Aldo no Isekai Tensei - Vol. 2 Ch. 6 - Even so, I still Believe in You

[hanfeizi]

What sin should one lay burden for protecting the ones they love and care about?

Regardless of the reason, it is mostly traumatic for a normal person the first time they have to kill someone.

 

[R2D2TS]

Thanks for the chapter.

 

[Immortal44]

Bruv 1 chapter a month ain't enough for me man

 

[UncleBenny]

Man I'm really looking forward to more of this series.

 

[Sakidornis]

What was even the point of making him a reincarnator. Just make him a normal kid lol story would be better with it.

His previous life's trauma is literally the thing that drives his personality and goals. A normal kid wouldn't be thinking like he has been doing. While the relevance of the past life isn't yet as strong as something like Jobless or Re Zero, it is still far better than Aristocrat Reincarnation or There was a cute girl in the hero party.

 

[Renan_Walheim]

I'm still sad that girl at the end of chapter 2 was brutally butchered.

 

[Sennalove]

For Japan, is killing in self-defense (and in defense of children who would otherwise be sold into slavery and worse) not a thing, culturally? I'm kind of baffled here.

It's taking someone's life and staring at them while you're doing it. If you shoot someone from the distance and kill them, it won't weigh that heavily on you unless you walk over and watch the life leave their body. He, as a kid, had to not only kill someone in melee distance but watch them die/making sure they're dead. The vision of the scene and so on, the 'I just killed someone' when the excitement comes to an stop is very traumatic.

 

[Bibliothecarius]

Thanks for the chapter!!!

 

[Miorioff]

I appreciate the story, but I'm really pissed that a reincarnated person, who should be most mature, is such a wuss.
There's no way a grown up man would be in so much depression after killing one stupid bandit, it makes no sense

 

[Solipsist]

for people of the first world, outside of the usa, killing is something traumatic.
for usa soldiers killing is traumatic and ptsd inducing.

You thinking it's not normal to be traumatized is somewhat psychopathic for us.

It seems like most people that replied to you, agreed with you, give or take. I'll take a different stance here. <_<
The issue, at least I am having with the narrative, is the emphasis on: "I AM FILTHY", "I ROBBED SOMEONE'S FUTURE!", etcetc.

None of those arguments make any sense, they are purely emotional, self-justifying nosense. And personally, it is infuriating to see people try to make emotional justifications that make no sense.
It'd have been alright, if he'd have no argument to make. If he'd say: "I see his cold, dead eyes in my dreams, it haunts me". That'd be 100% OK and understandable. There is indeed something very fucked up about a thing being "alive" and then...Not, it's traumatic, sure.
But I cannot stand hearing someone make completely 100% bull SHIT arguments to justify their trauma.

P.S: It's even dumber to me that, given the militariastic nature of his family and or surroundings -- that they could NOT find any adult that he'd trust, to advise him about "the weight of having killed a man"?
You want to tell me a family that trains a bunch of people (if I read this chapter correctly), do not have anyone to also prepare them to take a life? Seriously? That's so negligent it's even more infuriating than the blabbering nonsense the MC was spouting.
You do not just leave a child that killed someone, "get over it by himself". What are you fucking crazy?

 

[LordTartaros]

Yeah yeah lil trauma he’ll get over it in or it’ll get annoying real fast. We know the drills by now.

 

[unnamederror]

aldo, where is nurhadi?

 

[Retro68]

Not sure where you are from but even in the US, normal people, after murdered someone, cannot just sit down and enjoy dinner with a nice Chianti and some fava beans.

Nice Hannibal Lecter ref there, but you forgot the liver...

 

[Phantaminium]

For Japan, is killing in self-defense (and in defense of children who would otherwise be sold into slavery and worse) not a thing, culturally? I'm kind of baffled here.

It's beyond baffling, he was a fucking salaryman so he should have the maturity to process what level of force was needed in the situation and the kind of people he was dealing with. Child kidnapping, murderers. Like what are we doing here?! A degree of remorse and upset is completely normal, I don't expect any normal person to kill someone and be fine.

Not sure where you are from but even in the US, normal people, after murdered someone, cannot just sit down and enjoy dinner with a nice Chianti and some fava beans.

Being affected by it sure, 100%. The degree of self flagellation would make sense if he was actually a child but he was an adult who is now in a child's body? Surely he can understand that force is necessary especially when trying not to be sold into slavery as a child.

I'm not saying it wouldn't be traumatic (the prolonged near-death experience basically guarantees it), I'm asking why he jumps straight to "Now I'm just as evil as (if not more than) the guy who was trying to murder me. [sic]" If they showed him trying to cope with the guilt by trying to convince himself how it was necessary or unavoidable, even if that didn't work, it'd make more sense to me.

This I agree with completely, he still has the adult level of reasoning within him. His approach to the whole kidnapping shows that, he deals with it using way more of his prior life's maturity than current one. Why then immediately after killing is he not even torn on whether it was justified.

If the culture the work is based in treats all life as sacred - where the murderer and his victim are equals - maybe the kid's attitude makes sense, but it boggles my mind.

Yeah even weirder is Japan doesn't as a whole treat life as sacred, the death penalty is still in use over there? In this medieval fantasy world life seems even less sacred. It's obvious the author both wanted him quite mentally scarred but didn't really do the work to make it justified within the text.

It's honestly not the biggest issue, it's just heavy handed PTSD. Especially with it being resolved a chapter later.

 

[Artimid]

I'm confused why none of the adults who found him with dead bodies around, that he cause, while also being attacked by an entire gang of people violently.. none of those adults took time to discuss this with him? He was OBVIOUSLY traumatized. None of them sat back to tell him that while killing is bad and a last resort, the man he killed took so many lives and if left alone would have taken even more lives and kidnapped even more children?

His mother seemed to be the "Just let my 6 year old figure this out, he'll be fine, he needs to get over it." I'd be more concerned that he just 'got over it' in an afternoon. I would definitely not let him practice magic.

 

[BOTMAN]

This is the stupid thing about isekai/reincarnation... He's a freaking adult in a kid's body, it's fine and understandable to portrait ptsd but it's dumb how all other kids his age are made mature enough to support him. Just don't make it an isekai/reincarnation story if you aren't going to use that for anything besides milking the genre popularity... it's pointless to have some adult reincarnate as a kid and give him a twin brother that magically is as mature as him.

 

[gasnomercante]

MC needs an intensive liveleakmaxxing session

 

[llxUnknownxll]

Ashella is the type of girl who’ll give it her all, after seeing MC like that, she got motivated to become stronger so she can protect him someday, good girl Elphas is also really supportive of Aldo and keeps encouraging the MC so he doesn’t fall too deep into his trauma. Big W for both of them.

thank you for translating

It's refreshing as hell to see a manga where they actually tackle issues like trauma and guilt with a proper supporting cast. No joking about murder, nor do they blow off MC's feelings and guilt. Then these two not only care about MC, but act upon the issue in the different ways that they can.

Too many manga out there would make the MC go, "oh no! murder! anyways, i'm in a new world now so its k " then give them a fucking parade.

 

[MrMichael]

For Japan, is killing in self-defense (and in defense of children who would otherwise be sold into slavery and worse) not a thing, culturally? I'm kind of baffled here.

I dunno about Japan but killing someone can be traumatizing even if you're 100% in the right. I'm not saying it happens to everybody but for example in my early teens a drugged out homeless man stabbed me and tried to kill me with a knife and I hit him in the face and pushed him back and then he fell and stopped moving. I thought I killed him and even though on a rational level I knew I was in the right it still weighed heavily on me and I still had nightmares about what I thought I'd done and felt like retreating from the world into my own head. 2 Weeks later he woke up from his coma so it turned out I didn't actually kill him and when I found that out I instantly got over it lol, despite the fact that rationally I was aware that the world was worse with that guy in it, some part deep inside of us feels it is wrong to kill someone who was also made in the image of God with your own hands.

 

[kwendy]

You get magic and you get magic - everyone get magic!