Risou no Himo Seikatsu - Vol. 18 Ch. 74 - A Sovereign's Choice

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I’m surprised they have not talked about having a teleportation tool for offensive use.
Imagine having it set up to go to deep underground or under the sea, or more peacefully, inside a jail cell, the tool then can be “armed” and then thrown, after a few seconds, it will then take everything inside its radius away, just like a grenade.

I’m sure that would be very hard to make, but also be very powerful and scary.
If teleportation is like what we see, it seems like it needs designated targets as well as location, both have to be defined by the user, and they'll all be brought along, not sent.

Doesn't sound as much of a fire-and-forget thing. It's probably more useful to take your own injured combatants back to camp or something.
 
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I will take Bona as his second concubine. This world needed condoms after all for them not to produce too much problematic children!!! Bona is the engineer!!!
 
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Congrats Lucrezia.... but if she didn't win, then probably Bona is the best choice
 
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The whole notion of the barrier being "immovable" is just Zenmjiro's supposition based on nothing, really. Why wouldn't it act like a ball, as pictured? If we're meant to treat it as an actual bubble in spacetime, then that has it's own serious consequences on the surroundings (mainly gravitational ones) but there's still no reason it should be fixed in location with respect to anything.
Not even the device or person who cast the magic?
 
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Aw man... please don't take the annoying Lucrezia girl as your concubine.
But annoying is good. This isn't a marriage out of love. He isn't going to get lucky with a second Freya as a concubine. This is a political marriage to maintain power. Yeah the girl is kinda annoying to us as readers when we experience her perspective, but really she's just simple and well positioned politically to not imbalance things too much.

You know what's interesting is how political and strategic marriage has been historically even in the real world. Like across cultures and for a long period of time, love was seen as a hindrance. Marriage was pragmatic and strategic. This isn't even marriage; they're discussing who to take next as a concubine. And it's 100% a conversation about strategy, politics, and power.
 
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After reading a few chapters back, my thoughts for the 2nd concubine candidates are:
- Bona, obviously his best choice. Good chemistry, competent in her craft, approved by both Fransesco and the King. The only problem is that the both of them aren't interested.

- Lucrezia, the exact opposite of Bona. Also seems like the most useless of the bunch. A liability as her concerns have so far been quite selfish, which makes her quite susceptible to coercion.

- Taraye, looks like a good business woman. Clearly has good connections and well travelled. Second best choice IMHO. Just don't know if she's interested or not. She can probably see the benefits though.

- Fikriya, great in magic. Clearly can become an asset. But her current intrest is also focused on magic. She's as focused as Bona, but unlike Bona it doesn't seem to connect with Zenjirou.

- Nazeema and Shula, currently hard to seem them connect with Zenjirou. Mostly out in the field like Freya. They have very low contact with the royal family because of their traditional life style, so I'm not sure how acceptable that would be for the twin kingdom.

Married women obviously don't count.

In rare cases, they were foreign royal women, though only if actually marrying them to other rulers failed, since at least under Chrisendom, this kind of arrangement was not recognized as marriage.
I really thought that was the norm. Though I admit, I'm not really familiar with the situation for concubines or multiple wives in Europe. In Asia and the middle east, the lesser kingdoms seem to love offering their daughters as wives to other kingdoms.
 
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I really thought that was the norm. Though I admit, I'm not really familiar with the situation for concubines or multiple wives in Europe. In Asia and the middle east, the lesser kingdoms seem to love offering their daughters as wives to other kingdoms.
It happened, but consider that having a foreign royal as anything other than your legal wife does not do you that many favours. Yes, it's a connection to the other country, but it's not like you'd get a woman who's close to the succession line - those were married off to others (as in, rulers her father considered a priority in foreign relations). You yourself probably had better prospects, otherwise you'd be married to her, not someone else. The children between you might have some claim to the other country's throne, but it's going to be distant - you can't really benefit from it, but it can be used against your country one day, similarly to what was discussed in this manga.

This is the reason why I don't currently see Aura's intention to be very worthwhile. Even if they establish such a connection, they'll still be on the back foot with regards to the Twin Kingdom, which could decide to distance themselves at any time. I suppose she's counting on a child that culd use bestowal magic - her kingdom's glass technology can be aquired through trial and error (and poaching those who already have some know-how from them), while the bloodline magic can't, but how liklely is it to happen?

After reading a few chapters back, my thoughts for the 2nd concubine candidates are:
- Bona, obviously his best choice. Good chemistry, competent in her craft, approved by both Fransesco and the King. The only problem is that the both of them aren't interested.

- Lucrezia, the exact opposite of Bona. Also seems like the most useless of the bunch. A liability as her concerns have so far been quite selfish, which makes her quite susceptible to coercion.

- Taraye, looks like a good business woman. Clearly has good connections and well travelled. Second best choice IMHO. Just don't know if she's interested or not. She can probably see the benefits though.

- Fikriya, great in magic. Clearly can become an asset. But her current intrest is also focused on magic. She's as focused as Bona, but unlike Bona it doesn't seem to connect with Zenjirou.

- Nazeema and Shula, currently hard to seem them connect with Zenjirou. Mostly out in the field like Freya. They have very low contact with the royal family because of their traditional life style, so I'm not sure how acceptable that would be for the twin kingdom.

Married women obviously don't count.
Considering what I said above, I would say only the women closest to the king's line (and thus supposedly having the best chance of passing down the magic) should be candidates. That pretty much only leaves Bona, since the 4 dukes daughters are a more distant relation. The fact that she's a fantasy equivalent of an otaku is good - she's less likely to (competently) scheme and be a rival for the MC's affections.
 
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Not even the device or person who cast the magic?
I'd say particularily not that - physical objects are hardly locked in place, especially during a catastrophe like a storm, aren't they?

Admittedly though, speculating about fantasy spells that haven't even had their rules clearly stated is kind of pointless. I guess if the story says it's immovable, then it's immovable and there doesn't have to be any logic behind that. I would prefer if there was, however.
 
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My computer crashed while finalizing this chapter, sorry for the delay folks.

Which girl would you pick from the Twin Kingdoms if you were Zenjirou? Bona? Lucy? Or the four duke's envoys?
Sincerely? I prefer princess Margarita, I can't remember if she was actually a princess or if she was already married, but i really liked her demeanor and how she was outside the political/noble stuff like actually enjoying craftsmanship like Francesco. I also don't mind Bona, she is pretty chill too. Lucy on the other side, too annoying and childish but the most likely to be the second Concubine, I kinda get why she really want to be a concubine but she is pushing it too much to my liking.
 
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Aren't they forgetting that their power has the Ace in the hole in the fact that every so often they are able to go to Earth?

Even just one trip back and forth will allow them to bring back a lot more in depth knowledge and massive technological advancements that will completely eclipse every other country if they want to go that route.

So if the twin kingdom somehow became the dominate power in the region somehow in 30 years all they would need to do is just hunker down in till the stars align again
 
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" For your second concubine, I will accept you taking in a person from the Twin Kingdoms. "

Ummn, don't you mean order?
 
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I hope it's not Lucrezia, I really dislike her, but it probably will be
 
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That is also one of the key reasons I like the light novel Sevens. Easy recommend if you can find it.
Sevens (seems like the official localization may be "Seventh" tho?) is BY FAR my favorite WN/LN & pretty strongly in the running for one of my favorite book series in general. The story was GREAT IMO & it subverted & played w/ a great many of the "normal" 'Fantasy Harem Builder' tropes. My favorite part of the whole Harem dynamic is that there was legit factions & infighting between subsets of the harem members. They weren't all lovey dovey and/or Kumbaya w/ each other; some of those chicks legit HATED each other; I'm not sure I can recall seeing that on display in any similarly-premised story. Just a few months ago, I was rather surprised when I discovered that the writer for Sevens was the same author as a couple of other stories I was very fond of (those being the "Otome game is tough for mobs" series & the "Evil lord of an Intergalactic Empire"), which felt relatively similar to each other, but were so wildly different from Sevens that I had no idea it as the same writer.

Tip of my hat to this author. Just putting out all kinds of good stuff.
 
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Sincerely? I prefer princess Margarita, I can't remember if she was actually a princess or if she was already married, but i really liked her demeanor and how she was outside the political/noble stuff like actually enjoying craftsmanship like Francesco. I also don't mind Bona, she is pretty chill too. Lucy on the other side, too annoying and childish but the most likely to be the second Concubine, I kinda get why she really want to be a concubine but she is pushing it too much to my liking.
Princess Margarita is far from the line off succession because she married a low ranked noble even though she's actually high up by birth right. Probably one of the best candidates if she wasn't married. No polyandry shown so far.
 
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No polyandry shown so far.
Highly unlikely because of the genre conventions, possibly some self-insert restrictions from editor/manager, but give it a chance and I could see some of the ladies breaking the long-held traditions. It's just harder to pump out heirs with multiple partners when the head of the harem has a 10 month limit per partner.
 
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Politically-driven harem. I guess I can cross that off my manga bingo list.
 
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For those of you that dislikes her... Well I have some bad news for y'all. Zenjirou openly admitted that she's the only safe option since she's proactively trying to court him
 

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