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

[Kitosen]

goddamn the onion ninjas strike again

 

[Syndicatus]

...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.

You know this is actually a really interesting take. I didn't think on these lines, but they do also make sense as an option. The difference between the pluripotency induction and your option isn't that great, since they are kind of the same thing. Stem cells still get produced and they get ordered to produce a new hand. I just don't know about the pain level in this option versus the more layer by layer approach of my proposal. I kind of hope they cover it in a future chapter

 

[ReikoLupus]

You know this is actually a really interesting take. I didn't think on these lines, but they do also make sense as an option. The difference between the pluripotency induction and your option isn't that great, since they are kind of the same thing. Stem cells still get produced and they get ordered to produce a new hand. I just don't know about the pain level in this option versus the more layer by layer approach of my proposal. I kind of hope they cover it in a future chapter

Oh, right, Stem Cells are also an interesting way to do it that would work!
I was so caught up in my own idea of how it could work given the explanation we got, that I forgot about the obvious choice XD.
I doubt we'll get a proper scientific explanation for it, since the only character with this kind of scientific knowledge here is Serina, and she barely knows about the subject.

 

[galaxia9]

Probably not a surprise the hand didn't stay missing but I'm glad it wasn't just a 'ta-da, fixed' moment and she had to work for it through some considerable pain and effort. Now bonded by tears and hugs, the yuri shall no doubt start blooming.

 

[Syndicatus]

Oh, right, Stem Cells are also an interesting way to do it that would work!
I was so caught up in my own idea of how it could work given the explanation we got, that I forgot about the obvious choice XD.

Well your options still sees stem cells be made, as neurons don't just grow on trees. The main difference is just how they are used. We both agree that the magic induces stem cell production. In your option the cells follow their normal pathways basically doing what they do in salamanders to regrow the limb versus in mine she's trying to make the hand in its totality so it's probably building it layer by layer.

I doubt we'll get a proper scientific explanation for it, since the only character with this kind of scientific knowledge here is Serina, and she barely knows about the subject.

I think we might get some more insight if we could have seen more of how the hand was regrowing, which may be an option if something like this happens again. Also maybe if someone forces her to try and teach others (assuming it can be taught). I say that your option would be the more teachable one and imo be less likely to cause massive amounts of pain

 

[Kippithekappamancer]

She should have restored her hand after cutting the prince's hand as compensation.

That one hit is far too mild.

 

[Sionnach91]

Thanks for the translation!

 

[EulBassist]

Thanks for the chapter!

 

[Nautical]

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

Its an asspull cuz they set up her healing as just speeding up what she can already do.

Now she can transform if she can control her own genetics.

 

[AcelJean]

Fuck that prince. No one will at this point...

(Also, he's offering her to be his concubine? Good joke! Go find someone to marry first)

 

[Syndicatus]

Its an asspull cuz they set up her healing as just speeding up what she can already do.

This may actually be a teaching moment for us in the audience explaining that despite these people living with magic, their understanding of the world is still extremely limited. It also incentivizes us to use some critical thinking in the future, applying our real-world knowledge and what we learn from the story and putting them together

Now she can transform if she can control her own genetics.

Well we don't actually know how much direct control she has over her genome. We also don't know how much biology she actually knows, so her potential abilities with this are currently unknown. Like theoretically she could grow a tail, but I don't know if she knows that she could do that. More interesting question might relate to how magic is produced in the body, and if it could be enhanced through her abilities

 

[Othingl]

Kinda sad it's not a ghost hand or anything other for even one chapter. But it's nice to see Serina feel down about it and have to put in some work to have it healed.

 

[toapat]

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.

Almelia: I want to cancel my Engagement with your son
King: Why?
Almelia: Your son unintentionally tried to maim me, dismembered my maid, and then insulted her after she healed herself as the capstone achievement of the greatest mage to ever live.
King: Do you have evidence?
Almelia: Drags out Serina and Serina's Doctor
Serina: Vibrating with terror
Doctor: I watched over the course of 10 days this little girl achieve the magically impossible, concentrating through searing agony to force her hand to regrow.
King: I apologize Queen Serina. Punches the prince through the face

ANYWAY: Time for Serious Analysis mode:
Serina, the REAL Serina, on page 1. No mask, no armor, just a lonely girl and her trauma.
More importantly Serina Actual talking in a situation with anyone else, more critically Almelia. 8 damn pages of Serina's actual identity, starting on page 6.
I appreciate that regrowing nerves is pain incarnate.
I dont think Leonardia actually needs to be disinherited, but he should be thrown into an arena with, and beaten to the edge of death by, Almelia. Dude needs the clarity and humility of a Near Death Experience, Lest the unspecified kingdom suffer a Prince Vegeta IV situation.

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Reminder: Serina isnt Almelia's maid, shes Almelia's indentured servant, or even slave, depending on just how much the Flammels are indebted to the Celesbrites. Anything Almelia does in the first place is exceptional by expectation for Serina. At least she doesnt abuse the cuckoo.

"’Magic’ shouldn’t be an end all be all excuse for random stuff to happen and be explained away as ‘because magic’."

Counterpoint, Reminder: We have an entire splash page dedicated to the MC calling out the entire fucking world that they are absolutely dogshit at understanding magic.

Its an asspull cuz they set up her healing as just speeding up what she can already do.

except its not. She explicitly says that it works for the burns, takes off the other bandages, then focuses on figuring out some other attempt and then finds and activates a specific gene on the X chromosome to activate. Whether shes essentially forcibly making her cells 3d print a new hand one layer at a time, or inducing pluripotency isnt addressed, but she is explictly NOT using the same technique as the Rapid Regeneration, especially since the rapid regeneration doesnt cause searing agony.

 

[thecronosone]

That magic gene strength was bullshit and you know it. Plot armor is strong with this one. Though I would’ve liked to see that become something permanent with actual proper consequences. Especially on how it may progress their relationship.

Still happy to see prince get punched. Asshole deserved it

yeah this, I wish the regrowth part would have been more than a couple of days of pain, I wish this could have been a central piece in almelia's growth but it was over too fast.

 

[Rafalga]

Every fuck up literally caused by her " NO BIGGY LOL" attitude and she is still doing it. She literally can not comprehend that she is not in a game anymore. Regrowing a hand? NO PROBLEM LOL I SHOULD JUST JOKE ABOUT IT. Well, there you go.

 

[Khyrin]

My dream of a cool full metal maid is no more T_T

Have hope!

We may get the aesthetic if Almelia insists that Serina add gauntlets, vambraces, rerebraces, and pauldrons (in other words, armor from the shoulder to the tips of the fingers) to her attire whenever they're out and about.

"If you're going to protect me, I want to protect you.", and all that.

 

[gr2222]

That magic gene strength was bullshit and you know it. Plot armor is strong with this one. Though I would’ve liked to see that become something permanent with actual proper consequences. Especially on how it may progress their relationship.

Still happy to see prince get punched. Asshole deserved it

It doesn't sound that much like bs, what she did was basically temporary activating regeneration through her genes. It's not gene editing, all humans are able to regenerate but it 'turns off' very quickly so it can only regenerate small things, like the end of a finger. Although in reality, if it was possible, it would take many months, and it would have a high probability to also 'regenerate' cancer.

 

[thycondrius]

That ending was right in the feels...

 

[Blackspace_2]

So you can grow cells by stimulating magical cell division? infinite amount of arms baby. cancer is now magically inducible. cancer ray is real!

 

[blablablub]

Bitch ass motherfucker.

Now embrace the yuri, you two