Akuyaku Reijou no Oyome-sama - Vol. 2 Ch. 11

[MangaDex]

 

[TopFedoraCrew]

CEASAARRRRRR- oh wait she lived.

 

[Mandobard]

Well this could end badly. Then again she did let her family live

 

[dbgecko]

Is that ring important for anything? Odd to just make a mess and steal just that and call it revenge.

 

[Iratana]

I mean... I'm not saying I wanted her to kill everyone... But she didn't at least give a good smack to the Prince?!

 

[NinjaGoemon]

Oh she's gonna get eaten alright. I fucking loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee metaphors.

Is that ring important for anything? Odd to just make a mess and steal just that and call it revenge.

It's basically a crown jewel. To steal it would be like stealing the reputation of royalty.

 

[popo53414]

chomp chomp

 

[pino1988]

So she is going to eat her... out

 

[Litreara]

Sure, it’s pretty clear Aurora has her reasons for doing what she’s doing, but her just staying quiet when Karina confronted her really doesn’t sit well with me. And yeah, maybe she kept quiet because there were too many people around, but even so.

On another note, I don’t want to be that guy, but it really feels like this manga won’t escape the usual Yuri curse of ending at volume 3.

Thanks for the chapter!

 

[SrNevik]

Great chapter!

I loved the Aurora's having more agency and potentially, depth; it seems she might be positioned as an aide her older sister, while our wolf friend could turn bad or not.

That's an interesting set of possibilities to play with in many different directions and has me looking forward to where this goes from here. I leave most chapters feeling this way with this series.

Also some amazing shots in this chapter, especially of Karina's face as she criticized the crowd. She truly felt like a villainess with her "lover"/henchwoman beside her. Also, notice the command and voice Aurora had as well? She's not meak.

I also wonder what Karina's real feeling are at the moment. Does she actually have no romantic feelings for her wolf GF? Is there no hope there? Fun questions all over the place.

 

[FgoSegul]

So aurora’s mom was karina’s maid? I assumed the two were full sisters. Guess i wasnt paying attention. Also, i agree this story is probably gonna be short even thought it’d honestly be a pretty solid 40-60 chapter story

 

[Tarkenfire]

I sorta thought this with the previous chapters, but they never really spelled out what form "revenge" was going to take, and that sorta concerned me. I mean "murder them all, wolf wife" would have been a really weird tonal shift for the series and there was no real build up towards some "I'm here to expose the prince's evil machinations as some sort of karmic revenge" thing either.

As it stands, Karina's revenge seems to be that she broke a window, said "I LIVED BITCH AND I GOT A HOT WOLF WIFE NOW", then stealing a wedding ring and going home...which you know, there's symbolism there, but I don't think the kingdom will fall now because of it.

 

[Picks]

Imagine not falling in love with the fluffy ears and tail.
She has terrible taste.

 

[UdenEmpati]

Seems telling, that Aurora effectively said nothing whilst Katrina lambasted her, until she told everyone screaming about executing Karina to shut up. She wouldn't speak up against Katrina, but she did speak out to silence everyone else badmouthing her. Loudly enough, mind you, that she was heard over everyone, and everyone listened and obeyed.
She carries real sway among the sort of person invited to a royal wedding, then. Meaning she might be quite instrumental in whatever follows in the kingdom as it pertains to going after Katrina.



Interesting that Eve seems to think that either Karina or her "Wolfkin" are trying to recreate 'The Monster Princess', when it's pretty clear that the story is simply playing out ...organically, I guess is the term. Sure, Karina didn't have her family butchered in this moment, but there's still time for Reshtoka to continue trying to appease her beyond this point.

I'm still convinced that Aurora is not the person Katrina thinks she is - and that she was never against her older sister, but like here, just never spoke up. She's still quite passive in the face of Katrina, to a degree that I'm almost a bit miffed over; but the story's not over yet, and she's now made contact with one half of the Second Pair, who has "meta knowledge" of what appears to be Katrina's storied fate.

I don't think Rushtoka will actually end up killing Katrina. The entire introduction of the paralleling fairytale and Eve's connection to the book and now to Katrina & Rushtoka makes me think it's meant to line up, but with changes and subversions due to the actions of the cast. Eve now knowing that the woman who spoke against the Royal Narrative concerning Katrina means that she's likely to be even more motivated to get to the bottom of why the Crown was so hellbent on smearing her name and obliterating her very existence, and Aurora might become an accomplice of hers as an "inside person" within the palace itself in ways Eve couldn't be, on her own.




Looking forward to the next chapter. Thanks for your work and dedication to quality, as always.

 

[UdenEmpati]

So aurora’s mom was karina’s maid? I assumed the two were full sisters. Guess i wasnt paying attention.

Their mother was lying to Eve when being interviewed in that chapter, posing as a servant to hide her identity.

We're not given the full reason - but I would maybe guess that "being the mother of someone so reviled as to be erased from the Royal Records" would be strenuous, even if she's also the mother of the current future queen.
That, and speaking as "a servant with the inside scoop" would also mean her account is less-biased than "the mother of the subject", at least in terms of optics.

 

[NinjaGoemon]

Sure, it’s pretty clear Aurora has her reasons for doing what she’s doing, but her just staying quiet when Karina confronted her really doesn’t sit well with me. And yeah, maybe she kept quiet because there were too many people around, but even so.

On another note, I don’t want to be that guy, but it really feels like this manga won’t escape the usual Yuri curse of ending at volume 3.

Thanks for the chapter!

In terms of viewer attention this series is apparently one of the favored ones of the publisher. MangaRepublic sold out of the Villainess' Bride copies so, in theory, it shouldn't be axed.

So aurora’s mom was karina’s maid? I assumed the two were full sisters. Guess i wasnt paying attention. Also, i agree this story is probably gonna be short even thought it’d honestly be a pretty solid 40-60 chapter story

No, Karina's mom was using an alias to speak with Eve. She was just lying about being the maid.

Great chapter!

I loved the Aurora's having more agency and potentially, depth; it seems she might be positioned as an aide her older sister, while our wolf friend could turn bad or not.

That's an interesting set of possibilities to play with in many different directions and has me looking forward to where this goes from here. I leave most chapters feeling this way with this series.

Also some amazing shots in this chapter, especially of Karina's face as she criticized the crowd. She truly felt like a villainess with her "lover"/henchwoman beside her. Also, notice the command and voice Aurora had as well? She's not meak.

I also wonder what Karina's real feeling are at the moment. Does she actually have no romantic feelings for her wolf GF? Is there no hope there? Fun questions all over the place.

I think at the moment Karina is still too "empty" to really love Reshutoka. We know from chapter 10 that she wants to grow and feel again. That she even hopes maybe she can love her. But even getting revenge won't remove all the hurt she feels inside. She's still far from her family, still cut them from her life. Reshutoka might be there for her, but she still feels alone.


A thought comes to me about how the "meta-narrative" Eve sees playing out also plays into the theme of roles in the story. Roles assigned to people and how they exist outside them. She assigns these roles still knowing little of each character, just as the others in the scene return to calling Karina a witch and a villainess.

 

[KZO]

Everyone already mentioned it, but I have to say the author is not being subtle with this version of the story having a different kind of "eating" as the punchline.

 

[ElectroSlam]

Ah, so it seem they are just going to go with the classic “it was all just a massive misunderstanding” with the sister, which is always very annoying.

 

[outinthegardener]

"I travelled from the frozen north, crashed a wedding, wrecked the grand cathedral, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt wedding ring."

 

[Ironclad]

That was her big revenge? Wrecking the church and stealing the ring? I thought she was going to conquer the entire country with an army of beastmen.