Magi Craft Meister - Vol. 4 Ch. 18 - Farewell
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I found Bina rather annoying personality wise, so I'm not sorry her arc is over.
What happened to those scumbag earl's soldiers anyway? In the more distant past prisons weren't really a thing. Nobles and other important people were sometimes kept as prisoners, but otherwise criminals typically, depending on the crime and the laws, had to pay a fine, were publicly shamed, were executed, or were put to forced labour of various kinds. Unlike these days, the people of the past understood that maintaining a huge prisoner population in high security facilities is exorbitantly expensive.
What happened to those scumbag earl's soldiers anyway? In the more distant past prisons weren't really a thing. Nobles and other important people were sometimes kept as prisoners, but otherwise criminals typically, depending on the crime and the laws, had to pay a fine, were publicly shamed, were executed, or were put to forced labour of various kinds. Unlike these days, the people of the past understood that maintaining a huge prisoner population in high security facilities is exorbitantly expensive.
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Did you drop a silver Reiko or a golden Reiko?
No, I dropped an ordinary Reiko, made of adamantine, dragon leather and other things worth more than their weight in gold.
@kuzunagi13 - the maids are "golems", which for Jin means they're robotic-looking with skin of metal. Reiko is an automata, which means no effort was spared to make her human-like (her skin is made of dragon leather or something).
Jin can make automata, but for utilitarian purposes he mostly makes golems. Automata are more like works of art or for specific jobs where "looking human" is important.
Minor spoiler:
@suzubelle - Bina and Earl Kuzuma are getting along nicely, and it looks like it's in a romantic sense.
No, I dropped an ordinary Reiko, made of adamantine, dragon leather and other things worth more than their weight in gold.
@kuzunagi13 - the maids are "golems", which for Jin means they're robotic-looking with skin of metal. Reiko is an automata, which means no effort was spared to make her human-like (her skin is made of dragon leather or something).
Jin can make automata, but for utilitarian purposes he mostly makes golems. Automata are more like works of art or for specific jobs where "looking human" is important.
Minor spoiler:
apparently, a lot of modern nobles are brought up by automata wet nurses or something like that, which is part of the reason why golems are getting so popular.
@suzubelle - Bina and Earl Kuzuma are getting along nicely, and it looks like it's in a romantic sense.
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If Bina marries Kuzuma then that living arrangement can become permanent, no need for a new house.
The lonely noble will have a new family; herself and her siblings get to be sheltered by becoming related to a noble; she gets a sponsor for her magi craft.
Would be a win-win for everybody except that other sleazy earl.
The lonely noble will have a new family; herself and her siblings get to be sheltered by becoming related to a noble; she gets a sponsor for her magi craft.
Would be a win-win for everybody except that other sleazy earl.
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When I re read this it makes less and less sense, it tries to go for things the author isn't good enough to write, issue is his noble house hasn't been established as doing anything, this is a nation where they have somewhat advanced politics, therefore this is just stupid, if you want to spare the count make him run away, don't give me the bullshit of "he benefits the land" when we have seen there are several other nobles and we have no idea of what he actually does, he has money, and doesn't participate in politics, therefore he has no right to be exempt from this as it damages a legitimate source of income for them. Writing nobility as a horrible aristocracy works if you are confined to your style.
Let me elaborate, this tries too hard to set up too much. There is a rule in writing, if you write there's a gun on hanging on the wall in chapter 1, by chapter 3 it needs to go off. If you write there is a gun on the wall, medals displayed but never cleaned, photos, it establishes the image of a character, therefore the use of politics is annoying here not because it is realistic but because it contrasts the style, he writes the fact she can't be helped because he's a noble to goad her into his protection, that's fine, but you have no need to establish that they can't touch the noble early on, this is emotional manipulation, it purposefully makes us hate the dude more, then a bit of the anger transfers to others as we find that they could ruin his life but instead make him a tool which I doubt we will ever see again, as it seems the novel enjoys this sort of scum style, it establishes the cunt noble has no weight, and now is a puppet, therefore there is no reason for him not to be crushed besides the other guy being greedy, but the issue is the payoff is not worth what it is supposed to, it reads wrong, it comes off as a strategy designed just to get you emotionally invested with anger then you come back for cute moments.
It tries to give three dimensions to things that are entirely two dimensional (at best, most often one dimensional) but on first reading you wouldn't really notice as aggregiously, since there are only 20 chapters, issue is the bad guys are just that, the knight is a complete cunt trying to murder kids because he's bad, king seems to be scheming but who gives a shit, it's the difference between infinity war and 12 years of credits scenes, one established them, the other is there because drama. I don't care if this is one dimensional and uses cute to get us haply and tits to make us horny and assholes to make us angry just he consistent, little girl is a little girl, therefore immature and stupid, cool, that's her character after a dozen chapters, and she is the most fleshed out, we don't learn motivations, so don't try to make it grandiose, give us the payoff, not the subterfuge. Rich dude is a dick who wants wives, cool, don't try to tell me he has any plot beyond that or a reason we can't kill him.
Let me elaborate, this tries too hard to set up too much. There is a rule in writing, if you write there's a gun on hanging on the wall in chapter 1, by chapter 3 it needs to go off. If you write there is a gun on the wall, medals displayed but never cleaned, photos, it establishes the image of a character, therefore the use of politics is annoying here not because it is realistic but because it contrasts the style, he writes the fact she can't be helped because he's a noble to goad her into his protection, that's fine, but you have no need to establish that they can't touch the noble early on, this is emotional manipulation, it purposefully makes us hate the dude more, then a bit of the anger transfers to others as we find that they could ruin his life but instead make him a tool which I doubt we will ever see again, as it seems the novel enjoys this sort of scum style, it establishes the cunt noble has no weight, and now is a puppet, therefore there is no reason for him not to be crushed besides the other guy being greedy, but the issue is the payoff is not worth what it is supposed to, it reads wrong, it comes off as a strategy designed just to get you emotionally invested with anger then you come back for cute moments.
It tries to give three dimensions to things that are entirely two dimensional (at best, most often one dimensional) but on first reading you wouldn't really notice as aggregiously, since there are only 20 chapters, issue is the bad guys are just that, the knight is a complete cunt trying to murder kids because he's bad, king seems to be scheming but who gives a shit, it's the difference between infinity war and 12 years of credits scenes, one established them, the other is there because drama. I don't care if this is one dimensional and uses cute to get us haply and tits to make us horny and assholes to make us angry just he consistent, little girl is a little girl, therefore immature and stupid, cool, that's her character after a dozen chapters, and she is the most fleshed out, we don't learn motivations, so don't try to make it grandiose, give us the payoff, not the subterfuge. Rich dude is a dick who wants wives, cool, don't try to tell me he has any plot beyond that or a reason we can't kill him.
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Mc has a convenient teleporter, does he really never see his friend ever again? And he left the friend to fend for herself right after an unresolved threat to her life appeared. She got protection from another noble but I'd still call him a stranger, not enough to know if he's much better than all the other bad nobles. End to this arc is disappointing to me, although it was basically a side story for a trip to get some vegetable seeds.
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Damn who cares about politics just nuke them 😂
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I just really hate the "We can't just take him out, it would lower the trust in the nobles, just wait, he'll get punished eventually" mentality.
You know what lowers the trust in nobles even more? Corrupt nobles that keep doing bad things and other nobles doing nothing about it!!!
I'd just respond with an "Ok, for stopping me, I'll just assume that you will take any and all responsibility for any and all bad things he'll do in the meantime, do we have a deal?"
You know what lowers the trust in nobles even more? Corrupt nobles that keep doing bad things and other nobles doing nothing about it!!!
I'd just respond with an "Ok, for stopping me, I'll just assume that you will take any and all responsibility for any and all bad things he'll do in the meantime, do we have a deal?"
