Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival - Ch. 37

[Kaldrak]

Some real Goblin Slayer energy, this chapter.

 

[HaphazardMage]

That poor fucking lone orc dude 😭

 

[jikan2004]

Am i the only one that felt a LITTLE sorry for the orcs?

Yeah I felt bad when she killed the one that was scared and cowering with the axe

 

[Yumetsuuuuuuuu]

Lowkey feel bad for the orcs, especially the sleeping ones, why tf were they drawn so peaceful and all cute like bru 😭

 

[IrregularPerson]

an incredibly beautiful fight scene!

 

[SpeedyAussie]

She's such a splendid badass! I love how we get to see her plan her kills and explain her methods! Even drowning the scouts to make sure that they definitely die! Poison some, distract others, you crossbow wasn't strong enough so she used her master's poison and slightly altered magic to ensure the kill through the eye! (Specifically, pouring the light bottle on a leaf, dipping the bolt in the dark bottle, then pressing the tipped bolt into the light mixture. It's so detailed.) We also get a lot of monologue to see what she's thinking!
page 44: OW
page 21: I was a bit confused about this page. Are those the orc's stats or Aria's stats? It's labelled 'Orc General Species: Demi-Human', but because of the low stats and the 'weakness' effect, I thought it was perhaps Aria's stats.

Thank you for translation!

 

[Shumn]

So, I know that spending all this time weakening the enemy forces played a significant part...

But... Like... The bit of "I'm out of time, can't delay their advance anymore" loses all of its impact when she then makes "delaying their advance" moot by killing them all by herself anyway

I'm going to stall them for a month to allow for the evacuation! Wait, no, I should just make the evacuation unnecessary. If she can do that, what was all the tension for?!

That's exactly how I felt too. Honestly, this is already at the standard level of isekai where the protagonist is overpowered and always defeats his opponents on the first try.
I started to feel sorry for the orcs. They're the ones in a survival game.

 

[Shumn]

Murdering sapient beings isn't something to take lightly. But there's a difference between low effort and high effort, in that once you start killing, you better make sure everyone is dead. Otherwise you might be calling down something worse.

The problem is how she manages to kill them all by herself like that, even though she looks and says she's been exhausted since the first battle. Does she have infinite stamina?

 

[Shumn]

Well done my girl!

But honestly is it necessary to go that far? Didn't villager already retreat, best you can do is just slow down until adventure arrives, why bother go kill all?

Exactly. I thought it was quite excessive that she had to kill them all by herself like that.
And the ways she turns the tables, for example, just with a "I don't need to stand" is honestly quite forced.

 

[Shumn]

Part of it is understanding just how dangerous they would be to the villagers even as they currently are.

Part of it is being unable to run away with a rank 5 chasing you.

Part of it is greed to want the solo exp of slaying a rank 5, letting her hide her full kit from the rest of the world.

And part of that is turning the work into a standard isekai with an overpowered MC. Someone who gets out of an extremely disadvantageous situation simply because "I don't have to stand."

 

[Shumn]

She spent all this time poisoning and starving them and making them terrified. She wouldn't have been able to do this if there were thirty more of them and they were all at full strength.

No. Even with 30 more orcs she would still be able to win. Simply because she would realize "I can suddenly scream to confuse them" or some other stupid justification.