Maou to Ryuuou ni Sodaterareta Shounen wa Gakuen Seikatsu wo Musou suru You desu - Ch. 23

[MangaDex]

 

[PineappleZpeno]

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[Primalmoon]

Looks like everyone is being stupid in these chapters, not just the MC...

• (from last chapter) MC runs away from guards with a suspect instead of telling them what's going on. +1 crime
• Guards ask a loli to track down a runaway in a world where slavery is a thing.
• Loli successfully finds MC, decides to help MC rather than explain anything.
• MC, finds a place where stolen goods might be located, so he breaks into it immediately. +1 crime
• Thieves apparently store all of their stolen stuff in an easily accessible warehouse, in a freaking display case that you could see if you opened the doors just a little bit and peeked through the crack
• MC and crew immediately go and start touching all of the stolen goods
• Thieves apparently have stolen rubies that are as big as people's heads, and yet a little boy from the magic academy is the first person to think to use magic to track down the goods?
• Thieves locked their warehouse with a chain on the inside... Assuming there are no other entrances, that either means they're inside the place (so that they could put the chain on the inside) or the thieves can somehow violate physics to put chains on the other side of a doorway.
• Thieves immediately state their names and call themselves a gang of thieves.
• Oh, and this world apparently has guns now.

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Also, typo "Did you wonder wander in here by mistake?"

 

[CrimsonSix]

I'm wondering when we'll get to the point of the volume cover.

 

[VanillaEnjoyer]

-snip-

What about this manga makes you think it's trying to be serious in any way, shape or form...?

 

[Otherworlder]

@Primalmoon You're right. It also would have made for a more interesting story if the shop owner was the actual culprit. It could have been an insurance scam. He might just be super prejudiced against beast-folk (and apparently is) so wanted to frame Wolf for a non-crime just to be a dick, or maybe so that he could get the value of the goods (still in his possession, since they were never actually stolen) from Wolf as 'justice'. Or, maybe his actual plan was to get Wolf arrested so that he could be sold into slavery, something that's apparently still legal outside of the capital city's borders. Maybe it was all of the above. Have the shop owner reappear in a few more chapters, this time the actual victim of a crime, but the guards won't help him as he's now the boy who cried wolf, pun unintended. It would make for better world-building to have a recurring character, or at least one with a second appearance, plus it could make the MC look a lot better by noticing the actual crime, forgiving the racist shop owner, and then tracking down the thieves. The writer would still get the inevitable fight with the thieves this way, but would also have a chance to think about the logistics a bit more, and avoid at least some of the problems you noted.

 

[p2x909]

@Primalmoon -snap-

I fully agree with you. My first thought would be that the shop owner was being way over the top and extremely suspicious. Having the racist shop owner be in on it for the insurance money would be a much, much better story for the manga.