Munou Saijo wa Akujo ni Naritai ~Gimai no Migawari de Totsuida Reijou, Koushaku-sama no Dekiai ni Kizukanai~ - Vol. 4 Ch. 18 - The Villainess and the…

[Kaarme]

Dylan tried. He really did, your honor.

We all saw it. We can all attest that it's not his fault she doesn't know at this point, right??

Did he? The opposite to his verbal attempt here is on paper, as an official document. Do you think any judge would think an undocumented conversation would override a contract willingly signed by both parties? If Duke Dude wants to change things for real, he will need to write a new contract and have Avril read it aloud before agreeing to sign it. That's really trying, not anything we saw in this chapter. All of this is nothing but preparatory work. He needs to spend time with her, keep praising and confessing to her, so that the new contract won't actually come as a surprise. Reading the new contract, she would remember all the times Dylan was confessing his love. Finally, together with the new contract, she would realise it's for real, not just roleplay like her villainess thing.

 

[ToadRoadLP]

It is 100000% on everyone in that House now, to speak directly and unequivocally to her about how smart and valid and loved she is.

I don't know if it's some implicit facet of Japanese propriety, but NO ONE ever seems capable of just...being straight to the point. It's always linguistic side stepping, and it's precisely why protagonists like this one can work, because every person around them seems incapable of just telling them directly, leading to misunderstandings and prolonged plot.

So we'll see how many chapters this drags out now.

it is kinda known that japanese society is more about buttering than straight cutting. As a german, japanese often tell us that we are too direct, even though were not that direct for our standarts. Of course its due to her upbringing and also it being japanese that it makes sense in lore and out of but its hard to not sigh loudly lowkey. I dont know how much of this i can put up with