Akuyaku Reijou no Oyome-sama - Vol. 2 Ch. 12

[MangaDex]

 

[skywardgem]

been wondering where exactly Aurora would fall into all of this, was exciting seeing her put the prince in his place like that lol. I imagine Karina wouldn't be Thrilled to have a conversation with her sister but reconciliation, or at least closure, on their relationship is probably the only way she'll be able to live the rest of her life out happily... godspeed you poor sisters

thanks for the chapter!

 

[Dranzer86]

There's definitely something fishy about Aurora.

 

[Litreara]

Some people said that I was dooming when I said this manga could end in volume 3 (the yuri manga curse), but to me it really feels like we’re approaching the climax of the story, the long-awaited confrontation between Karina and Aurora, and after that, the end of the story. I mean, I don’t see where it would go after the main conflict is sorted out.

Thanks for the chapter!

 

[Tcof]

this become a more interesting than the first chapter premier, but with so many character and new POV, now i feel like the suppose main pair is just plot-device instead of character

 

[Jwardo]

The way i see it, there are two possibilities for what aurora is thinking. The first being that she loves her older sister but also knows and understands what her older sister has had to endure her entire life and that she is much to blame, so she sought to free her from the torment, albeit in a roundabout way, by stepping in her place as the wife of the douche prince. The second being that she is truly an evil genius who, once she realized her sister had already become some kind of pariah, stepped in and took the position of the queen all for herself and is using the prince as a means to an end. She could be setting out to finish the job simply because the kingdom was too incompetent to kill her. In short, she either loves her sister, or is a bitch lmao

 

[UdenEmpati]

Aurora very clearly wants control over dealing with The Karina Problem. To what end, is still ambiguous, but she decisively wrested the driver seat from the prince, here, and it wasn't even a contest.

Staring Orlando down was nice and all, but feeding him that line about the "Big Bad Wolf" was telling.
It was right off the back of Orlando pondering a fake fairytale about "people who act like The Witch should fear being eaten"--Aurora mirroring that line at her fiancé as she departed felt like as close to a confession of her true feelings about his (and the royal family's) conduct toward Karina as we can expect at this juncture.

Eve got lucky with Aurora here, though. Getting access to royal records that she otherwise would never be allowed to know existed, and getting a seat at the table in researching both the present "crisis" of Karina & Reshtoka, and potentially getting to look into other "sensitive records" on the side, is a dream come true.
She clearly doesn't trust Orlando--doesn't take "animal-like intuition" to know he's bad news, and her hackles are metaphorically raised very appropriately just off this first real interaction.

Poor Reshtoka, though. Two years of patience and it's still not enough. Hopefully Karina can throw her a bone (as it were) and offer some amount of marital life/faked bliss, at least for a short while. But the Crown will be breathing down her neck, sooner or later, and given Aurora seems to have motive now to prevent "the storybook ending" from occurring, the two wives will undoubtedly have a short honeymoon.

Thanks for the TL as always.

 

[UdenEmpati]

Some people said that I was dooming when I said this manga could end in volume 3 (the yuri manga curse), but to me it really feels like we’re approaching the climax of the story, the long-awaited confrontation between Karina and Aurora, and after that, the end of the story. I mean, I don’t see where it would go after the main conflict is sorted out.

Thanks for the chapter!

I don't see how this can conclude by the end of volume 3, unless it gets cancelled and is left entirely unfinished or rushed to the point that multiple volumes are truncated into 2-3 chapters' worth of space.

It took 2 volumes to get to the point where the main conflict is beginning between Aurora and Karina, and we also have the second set of protagonists in Eve & June and how they factor into Karina's narrative, and their own story that needs telling.
Plus, Karina's relationship with Reshtoka beside it all, and then there's Karina's own personal arc from Villainess->whatever she becomes when everything is laid bare.

5-6 chapters isn't enough for that, whatsoever.

 

[Jackal-Lantern]

Woooow! It almost went just like how I said it would! People acting like Karina actually achieved something with her little tantrum...

Did we see the Prince trembling in fear? Nope.

Did we see anyone's peace of mind shattered or ruined? Nope

Did we see the Kingdom go hysterical over the damaged chapel or stolen ring? Nope.

What we did saw was that the Kingdom would've rather leave Karina to her supposed cursed fate, and went about their day and celebrated! And things would've gone that route, if not for Aurora. And just like I said before, Aurora showed that she actually had more impact than Karina, actually shutting up the Prince with a mere glare, when Karina couldn't even do that with a monster at her side.

So once again, what was the damn point of Karina's revenge? She was better off staying in the damn mountains and letting her sister handle things for her, since Karina is simply that inadequate.

...I can't even right now.

 

[Resound]

when will the prince die?

 

[Litreara]

5-6 chapters isn't enough for that, whatsoever.

The pace of the story has sped up, so I think that’s more than enough.

 

[BrotherCoa]

People few chapters ago: little sister is probably an evil mastermind that does not like her older sister.
Little sister when her future husband trashtalk her big sister:

Aurora FTW, hopefully her trip to the north and talk with Karina will make thighs better.
I however predict that prince will not let this pass by just like this. He will probably send army in secret to follow Aurora and have them kill Karina then and there. That's at least how I would write the story next. I guess we shall see how it goes from there.

 

[dokidoki]

I just hope MC doesn't forgive any of them, I don't care if her sister was actually secretly "good" or w.e bullshit they always tend to spin, then again this whole series has been thrown off the rails, with MC's "revenge" being almost absolutely a NOTHING BURGER since no one even died and the scale of the damage was so small its ridiculous after what they did to her including sending assassins after her

All in all like people had said, this series does seem to be speeding up towards a ending aka being axed and I don't think the ending is going to leave me pleased OTL.........

 

[darkniter123]

Well... time to start bracing ourselves for a conclusion blander than watery soup.

 

[onedumninja]

I said it in a previous chapter but now we truly see it on karina's face. She's never had any control over her own fate. She got back at her family for using her as a tool to curry favor in high society. Yet, nothing has fully changed in the end. Rather than being forced to marry a prince and live a life she has no say in, she now has to marry a princess and live a life she has no say in (as far as she can tell).

There is no guarantee she'll have any freedom if she gets married to reshtoka. Will she be expected to stay in the village and do what exactly? Will the implication be that she has to have sex with someone (reshtoka) she's not comfortable doing that with (yet)?

Were she to marry the prince, she'd be expected to carry his children whether she wanted to or not. But is it any better for her to marry reshtoka and be expected to "mate" with her?

Karina is not fully innocent in this because she negotiated this exchange with reshtoka, but that doesn't make her current situation justified. She used reshtoka. Now will she have to be "used" by reshtoka in return?

Reshtoka doesn't seem to understand what's happening here either. I think if she knew how karina felt, she wouldn't force her into sex. However, I can't say for sure about the marriage between them. I can see reshtoka trying to get karina on-board with them being a couple in the hopes karina will eventually love her back. We don't really know for sure though whether reshtoka will lash out over this whole ordeal. Killing karina, I doubt it. Getting angry, maybe.

Good stuff.

edit: one last thing.

Reshtoka didn't kill karina's family. This implies the fairytale isn't being followed to the letter. So it's actually pretty safe to assume reshtoka wouldn't kill karina in the end.

 

[UdenEmpati]

one last thing.

Reshtoka didn't kill karina's family. This implies the fairytale isn't being followed to the letter. So it's actually pretty safe to assume reshtoka wouldn't kill karina in the end.

interesting point -

the storybook also was about a princess.
As in, ostensibly, royalty.

Meaning that the family of the princess that was killed by the wolf?
That would be the royal family.

Food for thought.



To the rest of what you said - Karina's lack of agency also gives insight to the impotence of her tantrum at the cathedral in front of Aurora, Orlando, and the rest.
She wants to make this big splash, get people to look at her for her, and do things on her own terms. She wants to make a statement and be the center of attention, but in a way that she can fully control, and not as the betrothed of the Crown, beholden to the weight placed upon her shoulders since childhood.
And it amounted to almost nothing, pragmatically speaking. Aurora is "concerned", shall we say, but Orlando all but laughed it off, taking more interest in the fairy tale spoken of by Eve, and continuing to smear Karina's name and memory.
The other nobles nearby join in with whispered gossip, drawing Eve's ire--but it's another example of just how little control Karina has had over everything pertaining to her, this entire way through.

And now that she's "gotten her revenge", she's left hollow, because nothing came of it. She got the ring, she got to smash a window and yell, but nothing tangible or constructive grew out of this, and I think it's finally settling in for her, now that she's simply back in the cold, dark north, preparing to wed a wolfkin who claims love--but Karina doesn't seem capable of giving it, or receiving it, and that poses a real problem for them both. Leaving Aurora and the Crown aside, even.

Karina may seem pathetic and like a drama queen who talked big and then did nothing, but I think that's the point. It's her fabricated desires and delusions of grandeur meeting reality, and realizing that she really has nothing, and is nothing, and she can't bring herself to confront that fact--and so she's now hiding away, both in the north and within herself, from everything.

 

[NinjaGoemon]

I don't see how this can conclude by the end of volume 3, unless it gets cancelled and is left entirely unfinished or rushed to the point that multiple volumes are truncated into 2-3 chapters' worth of space.

It took 2 volumes to get to the point where the main conflict is beginning between Aurora and Karina, and we also have the second set of protagonists in Eve & June and how they factor into Karina's narrative, and their own story that needs telling.
Plus, Karina's relationship with Reshtoka beside it all, and then there's Karina's own personal arc from Villainess->whatever she becomes when everything is laid bare.

5-6 chapters isn't enough for that, whatsoever.

People really just love doomposting about yuri I swear. You can't have any sort of development happen without people perking up their ears like rabbits going "axe? axe? axe? axe???"

That said it's really sad how Karina's just all alone with bags under her eyes. Her revenge didn't bring her any closure and now she looks so. Just. Empty. Like she has absolutely nothing left of agency. No will to her own limbs. No say in her own story.

I just want to give this girl a hug I swear.

 

[ezzhead]

I do agree with everyone that this revenge has been a nothing burger but that's probably because Karina never really wanted revenge on her sister. Her heart was never in this, she just convinced herself that she needed to ruin other people's lives in order to be happy instead of getting actual closure. So no, she's not going to follow through with this or ruin anyone's lives except for maybe douche bag prince. Aurora's going to deal with Reshtoka who would be crashing out over Karina not actually being happy, Karina is going to probably crash out talking to her sister, then prince is gonna betray Aurora and call her a traitor or something, prince will get his ass beat, Reshtoka and Karina will calm down and actually talk to each other, then smth smth happily ever after.

 

[sandeboi]

How was there big slabs of rock all throughout the hall when they only broke some glass?

 

[3141592653589]

If the author thought that introducing a pre-existing love interest for Eve was gonna keep me from having some inappropriate thoughts about her team-up with Aurora then she's got another thing coming.