Shadows House (Official Colored) - Vol. 17 Ch. 179 - The Curse's True Form

[MangaDex]

 

[Goyal99Raj]

fuck yeah Olly, put it together so Kate and the others can work with the newcomers

they need an X factor to surprise Edward and the adults, and these newcomers could be it

 

[TestAddress]

Battle shorten

 

[TestAddress]

I wonder if Grandfather already is dismayed with his adults because they are imperfections too, like walking and talking corpses.

 

[3141592653589]

Today Oliver learned an important lesson about why all the good giant robots have got enclosed cockpits.

 

[zanonyn]

Thanks for the chapter as always! Relatively good outcome for the Children this time. Oliver team made an important and useful discovery, lost in a believable way but also while making a fairly impressive demonstration. It remains unfortunate they've been cornered into having to reveal things like Oliver's mechanical capabilities at all, but still that's one new comer saved and without bringing discredit on the Starbearers either. Plus exciting battles will draw attention which is the other whole point here.

Today Oliver learned an important lesson about why all the good giant robots have got enclosed cockpits.

Possible for those goofs yeah, but remember that Kate doesn't actually want the newcomers disposed of, which means under these rules she probably wouldn't want any of them to win outright. But just throwing the fight under the eyes of the 3F won't work either, they'll smell a rat. So all of them have to walk the line of testing in a believably challenging way, but not winning.

One advantage they have is that this whole format is so new and so are they. That should give some leeway, Kate can say the Starbearers aren't combat focused, that they're all inexperienced, and they are just testing not commanded to kill. Thus even though the newcomers are all totally fresh it's not unreasonable if the Starbearers lose. I've been worried a little about if they can really get away with 100% losing or if somebody will have to win. Now while that's still an unintentional risk, I think Kate has at least one out in terms of being able to blame Edward and say that they did indeed lose on purpose because they thought that's what the adults wanted, "more strong shadows for GGF! How could you blame us when you surprised us to?" Thus taking a dig at his management while also pretending loyalty. Still a fine line to walk.

Granted meanwhile Anthony is lurking in the background. That could be another wild card, one of the newcomers could be about to lose and get killed or reveal dangerous things, then he sets off an explosion in the main house or something that causes the whole test to get disrupted and distracts adult attention.

 

[Nunally]

fuck yeah Olly, put it together so Kate and the others can work with the newcomers

they need an X factor to surprise Edward and the adults, and these newcomers could be it

Depend on who approach them first/or the newcomer trust first. Because Chirstoper/Anthony already get in contact with them.

 

[Hikineet]

Thanks for the chapter.

 

[KZO]

I'm more for the first hypothesis because that would help the Emilyko x Kate relationship too.

 

[recklessribbon]

Thanks for the translation!

 

[LordofAlI]

Good job putting it together and figuring out their not brainwashed

 

[Joji_30]

Olly is quite analytic there concluding that the brainwashing was undone just from what happened huh.

 

[Coldlight]

Wow, Lulu & Laurel are strong. They do have to be cornered to fight, but those powers are potentially OP, more than a match for the adults in the right circumstances. I was wrong thinking they might be the Ram & Shirley 2.0 of this debut; if anyone's failing this it's more likely to be someone else.

 

[friendly]

Remember folks, core strength is necessary to keep your lower back healthy.

Also i really love Ollies speedy deduction tech there! And his ability to communicate with Olliver...

Come to think about it, the bit about becoming infatuated with someone because they're a reflection of yourself... I wonder if that isnt what we saw with Sara/Mia?