On an unrelated note, I hope that when this gets animated, it will be popular and the principal gets noticed. I love her design and personality so far and I want her as a figurine.
it haven't occured to me up until this chapter, the image's quality really great, i can zoom in without seeing any crack.. thanks for providing us with a very good scanlation
After the interaction with the Dad I've realized it's going to be one of those manga's, even though they are married and former adults this is going to be in a world where kissing is the end game.
Shit, I had my hopes up when they were adults and married we'd get the "Romance" part of Romance, not just the lead up to the kiss.
Romance and sex aren't quite the same thing. I think it's more a problem with authors trying to avoid it by making characters oblivious or caught up in misunderstandings. I'm fine with cases were they acknowledge their relationship and just decide not to have sex until later. Just to be clear, it wasn't really kissing they were talking about, Reid was thinking about the legal consequences of premarital sex for nobles back in their time.
Maou No Ore Ga Dorei Elf had a vague, barely existing love triangle with the main couple for all of 10 seconds before she realized that the mc's feelings were unwavering and moved on. For volumes, it's actually vague whether he knew or cared at all about the other girl's feelings. The characters in that one tend to have pretty clearly defined relationships. When there's uncertainty, it's usually something more spicy than "new girl shows up and she's cute too soooo". Namely:
Zagan's mom being in a love triangle with the clones of her first love and Zagen's dad.
the succubus princess (descendant and atavism of Zagan's little sister, meaning same personality and looks. also figuring out that she's bi) with the siren princess (also descendant of little sister and figuring out she's a lesbian, or maybe bi) and a memory wiped demon lord(who may or may not be confusing his current feelings for the succubus with his previous self's unrequited feelings for Zagan's mom.)
Then there's Kuroka (four eared catgirl/Raphial's daughter/also descendant of Zagan's little sister) and Shax and their whole bit was just that Shax pretended to be oblivious to her feelings until she turned 18.
like, damn, it sounds like imouto had a harem (of women) which is amazing since she was a huge crybaby like chastile.
TL;DR
Maou No Ore Ga Dorei Elf's relationships don't have a bunch of bullshit, delays, love triangles, or complications. When they do, it's because the relationship is legitimately complicated.
I think the translation is ok, she was assuming that the story was mistaken, as she wouldnt expect him to do that at all. That dialogue didnt mean that the story was an error or an overexageration in the passing of the story. Regardless of the reason, she didnt want to tell him in the first place in the carriage because of those doubts.
Edit:
Just went to check the raw and the translation is ok on that regard too.
Edit 2:
Now I must point something out, it didnt make sense that Reid got all that flustered for just saying that he enjoyed fighting with her for 50 years or the last readable line on how it was translated: "Maybe, we", after giving the chapter a read in the raws, what he says can definitely be misinterpreted as a love declaration, it would read something like "May be I was... with you" (since the dialogue is cut and what comes next is not shown, the phrasing can change). Now that makes more sense as to why he decided to play the "gaping for air fish" card.