Moto Ansatsusha, Tensei Shite Kizoku no Reijou ni Narimashita - Ch. 25 - Eyes devoid of Hope

[Slingerman]

These lower nobles are just stupid kids talked into thinking they might become big shots if they follow one of these "royals" overstating their authority.

If you want to see a comic about a seductress manipulator like the beginning of the chapter talked about, check out Roxana, it got purged from Dex but you can read it elsewhere.

Thanks for the chapter!

 

[InsaneAwesomeTony]

Thanks for the chapter 🙏🏼❤️‍🔥

 

[DIMOHA25]

Both were close to each other, so the moment the prince got assassinated, the princess can raise a meat shield and diplomatic shield to raise the pressure

Forget assassinated, the other kingdom's goal and this incident specifically is a public case that serves as grounds for severe official prosecution. Having cases against both at the same time would be better, but the girl wouldn't have a any counter claim against any punishment her idiot brother might suffer for pulling this nonsense.

 

[Bibliothecarius]

Thanks for the chapter!!!

 

[orangerain7734]

I wouldn’t say Serena is a tsundere but she is developing into some sort of “dere”. What’s the one where the person is emotionless on the outside but soft on the inside? Kuudere?

That's more 'cold on the outside, but soft on the inside'. Kuu > cool > cold is how I usually remember it.

For characters that are perceived as expressionless, stoic, and/or unfeeling, dandere would be more appropriate

 

[orangerain7734]

She should have been raised well, with a life free of troubles in a ducal house. And yet, I wonder she often seems so ... alien and distorted.

Girl, if only you knew, and that's even with taking her reincarnation situation out of consideration.

 

[Hitansy]

I think it was explained in a previous chapter. The whole point is to make the brother-sister pair do something so bad that can’t be waived off as simple bullying or things between noble kids. It has to be the level of a crime that can’t be ignored by both kingdoms.

From novel:

Spoiler

The crime that Ismail commits is taking part in trying to kill Shagard with a bunch of assassins. Serena, Tigur and Shagard basically defeat the assassins, and Shagard basically executes Ismail for the crime of attempted murder of royalty, since Shagard is the only recognized royal and he’s the only one who can punish Ismail directly. Off with the head punishment.

The crime that Aisha commits is trying to steal from the Evan’s family. A trap they set up in order to send her back. They trick her into thinking the item she was trying to steal was something that determines the next Queen, however it was just a simple gift the King gave to the Queen. She gets arrested, meets Rick who tells her Ismail is dead, her parents claim she did everything on her own and want nothing to do with her. And it basically sets her on her path as a honey trap assassin. Rick helps her with getting revenge on her parents for being used as disposable tools. Despite her official whereabouts are unknown, no one really cares to even look further into it.

Interesting, time to wait for this to happen.

 

[nomadicengi]

Kinda nice that someone outside her circle are starting to notice something wrong about her. Well, I do hope she helps Serena in actually developing life outside her assassin occupation. She absolutely needs her knowing the people around her.

 

[Grikath]

Absolutely. Made no sense to not step in from a politics standpoint. I guess personal drama is taking priority on this one. But this was 100% grounds for immediate action.

They understood how the other kingdom wanted a diplomatic incident excuse to purge the bastards, so why the fuck would they not immediately blow up the case of one of them roping in foreign nobility into beating up the crown prince??? That was your instant win "mission accomplished" button.

That's what you'd think....
But note the difference in reaction between Serena and the "BFF"....
Serena's trained assassin's eye spotted the Thing addressed in the last panels of the chapter, whereas BFF didn't..

Seems Crown Princey has his own motives for playing punchbag to his step siblings, and Serena needs to find out what he's up to before taking any definitive action.
There's more going on there than just the things they've seen so far, and Serena just picked up a decent piece of the puzzle.

The lower Nobles helping the Stepbrother will, in time, have ...accidents... If they're so stupid to assault foreign Royalty after a bit of goading, weeeeellll... Not exactly executive material for the future of the Kingdom..

 

[Lady_Luck]

Either way, I'm curious as to what Shagard can do, that Serena suspects of him at the end there. If he's willingly being a punching bag, I will be interested to learn his reasoning, if he could in fact fight back.

I have a theory as to that, from the prologue of volume 2 of the novel which was cut down in the manga but may be shown later. The manga has shown Shagard's past and that/why his mother left, but in the novel it also shows that

Spoiler

the day she left, she physically pushed him of herself while saying not to call her mother, before running away with a knight. He likely blames himself for his mother not staying, and so he endures the horrible treatment due to his self loathing

 

[Jachinz]

Serena : "Why you a acting like a lil bitch!?"

 

[Kefrayba]

What I am curious the most is how somewhat clueless the siblings were about their own positions. They were aware that their standings weren't great but didn't realized just how bad they were. Must be deliberate choices by the royal families.

 

[Kyotaro]

If his reason for not fighting back until now was because they're his brother and sister, i will be flipping my desk.

 

[asdman]

Did she just kink shame the crown prince?!

Let the guy have some fun or something

 

[Wizardrone]

why nobles of fmc country are attacking the heir of a foreign nation anyways?

 

[rluka]

Mob mentality, perhaps (“He start it, I’m just joining, it’s not just me”)
Ishmail is the one inciting it.

Also, it’s mentioned that lower nobilities, who rarely participate in politics, don’t know much about situation in foreign countries. Based on how all three acts in Astra, they would be under the impression that Ishmail and Aisha has powerful standing, while Shagard is a safe bullying target,

Higher ranked nobilities are more aware about the situation so they avoid the twins. While the smarter lower ranking nobilities can observe the higher families (who should know better) is being cautious and follow suit.

Serena made the correct call, though her reasoning was flawed (talking about "why should I do the right thing when it just gets me beaten up"

The nuance is different...
What Serena said is more like “live smart, not right” and asks Scarnet isn’t that how nobilities are.
They don’t try to uphold righteousness for the sake of it, and definitely don’t charge head first like a hero.

And yes, they would help if Shagard is really threatened, but despite how it looks, he’s handling it on his own.

 

[UdenEmpati]

Also, it’s mentioned that lower nobilities, who rarely participate in politics, don’t know much about situation in foreign countries. Based on how all three acts in Astra, they would be under the impression that Ishmail and Aisha has powerful standing, while Shagard is a safe bullying target,

Higher ranked nobilities are more aware about the situation so they avoid the twins. While the smarter lower ranking nobilities can observe the higher families (who should know better) is being cautious and follow suit.

Very true, though being ignorant doesn't mean you're suddenly immune to consequences.

I doubt it'll actually come back to bite them in this specific title, but in any sort of "realistic king-run political system", they would be rounded up and summarily executed for causing an international incident against foreign royalty without express backing by their own leadership.
So they should be lucky that the author is likely to not take that view of things in their case (I would actually be quite surprised if all the lower nobles of this kingdom who got hoodwinked by the twins face actual repercussions for their silliness this arc).

Your other point that you quoted me on was resolved elsewhere so I won't go being redundant on what others have said on the matter already.

 

[titundo]

Very true, though being ignorant doesn't mean you're suddenly immune to consequences.

I doubt it'll actually come back to bite them in this specific title, but in any sort of "realistic king-run political system", they would be rounded up and summarily executed for causing an international incident against foreign royalty without express backing by their own leadership.
So they should be lucky that the author is likely to not take that view of things in their case (I would actually be quite surprised if all the lower nobles of this kingdom who got hoodwinked by the twins face actual repercussions for their silliness this arc).

Your other point that you quoted me on was resolved elsewhere so I won't go being redundant on what others have said on the matter already.

I mean, in a realistic system, the twins would've died long ago. The Crown Prince basically traded his legal wife, the daughter of a duke, for his affair partner, the daughter of a viscount. With how stupid his scheme was, especially if the duke is a major supporter of the royal family, the affair would've been outed immediately, there'd be much anger, and the twins "disappeared" as the scandal slowly abated. There's no way the king would let rivals to the throne, even if bastards, to remain alive, let alone bully the real heir.

This whole arc is just silliness upon silliness.

 

[UdenEmpati]

I mean, in a realistic system, the twins would've died long ago. The Crown Prince basically traded his legal wife, the daughter of a duke, for his affair partner, the daughter of a viscount. With how stupid his scheme was, especially if the duke is a major supporter of the royal family, the affair would've been outed immediately, there'd be much anger, and the twins "disappeared" as the scandal slowly abated. There's no way the king would let rivals to the throne, even if bastards, to remain alive, let alone bully the real heir.

This whole arc is just silliness upon silliness.

accurate, I was merely thinking of this singular incident in a vacuum, independent of even the fact the half-prince brother was abusing the full-heir prince in the first place.

A lot of what is going on is kinda silly, given it's literally centered on an assassin noblewoman who ostensibly would have been working 'round the clock for the crown, given how ridiculous a lot of the characters are in this story.

 

[cryum]

That girl is too sweet, and gets along surprisingly well with Tigur