Hazure Hantei kara Hajimatta Cheat Majutsushi Seikatsu - Vol. 8 Ch. 36

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I mean they're punished to do hard labor while in house arrest essentially, i think the collars are the fantasy equivalent of electronic bracelets, they probably won't get whipped while carried stones, i think the local lord is trying to scare the whole class into behaving and not counting on MC for everything.
collars would be needed since they could just rebell and cause more havoc if they had enough. since they all do have powers,
 
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Exactly. While in universe it would make sense the city lord would hand out a punishment they're going to take it as going from enslavement to enslavement if it comes as a direct punishment from Klaus. As can be seen by the prison scene they don't think that they've done anything wrong but if the community comes together to find them guilty they would be more acceptable to it since Japanese society is communally judgemental. Either that or the punishment should be handed out directly by Kento so it would be viewed by them being punished by one of their own.
Issue here is the way these guys are acting are not sterotypical japanese cultural behavior, that goes to the MC while that would be effective to someone like him, but these guys are acting very much spoiled af and not self reflecting
 
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Think there is a justifiably difference in the use of the nullification bracelets. True they were used by the other country to enslave them, but here it is their own unreasonable actions that directly leads to the use.
They've been a bit cagey on exactly how well these bracelets work... But as I understood it the "nullification" thing was a lie the other country told to convince people to put them on. If they really did only keep power under control that would be reasonable. But the slave bracelets still take away your free will to some extent (and yet not enough to not let the people complain out loud?).

I'm not sure why, but I feel like forced labor should still let you keep your free will... Even if you're being forced by someone else to do something, you still get the choice in any moment to try and resist. Or to speak up about something. That has to be less traumatic than being unable to control your own body if a superior orders you to do something.

If instead of bracelets they instead administered drugs that could make people completely lose their free will / ability to say no (a.k.a. roofies), it would still be unethical to use them on prisoners in a forced labor camp.
 
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I do think there's a difference from slave to slave because in the first one they were beat up and the other it's just work
 
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@3leaves2 @Phantaminium Thanks for noticing the misaligned text on page 29. I have fixed it. :thumbsup:

Thanks for the translation!


Corrections: Page twelve, it would be Kent saying "the place we worked before", because Kent and Klaus both worked together on the wall earlier. Page sixteen, Yuika was saying that the boys were idiots (in WN it was "They're so stupid!").

Changes from webnovel:
  • Kent had a talk with the class girls about the aftermath, this is basically where he gave up on training carriage drivers.
  • Donovan told Kent he was doing well and to take tomorrow off.
  • Klaus didn't bring up polygamy; it's Marianne and Dino with whom Kent broaches the subject of Polygamy later, and it's Dino and his wife who explain that it's legal because so many men died in a previous monster outbreak (which also killed Klaus's brother, Klaus was a second son), so laws were changed to look after the abundant widows.
  • Yuika was crying (and no maid) during her scene. And it was Basten, not Reinhardt whom Yuika hugged (Yuika finding Reinhardt cute is ironic, considering Reinhardt is behind one of Yuika's greatest future anxieties.) She also asked about the teacher's whereabouts.
  • Kent had a scene being comforted by the diner women, including a booba hug from Meline.
  • Kent helped demolish Marcel's shop.
I have a feeling Klaus is already planning to invite Kent for a special visit to his home kukuku. Here, Klaus was clearly thinking Kent might go rampant with all those school girls being dependent on him while the popular boy is locked up. Kent would never do lewd things to half the girls in the 8th grade, right? Of course not!
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Page 12: Ohh sharp eyes.. I didn't notice Klaus at the back.:lul: Thanks! I've change it to "we" instead. :wooow:
Page 16: Seems like the mangaka changed the context.

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I have no idea what she can't believe and I'm also not sure who she's calling not a baka lol, that's why I went with Yuika saying Kento is not an idiot. The pain of translating.. welI you will all will have to live with my best guess in TL :huh:
 
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With how often the MC is mistreated and abused by the people he's helping, would it be so crazy that he's eventually snap and become a true demon lord? I know that won't happen, but it'd be an interesting subversion of expectations after all these chapters
 
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They've been a bit cagey on exactly how well these bracelets work... But as I understood it the "nullification" thing was a lie the other country told to convince people to put them on. If they really did only keep power under control that would be reasonable. But the slave bracelets still take away your free will to some extent (and yet not enough to not let the people complain out loud?).
While I agree it is a slippery slope, I don't mind the use of a device that enforces actions in the case of violent crimes. Especially in settings were individuals can have enhanced physical characteristics and or supernatural powers and abilities.

In a functional society you must be able to detain and control the unruly and violent. While something like a slave collar might carry a negative image, when the alternative is physically maiming or even killing a violent fantasy criminal, I think the slave device is the better option. Not only because it offers a means to control unruly individuals, but also because it offers a less lethal solution to the situation. You will still get the occasional idiot that would rather die then atone for their crimes. But honestly feel those are exactly the type that should be forced into cleaning sewers and digging mines


I'm not sure why, but I feel like forced labor should still let you keep your free will... Even if you're being forced by someone else to do something, you still get the choice in any moment to try and resist. Or to speak up about something. That has to be less traumatic than being unable to control your own body if a superior orders you to do something.
In this hypothetical world where only criminals are collared by detention shackles, If you have earned your detention slave collar, you've forfeited much of your freedom of choice and maybe even a few of human rights. Again slippery slopes and all that, but basically if you want slave labor to act as a deterrent against crime, half measures only leads to failure.

If instead of bracelets they instead administered drugs that could make people completely lose their free will / ability to say no (a.k.a. roofies), it would still be unethical to use them on prisoners in a forced labor camp.

In a fantasy setting it doesnt matter what method the mind control takes. Be it collar, tattoo, spell, curse, or alchemical concoction. They are all functionally the same.

And I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how roofies work. The person isn't in a state to communicate, let alone make coordinated actions. The date rape drug is used because it leaves it's victims cognitively impaired, physically incapacitated and completely unable to resist.


O . o

And as a side note, mind bending drugs is how mentally ill patients are detained.
 
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I'm confused, what exactly are the classmates paying off? I thought the MC already paid the damages to the shop, ergo nothing to pay off. I think they said something about paying off the wall, but what does the wall have to do with anything.
 
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I'm confused, what exactly are the classmates paying off? I thought the MC already paid the damages to the shop, ergo nothing to pay off. I think they said something about paying off the wall, but what does the wall have to do with anything.
I think they rejected the MC's payment after they learned he wasn't involved.
 

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