Genkai OL-san wa Akuyaku Reijou-sama ni Tsukaetai - Ch. 18

[KeraFury]

its gonna be like that i guess. i mean i get it, drama = good writing and radical thoughts like polyamoury arnt really common in manga (despite harem being such a trope). but its funny out of all the manga i've read where i felt like there was legitimate connective tissue on all 3 sides of a love triangle this one has the most potential with diana, lapis, and natori all gaining something from each other. though it is weakest between lapis and diana, but thats what writing is for, you can always add what isn't presently there to reinforce weaknesses. oh well i knew it was a crack-ship to begin with. i just hope things go well for diana by the end, i wouldnt like to see her end up in the role of a villain to be struck down or somehow end up with the prince but there arnt exactly any other characters to pair her off with and fading into the background feels unsatisfactory.

 

[eza2510]

THANK YOU FOR FIXING NATALIE'S NAME!
It was really irritating to see it written as Natori......

There was no fixing done in this. Diana just calls Natori (which is her actual name) Natalie because she mistakes it for it. Natori being a Japanese name is probably very foreign sounding to the European coded Diana so she instead calls Natori as Natalie because it's the closest equivalent. Again, nothing was fixed in the translation; it's just Diana being a dummy.

 

[dontemm]

At least ask natalie how she feels about it before betting a person smh my head

That would make too much sense lol

 

[Hyacyon]

what in the jumpscare

I'm team Diana for this chapter

 

[solax636]

why does she call natori natalie? i dont get the gag..

 

[Hresvelg_]

God, I really want Natori to end up with Diana, but I know that probably won't happen... Nothing against Lapis, but Diana just hits different.

 

[kaptenkeren]

So... in game, child room is not implemented yet or Natori is just casual player that didn't explore all the hidden content. Just play story mode... Hmm

Also ... Hand holding failed. Lol

 

[Valkyria-Edge]

did half the commenters here forget the last chapter? you guys are taking things at face value and aren't really seeing what diana is doing.

if diana really wanted natori, she could have waited until after she actually won to drop that bombshell. instead, the second the teacher mentions the competition and asks for participants, she imediately, publicly declares war on lapis, her only friend in school. she doesn't even have any teammates yet. this is beyond counting your chickens before they hatch. that's because there's a reason for doing so.

in the very last chapter, she called out lapis for not taking this situation seriously. she was 100% willing to dip out of the race until she saw lapis hesitating.

she's not declaring war because she doesn't think natori is a person and not property, she's declaring war to push lapis into action. she's telling lapis to take this romance seriously, because there's no way the romance would be healthy with the way lapis was acting. she's giving lapis a wake-up call.

challenging the non-committed to a duel only to purposefully lose the duel as soon as your opposition starts taking it seriously is an extremely common plot point.

you have a brain good job

 

[trainki]

Diana being like: If you don't want to keep her, I'll take her ! Fight me !

 

[reen112]

YO? YO! YOOOOOOOOOO!

 

[erintesden]

Spoiler: Speculation

Ahh, so I guess that speculation before that "Lapis" is Aurora posing as Lapis, and the original Lapis was murdered by the Commoner Movement when they were children is looking more likely huh? Because that was totally an "I loved my sister so I keep her room exactly as it was when she died to not let go of her memory" room, wasn't it? I feel like in an earlier chapter we might have seen "Lapis" brooding on that sunshelf too?

Also one thing I don't think I saw others theorise about on earlier chapters while going over to check the first few for that sunshelf-brood-scene... when she's lecturing Natori for jumping in, there's a panel of presumably past-"Lapis" with bloody hands over her sister's corpse before present-"Lapis" laments not being able to protect Natori... so yep, looking more and more like "Lapis" is actually Aurora, not wanting to put Natori in harms way and risking her death if she fails to protect someone she loves again...

That would be an interesting twist, but I dont get where you got the idea from?
Where are you getting that theory from? That the sister that died was Lapis.

 

[MuYu]

That would be an interesting twist, but I dont get where you got the idea from?
Where are you getting that theory from? That the sister that died was Lapis.

Spoiler

In chapter 4, Lapis reaffirms to herself that "she is Lapis Tenebrae"... but it doesn't seem like astereotypical haughty noble self-declaration in-context.

In Chapter 10, Lapis is talking to her Father, and he says "(He) just wanted to have a friendly chat, (they) are 'Father and Child' after all", to which which Lapis replies "If that is (his) command then (she'll) act accordingly". It could be seen as her responding that she'll have a friendly chat if her father commands it... but it could also be taken as her saying that if he says they're Father and Child, she'll act like that's the case.

Later in Chapter 10, Lapis is internal monologing that her "entire existence is an act", that it'd be nice if the superficial act she's putting on was real, and like she "can almost fool (herself) into becoming the splendid person she pretends to be". Which makes it seem like she's just pretending to be Lapis, but isn't really her.

I think maybe biggest of all, when I went back to check, in Chapter 4 it Aurora says that "All the Flowers in this garden belong to (Lapis's) family". Like Aurora isn't Lapis's sister... and if Aurora wasn't Lapis's sister, I think that makes the untouched Child's room in this chapter even more suspicious - the dusty Child's room seems to indicate that the Tenebrae family had a child in it that's no longer there, and yet Lapis still apparently exists. Couple that with the chat between Lapis and her Father in Chapter 10, it seems like Aurora was quietly adopted into the Tenebrae family after the Anti-Noble faction killed the real Lapis, and chose to or was made to act as Lapis for whatever reason.

Another bit of evidence that's maybe a bit more subtle and a bit crackpot - we see Child Aurora's eyes in Chapter 4, and they have the same shading to them as Current Lapis... but we don't see Child Lapis's eyes in that Chapter... and Lapis's Father's eyes in Chapter 10 are shaded much darker. On their own the eye colours might not mean too much, but the fact that Lapis's eyes are the same shading as Child Aurora's while different to Lapis's father feels like it could be a significant detail.