Kenja no Mago - Vol. 8 Ch. 25

[Clad95150]

@sharkman & @conscript117 : The things I understood is that :

- The demon king just want to chill in his castle
- But the second in command and other lesser demon doesn't want that. For the second, it's because he wants to prove the demon's supremacy and want to eliminate any threats. For the lesser demons it's because of vengeance, need to destroy things or just proving they are the best of the best.
- So the second in command try to manipulate the lesser demon into kidnapping the girl to make MC angry and make him attack the demon king.
- Upon the attack, the demon king will kill MC and with any luck, either the demon king will decide to conquer the world or the humans will surrender if they had started a war on the demons.

So it's a win/win situation for the second in command: worst case scenario the lesser demons dies, best case scenario demon king doesn't have any threats and rules the worlds. (in the second in command head the demon king can't possibly lose)

The only true dumb guys are the henchmen but I suppose they were dumb from the beginning and with the demonic transformation they have an even harder time to think. Second in command choose them because of that.

But yeah, I'd love the author to explain the plot with more clarification.

 

[Wolvenworks]

Shin: "how dare you TOUCH MY WAIFU KAMEHAMEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

 

[bradek]

When you realize that the MC is the eviler of them all:
Evil enemies stop before killing the mc's party.
MC just straight up disintegrate some demon mob.

 

[LysandersTreason]

@starbuck @antairan

You'd think the Japanese author could just like, include the English spelling of the names alongside the Katakana, since he's trying to go for a European type name. And yes obviously Walford is more correct than Warford -- but for some reason we had it spelled BOTH ways in the same chapter. That's pretty low quality work from the translator/proofreaders.

 

[shinya78]

@Regalia13

Actually, demonizing Shin makes more sense as their main plan, though they still need to involve Cecily with that plan. Remember how Strom turned into one? Yup, they'll either defile her, kill her, or both, right in front of him by manipulating corrupt nobles or something to do it for them.

Now imagine the OP protagonist becoming the bad guy of the story. No one can do didly squat to stop him.

So I went and read the raws, and...

Spoiler

...it turns out demonizing Shin, who just earned the nickname "Maou" (commonly translated as Demon King, but is actually Magic King, because it's a play on words on "Mahou Tsukai no Ou)" or Magician King) was the plan all along. But before that, BEACH EPISODE, because why not?

 

[TheTanJar7]

If they know the whole empire is demonized why not go to the strong hold and do the magic version of nukes?
I’m pretty certain Shin has something similarity distructive what with his solar ray spell from an earlier chapter.

 

[chenando1]

If i was shin i would have gone like: you little shits call yourselves demons?? Let me show you what a real demon is!!!??? and attack them with the intent to kill, make them shit and piss their pants while mercilessly killing in very horrible and gory ways every one of them one by one and just leave one half alive and tell him: now you little piece of living shit trash go crawl back while crying to your master an tell him ALL of what you experienced and tell him that that is what a real demon is like and not the punny little fake ass demon he calls him self to be.??????
Or maybe I would go like: makes Naruto hand signs"kuchiyose no jutsu!!!" And summon my little friend Sachiko from corpse party and tell her: Sacchan, these nice people say they want to play with you??, why don't you go have fun with them???(??) and enjoy all the bloodbath.

 

[Boomburst]

These people are getting it wrong... Cecily is not Shin's weak spot... it's his berserk button. These guys are threatening to mash the button down. Yeah... I never had sympathy for the devils, but now they have lost all ounce of my respect. Guess getting demonized decreases the wisdom score.

 

[Glomoro]

@Boomburst they said "if used right," the if is important and I'm not sure they actually know how to do it yet. That's why they fell back to report to their boss instead of just trying to do anything haphazardly while Shin was already in a "fuck you and anyone near you," state of mind.

 

[b0n3t0u3]

Shounen shenanigans were strong this chapter.

 

[StLL]

Strom needs to stop letting them do what they want. In retrospect Strom shares the same values as the kingdom no? why did he manipulated Kurt to turn into a demon.

 

[seanidor]

Wow... good going Mark. You're such a manly man that you threw away your incredibly useful protective jacket in a flashy manner.

 

[SotiCoto]

NOOO!!! THE GLASSES!!

 

[Titanfan548]

AND SO ANOTHER TRAINING ARC COMMENCES

 

[Nekoriz]

God what a retarded underling

 

[OllyMolly]

Well.... If you poke a dragon & mess with its possession, be prepared to be the dust it steps on later.

 

[cloud2438]

somehow, only the mob characters died, and yet again the guy who can literally teleport and sense enemies with magic lets them walk away... i dont think i've ever rolled my eyes more to a manga lol

 

[TucoBenedicto]

The author keeps wanking over how super awesome and super smart the MC is supposed to be and yet every single time it actually matters he turns into the hotheaded retard who blows a large area with the big mean explosion and leaves an escape route for the baddies.

Even if they wanted to play the corny angle "THEY TOUCHED HIS GIRL AND MADE HIM MAD" there were surely better ways to paint him as a ruthless efficient killer.

I guess this is the unavoidable limitation when you have a moron trying to write about smart people.