Gyaru Maid to Akuyaku Reijou ~Ojou-sama no Happy End shika Katan!~ - Ch. 10 - Overflowing with Apologies

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we all saw it a mile away about he rhand but… real bummer, i want that hand stay damged…..
 
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Regen hand, It just works.

Prince is a good man.... Said follower and the game.

And finally... Engagement annulled flag. The birth of villainess that usually in chapter 1 first page in otome villainess series. Lol
 
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Loved how the whole hand incident was used to advance the emotional arc of those two, now let the lesbian romance flow through. 😍
Also fuck off shitty prince. Someone should cut his hand off.☠️
 
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Imma expect this is not the last time we see the prince and he will actively do everything to screw the mc pair, since thats what usually happen, im glad if i could be wrong

Now its only a matter of the villainess and mc will got exiled or built another country or even take over the country

At least we can expect the heroine will be on mc side now for something different
 
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Regeneration: I like that the hand healing was agonizing. I remember reading a bit about surgery pre anesthesia. Amputations were done super fast to minimize the pain. Mastectomies could not be done fast and were mind-bendingly prolonged, intense agony. Not uncommon for surgery to be rejected because the pain level would be unbearable.

So, imagined losing your hand to not one cut, but rather having it repeatedly sliced off from the fingertips down to the wrist. Not only did Serina have to go through that (in reverse), but she had to do it to herself, over the course of (probably?) multiple days.

And Almelia had to agree to that, knowing that it was what Serina wanted, and that Serina was doing it in part for Amelia. Then Almelia sits through it by Serina's side not able to do much other than hold Serina's hand and support her.

Part of what I like here is the contrast between the generally light hearted nature of the story, and the sudden grim reality of Serina losing her hand and agony of its restoration.

As for "asspull"... that's ridiculous. Serina does know more than about how human body works, and she has a unique ability to control magic at a very fine level. And frankly, it's much less of an asspull than magic mechanical hand. (Just because we're used to the latter from other stories doesn't make them less absurd.)

As for impact on the world... Hard to say... Healing here is a combination of Serina's insanely (and uniquely) strong control of magic and her knowledge of the finer structures in biology. Even if she can't really explain the biology, she could at least get them started on microscopy, which could lead to some improvements in their biology knowledge. But... It's also possible that her "genes" explanation gets dismissed as fantasy by the healing experts of the time -- overturning well established knowledge is always difficult.

However even if experts learn of genes, that might not help their healing magic if such magic requires Serina's crazy fine control.

If Serina can use that magic on other people, then she could/should suddenly gain "miracle doctor" status. But author can avoid that by having Serina's healing magic only work on herself.

Prince... His reaction is somewhat understandable, because what Serina just claimed is considered impossible. (Same as if someone claimed to have regrown their whole hand in our world.)

OTOH, he witnessed Serina's severed hand himself. OTOOH, the reasonable conclusion on his part (since regrowth is impossible) is that the loss of her hand was the work of illusion magic or some other fakery.

But clearly he is not being rational, but is emotionally driven here. He loathes the appearance of failure -- and his friendly fire was a massive screwup. Just straight incompetence demonstrating unfitness to rule.

He's torn between not wanting to admit to any incompetence, and the desire/necessity of doing the right thing. Then when he bends/compromises enough to pay some recompense, he's presented with a situation where it looks like the whole thing was a fraud by the woman who already upstaged and embarrassed him.

(BTW, it would make sense for there to be additional testimony regarding the healing (multiple witnesses of loss of hand; other people witnessing the days long, agonizing regeneration process. OTOH, Serina and Almelia might have intentionally limited witnesses since then news of the incident could be suppressed and thus not embarrass the prince.)

Serina & Almelia: Serina is airheaded and oblivious. But hopefully Almelia's apology is enough for Serina to begin to grasp that Almelia really does care deeply for her. Serina likes Almelia, and maybe cares more for Almelia than she herself knows. But it's still a huge jump from that to mutual committed romantic love.
 
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I was interested that they took her getting dismembered seriously…but “reconstructing your genes” is a god-tier asspull that I’m honestly kinda sad even if the consequences still happened.

Felt like they had their cake and ate it too.
Biologically speaking, she could induce plurupotency, reverting her hand back to like, a baby state, which she could then forcibly age until it was the same size as it originally was.

But that's probably not something she would have learned in biology unless Japanese high school education is way better than I gave it credit for.
 
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She really shouldn't have tried to lightly claim that she completely upended healing magic.

I also think it's a bit of a copout she managed to do this without any help from the protag or even any diagrams or braces of any sort. Just rawdog precision anatomy while in pain and doing something completely untested? There should be a sixth finger at the very least.

But it is true that her character failings are nowhere near as bad as the prince.
 
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Satisfaction of slapping the prince and plot armor of the magic aside, I am looking forward to how Almelia and Serina's relationship develops from this point!

I had been feeling like it WAS really onesided-- Serina always defending and supporting Almelia through her actions (on top of being her literal maid) while Almelia kind of didn't do much in return. Like yeah she tutored her in a montage and let her tag along to school, but when she's also tutoring Estelle and frankly being kind of a dick (even if we know its not deliberate) while Serina is constantly very upfront and vocal about caring about her and even gets hurt this bad trying to protect her, it added up to feeling like Serina was putting in all the effort to care for Almelia with very little actionable returns. Then WABAM, not only does Almelia make a massive gesture for Serina, she acknowledges the lopsidedness of their actions for each other and apologizes!! I hope from this point Almelia keeps standing up for Serina and making sure SHE'S happy, and also treats her more openly as the equal she kinda always saw her as. We the audience know they're ride or die for each other, I want Almelia to also get to show it.

EDIT: I went back to refresh myself on the last chapter and i forgot that ALMELIA LITERALLY LET SERINA GET PHYSICALLY HARASSED BC SHE WAS SALTY. Almelia not only has to make their relationship more even from here on out, BUT APOLOGIZE AND MAKE UP FOR THAT. That was super scummy, and not at all the kind of behavior that makes me think she'd treat Serina right. BIG CHANGES FROM HERE FOR ALMELIA.
 
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