Konjiki no Word Master: Yuusha Yonin ni Makikomareta Unique Cheat - Vol. 21 Ch. 101 - Spirit Forest (2)

[Highorse]

Come on, that "reveal" at the end that harkens back to a random fortune teller at the beginning of the series (Which as far as I can recall doesnt return afterwards at all until now) by namedropping isn't impactful at all. Honestly I feel like this series has lost whatever charm that once brought me in to read the novel (which was, to say, a long time ago); this part of the story was pretty much where I dropped the novel, too. I feel like it just isn't going anywhere anymore; Hiro isn't looking for books nor anything, theres this generic BBG who's all mysterious n shit + we get fantasy politics, which might not be boring if written well, but this is just... lackluster. Not much of the fantasy aspects of the setting is really used creatively in solving the issues, which reduces this to simply just politics - and politics, at least written in this case, that is FAR from engaging and made dramatic only through mindbending amounts of exposition and declarations, all the whilst adhering to pretty generic nakama-speech "I'll protect my people/friends!!!" which is flat out silly.

I went back to the first chapter from the latest and the first thing I noticed was the difference in exposition. There is SO. MUCH. MORE. now, its not funny.

 

[Grimmycoffee]

Oh no, such corrupt nobles, picking the most competent people in the room in charge. What tragedy.

 

[Coldlight]

None of their four children would be alive if Nerei lived instead of Bransa. The children should not feel bad over their mother being chosen to live, and Bransa should not feel guilty over her survival that she did not have control over.

Apparently chapter 101 makes a callback to chapter 1 with this hooded character, "Alicia/Marquis Bluenote" is, as the other comments point out, the shady looking fortune teller the protagonist met as soon as he left the castle.

 

[Axccel]

Depends on how the government system works. Like in real life monarchy, the nobility can strip a royal dynasty of its position and appoint a new one. Monarchies grew more like a sort of confederation of tribes and other groups with their leaders being the lords and and one of their families elected as the royal family by those lords. With the monarch functioning more akin to a chairman than what Hollywood portrays. This is also why lords, when bad, were able to get a way with some extreme abuse as the king simply didn't have the authority to intervene and neither did anyone else.

 

[Axccel]

Acting in mutual self-interest is actually a good thing. Manga and the like love to portray it as bad, but it's always been good historically. The problem is when either they stop caring about the mutual part or stop caring about themselves. The result of that is either a power-hungry dictator wannabe who wants everything without any concessions or something like communism.

 

[calvintanuki]

The name "Bluenote" sounds super familiar. Haven't we heard that name before?? I can't remember.

one year later reply (probably useless)

I think it is from the book with a tale, if I'm not wrong it was the name of the author of it.