAS felt the early symptoms to suspect, but choose to ignore them and think it's exhaustion or something! She went FULL Donkey when they decide to be a STUBBORN ASS and SIT, refusing to be moved no matter WHAT for reasons that ONLY make sense to THEM! She's even ASHAMED of herself, more so when she finally decides to hear FMC out AFTER she is healed by her, specifically on "why bother when she could just have kept her mouth shut or claimed she didn't know out of spite! This is the EMPRESS side of her talking, the politician that KNOWS any enemy would just silently let her suffer for the sake of their own advancement, finally realizing she became what she HATED THE MOST! Those SAME PEOPLE who did to her, what they do to others like her, such as FMC as even her SON sniffed out EASILY that the "Jewel Eater" shit was garbage artificially pushed by liars and rumormongers to defame FMC (And that is also adds to his disappointment in his mother that she EASILY CLUNG to those obviously bullshit rumors that if HE saw through them, she would as well, WORSE SO when she tried to claim FMC SEDUCED HIM to justify dismissing anything he says in regards to her or that she told him that he's passing on as just being manipulated when that's essentially MOCKING HERSELF since she raised him to NOT BE THAT VULNERABLE yet here she is MOCKING that effort by making excuses to ignore mocking HERSELF!

It's understandable commoners believe the lies, after all, it's a NOBLE CLASSIC to finds scapegoats so commoners THINK they now know WHY they're suffering! It must be the JEWEL EATERS FAULT using their TAX MONEY to feed her Jewel addiction.......with no proof what so ever but it's the EASIEST to believe! Other LESSER nobles just easily believe because Bias and makes it EASIER to convince themselves she's a bad person because "many idiots believe in the WHERE THERE'S SMOKE THERES FIRE" mindset of "then why would anyone make such rumors unless it's true" without any self-awareness of just how EASY IT IS to push rumors! Plus the Prince/her ex was so aggressive and distance so that MUST be more proof that it's true and NOT that "he might have been the SOURCE of the rumor to defame her!" (even though we know WHO really pushed the rumor, at best he IS the one to help inflame it! SO BOTH SOURCES ARE PIECES OF SHIT! Especially since he WANTED to have the excuse to execute her on false charges just so he can JUSTIFY marrying "his whore" and you have to wonder, FMC had the training and such to be a good queen, where the FUCK is all that effort the moron used to frame her in being a DECENT KING! Guess he only puts his all when he's being a worthless waste!