My Childhood Friend, the Devilish Knight, Hates Me - Ch. 1

[miner49er]

what a bitch. she better work a ton to get his heart back

 

[twilightspirits]

hm another misunderstanding eh?
wonder wat it's abt this time

 

[Ken4553]

feels like he created that situation to say he hates her

he might have gotten some curse or something on him that'll affect the one he loves, that's my guess.

 

[OtomeAddict]

The novel was partially translated and dropped.
The truth is...

Spoiler

He’s a tsundere who really does love her.
Meh... I feel like she deserves better. A bit of tsun is cute but he’s just kind of irritating.
If I remember along the way there’s a lot of rando ppl going KYAA LOOK AT HIM and that girl is plain.
The he likes her thing hadn’t been exposed yet.

I really wanted to know what happened but the translation got dropped ahaha.

 

[MojoMoko]

Ml is pretty unlikeable dunno how thisll go

 

[Hollow7F]

looks like he had a motive to distance himself from her but honestly...fuck off, im tired of bullshit misunderstandings that could have been easily solved if they just TALK TO EACH OTHER

 

[Ka_Raa]

He is definitely tsundere!! I'm sure that!!

 

[matchaparfait]

dear fellow readers, please calm down. i reassure you all that

Spoiler

it's not as simple as the ML being tsundere .-. he's not even one and there's a genuine reason for his behaviour that goes beyond dumb "misunderstanding" explaining his apparent jerk behaviour. he has a demon contract forced upon him when young by a woman who wants revenge. With regards to this, the ML is blameless and the woman's hate is misdirected because no one is to be blamed just because ML's father didn't choose her. He literally can't admit his feelings for the FL because the conditions of the contract is that in return for strength and power, when he has someone he loves from the bottom of his heart, he has to kill his beloved with his own hands as payment for receiving strength from the demon. ML didn't even think anything of this when he heard about the contract as a young boy, thinking that he wouldn't love anyone. But when he does develop feelings for FL, the demon started speaking to him and telling him to kill FL as payment, and his body started moving against his own will. He started denying his feelings to the demon, suppressing himself through self-harm and avoidance of FL etc. Still, he couldn't give up on his wish to stay with FL and searched for ways to be with her despite the contract. Then the birthday incident happened and he deeply regretted hurting FL with words he didn't actually mean. He gave up on his "selfish" hope of staying by FL side, pledging never to let the demon kill her. ALSO. The contract can't be mentioned to anyone else so he can't consult with anyone else. Of course, talking directly to FL is also a no-go since his desire to kill her amplifies in her presence (there's a separate reason as to why he can later on join FL as her guard). The FL later learns of the contract by seeing his memory (an act that has its risks too).

 

[Mayadee]

I thought it's going to be a childhood rivals turn lovers thingy, where they're kind of archenemies or something who always compete with each other but along the way turns out both of them are secretly in love with each other..
I guess not huh.. too bad..
Tbh I don't really like the plot I think it's just some misunderstanding or ml kinda purposely did that to fl so that she would hate him

 

[gt8]

@matchaparfait

I've started to notice in a lot of stories where the MC is mistreated or feels mistreated, the explanations or misunderstandings revealed later behind the mistreatment always turn out to be complicated. Like the author wanted to set up the mistreatment or misunderstanding for the fmc but then has to bend over backwards to explain or justify the scenario in a way that still paints the ML in a good light (unless it's because the fmc is secretly a choosen one that got overlooked).

 

[luminary]

Oh great shitty ass male lead that will get easily ~forgiven~ because he have ~circumstantial~ condition that totally ~justified~ his assholeish behavior and our doormat protag will ~forgive~ him so the ML will have 0% consequence from his behavior.

Boring.

 

[ataniphor]

@matchaparfait huh that seems really seems like an overly complicated and borderline retarded reason instead of just having good writing.

 

[selfiesturluson]

@matchaparfait

Spoiler

author-san really did a backflip to make this work out, huuuuuh

 

[mic0]

She would cualify as a beauty if she only left her bangs grow,, like, literally.

 

[GodGinrai]

If she truly needs protection for this task, then she should tell the lord that it would be a conflict of interest for this man to escort her, as he has previously said that he hates her.

 

[someunregpunk]

@matchaparfait

Spoiler

ah, a completely contrived plot. thanks for the spoiler. good to know to avoid this.

 

[Chiiyuu]

@luminary totally agreed. This kind of dynamic has been done to death. Can't the authors think of something new instead?

 

[ThePrincessOfTheRFA]

@luminary every frickin time, I hate this

 

[bryanesss]

this kind of character can go to hell man

 

[tinaholic]

Sweet this is my jam!!! Flavor: misunderstanding of two thickheaded peeps with mega swirls of cute fluffies!!!!!!! ♥Woll♥!!! any time I see a grown ass man getting all hyped up on cute things it does crazy things to me!!! Bring out the adorable uncles and the closeted adorable uncles and their sons!!!! Whose heart can't melt (or get jealous) with a bunch of grown ass men going all goo-goo-ga over cute spirits?! I really hope the author goes down this path to give us a super fluffy cute twist on this trope! Please please please tell me this is true!! More importantly thanks for your hard work on this and all of your scanilations!!!