Kiraware Majo to Karada ga Irekawatta Keredo, Watashi wa Kyou mo Genki ni Kurashiteimasu! - Vol. 5 Ch. 23

[MangaDex]

 

[yoshiii]

And yet both grew up unhappy.

Thanks for the update!

 

[Mandobard]

Here goes the tragic backstory of the envious sister who didn’t realize the happy sister was as much of a tool as she was.

 

[NickieTheFool]

Editor please show me the dust of the POS maid who died thank you

 

[Kageura002]

Here goes the tragic backstory of the envious sister who didn’t realize the happy sister was as much of a tool as she was.

Well, you can't really blame her.
Even if Marietta raised to become tool, she still get proper treatment.
Theh what Claudette get? Only suffering.

 

[UdenEmpati]

Oh, when Marietta learns the truth of what happened to her twin, I suspect she will be more than a little displeased with her home nation.
Sure, she had used her magic to harm others, but I suspect Marietta will take that as a 'hurt people hurt people" situation and is going to have some choice words for the nobility of Snewe, when she finally comes face-to-face with Claudette once more.



Glad I caught got all caught up on this last month. Thanks for the TL as always.

 

[Tju]

Here goes the tragic backstory of the envious sister who didn’t realize the happy sister was as much of a tool as she was.

well yes, but both of them had only had a very limited (or curated) view of the world.
(Marietta doesn't even know she had a sister does she?)
Of course Marietta lived in a golden cage, which is certainly a better fate than in cold, damp prison.

So as usual the truly evil ones are as usual the adults who basically decided tot torture a child for fun.

 

[bruhjustletmeread]

Hope shes killing everybody in the kingdom while we watch Marietta flirt

 

[Mandobard]

Well, you can't really blame her.
Even if Marietta raised to become tool, she still get proper treatment.
Theh what Claudette get? Only suffering.

well yes, but both of them had only had a very limited (or curated) view of the world.
(Marietta doesn't even know she had a sister does she?)
Of course Marietta lived in a golden cage, which is certainly a better fate than in cold, damp prison.

So as usual the truly evil ones are as usual the adults who basically decided tot torture a child for fun.

At no point did I say which was better off just that they were both tools XD. Tho I’m sure Marietta isn’t gonna be pleased at the situation either

 

[blablablub]

Scarred a child for life, both physically and emotionally?

 

[Substitution]

Is the kingdom going to be destroyed in revenge, teaching them that letting them live was the wrong move?

Won't be the first to do that.

 

[Junpaku]

Seriously why did they treat the "spare" this badly, it's just stupid. If something had happened to Marietta then they'd suddenly have to try and replace her with a malnourished sickly traumatized waif which isn't fooling anybody.

 

[UdenEmpati]

At no point did I say which was better off just that they were both tools XD. Tho I’m sure Marietta isn’t gonna be pleased at the situation either

I think it's because it's fairly common these days to use "tragic backstory" in a dismissive sense, like "oh, here comes the dastardly villain's abusive childhood where they were locked in the basement and hit by their mother, so now we the readers are meant to sympathize with them even though they set fire to a town and regularly kick dogs" type thing.

Not saying that's what you meant by it, but the term/phrase seems to have taken on the subtext of "the author is hamfisting a bad character's eventual redemption arc in an undeserving/unnecessary way", and I suspect that's how it's being interpreted here.

But you're correct in general. I don't know if I'd say Claudette was a tool, insofar as she was "kept as a spare", and yet given none of the education & treatment you'd expect of someone who had even the chance of becoming the official princess. Sure, she wasn't murdered in the cradle by the nobility, but I'd almost argue that would have been a blessing for her, compared to what she endured.
Marietta is a tool to the extent that every princess in a setting/setup like this is a tool - seen as nothing but alliance material and existing for the express purpose of being impregnated with the next generation of royalty. (Yes, that's an intentionally vulgar way to phrase it, because even when it's dressed up as niceties, that's effectively the whole of a royal woman's existence in a government like this.)

Which is why I very much look forward to Marietta reuniting with her, possibly with our Knight Noble's help, and "setting things right" and then taking their home country to task over the treatment of Claudette (because let's be real - you're correct; Marietta being who she is, once she finds out she might actually get well and truly pissed the fuck off for the first time in her life).

 

[Kinkaiser]

Oh, when Marietta learns the truth of what happened to her twin, I suspect she will be more than a little displeased with her home nation.
Sure, she had used her magic to harm others, but I suspect Marietta will take that as a 'hurt people hurt people" situation and is going to have some choice words for the nobility of Snewe, when she finally comes face-to-face with Claudette once more.

Marietta seems to think that mass murder should be forgiven if you just say your sorry, so I don't know that she'd actually be that upset about a little imprisonment and abuse.

 

[TheEnd478]

Here goes the tragic backstory of the envious sister who didn’t realize the happy sister was as much of a tool as she was.

But to be fair, how could she, all she had to KNOW about FMC life was those horrid maids words. So ASSUMED she was "living it up" while she was ABUSED!

Plus be real you knew this was coming once it became clear she looked just like FMC and the body swap.

I'd be asking how she NEVER healed the scar on her face (though I'm guessing she had a bad case of "Phantom of the Opera" where she didn't want to remove it or didn't think to do so because melodramitic) So I wonder if she's BEGGING to take back her old life!

It's funny, if she DIDN'T just assume her sister would reject her and approached and told her the whole story (and didn't become a WICKED WITCH OF HER OWN CHOICE) maybe things would end BETTER for both (especially as FMC would then find out how HORRID her Birthland were and might have made MEANINGFUL changes) but instead she stewed in bitterness and went the "then let me be EVIL" to if I'm remembering, "an area unaffliated with her birth kingdom" so she was PUNISHING innocent people for what ASSHOLES did to her, assholes who got to go on with their lives thinking "the problem AKA her sorted itself out and they have NO WORRIES of what they did ever coming out! Found the spell and then cast it, thinking she'll get payback on someone she DIDN'T NEED TO TARGET, and for what, she ASSUMED she'd be WORSHIP by the same ASSHOLES (assuming her staff are the same or from their birth kingdom) because she was SO hyperfocus on "if she was FMC everything would be better" that she FAILED to understand that she essentially FAILED to avenge HERSELF once again! While FMC would be HORRIBLY treated and she likely assumed she wouldn't be able to use Magic and be consigned to the HORRIBLE LIFE despite the fact she had ALOT going for her as FMC showed, if she had ONLY chose to be HELPFUL to the locals and not a BITCH she could have bettered her life. Instead she let BITTERNESS consume her, Reminder again FMC HEALED the scar on her face, meaning her sister LEFT IT THERE DELIBERATELY, likely a CLUE that she REFUSED to move on from her past and saw it as a SYMBOL of "I'm a victim" believing once she stole her sister's body, she never had to worry about it again, only I'm SURE she's STILL seeing the scar from time to time, because she INTERNALIZED it on her face all those years instead of curing it and moving on!

Hell any BETTER revenge would have been to REVEAL herself to FMC and reveal the SINS of their home and people, but instead she ASSUMED her involvement and knowledge and is now trapped in a situation she doesn't want, because turns out her sister was WORKED LIKE A FUCKING MULE and all the NICENESS was just ways to "cover up" they were exploiting her by "spoiling her rotten" that she ASSUMED it was REWARD for her hard work and so CONTINUED to work herself like an overworked MULE! She unintended gave her sister a VACATION, not a "horrible life!" but I guess that's HER Karma for the BAD she did AFTER she escaped knowing the truth, instead of things being BETTER, instead she's likely WISHING for that old life BACK LOL Honestly I feel we need more chapters of HOW she's doing in FMC body!

 

[UdenEmpati]

Seriously why did they treat the "spare" this badly, it's just stupid. If something had happened to Marietta then they'd suddenly have to try and replace her with a malnourished sickly traumatized waif which isn't fooling anybody.

it's a dumb-ish answer, but I think the logic is fairly consistent.
In Snewe, twins are a literal abomination that has historically spelled doom for the nation due to the warring siblings slaughtering armies and civilians for the right to the throne.
Anyone with proximity to royalty, after enough time/systemic conditioning of that fear, would see royal twins as vile and repugnant, from the same sort of place all "ignorant prejudice" is born - i.e. dehumanizing the "target" and treating them thusly, because their existence is by (their) definition a sin and spells certain doom for the state.

So the maids doing that to Claudette personally, and the royal family in general, is a direct result of that ingrained fear-based prejudice, and the disgust and mistreatment is the manifestation of that.

Not saying it's correct- I personally hope those two maids were blown to smithereens in the blast, and that the one that branded Claudette was conscious to the end. But that sort of abhorrent behavior is actually kind of believable when you have a historical precedent for "othering" someone and then abusing them because of "what" they represent.

 

[kenkagejack]

"Twins are a Calamity," well they are now. I would call this a self fulfilling prophecy, but it wasn't even a prophecy.

Hope that twin is cooking up an extra spicy serving of revenge.

 

[UdenEmpati]

Marietta seems to think that mass murder should be forgiven if you just say your sorry, so I don't know that she'd actually be that upset about a little imprisonment and abuse.

I dunno - she's since grown as a person since that point, and she's also been putting in the effort to try and make amends, rather than simply apologizing with words. And it's still a "work in progress", on her end.

But this is her sister. They were children. She has immense empathy for others, and I can fully see Marietta being righteously outraged once she learns the truth, because of the circumstances surrounding why Claudette was treated that way.
I don't think she'll be burning down the capital or anything, but I will be very surprised if she just goes "oh that's too bad for you", and consider it a failure of her character on the author's part.

 

[TheEnd478]

At no point did I say which was better off just that they were both tools XD. Tho I’m sure Marietta isn’t gonna be pleased at the situation either

Honestly I assumed Marietta never saw her life as ROSY, she was worked and relied on WAY TOO MUCH but was TRAINED to think this way, just as the ASSHOLES back home did the OPPOSITE with her sister, mistreating her despite the fact as THE SPARE it would have been SMARTER to assure she was taken care of as WELL in the off chance something HAPPENED to Marietta, then the SWITCH would be easy, but then again they never paid attention and I'm SURE the Maid would have been HORRIBLY punished for scar-ing the sister along with revealing there WAS a twin to her! Remember she was DELUSIONAL enough to believe she'd be REWARDED for killing the sister "EARLY" without their OKAY! Hope she SURVIVED the explosion and was HORRIBLY punished for allowing the Sister to escape! Seriously what a bitch! I'm sure she was ASSIGNED to the Sister BECAUSE she was incompetent with how she acted SO PROUD and felt she was ABOVE the position she was entrusted!

For Marietta, though she never even KNEW she had a sister BECAUSE they kept it secret from her because of the FEAR of the CURSE, you know that "Self-fulfilling prophecy" morons who think their so SMART seem to LOVE running into (Seriously love how they believed TWINS were cursed and ignored the only reason the TWIN PRINCES fought a Civil war was because NO ONE bothered to stop them, or thy saw a CHANCE for power by joining it! Yet it's the PRINCES fault! Oh well that's how this shit works, people got a NASTY case of "Never my fault" syndrome, so it MUST be something else SOMEHOW!). She only found out THE HARD WAY when said sister BODY SWAPPED her, likely ASSUMING she was LEAVING HER to suffer the consequences of her EVIL cruel actions as THE WITCH and arrogantly believing cause "She had it EASY" she wouldn't POSSIBLY be able to learn how to use her magic, which MC did quite easily, even HEALED the scar so I REFUSE to believe she never knew HOW to heal it, she likely kept it as a SIGN of how she was MISTREATED and only BECAME the evil she was ACCUSED of being of her own free will!

 

[T-sama]

Scarred a child for life, both physically and emotionally?

Source?