Chounin A wa Akuyaku Reijou wo Doushitemo Sukuitai ~Dobu to Sora to Kouri no Hime-kun~ - Vol. 8 Ch. 36.1 - Despair

[Jakeh24]

Friendly reminder that cluster bombs are a violation of the Geneva Suggestion.

Thank the nazis for cluster bombs and the Canadians for the Geneva suggestions

 

[Jakeh24]

It's a shrapnel bombs

That's even worse, and given that ice isn't able to be x-ray'd... Very much a war crime

 

[Manchura]

i'm surprised allen this quickly thought up a new aircraft able to hold this kind of ammunition. felt like he had to do alot more rinse and repeat, trial and errors, on his first one. and his ammunition in itself is quite the ingenious idea. and while i realise he'd been using magic all the time for his weapons and his glider, he's now expanding the usage for magic weaponry, quite a big step up, so i hope his magic reserves are keeping up.

getting into the air is the hard part

it's simple aerodynamics to build bomb racks and bomb bays

 

[thycondrius]

Mess with the MCs girl, get blast into oblivion

 

[jmgaling0924]

I waited for a long time just for a short chapter with a cliffhanger that made me crashout 😣😭🙏🙏

 

[phil777]

Friendly reminder that cluster bombs are a violation of the Geneva Suggestion.

But these are eco-friendly!

 

[phil777]

But those aren't cluster bombs but regular bombs
A cluster bomb is a container that releases multiple smaller bombs over a wide area. And with the about 10% rate of duds, it leaves remnants that may explode when civilians are near.
Which Allen's water+air bombs doesn't do


Ty for the chapter 🙏🏼❤️

This is true, at best they are regular bombs, and the ice shards are shrapnel. He did say they are made of ice, so if they don't explode, they will just harmlessly melt on the ground.

 

[cryum]

Isn't it magically reinforced ice, to make sure he can compress so much air inside that the pressure is enough to create a dangerous bomb? No reason to assume the shards don't keep that reinforcement until they melt.

Not necessarily. The air compression magic itself can be containing the air without stressing out the ice too much. The ice serves as the shrapnel and aerodynamics to fall instead of follow the wind.

More importantly, reinforcing a casing such that it fragments into ideal shrapnel would involve a very differently shaped ball of ice. Much more like a grenade, if you can even reinforce the material in such an asymmetrical way. From my personal read on it, he could possibly make such a grenade, but it would take more time and isn't fit for mass production.

 

[14th]

Did she…oh no.

 

[ZeroEx94]

Friendly reminder that cluster bombs are a violation of the Geneva Suggestion.

its not a war Crime the First time!

 

[Excalibro]

My God, it like I’m on 2010’s ar15.com again.

 

[AlterArsene]

I see Allen turning into tanya... and I'm ok with it... the fake saintess really needs a taste of her own medicine

 

[Excalibro]

Why are people saying this is a war crime? This is just war. Bombing enemy soldiers is 100% allowed.

It’s a popular safe-edgy term. The confusion comes about from people who aren’t particularly involved with war.
I’m not sure where this was popularized, though? Maxor? Maybe someone before him.

 

[falconk]

I was wondering, how can they even captured and then undressed her if they can't touch her in the first place? That guy in prev chapter was dead just barely touched her.

 

[Silbo]

Damn I just realized, isn't this the final arc?

 

[homerman87]

Excellent pedantry.

And the use of literal magic to produce and guarantee disposal of these suckers obviates most of the CCM's concerns about what a pain in the ass cluster munitions are outside of wartime. These don't become tasty-looking scatterable minefields of unexploded ordnance when independently-fuzed submunitions (there are none) fail to detonate. I like that the manga kinda addresses that.

Still doesn't mean these would actually be effective weapons at all, but I love that it's trying, you know? Even if all he did was probably invent that world's loudest fog machine. Someone point me to a fantasy manga that's so engineering-brained that it would take time to address where the air goes on collection (magically stored or just compressed) and the thermodynamics of what happens when it's adiabatically released. This is probably the closest I've found.

I imagine the air doesn't really have to go anywhere, magic can theoretically be used to separate water from the air that passes through while the water gets collected in the water tank. Similarly, the air used for compressing the bombs is generated by the magic he's using. The thing about magic is that it typically defies physics to a certain extent. Now someone with an understanding of physics can combine that knowledge with magic to achieve something greater (and there actually many series where the main character does so, like the Wise Man's Grand Child,) but you might be over thinking things. The big factor on why this works in a world of magic vs the real world is the fact that magic grants a level of instantaneous reactions and control that engineers could only ever dream of (being able to instantaneously freeze anything absolutely destroys our understanding of thermodynamics, and we can only pretend we have any control over the elements compared to what magic can achieve.)

 

[homerman87]

I was wondering, how can they even captured and then undressed her if they can't touch her in the first place? That guy in prev chapter was dead just barely touched her.

I imagine that protection charm only has so much energy or they used magic to find some way around it. The other possibility is they figured out loopholes on the charm, such as not approaching her with lust on the brain or smacking her from a distance. It's doubtful the protection is can protect her from everything when it's so far from the one that gave her said protection.

 

[Anonymous0070]

Remember Kids: It's not a War Crime if pussy is involved!

 

[Slingerman]

Was happily waiting for this after having read the web novel!

This is only the beginning. That scene where Allen was learning to kill bandits was refreshing, he does get a little bothered by the bombing for a moment in the web novel. But... keeps going and really racks up a kill count in the thousands.

Thanks for the translation!

 

[ALiVE]

Friendly reminder that cluster bombs are a violation of the Geneva Suggestion.

Well its not a Cluster Bomb
But rather an Oversized Grenade
Since he Relied on the Ice Shards as the Fragmentation