Honzuki no Gekokujou ~Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen~ Dai 1-bu 「Hon ga Nai nara Tsukureba Ii!」 - Vol. 7 Ch. 33.7 - Gossiping by…

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[meccaflare]

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[Salfaro]

It's cute.

 

[Tricess]

<3 <3 <3

 

[englethorp]

Such a cute side story

 

[WhimsiCat]

So, that stone.

Spoiler

Is probably commoners replicating the nobles' engagement stone tradition.

For nobles, their body naturally reject foreign mana which means anyone besides their family, the spouse included.
Since they need to mix their mana for procreation, the partners try to get the other to get used to their mana.

First there's the engagement stone filled with their own mana to gift to the partner.
Then for segs there's medicine to make one more easily affected by another's mana (the woman will drink this)

Commoners would have too little mana for such thing to be a factor.

 

[YamiryuuZero]

Lutz's mother is awful, she lets Lutz feel unwanted in his own house, lets his brothers eat his food and pick on him, fights against his goal of becoming a merchant, gets on the way of his job and now she laughs at someone else's love life. What a horrible person!

 

[dearmusic]

Urggg too sweet!!
This overbearing amount of sweetness is melting me!

Thanks for the chapter

 

[Kaarme]

I suppose the parents being a couple of dreamers caused a reincarnator to be appear in that family, specifically.

 

[WhimsiCat]

fights against his goal of becoming a merchant

'normally' it's an impossible dream, not to mention a downgrade in quality of life.

The family had no connection to a merchant (in this society, you basically get introduced to works via your social connections) wasn't educate enough to teach him how to read or write (not to mention other details that a poor family wouldn't care about, like table manner) and didn't have the money to support him in pursuing such career (the siblings wouldn't need to fight over food if they've got enough money to fully feed them all)

Not to mention Lutz's original dream was to be wandering merchant/peddler. Go read the chapter when they first met Benno on why it's not really a good life to aim for.
It's like your child come in one day and go "I wanna cut off this family and go live on the street", imagine what kind of horrible parent would just go 'sure, we strangers now, door's that way'

Of course, Lutz's situation was not normal because Myne.
She taught him how to read/write/calculate much faster than typical children would get to learn, and he's a normal kid under 7 years old with some determination.
Her plant paper got them the apprenticeship and funds.
etc

But of course Lutz and Myne aren't explaining all this abnormal details to the family, so there's a big misunderstandings between them.
Like in this chapter, his mom say Lutz doesn't know how to read and write, but he actually do by this point.

 

[eng1]

Lutz's mother is awful, she lets Lutz feel unwanted in his own house, lets his brothers eat his food and pick on him, fights against his goal of becoming a merchant, gets on the way of his job and now she laughs at someone else's love life. What a horrible person!

Its not like she did it on purpose, with that many kids on top of her own responsibilities things just fell through the cracks. It wasnt uncommon in middle ages for older children to be responsible for the younger ones.

As for her being against him becoming a merchant, of course their opinion of merchants isnt that great as many nickle and dime them. Its like imagine you had a bad experience with a used car salesman, and your kid said he wanted to be one. You wouldnt be thrilled. On top of that it is extremely risky for Lutz because many of the skills and connections are passed down from the parents. Thus Lutz is like someone who never went to elemntary school being put into junior high school. If Beno wasnt taking care of him so well, Lutz would have 99% chance of failure

The teasing of someones love life isnt that uncommon conversations between women.

PS traveling merchants are even worse

Spoiler

200 years ago, Ernfest used to be part of a greater duchy that had a portal to another countries. The arch duke of that greater duchy got convinced to rebel and the king once learned of this was furious and sealed the portal trapping the merchants from the foreign country, the greater duchy was also broken up as a result. While none of the commoners remember any of this, the grudges still carry over without context for traveling merchants

 

[meccaflare]

So, that stone.

Spoiler

Is probably commoners replicating the nobles' engagement stone tradition.

For nobles, their body naturally reject foreign mana which means anyone besides their family, the spouse included.
Since they need to mix their mana for procreation, the partners try to get the other to get used to their mana.

First there's the engagement stone filled with their own mana to gift to the partner.
Then for segs there's medicine to make one more easily affected by another's mana (the woman will drink this)

Commoners would have too little mana for such thing to be a factor.

Spoiler: About the stone

It could a real feystone. Commoners at this point in the story do hunt Shumils to sell their feystones. So its possible its a cheap Shumil Feystone not a fake.

 

[WhimsiCat]

Spoiler: About the stone

It could a real feystone. Commoners at this point in the story do hunt Shumils to sell their feystones. So its possible its a cheap Shumil Feystone not a fake.

Spoiler

It's almost certainly a real one.

Just that unlike noble's it's probably not dyed in dad's mana thus it's just imitating the gesture of noble proposal without the key component to it.

 

[meccaflare]

I posted the first chapter of the Anthology.
https://mangadex.org/title/3017d3e0...honzuki-no-gekokujou-koushiki-comic-anthology

 

[Seraphus]

That...
That is a Good Man.

He wants to protect his city and his family, and he is not at all ironic about it; that is a strong and good person.
He fucks up, but his will carries him through; that is character.

Reminds me of my dad at his best, and I'm here for an idealized father character who has real character.