Risou no Himo Seikatsu - Vol. 13 Ch. 55 - Pursuing the Ideal

[AAA1]

I really like this manga. The political issues were explained easy to understand and complex enough that these people wasn't brain dead people like other manga. Usually the manga about human vs demon the one that have brain dead people the most. They took the race issues between the race in their manga with simplistic pure hatred between each other. Just like racist people in real life. I hate racist people

This manga describe the political issues between expert that clearly being taught like a noble (an educated people) supposed to be

 

[radstylix]

Oh boy, royalty bloodline drama! Might even involve actual bloodshed!

 

[kaminomikan]

smells like war, mc remember personal mines are a no no.

 

[Eeliejun]

The biggest thing to me is that I have no idea how they kept out other bloodlines. Nobles with powers would marry left and right to get another or double powers. It is insane that only now problems are happening.

 

[Sumasuun]

There's too much political intrigue. I just wanted a slow life with cute and sexy waifus. ;-;
I say this knowing full well I won't stop reading it. xD

 

[spamtrashed]

Thanks for all the hard work you put into scanlating for us! (^_^)

 

[Ashandai]

Man
There's no dumber idea than involving personally a man who has teleportation powers.

"oh you're threatening my son? thats crazy. I'd check under your pillow before you sleep tonight I teleported a dagger there. Next time you try that shit i'll teleport an assassin"

or shit even just yeet any motherfuckers who dare back to his kingdom. Or, in case of that being too much of a political risk "oh no, I just invited your family to visit my kingdom smile

 

[Grikath]

Still unforgivable to use an innocent baby.

Historically, your children were pawns in the Big Game. Promoted/demoted as was necessary to accomplish goals and cement alliances, fight feuds, and stitch up enemies.

The bigger the stage, the more ruthless this principle was applied.
See also War of the Roses, the Twins in the Tower, Henry VIII's wives, the Dauphin, ummm.. half of the wars fought in Europe over proposed marriages/the result of those marriages actually inheriting...
And that's just local (for me) and relatively modern history... Asia has a ton more of that, quite often much, much more vicious..

The babby can't help it, but the position it is in due to its accident of birth is a harsh given.
For all intents and purposes at this level the baby is not innocent. It's a potential danger to a lot of people. And is a relatively soft target.

"It's Good To Be The King" is one of the biggest convenient lies there is.
And "Noblesse Oblige" has a very distinct Dark Side.

One of the things this manga does very well , is juxtaposing the attitudes/reactions of your average modern Civiliian against those with the power to influence the lives of tens of thousands of people with just an Opinion.
And the godawful messes you can make if you apply "civilian logic" to the challenges these people face.

 

[YoraeRasante]

The biggest thing to me is that I have no idea how they kept out other bloodlines. Nobles with powers would marry left and right to get another or double powers. It is insane that only now problems are happening.

Seems like they only married those with either no powers or distant enough it would not be considered incest.
But again, if based in real life sometimes what they consider "distant enough not to be considered incest" may just be cousin-wide...

And yeah, been so long since it was important I totaly forgot that MC had blood of two kingdoms.
That said, seems kinda risky to be counting on his son being able to use powers from both sides? Did he show it and I forgot?
If so, there is only one simple solution: try to learn to do the other family side's magic himself so the heat goes to the father instead.

 

[Naian]

The biggest thing to me is that I have no idea how they kept out other bloodlines. Nobles with powers would marry left and right to get another or double powers. It is insane that only now problems are happening.

I suppose to make their bloodline valuable, they don't really expand their family. This way there's no leakage of their bloodline to another family. If another family obtain another's family unique magic, that magic got reduced value, because now 2 families can provide the same "service".

 

[Korvalus]

That said, seems kinda risky to be counting on his son being able to use powers from both sides? Did he show it and I forgot?

He's a baby, he didn't yet; but that's not what matters. What matters is the possibility of having them. He has the bloodlines of both kingdoms so the possibility is not zero, and for some that is enough to cause potential trouble due to he being the prince of a foreign nation. That's why when he was born, there were a lot of conditions from the Twin Kingdoms.

 

[Seraphus]

* looks at entire manga *
* looks at Japan *
.....
* files the entire mess under "accidental polyamory" *

[EDIT]
And then I got to the last page, and  DUDE.
Involved the kid in the Great Game before he's Two years old... dayum...
I mean, Zenkichi was "involved" the moment his conception was announced, honestly; still...
Good of Prince Largo to let our MC know!

I really like the exposition-to-plot ratio in this manga; thanks for the TL!

 

[koczu]

Still unforgivable to use an innocent baby.

no it's not, privilege of being royal have i'ts consequences.

 

[Carmichael]

Hmm while it is interesting for the plot, I think Francesco is trying to tie in MC by playing on his sentimental string by making it personal with a "potential" Zenkichi involvement. Like MC said, it is an internal conflict. But by making it a thread to Zenkichi, he is forcing MC to involve himself.

 

[TitanAnteus]

Oh boy, royalty bloodline drama! Might even involve actual bloodshed!

This story likes to play up the gravity of every circumstance, but it's never that hardcore.
It's a fantasy story where all the people in power are reasonable critical thinkers with differing viewpoints.

Zenjirou's son being brought up is just by implication. His son won't be in actual danger, but be seen as a comparison point.
Their Royal Family: "Look! Another country has a child with 2 bloodline magics and HE'S eligible for the throne. What happens when he becomes ruler? Are we really going to have our country's next ruler just be a person with only one bloodline magic when we could have Prince Francesco?"

 

[dahhv2]

Eh I just want MC get his harem, not this royalty bs

 

[HammerU89]

He will be forced to take the role of dual caster, to start with, he come fist with both bloodlines

 

[Amariithynar]

The biggest thing to me is that I have no idea how they kept out other bloodlines. Nobles with powers would marry left and right to get another or double powers. It is insane that only now problems are happening.

They actually explained this long ago (in fact it's the whole reason that our MC was originally contacted), and it's an ingenious reason for why it doesn't work: Purity of bloodline is what determines strength of magic. Spreading your seed might get you a lot of casters all at once, but they'll all be of middling power at best, while also having all the usual political issues links to a royal bloodline involve. That's why they try to keep it relatively pure but also not so pure that an accident ends the entire bloodline, which was the threat with Capua Kingdom, until he came along and they had Carlos.

 

[Amariithynar]

This story likes to play up the gravity of every circumstance, but it's never that hardcore.
It's a fantasy story where all the people in power are reasonable critical thinkers with differing viewpoints.

Zenjirou's son being brought up is just by implication. His son won't be in actual danger, but be seen as a comparison point.
Their Royal Family: "Look! Another country has a child with 2 bloodline magics and HE'S eligible for the throne. What happens when he becomes ruler? Are we really going to have our country's next ruler just be a person with only one bloodline magic when we could have Prince Francesco?"

Except one of the bloodline magics is from their kingdom, so there will be a lot more anger there.

 

[Amariithynar]

Seems like they only married those with either no powers or distant enough it would not be considered incest.
But again, if based in real life sometimes what they consider "distant enough not to be considered incest" may just be cousin-wide...

And yeah, been so long since it was important I totaly forgot that MC had blood of two kingdoms.
That said, seems kinda risky to be counting on his son being able to use powers from both sides? Did he show it and I forgot?
If so, there is only one simple solution: try to learn to do the other family side's magic himself so the heat goes to the father instead.

Cousin-wide IS distant enough, genetically. We have very warped views of things because often the amount of blood in noble families that was shared was a great deal closer simply because of all the interbreeding amongst the noble families over many generations, so the Church issued a proclamation against incest in basically any form, and that's had repercussions culturally ever since.