Horobi no Kuni no Seifukusha - Ch. 25

[MangaDex]

 

[ocsibrm]

 

[CrimsonWarden]

Huh... so we got a cross dressing tragic friend reveal rather than a yaoi ship.

Not complaining but strangely wholesome

 

[delaire]

Yup. Known that body type from a mile a way.

 

[ThatNaiGuy]

Honestly, fooled me. That said, the moment they mentioned Myaro being trained to be a successor of the matrilineal family it was kind of obvious.

 

[Gatenka]

Yup. Know that body type from a mile a way.

But but, muh yaoi ship.

Also, Myaro being adopted by the Hou family would seal the deal for her wanting to be a knight. She'll definitely make it.

 

[IMyuuki]

I knew it... My penis intuition was right

 

[harukuro]

Shit... I thought it was a trap... Goddamit

 

[esoonee]

So MC is slowly building up his harem, 1st his cousin, then come the 1st and 2nd princess and now his buddy... Dang bro get all the goodies.

 

[GodKing46]

Ah, yes, that trope is at the play here. Eh, whatever, as long the writing is good, I ain't complaining here.

 

[tekkenshu7]

A reverse-trap huh
I would've laughed with the grandma
But yeah, giving the grandma the benefit of the doubt, I think she is just secretly over-protective of her granddaughter in a tsuntsun way.
But then again, she picked a wrong person to go to war against. Again, the witches are almost like frogs in a small pond, and they are actually less capable at actual full-scale conflicts that they believe they are. And sucks for them, they do not know that Yuri is a reincarnated adult who knows how petty syndicates work.

 

[hierof]

there it is, the TRAP we have been waiting for

 

[BigPoppaEffy]

Goddamnit, why would you throw in that Myaro is really a chick?!

 

[Maziri]

I've Been Tricked, I've Been Backstabbed and I've Been Quite Possibly, Bamboozled

Whhaaaattt??!!!!!!

 

[CucarachaEnojada]

Gasp!He was a waifu,all along!!!

 

[JaxunHero]

I KNEW IT

 

[Zeemigoo]

I think this is one of the first times where I actually didn’t see that coming

 

[74HC595]

Based reverse trap plot. It just gets better and better.

 

[Kaarme]

But yeah, giving the grandma the benefit of the doubt, I think she is just secretly over-protective of her granddaughter in a tsuntsun way.

The things is, how do you raise a successor to a criminal family? I feel like the grandma witch failed already. Myaro is a good person, after all. You need the successor to be a ruthless, heartless person. How else would they run a business of extortion, theft, and violence? Either the successor needs to be brought up as a spoiled douche looking down on everyone or as a person who lost pretty much all of their humanity (if it's correct to say that since they aren't humans in the story). The mother seemed to have become such, but the grandma's efforts, while hurting Myaro, didn't make her lose her kindness or honour. If the knight father had become a violent drunk who had beaten Myaro repeatedly, the grandma might have succeeded in creating a successor.

 

[tekkenshu7]

The things is, how do you raise a successor to a criminal family? I feel like the grandma witch failed already. Myaro is a good person, after all. You need the successor to be a ruthless, heartless person. How else would they run a business of extortion, theft, and violence? Either the successor needs to be brought up as a spoiled douche looking down on everyone or as a person who lost pretty much all of their humanity (if it's correct to say that since they aren't humans in the story). The mother seemed to have become such, but the grandma's efforts, while hurting Myaro, didn't make her lose her kindness or honour. If the knight father had become a violent drunk who had beaten Myaro repeatedly, the grandma might have succeeded in creating a successor.

We don't know yet what the matriarch is planning for Myaro initially. I think Myaro's mother is more like a broken figure (she technically became a school "slut" sleeping with many boys at school) probably because she gave in to the pressure of supposedly becoming the next head/matriarch of the Gudanviel clan (probably due to the grandma's push as well) - and I suppose the grandma already gave up on her as well. Now she probably wanted Myaro to grow up ruthless (not exactly spoiled and condescending towards others), so Myaro can keep her own in the dubious industries of the underworld (just like yakuza clans in Japan which operate on the legitimate businesses as well). She probably wanted to make Myaro the next matriarch so bad that she's becoming this ruthlessly desperate. Well of course, Myaro is very talented as a witch after all, so grandma really doesn't want her gone.