Mezametara Saikyou Soubi to Uchuusenmochi Datta node, Ikkodate Mezashite Youhei toshite Jiyuu ni Ikitai - Vol. 9 Ch. 47.2

[falconx8]

It could be worse, they could look like they do in the novel illustrations. At least they look somewhat adult-ish in the manga.

 

[S0LUS]

so no employees without engaging in a physical relationship? is that a narrative rule? mandatory harem route? would have been nice to abstain from that trope for once in a while.

it's an old cultural rule of thumb from before hyperdrives were a thing that just kinda stuck around. With the exception of the military where everyone is expected to be pro, on any other ship if a man & woman are alone for months/years it's reasonable to assume that they at least get along, & after long enough without much entertainment stuck together in a tiny box, well, one of 'em's gonna give in sooner or later, & if they still stick together as crew once they get to port that means (it wasn't rape, and) they've likely decided to keep at it. Now that there's FTL travel things are different ofc but seeing how modern ships can be flown by one person, people still assume that having a (mixed-gender) crew on a smaller ship means they're probably in a relationship just bc there's no reason to be on the same ship otherwise.

As for the real reason why it's the way it is, though, then yeah- mandatory harem route. Stories where the MC is a special boy with special powers in a special world with a special ability to attract women are the only thing this author writes. At least he tried to justify it with what I said before unlike with the minecraft isekai he started later, where (monster) women just want him for some reason (& human women want him because the God that summoned him gave them divine prophecies that they'd all bang) lmao

It could be worse, they could look like they do in the novel illustrations. At least they look somewhat adult-ish in the manga.

both the novel & manga illustrations are super inconsistent, in the manga it wavers between preteen & petite adult & in the novel it wavers between even younger preteen & woman with some degree of dwarfism. I prefer the manga art when it's done right but when the novel got it right it was at least refreshing (if not particularly attractive) that they were at least trying to unambiguously depict an adult woman instead of the usual "1000 year old dragon" route of drawing a child & calling it an adult, & both versions are good in that aspect for being written to act like adults- stupid ones, sure- instead of being immature to the point it's clear that the writer has some serious self-reflecting to do about their desire to fuck kids lol

 

[Ricardo_Rick]

Will he do them too? or will he sadly not do a thing just because they are lolis?

 

[DarkMatter77]

At this point they might as well make it mandatory that females that want to work on the ship have to sleep with the captain.

 

[TetraSky]

Yeaaah... They look like kids for sure. I wouldn't be able to do it without feeling guilty.

 

[Desuka]

Saves dwarf from kidnap
Gets owed threesome sex with faux jailbait (legally adult) dwarven twins

 

[Amariithynar]

Anyone got any recommendations for other manga like this? It's so damn good.

 

[ForTheJerusalem]

Rejects hags, embrace lolis.

 

[Reincrop]

One benefit's that they're travel-sized, I guess? Glad that they did some proper clean-up work during that rescue, though!

Thanks for the translations!

 

[frostmonolith]

Relax, they may be loli bait, but there are two of them. Just stack them, put them in a trench coat, and dim the lights. It'll be fine.

Jokes aside, in many space operas with grand civilizations spanning multiple solar systems, human life is ridiculously cheap, so it makes sense that sex is equally as cheap, culturally speaking.

Knowing how Mimi behaved after that encounter, it's sure that Hiro is still not used to this common sense, yet that's also why all the space crew is loyal to him, initially in "that" sense.

 

[GridLite]

So he's playing hard to get lmao. He's straight to the point rejecting the military girl but then now he's strangely reluctant to say no to those two. Sure.

 

[Potatoo]

 

[EldritchNeko]

Dude hasn't been around many short women before, has he? They have the right sort of maturity on their faces and in their words and actions. There's no mistaking them for children.

 

[theShear]

Dude hasn't been around many short women before, has he? They have the right sort of maturity on their faces and in their words and actions. There's no mistaking them for children.

Annoyingly closer to reality than it seems. I have seen a lot of debates of people arguing that "a short character is obviously a kid because short = kid" ... which gets even more frustrating when it seems that everything below 160cm seems to fall under it for them ... which is barely below the average of European woman for gods sake!
For Hiro in his defence he acknowledges that, he knows they are adults but his mind is in the way so he is simply not attracted to them ... "for now" <dramatic music>

 

[nobody2002]

Lolis for the win!!