Boroboro no Elf-san wo Shiawase ni Suru Kusuriuri-san - Ch. 4

[MangaDex]

 

[DioBrandoXVII]

Anything for the future elf wife. Adorable mother and daughter combo as well.

(also cute baby cabbage Nahida at the end)

 

[Cool.Ice]

Literally witcher

 

[Madologist]

Okay this Beau makes no sense.
It has eyes lined up front like a hunting spider, yet it has tiny - for it's size - critters tied up in webs?
How are they tied up?
What tied them up?
It wasn't this beau, it's the size of a panzerwagon, it can't tie up a bat or a rat. For size comparison, you try to tie up a 2 cm long critter and see what comes out.
Also it just charges at the guy? Nah, your nest was compromised, it'd try to flee or hide and besides, it's nest would be filled with hidden trip wires to alert it of approaching creatures. Haa... seriously, if you are going to use giant spiders, please at the very least study them for 20 youtube minutes...

 

[Knerro]

I thought this man was lean, but he is actually built

 

[MarqFJA87]

So we're consistently getting glimpses into his dark past this early on compared to the original series; the previous glimpse wasn't just a one-off. I like it.

Okay this Beau makes no sense.
It has eyes lined up front like a hunting spider, yet it has tiny - for it's size - critters tied up in webs?
How are they tied up?
What tied them up?
It wasn't this beau, it's the size of a panzerwagon, it can't tie up a bat or a rat. For size comparison, you try to tie up a 2 cm long critter and see what comes out.
Also it just charges at the guy? Nah, your nest was compromised, it'd try to flee or hide and besides, it's nest would be filled with hidden trip wires to alert it of approaching creatures. Haa... seriously, if you are going to use giant spiders, please at the very least study them for 20 youtube minutes...

Have you considered that the "small critters" you're referring to are actually much larger than they seem? Fantasy settings are no stranger to rats and bats whose body lengths are measured in meters rather than mere centimeters. Also, most real-life predators aren't as picky as you seem to believe; just as a leopard isn't going to pass up a baby gorilla just because it's tiny if it can catch and kill it with little effort, a giant spider isn't going to pass up the opportunity to capture dog-sized prey if they happen to wander into its lair or it happens to stumble upon them and it can catch them quickly and with little effort. A snack is still food, and it will give the spider more energy to spend on catching prey that are large enough to qualify as the "main course".

Also, you're trying to apply the behaviors of an animal that's smaller than a human hand to an animal that is the size of a small elephant, and also assuming that the spider is operating with the same intelligence level of a real-life spider (i.e. not that much, compared to "human-sized" predators like real-life dogs or tigers, or the near-sapience of many fantasy creatures). If the spider knows that it's the largest and most dangerous animal by far in the area, then it stands to reason it would feel confident enough to hold its ground against intruders and not bother wasting its silk on trip wires when it could spend it on prey-catching webs.

 

[Alteraucous]

Slowly but surely, we begin to hate Rezurre's rapists more and more.

 

[Madologist]

So we're consistently getting glimpses into his dark past this early on compared to the original series; the previous glimpse wasn't just a one-off. I like it.



Have you considered that the "small critters" you're referring to are actually much larger than they seem? Fantasy settings are no stranger to rats and bats whose body lengths are measured in meters rather than mere centimeters. Also, most real-life predators aren't as picky as you seem to believe; just as a leopard isn't going to pass up a baby gorilla just because it's tiny if it can catch and kill it with little effort, a giant spider isn't going to pass up the opportunity to capture dog-sized prey if they happen to wander into its lair or it happens to stumble upon them and it can catch them quickly and with little effort. A snack is still food, and it will give the spider more energy to spend on catching prey that are large enough to qualify as the "main course".

Also, you're trying to apply the behaviors of an animal that's smaller than a human hand to an animal that is the size of a small elephant, and also assuming that the spider is operating with the same intelligence level of a real-life spider (i.e. not that much, compared to "human-sized" predators like real-life dogs or tigers, or the near-sapience of many fantasy creatures). If the spider knows that it's the largest and most dangerous animal by far in the area, then it stands to reason it would feel confident enough to hold its ground against intruders and not bother wasting its silk on trip wires when it could spend it on prey-catching webs.

It doesn't actually matter about the size, but the body build.
Hunting spiders don't hang their stuff like that. Waste of energy. The creature can go from hand sized to a tyrannosaurus rex sized, same logic applies. Predators don't waste energy.
Spiders that trap and keep prey like that - hanging wrapped in web in the ceiling - are the trap kind of spiders. They don't actively ambush or charge their prey, they just wait for their prey to get stuck and then bite them and then cocoon them for later eating. Cocoon them. Not "toss random strings", completely cover them in web.
Once again, this beau is a hunting spider. Something that either actively hunts their prey or ambushes them when they enter its strike zone. Those kinds of spiders pretty much eat their prey when they catch them and don't waste web to make cocoons, unless they really get lucky. What they don't do, is hang them around from the ceiling of their burrow.

So..."if you are going to use giant spiders, please at the very least study them for 20 youtube minutes"

 

[vedrit]

I didn't notice before, but bro is an absolute unit

 

[Gravitypull]

He must be on some magic steroids to get this built, sheesh 😳

 

[Sheza]

So the story this time around delves deeper into his past. I hope we see his teacher at some point and how the failed rebellion he fought for concluded

 

[qaaj]

He's got the tits of a Rob Liefeld drawing.

 

[Takuma_Aki]

It doesn't actually matter about the size, but the body build.
Hunting spiders don't hang their stuff like that. Waste of energy. The creature can go from hand sized to a tyrannosaurus rex sized, same logic applies. Predators don't waste energy.
Spiders that trap and keep prey like that - hanging wrapped in web in the ceiling - are the trap kind of spiders. They don't actively ambush or charge their prey, they just wait for their prey to get stuck and then bite them and then cocoon them for later eating. Cocoon them. Not "toss random strings", completely cover them in web.
Once again, this beau is a hunting spider. Something that either actively hunts their prey or ambushes them when they enter its strike zone. Those kinds of spiders pretty much eat their prey when they catch them and don't waste web to make cocoons, unless they really get lucky. What they don't do, is hang them around from the ceiling of their burrow.

So..."if you are going to use giant spiders, please at the very least study them for 20 youtube minutes"

This makes a lot more sense now.

When I was kids, there were two kinds of spiders that are common in my home, one that looks like tiny tarantula, and the other is the daddy long legs kind. The daddy long legs kind will weave large webs around corners waiting for bug to get trapped, on the other hand, the tarantula kind will weave a tiny, solid patch of web (like cotton patch we always see in Giant spider nest in fantasy movie) at the junction between floor and wall, just enough to cover themselves. It's more like a nest than a trap. I always wonder how would that tiny web trap any insect for them; and even after I once see it darted out of the nest to catch the unknowing insect that pass too close by, it never registered in my young brain they hunt by ambushing, not setting traps. And the remains of the insect they finished eaten will just be left lying around with small amount of web binding around body. (Yeah, they didn't hang their prey, they just ate and throw the corpse out)

Now everything makes sense.

 

[3therflux]

This man built thicker than Johnny Bravo, it's like someone pumped air into a dorito

 

[UncleKaos]

the one who made the poison pellets. he deserves to have 30 kg of these pellets inside him and glue his ass and mouth to so he can't shit and puke them out. no no. he will SUFFER!

and damn he is basically supersoldier with that body. xD

 

[Takuma_Aki]

the one who made the poison pellets. he deserves to have 30 kg of these pellets inside him and glue his ass and mouth to so he can't shit and puke them out. no no. he will SUFFER!

and damn he is basically supersoldier with that body. xD

Practically speaking, the pellet just need to be big enough it cannot pass through the way out of the stomach and it'll work just like how it works with Reszurre here without other elaborate measure to be taken; except maybe some way to prevent him to vomit it back out -- off the top of my head, it just has to be big enough it cannot be swallowed also, and we just need to force it down which mean it'll wreck his throat all the way down as a bonus.

A tiny spoiler here that I think is not too big to warrant a spoiler tag is that the culprit was eventually caught in the epilogue of the web comic version, but that's the end of it; we never shown if or how he was punished. So, some people seems to be very eagerly looking forward to how that bit will be elaborate in this version.

 

[Crisxpy]

Healing.

 

[Kaitensatsuma]

Dude is himbo levels of jacked

 

[KhalE]

Amazingly fleshed out chapter. I hope when it gets an anime adaption it's even more fleshed out

 

[SpartanNinjaDragon]

Okay this Beau makes no sense.
It has eyes lined up front like a hunting spider, yet it has tiny - for it's size - critters tied up in webs?
How are they tied up?
What tied them up?
It wasn't this beau, it's the size of a panzerwagon, it can't tie up a bat or a rat. For size comparison, you try to tie up a 2 cm long critter and see what comes out.
Also it just charges at the guy? Nah, your nest was compromised, it'd try to flee or hide and besides, it's nest would be filled with hidden trip wires to alert it of approaching creatures. Haa... seriously, if you are going to use giant spiders, please at the very least study them for 20 youtube minutes...

Maybe it laid eggs and there are also tiny (in comparison) baby spiders that trap and eat the smaller prey until they grow huge like their mother and start to hunt bigger game, or there could be other spider species in that cave.

I'm definitely not a spider expert or anything though, but fantasy worlds have plenty of animals that do things outside the norm and ones that don't even exist anyways.