Kumo desuga, Nani ka? - Ch. 75.2

[T-sama]

D was just being a lazy ass and accidentally got herself a future waifu

Kumoko is basically D daughter-wife, like that elf from from Elder Scrolls did with his own clones, they clearly are into each other like cmon, there's no straight explanation for how they feel about each other

Waiting for when Kumoko gets the D, I'll see myself out

 

[DragonEmpyrean]

Quick summary: Wakaba Hiiro is actually an alias used by Administrator D, so she could pretend to be a Japanese student out of boredom. The person the story is following, is actually the 'Class Pet': a spider.

The previous Hero and Demon Lord tracked her to this world, but their incompatibility in this universe caused an explosion that killed everyone in the classroom. D was fine, taking responsibility for her actions (and for the fun of it) by reincarnating all the students and their homeroom teacher into this world.

However since Wakaba Hiiro is on the Class Registry, her absence could expose what D had been doing without the other Administrators knowledge. Not wanting to be saddled with more work or talking to, she also reincarnated the spider's soul, hence why she came to this world as a spider. But D implanted her memories and false ones into the spider, as well as the tag of 'Wakaba Hiiro.' This spider (now known as Kumoko) would not only think she's Wakaba Hiiro, but so would the Class Registry and her evolutions with more human appearances. She expected Kumoko to die quickly, but she defied her expectations by cheesing everything and everyone around her, to the point that she was able to break through the System, becomes a Goddess, and now in her new identity as Shiraori has reached where D is.

And why does D let an irregularity like Shiraori to exist? Because she too much fun!

Spoiler

You are incorrect sir! The previous demon lord and hero while was planing on attacking an Administrator, it wasn’t D they planned on attacking it was Black/Guli they didn’t even know about the existence of D, it was the system or more accurately the goddess that is the crux of the system that redirected the attack towards D

 

[HaphazardMage]

Insane title drop lmao

 

[Trin4life]

But I have to say, over the years it's getting kinda hard to ignore: I hate every single characters personality.(I know that I'm very alone with this, but it is what it is.)

They are all obnoxious to the extreme to me.

Also I find this whole god stuff just boring, her whole "spider trying to get back into society" got basically thrown to the wayside to get more "LOL OP god nonsense, look at these twists and turns? Man foreshadowing I'm so smart? Do you feel smart too reader?!"...

The story just tanked after the very long dungeon arc finally finished.

I'm gonna stop here, this story has absolutely nothing to offer to me, that I found interesting when starting to read it.

Yeah, I kinda have to second this, particularly the "LOL OP god nonsense" part. I was holding out hope that it'd get better until the UFO arc, and this chapter has completely killed what little interest I had left. It starts and stops plot threads/concepts like a kid getting bored of their toys.

Shit doesn't even have the train wreck appeal that keeps me reading stuff like Parallel Paradise.

 

[LarousseBR]

I always though Wakaba reincarnated as a spider but she is "body double" and was a spider ALL this time? This is true plot twist.

edit: "true" Wakaba is an asshole narcissistic.

 

[Kireato]

D's soul did not die. The destruction wasn't sufficient to kill her. So it was 25 students plus a spider that died.

Right, I made a mistake with the death count. The main thing is that there were 27 beings in that room when the explosion occurred and only 26 died. D used the spider soul to pass off as the registered soul she was pretending to be, but that still means there is a spider soul unaccounted for which apparently her subordinates did not realise.

I mean, when you think about it, D could even have pretended to be home sick (she can teleport after completing the reincarnation of the 25 registered souls who did die) or whatever and avoided the explosion and then she could have continued the pretense under her current identity. Who was even aware of how many beings were actually in that room when the explosion occurred?

I'm not actually sure she was truly avoiding some skilled subordinates instead of just thinking it'd be an interesting experiment to reincarnate a spider soul with the memories of the fake person she was pretending to be. Well, maybe we'll learn more about D later, but I still have lots of questions about the event.

 

[xSauriaNx]

From what I can say it’s still far from over. The anime showed a glimpse of the later parts (in a form of a shitty timeskip), but even that is still not the “end game” part.

it's not a timeskip. that's how the LN was formatted. Half Kumoko and Half Shun which worked since you'll figure out that there's actually a disparaging difference in timeline between the two shown as cause(Shiraori) and effect(Shun).

The anime sadly botched it hard and the manga will clearly face the problem when it is time to cover the Shun half of the story.

 

[CraniumAmbiguity]

Quick summary: Wakaba Hiiro is actually an alias used by Administrator D, so she could pretend to be a Japanese student out of boredom. The person the story is following, is actually the 'Class Pet': a spider.

The previous Hero and Demon Lord tracked her to this world, but their incompatibility in this universe caused an explosion that killed everyone in the classroom. D was fine, taking responsibility for her actions (and for the fun of it) by reincarnating all the students and their homeroom teacher into this world...

I took it that the explosion was the intended result, the Hero and Demon King were working together to attack D, a suicidal attack that took advantage of the effects of both the Hero and Demon Lord titles, to push each of their power of friendship attacks beyond the limits of the other one.

Spoiler

You are incorrect sir! The previous demon lord and hero while was planing on attacking an Administrator, it wasn’t D they planned on attacking it was Black/Guli they didn’t even know about the existence of D, it was the system or more accurately the goddess that is the crux of the system that redirected the attack towards D

There is a lot of confusion about why the explosion happened. I am not sure if it will be covered later, but this is what I remember from the WN.

Spoiler: detailed spoiler

The hero and demon lord figured out that the system was designed to pit them against one another in an infinite cycle and chose to team up and fight the administrators perpetuating the cycle.

Spoiler: Related to DragonEmpyrean's spoiler

I don't remember them targeting Black and being redirected by the goddess, but they did use a teleportation spell to get to where the administrator was.

The problem is that the fantasy world's magic is fake,... sorta. The magic that is know, and practiced, is apart of the game like system that D set up. Yes, magic actually does exist on a universal scale, but the magic in the system is like a tricycle in complexity compared to the real magic being akin to a bullet train.

When the demon lord and hero left the domain of the planet they also left the system and the training wheels that was supporting their "magic" behind. The result is that they lost control of the TP magic and exploded on destination.

TLDR The explosion was an accident not an intentional suicide attack. And the result was because of losing control of the magic, not because of incompatibility.

 

[xSauriaNx]

Spoiler: spoiler

The hero and demon lord figured out that the system was designed to pit them against one another in an infinite cycle and chose to team up and fight the administrators perpetuating the cycle.

iirc the reason for that

Spoiler: the reason

is the vegetable elf that everybody hates. Basically instigated both Hero and Demon Lord title holders to attack the system and the administrator to basically kill said god 'cause god forbid someone being above the vegetable fuck.

 

[Hoezell]

So much work just to keep being lazy lmao

 

[PhycoKrusk]

Finally, D still uses the identity of a high school girl in the original world, but that girl is supposed to have died and reincarnated elsewhere. Isn't it just strange that D would keep using the identity of a dead person when they crafted the identity of a living person to enjoy a human life and slack off in the first place? I guess there's plenty of work for the administrators in the first place so these inconsistencies slipped through.

It's more that, while the explosion and resulting deaths were the direct result of D's actions, knowing that would require investigation. If you just glanced at it, it would look like it was the Hero and Demon King doing something they shouldn't have been. Because she was right there, D just handled the incident and basically covered up what happened.

Basically, the network breach was the direct result of one of the network admins, but because they caused the breach, they were immediately aware of it and edited the relevant logs so that it looked like it was caused by some users misusing the system, and then handled the clean-up. Anyone who actually examines the logs will immediately discover the tampering and figure out what actually happened, but since the mess is handled already and the damage was confirmed to be minimal, they simply moved on, possibly with some new policies in place to better monitor users.

In short, D is stupid and lazy and thinks that she is smarter than everybody else (when the reality is that everybody else just thinks that she's too stupid to actually get away with anything), and her plan for not getting caught relies entirely on nobody actually investigating for themselves. In her mind, this is fine, because the only other person who knows is not an administrator, and she can easily keep them from ratting her out.









She is completely ignoring the fact that, while Kumoko/White is indeed not an administrator, she nonetheless has elevated privileges, including some that are normally reserved for admins, and while she may not be smarter than everyone else, she is certainly smarter than D.

 

[KingCarna]

welcome back!

 

[REMasher]

That's such a good punchline, ho-ly.

 

[Xonthelon]

She Said The Thing OMG!!!

Thank you very much for picking this up (again)

Considering D is described as the no. 1 beauty of the class in the novel and Shiro is supposed to be her beautiful copy (only slightly debuffed in comparison in the breast department), the art style doesn't do them any favors in the manga. It didn't feel like that in previous chapters...

 

[Imryse]

I kinda really hate this and it's made me lose interest in this.

 

[Aqua_Mizue]

Thanks for the chapter

 

[YamiRi]

An actual spider with human soul and memories
Love the concept
And D is quite interesting as well even though she got 0 morale

 

[Fushiginiku]

it's not a timeskip. that's how the LN was formatted. Half Kumoko and Half Shun which worked since you'll figure out that there's actually a disparaging difference in timeline between the two shown as cause(Shiraori) and effect(Shun).

The anime sadly botched it hard and the manga will clearly face the problem when it is time to cover the Shun half of the story.

They've done so poorly that it's going to be nearly impossible. Just witness all the manga-only readers that complain "we don't care about all this other stuff, give us back Kumoko in the dungeon!" which is basically proof that the manga has crapped all over the other half of the story. It's just as great a story as the Kumoko half, and as the two intertwine further it's going to be a massive mess unless they just rewrite everything.

 

[Fushiginiku]

Right, I made a mistake with the death count. The main thing is that there were 27 beings in that room when the explosion occurred and only 26 died. D used the spider soul to pass off as the registered soul she was pretending to be, but that still means there is a spider soul unaccounted for which apparently her subordinates did not realise.

I mean, when you think about it, D could even have pretended to be home sick (she can teleport after completing the reincarnation of the 25 registered souls who did die) or whatever and avoided the explosion and then she could have continued the pretense under her current identity. Who was even aware of how many beings were actually in that room when the explosion occurred?

I'm not actually sure she was truly avoiding some skilled subordinates instead of just thinking it'd be an interesting experiment to reincarnate a spider soul with the memories of the fake person she was pretending to be. Well, maybe we'll learn more about D later, but I still have lots of questions about the event.

I'm weak on the particulars, but it had something to do with balancing things in such a way that the other two administrators didn't notice D's presence in the classroom. I think they know she pulled something to save the "26" students, but not that she did it to hide the fact she's been skiving on Earth as one of them. They wouldn't have noticed the spider, because why bother saving a mere spider?

 

[DarkeLourd]

In short, D is stupid and lazy and thinks that she is smarter than everybody else (when the reality is that everybody else just thinks that she's too stupid to actually get away with anything), and her plan for not getting caught relies entirely on nobody actually investigating for themselves. In her mind, this is fine, because the only other person who knows is not an administrator, and she can easily keep them from ratting her out.

Lazy yes, but I don't think it's stupidity. I think it's just that she evaluates how she spends her time completely differently because she has infinite time. The now and the immediate future matters more to her than the distant future, so as long as she can push the end of her slack-off time from the immediate future to the distant future, that's good enough for her because it means her now can be spent slacking off. Because there's infinite "distant future" for her, and and infinite number of finite chunks of that infinite future is going to be spent slacking off. She's going to make sure of it.