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

[BladeGrip]

To be perfectly honest, even in our modern world, if I accidentally made someone lose their hand and then later they showed up the way Serina did with the perfectly regrown hand, my first thought would be that I've been pranked.

 

[RamenRider]

That was a full-on punch, dude, much better than a slap, imo, and fully well-deserved.

That was definitely more than a 'few' days that the prince promised to come and reconcile. 10 DAYS?! What could have held him up to not even apologize to her immediately after that?! And he had the audacity to yell at his victim after pulling her into one of his attacks. His head was way up there in his own ass. His ego must be shattered to have his engagement be annulled by his fiance than the other way around, more than how he was shown up by her magical talents from a while ago, I imagine.

I don't know how Almelia will get the king to approve the annulment after that stunt, let alone avoid imprisonment for attacking royalty, but damn, I really hope she and Serina's lives will get better from here on.

I assume there was probably a shitstorm he was getting punished for after nearly murdering his fiancé.

 

[ravidya]

Yeah.. totally didnt call she'd just magically regrow her hand next chapter like its nothing.. why make her lose it to begin with then 😮‍💨

It's honestly just bad plot and wasted opportunities

I dunno, I don't think many hours of excruciating pain over several days without anesthesia or pain medicine is "nothing."

 

[Nekotofu]

Yea, he didn't immediately apologize. And even dare to avoid his responsibility because his victim isn't crippled anymore.

People already mention using Royal magic is overkill, yet he did it anyway.

Glad Almelia break her engagement, can't believe someone like that is going to be a future king.

 

[RamenRider]

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

The game has been going far off the rails for years due to our protagonist coupled with the “real” protagonist befriending the villainess. The positive influences on him have been stripped away.

 

[Ninoren]

I dunno, I don't think many hours of excruciating pain over several days without anesthesia or pain medicine is "nothing."

Thats the thing, you don't get that feel in any form, considering you see 2 panels of it, then it skips time and her hand is just back..

It's like reading a book, mc loses his hand and you reasonably get surprised and then you turn to the next page, and her hand is just back 😐

In essence her having literally lost her hand only lasted a couple panels

 

[GlasswareGrass]

Well. Seeing Serina cry hurts more than I expected.

 

[RamenRider]

I went and reread the chapter. Those “2” (but actually several more) panels of the hand growing back were putting in work. We saw the initial attempt, Estelle tenderly giving a ribbon to clamp her teeth down on, and the implied passage of time. I think everyone just read it too quickly.

 

[Necronauta]

To be perfectly honest, even in our modern world, if I accidentally made someone lose their hand and then later they showed up the way Serina did with the perfectly regrown hand, my first thought would be that I've been pranked.

But he saw the stump when she lost it

 

[feha]

idiot prince thought she faked it to earn a favor from him. His thinking makes sense since faking a lost limb is probably easier than healing one, but then she'd have no reason to reveal her healed hand unless she and his fiancee were just trying to fuck with him for fun

He also absolutely got to see it gone, himself. So he knows it can't have been faked. Similarly, he knows she lost it as a result of his magic, so even if she could fake it she would have had to anticipate that and be ready to do so.

 

[www_Wind]

AND THE CROWD GORS WILDDDDDD!!! 🔥🔥🔥

 

[Justking14]

He also absolutely got to see it gone, himself. So he knows it can't have been faked. Similarly, he knows she lost it as a result of his magic, so even if she could fake it she would have had to anticipate that and be ready to do so.

Hasn’t been mentioned/shown but if the world has illusion magic, then it’d certainly be possible to fake it but the point remains that doing so would be kinda pointless unless they could convince people that a low ranked noble just performed a miracle. Or unless they were literally just trying to prank the prince.

 

[ReikoLupus]

I actually find the regrowth of her Hand pretty interesting.
Yah see, Humans can, in fact, regrow limbs.
We DO have the Genes that allow that.
The problem is that we are FAR better at scarring wounds than regrowing them.
If you just Regrow it, the regrowing limb will be exposed to all kinds of dangers that can put in serious risk the life of the person, ESPECIALLY in wild nature, where you could easily get parasites from the open wound (In case you didn't bleed to death from it or it starts to fester.)
So the Human Body went "You know what? I didn't need that leg anyways. Scar it!", and so it happened.
And as a consequence, our genes to regrow lost limbs aren't exactly strong to put it one way, since our Evolution decided they were just unnecessary leftover.
...But if you can magically strengthen those genes in specific, and put aside the ones to scar damaged tissue...
...Well, regrowing a limb may become possible. It would just be a long and very painful process...
...Just as it happened here XD.

 

[fireproofemu]

I was hoping that she would keep the stump and it would go in a more serious direction. Oh well.

 

[Nautical]

10 days later
I guess they just wanted to keep the story a rom com

 

[dude-e]

Not sure how this is an asspull when last chapter many comments predicted she would regrow her hand. We expected this.

"Gene strengthening magic" isn't less plausible than "any magic." If magic is part of the setting, be prepared to see some unusual feats.

Being able to predict BS plot armor doesn’t make it any more sensible.

’Magic’ shouldn’t be an end all be all excuse for random stuff to happen and be explained away as ‘because magic’. Good fantasy settings will have some sort of system implemented into their magical worlds so that even its ‘magic’ functions within somewhat logical confines that match the tone of the intended story.

The plot of the series is going for something with serious tones. Having major events be cleaned up with random ‘magic’ takes away the impact of said event and minimizes the consequences a lot of possible future events.

sorry, don’t mean to come off as condescending or attacking. I just have a dislike for when major plot points are washed away with some random BS power up or happenstance

 

[Syndicatus]

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.

I mean "strengthening her genes" could mean that she's inducing pluripotency even if accidentally. These people probably don't know clotting factors exist in the blood, but they can still use their magic to slow down bleeding. They also don't know how cell replication works but they still use that to heal their body. I think there is some will element in the magic that just makes it work

I think that she did reconstruct it by pluripotenting the cells and ordering them to just build a new hand. However I propose she did it layer by layer which would not be fun as shown by her reaction

 

[Nautical]

Missed opportunity to have them sulk a bit, but also.

They could have Serina remember that Estelle is the Heroine and has healing magic and that she could fix her hand.

But maybe it would have made Amelia even more depressed for being useless. And Estelle isnt important to authors vision.

 

[Midoriha]

Seems like I'm the only one disappointed this didn't end up being the wake-up call for the prince it seemed it was gonna be.
They start ended up feeling more like plot devices than actual characters, when the royalty dude people are this ridiculously and over the top unreasonable and dick-ish.
The reverse-engagement annulment was fun though.

 

[BlazingWaters]

on the side that think the hand regen isn't an asspull, or at least as much of one. i do think it woulda been nice if we had a chapter or two of an amputee Serina, but 1) there's implication this wasn't an immediate process by her and it took days, 2) this was something that she quickly thought up with real world knowledge mixed in with game magic fuckery, that's way easier to accept on a Protag Power Boost level then just "lol game magic dude", and 3) it's not like it's impossible for a human to regrow limbs, but as Reiko puts it, our body is much easier to accept scarring it than getting it back to normal past a certain age and body composition (skin and/or blood? sure. Muscles? ehhhhhhhh. An entire limb? Hell no!) compared to other animals' inner structure and evolutionary mutations

couple that with actual repercussions - Estelle finally lowering her guard down, the whole thing with Leon - and i'm pretty accepting of what happens here