An Incompetent Woman Wants to Be a Villainess: The Young Lady Who Married as a Substitute for Her Half-Sister Didn't Notice the Duke's Doting - Vol. …

[MangaDex]

 

[meeerrpe]

Thank you for the chapter!

 

[dbgecko]

Anyone who's met her seems to have figured out that the best way to deal with Avril when she's in her 'villainess' mode is to distract her so that she forgets that she's supposed to be a villainess in the first place.

Avril: Time to lose at chess!
Prince: Wanna hear Dylan's tragic backstory?
Avril: ...yes please.
Prince: Great. By the way, you've already put me into checkmate.
Avril: Oops.

 

[Dark1400]

thanks for the chapter, i believe in villainess manga supremacy

 

[rantau]

I saw the title and read the chapters in one go

I don't know how to feel about this series. It's definitely not bad, pretty good even. I think i got very used to the usual villainess revenge trope that the way Avril acts really weirded me out. She is a super cute and nice girl without any villainess traits. I was expecting to her to try to get back at her sister and family but i guess they will be punished by their own doing eventually while she's just doing her own stuff

 

[catbot158]

All those tea cakes… 🤤

 

[lesseffective]

You all know how to properly change the pronoun in your brain:

 

[The_Absolute_Bastard]

That was a quick release considering the raws published yesterday, and its quality work as usual! Thanks for the chapter!

For the curious souls chapter 13 raws are set to release on 23 October.

 

[Scallywag96]

Anyone who's met her seems to have figured out that the best way to deal with Avril when she's in her 'villainess' mode is to distract her so that she forgets that she's supposed to be a villainess in the first place.

Avril: Time to lose at chess!
Prince: Wanna hear Dylan's tragic backstory?
Avril: ...yes please.
Prince: Great. By the way, you've already put me into checkmate.
Avril: Oops.

Once I lose, I whine like a villianous bitch! Wait, I got destracted by your story...I WON!?

 

[ginrezis]

so i fucked up and pages 11 and 12 were missing until just now. the chess game should now make more sense. my bad

 

[AnotherDuck]

Maid to the rescue.

Her confidence sure is top tier.

"I, as a villainess, like doing villainess things, like the villainess I am, because I do villainess things."

She's such a, "fellow humans villains," character.

You all know how to properly change the pronoun in your brain:

Nah, you're going to have to edit that gif.

 

[lesseffective]

Nah, you're going to have to edit that gif.

 

[purple-emily]

So, um, can we all have some cake too?

 

[Nautical]

Anyone know why Grace put out the teacakes like that? Or is Avril actually making an accurate assessment of Grace's intention?

 

[DJVPlayz]

I'll be honest, I got sidetracked trying to recap the chess game to figure out the position where the game was checkmate. Here's a list of things that made that harder:

1. The game begins before the game begins. Before Avril agrees to play, she has already made two moves, those being Nf3 and e3.
2. The author reused the chessboard in the final panels of pages 9 and 10, resulting in the story telling us that they're making moves, before immediately showing that no moves have been made.
3. The checkmate doesn't exist in any possible variation of the game board with the pieces shown, and the positioning. Black's king is explicitly shown on the seventh rank on a black square at multiple points in time. From our two shots, it's explicitly shown that Avril's total piece count is both bishops, one rook, four or five pawns, and her king. Avril's white square bishop is directly in front of the king, but is probably protected by a pawn. As the shot is rather unclear, we can't really tell if Avril could move her bishop or rook to check the king, but even if she could, there is no logical way that there's a checkmate state there. Is it possible that through some combination of piece placement that Avril could force a mate? Absolutely, but checkmate? Absolutely not.
4. Pieces just move for no reason. On page 17 we see that black has a rook on c7. Black did not have a rook on c7 when the game ended. Not to mention that white's white bishop and black's king are both gone.
5. Oh yeah on page 8 the board is REALLY wonky. It has bad perspective, which is fine, but also the pieces are cut off by the edge of the table, as if the board was just painted there.

So yeah, I'm pretty sure the chess game was just an afterthought designed to show that, although she was easily distracted, and isn't very good at pretending to be a villainess, Avril isn't an idiot, even if she doesn't realize it, being able to win at chess without even realizing it. That being said, I am still giving this a 1/10 for a chess scene, the least that could've been done was showing us the setup for the checkmate, so even if we couldn't see the winning move, we could at least figure it out. The issues like inconsistent positioning and mild art issues are also pretty big, but at the very least they could show us a clear board with a checkmate, rather than giving us the vague outline of pieces, and telling us that it's checkmate despite clearly being not.

Aside from the horrible chess scene, pretty good chapter. I'm sure that nothing bad will happen because of Avril's actions.

 

[wisemanro]

Anyone who's met her seems to have figured out that the best way to deal with Avril when she's in her 'villainess' mode is to distract her so that she forgets that she's supposed to be a villainess in the first place.

Avril: Time to lose at chess!
Prince: Wanna hear Dylan's tragic backstory?
Avril: ...yes please.
Prince: Great. By the way, you've already put me into checkmate.
Avril: Oops.

She is the worst BEST villainess of all the manga we had .. ~~ remember ~~

 

[berryoragami]

Thanks so much for the chapter! : D

 

[Kefrayba]

I wonder whether Avril really won the chess game or the prince intentionally loose... Also did her perfect memory applied to chess games as well, I wonder...

 

[Rafalga]

You will keep it safe to make it cause a MASSIVE misunderstanding later. Good job.

 

[kingguy3]

I just started reading this im intrigued.

There are still some questions lingering but it was worth read.

Now to wait for another couple months....