Kenja no Mago - Vol. 13 Ch. 45

[MangaDex]

 

[Archomp]

is it so hard to say that it was a trap, shin-kun?

 

[BookQueen]

slippery demons

 

[kenkagejack]

I'm more surprised there's only 1 fort in the entire space between the border and the capital city. This is a country made up of vassal states (ie. an empire), right?

 

[alidan]

anyone who read the novel, does this hit morally grey areas soon?
12ln and ongoing mixed with this seeming like its hitting end game tells me the only way to extend this is ass pulls or add in some grey areas that forces everyone to reconsider things.

 

[aigomorla]

Just ditch the Darm army.
Tell them to leave, or request the commander be excused from party.

If you have discontent, it will only be one more shit you need to worry about.
So say F what's right and wrong, i don't like you, get the hell out, and be done with it.

 

[SentryIsSpy]

Please please please fucking tell me that the "big reveal" this is setting up is that "the fort is a trap" because its so obvious

 

[wilddeath]

I mean... is there any reason shin can't nuke it from orbit? He has nuclear type magic yes?

 

[Kayriel]

Darm Commander is a weak link. If he'd OPENLY curse Shin to his face - someone who could incinerate his whole lineage with a thought and destroy his entire nation in a month, tops, that means he doesn't respect Shin as a leader, the leader of the strongest force humanity has to offer. The only force that can deal with the devils, when he knows FULL WELL his men can't do shit.

Shin's parents, after all, became world-renowned heroes for taking down a single devil when no one else could. Why would normal soldiers have evolved to world-hero levels as an army by now?

 

[Kaarme]

It wouldn't be strange if that commander awakened as a devil himself, alone or aided by one of the top devils of the empire. He seems to be stretched to the limit and is full of hatred, greed, stress, envy, and other splendidly demonic emotions. He also seems to be taking Shin and Cecily's titles granted by the pope almost like a personal insult.

I reckon one big mistake the human army is making is to think the devils are some unified force. It should be obvious that's not the case even without having seen the scenes among them that we have seen. People who became devils because of being oppressed by the nobles aren't the first ones to volunteer to serve under someone, quite the contrary. The devils ought to be naturally chaotic, so why would they sit waiting in a single fortress or look for a nice, big, organised battle?

 

[kaminomikan]

@aigomorla
Ren Ren Ren Nagusaran Rensia Ruroonren Nakora 👍

 

[InsaneAwesomeTony]

Thanks for the translation 😆

 

[Xanagos]

They didn't even reach half of the Demon Territory and the troops are already on low morale and giving up, this is sooooooo LAME, against old Empire would they be this weak minded too?

 

[Rasz]

Shin could easily fly towards the fuckin stronghold, nuke it and its over.
But no, he is a fucking stupid mc

 

[joel7686]

The previous pope was acting strange, he was being manipulated by the demons.
Now this church big shot is acting strange.... Jesus Christ dude its so obvious.
i think this dude will betray everyone and hurt someone, shin will lose it and kill him, something like that, im 99% sure that is how it will play out

 

[joel7686]

@Rasz From the start he could do that, they considered, if I'm not wrong, but that will imply that the Empire territory would be Shin possession or Earlshide possession.
A huge territory unguarded, to avoid conflict with the neighbor nations, they decided to make a political reunion in order to share the territory, the empire was too destroyed after the demon rebellion and so it would be too expensive for the Earlshide Kingdom or Shin alone to take care of it.

Now that its all divided will be easy to peacefully rebuild and occupy the territory. It would be weird for the ultimate magicians to clean the entire demon threat and them just handover the territories, and there was a chance that the ultimate magicians could fail or someone end up dead, Sicily almost died once against the demons, and the other members had some difficulty to fight high tier demons on the previous Arc, because of that, was decided that each nation would sent an army to help on the occupation and demon extermination.

Its all on the previous chapters, its too much dialog and was a long time ago, its kinda difficult to remember everything, but those were the reasons for them not just fly there.

 

[Dragou]

Btw on a side note: did I remember this wrong or wasnt said that the marriage between Shin and Cicily should be done before the war?

But yes the commander is plenty stupid and the problems they do have is problematic. This commander cant put his own pride and believes aside just because of the titles given by the pope.

Btw the reason he believes he can do this is because he is underestimating the devils because "some kids" can kill them, therefore he and his soldiers should be able to do the same. Even when he knows that isnt true. ...... The problem which I have with that is that NO ONE removes him from his post or is yelling at him, because if the commander is like that, then the only future the army under him awaits is certain death, which could have been avoided.

 

[JuliusCV]

@SentryIsSpy
@Archomp

I haven't read the novel so I can't be sure, but I think that what Shin fears it's not that this is a trap, but most likely that there are enough devils already that they can fill or separate themselves into many fortress to fight. This will imply that devils can multiply faster than what Shin hopes and thus extend the war for a lot of time. The allied kingdoms are trying to give a desicive hit and end most if not all of te devils, their leader (forgot the name, lol) included, so discovering there are a lot more of them is a worst case scenario for them.

 

[Spoonikle]

This “march” is really dragging on.

 

[Mpwilson123]

Your princess is in another castle