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

[Kampfarsch]

oh, lame

 

[TheEnd478]

"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.

What makes it STUPID was that the Civil War in question wasn't JUST because of the twins, my assumption is both twins DIED and the SURVIVORS chose to PUSH the "Twins were the problem" to cover up THEIR own accountability (OH the EVIL TWINS MIND CONTROL US into fighting and killing, we in NO WAY have ANY personal responsibility in that) and of COURSE the future Generation SOMEWHAT believe this to be TRUE like twats only "having reason" in the face of "benefits to themselves" meaning in truth they DON'T believe the CURSE part, it's just a convienance to EXCUSE their behavior.

Got to admit, I LOVE punching/horribly punishing idiots like that (I hate those who play WILLFUL ignorance/stupidity assuming it's my "you wouldn't punch someone with glasses would you" moment. Only YES, YES IF FUCK WILL PUNCH A FOOL WITH GLASSES ON, MAY THE SHARDS REMOVE YOUR EYES AS YOU SURE AS HELL AREN'T USING THEM ANYWAY FOOL!)

 

[Danwoo]

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!

I was reading this and couldn't help but yell all the capitolized words in my head lol.

 

[Nogon]

Don't you just love getting ragebaited by an author just throwing in child torture

 

[ciera]

thank you for the update

 

[WhimsiCat]

"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.

Spoiler

Nah, they're just going to find happiness in their lives instead.

While it's not something started by the two, Marietta wanting to talk to Claudette is definitely a factor in Dee's decision to travel to Jilvara as peace envoy (in case people forgor, Dee's nation and Jilvara are enemies atm)

The conversation (only Marietta/Melvi on one side and Claudette/holy dragon on the other, as the husbandos are off to have that official peace talk) boils down into apologies-off and both agreeing they like their current lives.

 

[TheEnd478]

I was reading this and couldn't help but yell all the capitolized words in my head lol.

 

[outinthegardener]

What's even worse about the "twins are a calamity" culture of Snewe is that it doesn't need to be that way. Twins can come to agreements about power-sharing or hierarchy. Heck, it doesn't even need to be twins that cause a problem. Younger siblings have staged coup d'etats just the same. And it's not like every sibling conflict was entirely the idea of the contested sibling. They must have lackeys and ambitious nobles whispering sedition in their ears, or have teachers and mentors who failed to teach them not to murder. Those adults are just as much, if not more, the problem.

That they would mistreat the spare twin like this is just more evidence that the nobility in Snewe is rotten, and they all deserve to die in a righteous fireball.

 

[Forikorder]

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.

you missed the point though, they spared her so they had a spare, but they treated her so poorly she never could have managed the role in the first place making her useless as a spare

how long would it take to fix the damage they had done through poor upbringing? what if the elder sister died like a month or less before she was supposed to be sent and there just wasnt enough time to fix her health and give her proper education and social skills?

 

[IamaTire]

So, at the end, the real enemy is the empire government.

 

[Gilthwixt]

I was expecting a tragic backstory for our witch in question but I didn't expect it to be this bad. Need a sister teamup pronto.

 

[saredesu]

Start of manga: hehe dumb witch
Latest chapter: fuck 😭

 

[MagnaDrake]

Twins are a bad omen! We must dispose of them before they destroy our kingdom
proceeds to treat the twins ever so horribly they actually become the heralds of the kingdoms destruction

Masterful gambit, Snewe Nobility. What's the next step of your masterplan?

 

[UdenEmpati]

you missed the point though, they spared her so they had a spare, but they treated her so poorly she never could have managed the role in the first place making her useless as a spare

how long would it take to fix the damage they had done through poor upbringing? what if the elder sister died like a month or less before she was supposed to be sent and there just wasnt enough time to fix her health and give her proper education and social skills?

I don't think I missed the point. The other person asked "why did they treat her this badly", and that's what I answered.

From the perspective of Claudette's abusers, what they were doing makes sense, twisted as it is.We readers who are above the situation can see the broader implications of what they're doing, but that's a meta-analysis of the story, not an answer to a question about the motivations and thought processes of the characters as they exist and operate within the story's setting.

 

[DementisXYZ]

Yay! A royal family that sucks! Where's the guillotine?

 

[GCBRAslipe]

Scarred a child for life, both physically and emotionally?

May I ask for the source?

 

[UdenEmpati]

May I ask for the source?

yer welcome

 

[Forikorder]

I don't think I missed the point. The other person asked "why did they treat her this badly", and that's what I answered.

From the perspective of Claudette's abusers, what they were doing makes sense, twisted as it is.We readers who are above the situation can see the broader implications of what they're doing, but that's a meta-analysis of the story, not an answer to a question about the motivations and thought processes of the characters as they exist and operate within the story's setting.

the maids didnt choose where to keep her, the maids didnt choose what to feed her, the maids didnt choose what education shed get

yes they hate twins, but if your not going to keep the spare in acceptable condition theres no point having a spare, the legislators who decided they needed a spare also signed off on her being kept in a dungeon with the bare minimum food and education, thats ruins the entire point

 

[icekatze]

I have a feeling Claudette is going to have a hard time adjusting to suddenly having no magic, but I guess we'll see what the deal with the dragon was.

 

[Andigo]

I don't think I missed the point. The other person asked "why did they treat her this badly", and that's what I answered.

From the perspective of Claudette's abusers, what they were doing makes sense, twisted as it is.We readers who are above the situation can see the broader implications of what they're doing, but that's a meta-analysis of the story, not an answer to a question about the motivations and thought processes of the characters as they exist and operate within the story's setting.

I don't think that kind of distinction mines any deep meaning from superstition and cruelty.

Doylist (reality/metatextual): Sadists and cultures beat on scapegoats instead of address core injustice, which makes them easy bad-guys to cheer against. We miss our own societal cruelty blind spots. Systemic abuse is an adornment to the sisters getting abused. Starvation made Claudette a worse pawn, but it fits the theme.
Watsonian (in-universe): A bunch of sadists scapegoating a little girl because thinking hard and power comfy. No one intervened because Claudette was a dirty secret who was expected to be murdered, and if Marietta died it's not like her identity had to be reused.

You were right about the fear-based prejudice but the central issue is logic (ethics and politics this time). People, especially the maids, felt benefits from abusing a child. Which made Claudette impossible to swap with her sister (which was probably unnecessary anyhow). There's not enough layers for it to matter that "we live in a society"; no maid sob-story, no historical deep dives, just systemic excuses for personal excess.

Not to say it doesn't work. The chapter made me crave more vengeance and revolution than I expect from the story. Claudette made some severe mistakes, she's probably going to lose her mentor too for max angst, and she's in a good position to be an antihero villainess. Down with the Empire. And the Snewe Kingdom. She should get her summoned dragon forging guillotines posthaste... assuming the guardian beast is loyal to her and she's not stewing for years on end again.