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

[lasercats]

@Purplelibraryguy FeelsCapitalistMan

 

[Fuko]

So she only needs to get rich to survive
It is a little like HIV w/o gov. support

 

[Shit1ng]

Moral of the story - Money can't buy Happiness.

 

[Chrisis]

This is so bittersweet :0

I just love this series!

 

[Purplelibraryguy]

@lasercats Heh. Yea.

 

[Keansor]

Aaaaaaaaaa the art style is so cute!
So they decided to go with "Second or third wife" instead of "concubine" for the manga, huh? In the web novel she says they were planning to make her a second or third wife but decided against it because of succession issues, and her shop being far away was good to avoid 'the unpleasant bits'. Makes a lot more sense for Maine to react that way, eh?

@Fuko Actually, since nobles still have all the rights to magic tools, so she'd need to get the support of one of them anyways - and unlike Freida, who's the daughter of one of the most influential commoners in the city, she wouldn't exactly be negotiating from a high position. They could pretty much apply whatever conditions they wanted regardless of how much money she has.

 

[Kaarme]

I have a feeling those tools don't cost so much for the nobles to make. They are just selling them for a really high profit for two reasons: 1) Easy money from wealthy commoners like merchants, 2) Most mana possessing commoners will simply die off and won't thus form a threat for the existing social structure (the nobles' power).

However, I really hope this series does have a good explanation for why there's apparently no such natural way to use mana that people wouldn't simply discover it on their own. After all, it's impossible for it rely on sophisticated tools alone because that would mean all people with such a potential would have died before the tools were developed. One possibility, among many, would be that all the magic genes come from an area where some substance that allows channeling mana out of the body is plentiful in nature (special plants, crystals, whatever) and it's useful in some way (like being able to fight with it). When people moved away from there, to places where that mysterious matter doesn't exist or is rare, people started dying. Obviously some would have known about what it's all about, but they kept the information for themselves, importing the substance X, and used their magical power to rule the plebs. Centuries later it would have become very restricted knowledge anywhere but in the original place. As we have learned, most people never travel anywhere and books are very rare, so information simply doesn't spread.

 

[Flyingpantsu]

@Kaarme

One possibility, among many, would be that all the magic genes come from an area where some substance that allows channeling mana out of the body is plentiful in nature (special plants, crystals, whatever)

As we have learned, most people never travel anywhere and books are very rare, so information simply doesn't spread.

An event happening later actually could validate your theory.

Spoiler

There's a certain plant seed that can use mana to grow quickly and Maine discovers it by accident so maybe something similar happened in the past, or maybe it's more common than people know.

 

[Kaarme]

@Flyingpantsu I'll just need to wait for the future chapter then. I don't want to spoil anything for myself!

 

[Robbini]

@Flyingpantsu

That ... thing , is it a one time needed for their entire life for a massive increase or growth, or does it only help growth somewhat or give an actual boost in capacity every time consumed ?

@Kaarme

Could also be that it has to be expensive, so that it suits their status. Nobles only like expensive things mostly, if it's cheap, it's not as extravagant and thus not suiting them.

 

[Prinnyfoof]

@RonBWL

Thanks for picking this up and the continual quality/communication. Remember that communication, especially during delays, is what gives you justification to ignore assholes when they complain after not reading the note. My only feedback would be to add dates to the notes so readers can ignore way out of date ones (nothing ever gets deleted from the internets!).

F the haters; generous and passionate people like you make the world not-shit.

 

[Morose]

So, there is still 8+3 chapters (8 full, and 3 mini) left until "Part I" is completed.

As for the current raws, "Part II" has 8 chapters out; while "Part III" has 9 chapters out.

 

[Morose]

Didn't know that this series is getting an Anime Adaptation, did others know about it?

http://booklove-anime.jp/

 

[Kaarme]

@Robbini Until proven otherwise by future chapters, I'm not inclined to think the nobles really even use those trinkets that merely suck out excess mana, getting destroyed in the process. I'd imagine the nobles actually use the magic for something useful. Like hurling fireballs (which is always useful). Though I suppose they might deal with little kids the same way, and furthermore there could be different stratum among the nobility. Perhaps the lowest one is none the wiser than everybody else. After all, if Frida is to be married to a noble family, it's not like the nobles would want her to learn big secrets and leak them to her original family and ultimately the whole city.

 

[CoolOtamegane]

Ugh.... Exactly the picture of real world
Example : Some kid got death sentence "LEUKIMIA"
Her family is very poor, even to buy a grain of rice is hard
Need "chemotherapy, radiation therapy, stem cell transplant"
That cost tons of MONEY...

 

[Robbini]

@Kaarme

They explained in this chapter, that their family buys 'just about broken' artifacts to control Frida's mana. Meaning they have very few uses left. There are of course better artifacts, but the nobles would have a way more severe control over who owns them. And them being able to buy those artifacts, is both a testament to their wealth, status and her future, marrying into a noble family.

 

[Zael]

@Flyingpantsu I thought we already saw that in one of the early chapters? Totally just waiting for her to make the connection, now that she's starting to have a clue what the "Consuming" actually is.

And a big thank you to the scanlators!

 

[Kaarme]

@Robbini I have no idea how deep and developed the story of this series is, but I keep hoping it has some depth. It means we might learn false information as well. Since my basic belief is that there's no sickness in the first place, it's only a sickness invented by the nobles to mooch money from the commoners and to get rid of potential threats, it also means they would have needed to hide the truth and invent the whole story about that disease that wastes children unless cured by highly expensive means or by becoming a noble's slave with no future. Someone already said it before, but there's no way the nobles would keep a slave that costs gold coins to maintain every year if a regular servant would do the same work for a fraction of the money. However, they would do it if there is either in fact no real cost for the nobles (the trinket is practically free to manufacture but can be sold for an astronomical amount because nobody else can provide it) or they can simply deal with the slave's condition by more straightforward magical means. It's not like a slave-for-life would be telling any tales anywhere.

In other words, the guild master might believe he buys nearly spent magic tools, but in reality they could be such by design to make sure he needs to keep buying them. Of course the lowest tier of the nobles could also be ignorant, like I said, and the guild master buys genuinely used ones from them.

 

[lenovoaxioo]

So when she talk about contract and becoming a slave, she talk about herself huh. . .

 

[RedlineAlchemist]

Such a bitter sweet feeling at the end, I have a faint feeling my hearts going to be ripped out next chapter...💀