Maid kara Haha ni Narimashita - Vol. 2 Ch. 9

[MangaDex]

 

[GingaBishoujo]

So I'm a bit confused with the whole speech bubble placement....but is the lover she's talking about this whole time is her cousin!?

Or was it that person that confessed to her??

Cause if it was her cousin, then oh boy.

*Alabama intensifies*

 

[wolfeng]

@GingaBishoujo

Same here, the way I understood is that she loved her cousin but it looks like it was just a brother/sister too dependent on each other while he had a super jealous girlfriend.
Eventually she found true love with someone else and just when her world was starting to gain some color she died.

 

[Svelandria]

@GingaBishoujo @wolfeng It was indeed her cousin she got together with. "Just after someone else confessed to me" suggests that someone had indeed confessed to her, but it was after that when her cousin came and asked to be with her always. It's likely that either she rejected the first confession right before she got together with her cousin, or it's because they got together that she rejected the previous confession.

As for their incestuous relationship, relationships between cousins isn't as uncommon or as bad as one may think, although there's still a clear issue with inbreeding and genetic problems their children could've ended up with had Lily given birth before she died. With that said, all she mentioned was that they were cousins, but it wasn't specified to what extent. If her family was particularly large, then they could have easily been second or third cousins, where they were related through their grandparents or great-grandparents. The further the relation, the less of a problem it is regarding both the inbreeding and the societal taboo. Most importantly, however, is what kind of society they lived in. Some societies/cultures outright murder people who are known to be in an incestuous relationship, whereas others may tolerate it or, in more extreme cases, outright encourage it. At least, I believe in the distant past it was encouraged by certain cultures and/or religions, but I'm not so sure if there are modern day cultures/religions that do that still.

Despite everything I've said, please note I'm not an expert on this subject, so take it all with a grain of salt. I'm just sharing my understanding based on what I've read and learned.

 

[GingaBishoujo]

@Svelandria Thank you for your detailed post. Yep, I'm aware relationships with cousins is okay in some societies and cultures. Like in the medieval age: where royals who are distantly related, marry their cousins from other countries.

I was just very weirded out when I was reading this chapter. Like they hyped it up so much who was this mystery person was that she can't love again. When they revealed it was her cousin I just thought, "Uhh....okay...? Why a cousin? Why not a regular dude, author?" I'm not really sure why the author decided to use someone from the family and not just someone unrelated to her.

 

[Svelandria]

@GingaBishoujo I'd say it's fair to think it odd. As you said, why not a regular dude? Only thing I can think of is maybe the author thought that a "regular dude" just seemed too bland, so they went with a slight curve ball. That, or the author just has a thing for relationships between cousins. I mean, if the author wanted it to be a controversial or "skewed" relationship, they could have easily made it a teacher of hers or the friend of an older sibling who is nearly twice her age like that child-crush trope. Perhaps there may be a story-related reason why it had to be her cousin, but we won't know if that's truly the case until if and when said story element is revealed. Only time will tell, I suppose.

 

[Wilhelm_Stenvall]

This is my favourite Tsundere to be ever introduced. I love her!

 

[Metalweeb]

How else is he supposed to convey his thoughts? It's the chick's love-addled brain filled with flowers that's attaching a meaning of love to words that are purely platonic, are these men just supposed to shut up and say nothing lest they be mistaken for "seducing" women?

 

[moonbears]

oh ewwww why author

 

[stressedcoffee]

oh my

 

[chronos5884]

Well, this is Japanese and first cousin marriage is allowed there. I'm not exactly sure how wide the net is for cousins though.

I know in some cultures, the term cousin is used for anyone in your generation in close-maritally-related families. For instance, if your aunt marries someone, all people of your generation in the in-law's family are technically still your cousins even if there isn't any blood relation.

So if your aunt's sibling-in-law has a child, that child is still called your cousin, but you don't have any direct blood relation or ancestral relation and just marital-based family relations.

Unless I'm remembering something wrong.

Regardless, it's still technically legal at least. Not sure how I feel about it, not planning on really judging until I know more about how they were related. If they were cousins with no blood relations, just a marital tie from some aunt or uncle, I guess I'm fine with it.

 

[reen112]

just what the fuck

 

[anairda]

I’m just going to ignore everything for Jill.