Thank you to Rosen Garten Saga Scans for all the quality translation work! Binge read this in two days and now I feel like I'm going through withdrawal from this manga...its that damn strong. What an incredible deranged masterpiece, like nothing else I've ever read. And I've read a lot of weird fiction and comics!
Have some ominous feelings about the future chapters for several reasons:
1) If the purpose of the tournament is really to elevate heroes to their full potential so they can go to the Rose Garden, what is the purpose after that? Human sacrifice à la Full Metal Alchemist? Its starting to feel like the whole thing has been a trap, and now the jaws are just closing shut. Giselher possessing the all powerful wish-granting Ring of Nibelung while also having set this whole tournament up with unknown intentions does not bode well for our heroes.
2) Lynn was last seen in chapter 68, having gone partially insane from fighting and fucking for centuries in Hildebrand's training simulation with a rape ghost trapped inside her head. The last image we see of her is Siegfried landing a successful strike. It makes me wonder if this was all a ruse for Siegfried to get a real body back. Almost every action he has taken in this series since the beginning has been motivated by his own selfish goals and there has been little to suggest that he has changed at all, as much of a charming douchebag he can be when he's trying. He really only cares about Lynn because she lets him use her body to have sex and she's a means to his ends. Mjinn's "If it weren't for this space, we wouldn't be able to trap a beast like this" in that chapter is a nasty bit of foreshadowing as well, although in the other direction. I have a bad feeling things will not go as originally planned.
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The Germanic stories ( Nibelungenlied, Rosengarten zu Worms, and others) the main plot is loosely based on ends with many of these characters dead. Arthur and Beowulf's deaths also figure prominently into their myths. Though I don't expect any level of faithful adaptation from this story, it is a little suspicious that none of the main characters have died yet (aside from Siegfried at the beginning).
Also commenters don't lie to yourselves, many of you have been thirsting for Beowulf's sword for months or years and would do the exact same thing