Honzuki no Gekokujou ~Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen~ Dai 1-bu 「Hon ga Nai nara Tsukureba Ii!」 - Vol. 6 Ch. 25 - Frida and Myne

[Robbini]

@Kaarme

She has ways of temporarily dealing with it, but all of them having the same problems to that degree (very few do) need to use actual tools every so often to manage later on.

 

[definitionofinsanity]

About her family and the disease:

Spoiler

A few chapters later on in the novel, she talks to the guy at the gates she helps out with work and decides to tell her family that she's not cured, only she's been given a short extension on life and buying more time is not only going to be exceedingly difficult, but expensive as hell as well. It was actually pretty god damn heart breaking for her family to learn just how serious it is and that Myne is far from outside of the woods yet and could very easily die in a year or so.

Given how faithful the manga has been to the novel, that's gonna be... a gut-wrenching chapter to read, I suspect. Especially with how Myne's father, normally a cheery kind of guy, is distraught. Myne even wakes up in the middle of the night to find him drinking and sobbing quietly.

As someone that's having more and more family and friends come down with cancer or otherwise failing health as getting older... God damn does that hit home.

 

[RonBWL]

@definitionofinsanity yep, 27 in the manga to be exact. I'm already crying just by reading the raw lol

 

[mage_goo]

@WhimsiCat I want to keep myself relatively spoiler-free, so sorry, but I won't read the parts that you put in the spoiler.

Based only on the parts outside the spoiler, guess magic fuels is the right answer after all.
Though if there's the method of swapping only the gem to reuse the magic tool, there's some strange point that rose up.

Like how Frieda father intentionally choose to buy several set of the ones that almost break instead of, like, one durable magic tool and several gems to replace. Is the differences in price between the one that doesn't break in one use that high? Why is the one that breaks in one use that expensive anyway, when it's useless except for treating Consuming? Artificial scarcity?

And I also wonder why there's no organization that rent out durable magic tool, so their customer just need to buy new gem from them every so often while the group also gets to pocket the filled gems for extra money. Though considering that one use of magic tool is enough for Frieda to survive for a year, I guess it won't be too profitable. ...or is that how the noble contract works, they lend out durable magic tool in exchange of slave labor? Can't see any reason noble going out of their way to helps people with Consuming this way besides for PR reason though, unless the noble can use those with Consuming as secret weapon, of course.

Conspiracy theory: Consuming is a man-made disease created to control some specific middle-class influentials with money.

 

[WhimsiCat]

@mage_goo:
Because nobles are willing to part with only the near broken ones, any working ones they'll need for themselves too (reminder: nobles use these tools too)

As for price difference, the coinage goes up in 10x from small copper -> medium copper -> large copper -> small silver -> large silver -> small gold -> large gold

Assuming Freda was not taking a chance to upcharge the cost of the near broken tool (rather unlikely given the 'take when you can' merchant motto) and it's indeed only 2 small gold + 8 large silver, the cost she mentioned for a functioning one is 'at minimum' large gold coin, so 3x of the near broken tool, and that's likely the lowest tier of them.
And that's just the tool only, the magic stones for storage will cost extra.

Without going into spoiler, the scarcity of the tool is not artificial.

As for why there's no renting of magic tools...uhhh, it'd be spoiler on the setting of the world and not the plot, so I'm not sure you're ok hearing that one:

Spoiler

The primary use of the tool for noble children is to stockpile magic stones filled with their own magic to use when they go to school, because with all the classes that use magic your own capacity won't be enough to handle all the lessons (not to mention disparity in capacity between low and high ranking nobles)
Once you're adult, well, you use your magic to do work so there's unlikely to be any piling up, but the tool is still there for other purpose instead.


The contract varies, but in case of Freda is can be summarized as "in return for us giving you the tool + magic stones, you give us back the filled stone for us to use"
So for more standard contract, the Consuming basically become mana battery for the nobles. Because in this world, mana is a resource and not unlimited.

Counter argument: Myne is daughter of a soldier living in the 'slum', and she has rather strong case of Consuming. She's far from middle-class (when just copper coins is enough to get her family motivated)
(btw, despite there being all these fancy name for it, a literal translation of it is just 'self-eating')

 

[sunsetchaos]

> fantasy isekai
> have enough magic to literally kill you
> not knowing or even trying to use magic..

 

[Goretantath]

(wrong chapter)

 

[Shamz]

"sudden toronbe attack" "a case where a toronbe attack was not at its worst after being touched by a girl overflowing with mana" i like it when i can notice these things