It’s Time to Change the Genre - Ch. 102

[MangaDex]

 

[outinthegardener]

Franz is delulu. I think the whole thing about the duke killing Jonas is made up, but Franz probably believes it.

 

[chesterfield]

Lucaaaaaa! ✊

God I can't wait for Franz to get what he deserves.

 

[telefonevoador]

Very interesting development!
The Winterwalds are so cold in their social nature, that it is completely plausible for an outsider to think they would do such things as murdering Princess Vanessa to marry her servant, or murdering the firstborn so their second son gets the claiming rights.

Very good, very good writing

 

[BalrogDeMorgoth]

Did Franz really just threaten to rape her?

 

[Nobi]

Did Franz really threaten to rape her?

He's such a sweetheart. One can only wonder why his entire family despises him.

 

[ggbv]

Isabella's alive, thank goodness. i would hate to lose a girlboss

 

[himi-cat]

First off, yay! Isabella is alive! high fives to @ggbv

Did Franz really just threaten to rape her?

No no no - once they're married it's not rape, you know! And anyway, he's hot, even with only one each of legs, eyes, and brain cells - it's obvious she'd be into it even if she was saying no. And on top of that....

No, sorry, I'm going to throw up. He's not even sick, he's just fucking disgusting.

Very interesting development!
The Winterwalds are so cold in their social nature, that it is completely plausible for an outsider to think they would do such things as murdering Princess Vanessa to marry her servant, or murdering the firstborn so their second son gets the claiming rights.

I'm not entirely sure it's all baloney, but given how Reudiger is I'm inclined to believe the Winterwalds are more misunderstood than genuinely cold. Reudiger basically doesn't give a shit about almost anything, and if he doesn't give a shit he's not going to bother pretending otherwise - that comes across as cold and cruel, and in practise it's probably not that far off being cold and cruel, but it's not that he can't give a shit about anything, he just doesn't.

Except Judith (and, largely through her, Luca), and hooo boy, when he falls he falls so hard it's beyond ridiculous . . .

But also his family - in the abstract "House of Winterwald" sense, but also his parents, and for all that it's not really obvious I think his brother, too. The thing that makes me think that is the fact that he ended up fighting Jonas' duels for him - if he really didn't give a shit about his brother he could just have left Jonas to it, and if he ended up dead . . . well, it's not like that would be such a terrible thing for the Winterwald family, after all - it'd get rid of someone who was a right pain in the arse, and open the way for Reudiger to fix the damage that Jonas had done to the family's reputation. But instead he stood for his brother dozens of times, even when they were duels with cuckolded husbands, people who had every right to be angry with Jonas . . .

So yeah, I don't think Winterwald is quite the cruel and cold family that people make them out to be, nor do I think that Jonas was unloved and misbegotten, even if he was doing his best to seem that way to the world.

I expect we'll discover the details of Jonas' death eventually, and I'm guessing they'll paint a rather different picture to what Franz is painting here . . . in fact, they may even paint a picture that has Franz in it . . .

Very good, very good writing

Read the webnovel it's based on too - I'm about half-way through (well short of the point we're up to here, so this is not a spoiler, moderators!), and the writing is damned good. Also, hilarious. This is a really good adaptation.

 

[YukoHoon]

There's one thing Franz hasn't taken into account because he's delulu, but... does he really think that forcing himself on her is going to fly with the royal family? The moment she says something to her grand-uncle, he's dead meat. DeadER meat, in fact. Like, the deadEST meat.

 

[telefonevoador]

So yeah, I don't think Winterwald is quite the cruel and cold family that people make them out to be, nor do I think that Jonas was unloved and misbegotten, even if he was doing his best to seem that way to the world.

Yes, indeed
Perhaps the better term (I should've used) would be "seem cold in their social nature".
They mostly appear (except for Jonas) as distant utilitarian people, but then again, they're some fiercely passionate as well... Only much more subtly.

 

[telefonevoador]

There's one thing Franz hasn't taken into account because he's delulu, but... does he really think that forcing himself on her is going to fly with the royal family? The moment she says something to her grand-uncle, he's dead meat. DeadER meat, in fact. Like, the deadEST meat.

I don't know/remember if Franz knows about the unseated Royal Gramps' obsession with her, but I agree that there would be instantaneous consequences against him.

However if I remember correctly (although I'm only a layman in medieval laws), an heir is an heir, be that a child of violence or not...

 

[BalrogDeMorgoth]

an heir is an heir,

Whatever is whatever the King say it is. I doubt anyone in the royal family would actually reject the kid but Franz would still end up on the chopping block.

 

[jarjaxle]

TRASH is alway a Trash huh Franz.... disgusting

Do wonder .....did Jonas really die by hands of Duke...or what actually happenend