Isekai Kenkokuki - Ch. 78

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No i know that that is indeed the case. I’m just amused that somehow the uploaders managed to (i assume) forgot to upload this ch bundle for 8-9 months.
When I get a bit more free time here, I'll poke around and see if they'll be okay with me staying on top of the uploads for this title. It'd be shameful for people to be missing out when the story's just starting to get really good.
 
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It's been so long I forget, have people like the spider woman been established? I feel like she's supposed to be some sort of non-human, but I don't think those have been properly established
Well, we've got a Gryphon who is revered like unto a god in this setting. And he gave Almus his blessings, which were a real thing. So a jorougumo type girl doesn't feel like too much of a stretch at this point.
Glad it’s not just me. I’ve got legitimately no idea who she is or if she’s considered normal in this world or why she’s listening to the idiot Prince
It looks like she's wearing a slave collar, so she might not have any choice about whether to obey him or not.
From what I've seen of her inner thoughts and musings, it seems like this is all normal to her. Which, by the way, is not a good thing. It means that she's been getting abused like this from a very young age, and she's got no frame of reference for what would be considered normal treatment, even for a slave.
 
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Well, we've got a Gryphon who is revered like unto a god in this setting. And he gave Almus his blessings, which were a real thing. So a jorougumo type girl doesn't feel like too much of a stretch at this point.


From what I've seen of her inner thoughts and musings, it seems like this is all normal to her. Which, by the way, is not a good thing. It means that she's been getting abused like this from a very young age, and she's got no frame of reference for what would be considered normal treatment, even for a slave.
Or she could just be a masochist☝️🧐
 
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Ard is screwed. His big mistake is that he should have gone after Carlo first and foremost. His death would have been the easiest one of all to write off, what with being practically exiled to the harshest wilderness of their nation.

He still would have had to act quickly, but once he had word that Carlo was dead, that would be the exact moment to have Paks assassinated. Any sooner risks having his plan fall through if Carlo survived, and any later risks Paks being alerted to Carlo's death.

But instead, he tried to take both out at the same time, not realizing that no plan of action survives first contact with the enemy. In this case, Carlo's people were competent and were able to alert him to the surprise attack with enough time for him to get to safety.

It will not surprise me if the people formerly in Paks's faction are waiting for the perfect moment to turn their swords against Ard.

Ard is pretty arrogant and egotistic, so Carlo was more like an afterthougth for him. Since Carlo wasn't actively doing anything, unlike Paks, Carlo was barely visible in Ard's eyes. But of course Ard wanted to clean the house because he doesn't enjoy a situation where anyone could be even theoretically as important as he is. That's how I see it. Otherwise, like you said, he would have been wiser to make make Carlo disappear before anyone noticed anything. Before news of that reached the capital, alerting everyone and increasing security, Ard could have already started murdering people there as well.

I just hope that we see the next chapters sooner rather than another months long wait.

(Ironic that it was nine months from the previous update to seeing Almus's children born.)

The last of these updates was from November. I'm not sure if the publication has paused or if LH has practically dropped this series. The latter might also explain why they suddenly uploaded everything here. If they dropped this, it doesn't matter anymore for them.
 
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The question is when will Alice started to bite Ard back
I am just worrying that Alice will kill Bartholo sneakily.

Other than that, I'm more worried on Rosice's succession plan since people will definitely scheme in the background if Rosice managed to enlarge their territory. They are huge now.
 
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Considering the typical tropes of current comics, manwa, manga, and the novels on which they are based, Epstein is just a slightly more amoral villian...

Cartoonishly evil villians OTOH still seem to be rather tame and much less amoral asshats. Then again it's been a bit since watching what would be the current cartoons.
Excluding the other allegations. The other allegations reveal Epstein actually is a real deal demonic cultist.
 
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Excluding the other allegations. The other allegations reveal Epstein actually is a real deal demonic cultist.
Hadn't heard the cultist angle yet, but with everything else I'm really not all that surprised tbh.

The hypocrisy in my family truely ruined me on any form of religion, but if anyone epitomized the distilled essence of the anti-christ, Epstein, Trump, and a few of their "friend" sure do come way to close for comfort.
 
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Hadn't heard the cultist angle yet, but with everything else I'm really not all that surprised tbh.

The hypocrisy in my family truely ruined me on any form of religion, but if anyone epitomized the distilled essence of the anti-christ, Epstein, Trump, and a few of their "friend" sure do come way to close for comfort.
I'm not watching Hollywood after that issue. I heard Ghislaine is living like a Silva (Baki's muscle bound friend) in prison.
 
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I hate antagonists written like that idiot. And I hate if the author doesn't have them published so miserably and slowly and painfully
 
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Considering the typical tropes of current comics, manwa, manga, and the novels on which they are based, Epstein is just a slightly more amoral villian...

Cartoonishly evil villians OTOH still seem to be rather tame and much less amoral asshats. Then again it's been a bit since watching what would be the current cartoons.
Unless there's been a glut of dark fantasy a la Berserk or Goblin Slayer, I'm hard pressed to understand how trafficking minors to create a baby farm for cannibal rituals with wealthy individuals and world leaders makes Epstein "slightly more amoral"
 
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Unless there's been a glut of dark fantasy a la Berserk or Goblin Slayer, I'm hard pressed to understand how trafficking minors to create a baby farm for cannibal rituals with wealthy individuals and world leaders makes Epstein "slightly more amoral"
O . o?
Not gonna lie, I've not done a deep dive on the Trump-Epstein files. So I've only heard what gets reported from from late-night talk shows and podcasts. But even then, there is some rather twisted shit in manga these days.

Even if the offending materials are offscreen, bandits that rape, torture, and enslave villages and caravans are common tropes. International slave dealers peddle men, women and children to corrupt nobles, demon worshipers, and gladiatoral coliseums. And yes even dungeon based broodfarms where humans are raised like animals.

So yeah, Epstein being slightly more amoral then the royal mage that tortures a duke's daughter in an attempt to turn her into some kind of rampaging sword demon isn't that much of a stretch.
 
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sadly I have met people like him before so he doesn't feel comically evil to me.
I've also met people like him, but that's the problem: fiction needs a level of cohesion that reality need not abide. Take puppy-kicking for example. Real people kick puppies, and while some get punished, others don't. Meanwhile, if a fictional story has the villain kick puppies, it pretty much always leads to them immediately becoming "cartoonishly evil" to the point of being "unrealistic."
 
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Ard's just comically evil to the point of it not even being exciting. All the other antagonists atleast seemed somewhat grounded...
Yeah, I get that leader can be abusive and evil, but here it just doesn't make sense to me. The woman isn't all bruised and bleeding, either. And her response is so lackadaisical that the scene lacks any gravitas. Even the way his slap sent her flying through crates like he's got super strength.

Certainly, cartoonishly evil villains exist IRL, but even with some characters having special skills, this scene looks like it was just meant to be satire... which makes no sense for this series.
 
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Well, we've got a Gryphon who is revered like unto a god in this setting. And he gave Almus his blessings, which were a real thing. So a jorougumo type girl doesn't feel like too much of a stretch at this point.
the whole blessings system feels very lazy, kinda like the author changed their mind and didnt like them halfway through.
Blessings were a core part of the early ch but then kinda completely fell out of relevancy and are never brought up after the whole backlash thing when he got crowned as king.

Sure its the main reason why mc is able to fight, but it was also stated that the blessing of kings strengthens the holder based off how many people follow him, however we havent actually seen much change nor is it mentioned even after all this time where his follower number has exploded (think about it, he was able to crush trees with his hands with only 100 people following him from the village, now he has tens of thousands).

early on they also made a point that entities could have multiple blessings and yet it seems exeedingly rare for people to actually have blessings so why bring up that point, and the blessings people do have seem to be devices that are convienent to the plot rather then individual characteristics.

all in all i would say the spider chick is very strange outlier as no mention of demihumans has ever been made till now in addition to what i think above on blessings (also the fact that from what we have seen of blessings, they werent things that let you manifest physical objects like webs.) id wager she is just a plot device as the story falls into the typical escalation trope (every threat/issue has to be bigger or more dangerous then the last) that is so very common in stories.
 

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