Kokugensou wo Item Cheat de Ikinuku THE COMIC - Ch. 4

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Weird, in earlier chapters people seem like it is abnormal to talk to a cat fae because they're monsters that wear clothes... And yet the nobles with their animalistic faces and strange eyes look far more monstrous to me.

I'm almost tempted to peruse the raws and confirm they're both women, I was assuming they were this whole time.

Thanks for the TL.
I agree, they art back in chapter 1 certainly seemed to suggest Lyle was a woman based on giving us fan service of him/her bathing with another woman.
 
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Is author changing the gender of the character or is this some weirdo plot point, like in this otherworld females and males are more genetically similar or something.
You don't get that kind of boobs on a man without some extra fat or extra hormones.
 
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RE: Lyle's gender, from this comment made back on chapter 1
I think this was about a dozen chapters, and several months of in universe time, in whatever version of the novel I read years ago. From what I remember, it wasn't until long after they started selling actual bombs, and making guns, that people finally admitted that Lyle might not be a guy even.

I'd assume that Lyle is female, but is presenting as male for a currently unknown reason. There's a couple of other comments about it over there too, which makes me think that Lyle being refered to as 'madam' in chapter 1 was a mistake. I think japanese has non-gendered ways of refering to people, which I've seen lead to gender mix-ups or just bad translations in other works.
 
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RE: Lyle's gender, from this comment made back on chapter 1


I'd assume that Lyle is female, but is presenting as male for a currently unknown reason. There's a couple of other comments about it over there too, which makes me think that Lyle being refered to as 'madam' in chapter 1 was a mistake. I think japanese has non-gendered ways of refering to people, which I've seen lead to gender mix-ups or just bad translations in other works.
Author actually complicated this further than that, on purpose. Just know that Lyle, his brothers, and their father all consider themselves male, there are reasons for the confusion, and even for the family to consider Lyle the failure of the family.
 
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The plot is a solid 7/10 but the art is so horrendous I can't keep reading. Anatomy is all over the place, there's so much naked bathing and that naked bathing has lore relevant chatter in it, so it can't be skipped.
I was so distracted by the art being ass I missed the whole gender confusion debacle!?
It isn't even that the art style is bad. Its just that the anatomy and the way they draw everyone as a collection of blobs is bad to look at. I physically start getting eyestrain trying to parse these bodies as humanoids.
This is on the level of "11 year old's first mango drawing from the mango art book grammy bought for chrimbo" and I can't deal with it. I give up. I wave the white flag. I'm leaving, while crying over my weakness.
 
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I don't even understand what's happening, now.

I got the "power abuse evil supervisor" part; the rest, with the randomly, and yet, radically different gender expressions?
Cool, but... what?
 
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I like how we already know the Prime Minister is an asshole because he has a long nose; I wonder if he's also greedy, or if he has horns? 🙄😒

I'm almost tempted to peruse the raws and confirm they're both women, I was assuming they were this whole time.

Thanks for the TL.
Since they have tits (bath scene in Ch2), I figured that the TL didnt understand that "Watashi" is used for both genders in a formal setting, but maybe there's more than two gender in this world?
 
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The prime minister is named Rogue. Yeah, that tracks. I know that this fantasy setting doesn't exactly have classes and levels, but it's actually quite reasonable if Rogue were the prime minister's class as well as his name.

It makes sense to place the highest level character in charge of something. They are the most experienced, and it's just logical that others will follow them. There is a fun quirk of AD&D rules that helps explain our modern world, and this fantasy setting, as an artefact of this logic.

On its own, and not part of a multiclass combination, being a thief in AD&D kind of sucks. They are barely better than a magic-user in terms of attacks, hit points, or gear allowed. To say that thief skills are unreliable is underselling it; they fail far more often than they succeed until you are already a high level character, at which point spells and magic items have long since outclassed almost everything that you can do. However, a straight-classed thief levels faster than anyone else, even druids (at least most of the time) which means that you'll hit a given level a lot earlier than nearly anyone else.

Paladins, by way of comparison, have the worst XP chart, and level far more slowly than other core classes. They are the ones you actually want to be in charge of things, as they are inherently trustworthy (doing anything that isn't lawful and good revokes their paladinhood) and their incredibly high Charisma helps them convince people to listen to them. But, their slow levelling means that they aren't likely to be the one with the highest level in a given group, and thus not often be placed in charge of anything.

Collectively, these things mean that one will most often see thieves in supervisory roles or those otherwise involving oversight. This is especially true for things that aren't directly related to a particular class's talents. That is, while you probably won't see a lot of non-fighters in charge of anything military, or non-mages overseeing wizarding schools, a position like the president of a company--or in this case, prime minister of a country--is fair game to any class. In other words, the people in charge of companies and politics are likely to be thieves.

It doesn't take much observation of our Real World® to see that this checks out.

Author actually complicated this further than that, on purpose. Just know that Lyle, his brothers, and their father all consider themselves male, there are reasons for the confusion, and even for the family to consider Lyle the failure of the family.
"No son of mine is going to be a woman!" --Lyle's dad
 
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So i thought he was femboy but then he? called her his? younger bruh? like what? are they confused or am I, or does their house deny their gender so this?
 

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