my bet? if the waterwheel wasn't there, kotomin would have swum past and never seen or talked to the MC. By putting the waterwheel there it forced the second meeting.
No, I get that she's forcing events since she was so pushy about it.
When has she ever given him the illusion of freewill though? What she is trying to do is keep him alive, free will be damned. If he wanted free will, he should have turned down her help and gotten murdered by his maid.
Maybe I'm just expecting too much, but it would be kinda nice if he's getting some existential crisis down the line. You know, instead of the story being go here, do this, trust me bro.
Again, the MC is choosing to listen to her. Her only goal is his survival, cause that's what the MC asked for. She tells him to do things but doesn't force him to do them. He is not under some sort of compulsion to do them. She has literally never led him astray and if you really think Rafael gives Rimiru more agency then you really haven't been paying attention to that story cause holy shit does Rafael puppet master the guy. She considers herself to be Rimiru's first wife, and rightfully so, cause she pulls all the strings to the point of issuing orders pretending to be Rimiru to his subordinates and NOT TELLING HIM til she has to.
NGL, I was wondering if anyone else noticed that the water wheel as drawn wouldn't function for its stipulated use in drawing water for agriculture.
It could depending on a lot of circumstances that don't matter. It was supposed to be for pulling water from the river, and the wheel as illiterate doesn't work for that application.
I was so annoyed that there were no wedges holding the coupling gudgeon in place and was just lying loose on a flat surface, that I completely ignored it was the wrong type of waterwheel in the first place.
Well see, now that's the kind of masterful manipulation we need to have some semblance of freewill.
I remembered, only cause I reread this a month ago cause I'd forgotten most of it.
That wasn't what he said out loud, but the mangaka reminding you that this was the day before the battle with Gain (the vampire).
no I meant that it isn't before that. We saw him kill that guy several chapters ago. And we also saw him go back to the vilalge in the day after he said that.
