Honzuki no Gekokujou ~Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen~ Dai 2-bu 「Hon no Tamenara Miko ni Naru!」 - Vol. 8 Ch. 41 - Winter Shut-in

[Novis]

The one thing I love about this series is how much it wants to drive in that this society FUCKING SUCKS. It's cruel for no actual good reason other than to be cruel. She's a god damn child (though not really but still everyone else sees her as a child) and children get sad. HELL, even adults. I get so frustrated when everyone is like "no, stop being a sad child and be a noble". All the adults suck, lol. Good story.

 

[eng1]

Franz is not wrong given the circumstances, after all, the nobles at the temple would completely destroy Myne if they knew she was treating the servants as a family and she'll be spending the entire winter in that hostile environment.
But it's still sad that this needs to be done.

The nobles wont go there other than flower offerings, and in that case they schedule appointments in advance. The problem is Myne will have to enter noble society and her doing that will cause problems, even scandals to her reputation

You see, it is situations like these that breaks the world building...
Everyone is forced to accept the contract in the "batism" and it is said that everyone have to obey the rules of the society they live in because of that contract yet they have to worry about people kidnapping others and situations like the one with Lutz happens when both should be impossible by the effects of the contract...
This story is such a mess all the time.

The mistake you are making is to use the medals, you need authority from the archduke. The nobles treat commoners like livestock. So kidnapping is a concern because the incident of kidnapped commoners isnt big enough for the archduke to step in. On top of that, traveling merchants dont do medalians as they have no citizenship.
In case of the Lutz incident, it is more complex because

Spoiler

nobles are involved, after fernand who is an archnoble starts investigating, the nobles clean up their tracks and kill them all

 

[jvlg]

"Circles", weapons, cups and staves?
That's starting to sound more like a latin suited deck than a french deck.

A mix with the clarity of modern spanish decks and the straight clean staves used in some (all?) italian decks would be ideal:

I doubt Myne's heard of either deck though.

 

[WhimsiCat]

The nobles wont go there other than flower offerings, and in that case they schedule appointments in advance. The problem is Myne will have to enter noble society and her doing that will cause problems, even scandals to her reputation

IIRC, even when they want flowers they won't visit orphanage directly.

They'd just send notice to the director asking for some to be sent over.

Spoiler: which

Myne only send those who are willing for it (yes, there are some willing participants)

Even for new priests looking for attendants rather than coming to orphanage they'd be presented with those who've received educations.

 

[Kuratenshi]

Thank you for the chapter, and looking forward to June.

 

[mahtan]

I don't know where you're getting that, because there's no contract shown in the baptism, just a medallion of some sort. Probably more a citizenship registration or census than a contract. Nowhere (at least in the manga) is it shown or said that anyone is forced to accept a contract during their baptism.

And besides, even considering the contract we know for sure was signed (the one between Benno and the Ink Assoc.), loopholes are always a thing. It's pointed out that the men never actually attacked Lutz. Who knows what they'd able to do to Myne even under the contract you say they're bound by?

You... are not paying attentiont to the story, are you?
What do you think the thing they sign with blood at the batism is? Really, at least pay attentiont to what you are reading...

 

[spamtrashed]

Thanks for all the hard work you put into scanlating for us! (^_^)

 

[Zoh_Veldae]

Is there something wrong with pages 18 and 19? They're not loading for me.

 

[FullDiver]

You... are not paying attentiont to the story, are you?
What do you think the thing they sign with blood at the batism is? Really, at least pay attentiont to what you are reading...

You think that just because they used blood, it must have been a contract? When Myne specifically says “Why do magic TOOLS like to use blood?”
Not to mention the fact that it’s explained that magic contracts use a special ink, and there’s no ink involved in the baptism at all.
Or the simplest fact of all: that they don’t actually sign a contract, which uses the blood of both parties involved to bind them to the terms written on the contract parchment with the aforementioned ink. It’s a pretty big leap to conclude all that from the shiny coin that’s actually shown.

Really, at least pay attention to what you’re reading.

Also, by your logic (that “magic contracts use blood, so anything that uses blood must be a contract”): “steam engines need water to function just like humans do, so steam engines must be humans.”

 

[Mentholatum]

Everyone is forced to accept the contract in the "batism" and it is said that everyone have to obey the rules of the society they live in because of that contract

I'm curious as to why you got that impression. Re-reading chapter 31 of part 1 (Myne's baptism), there's no explanation whatsoever about what the medals do or don't do.

From the light novel, as far as commoners are concerned, the medals are related to citizenship and give the ruler of Ehrenfest the ability to magically protect the person registered with that medal, but also the ability to magically kill that person.

Notably, they do not automatically kill the person if they break a law or something. That's unlike the magic contracts signed by Myne and Benno, which will automatically kill the person that violates the contract.

 

[FullDiver]

I can guarantee you that Myne cares about Benno (and Mark) a lot - a later scene makes that very clear.

The bit about overworking other people is a TL error. She's worried about Benno getting overworked, which is a theme that pops up frequently in this part and the next one. But Myne, being Myne, doesn't even realize how much she overworks people everytime she opens her mouth.

Thanks for pointing this out. The TL error has been corrected.