Shiosai no Lily - Vol. 1 Ch. 5 - Reunion in the Sea

[misopogon]

If Lily was a "violent badass pirate captain", Al would just put her down.

The magic of writing is such that you can create a scenario where he can't actually do that, and is forced out of his comfort zone of military orthodoxy to get into more complicated situations. Fascinating stuff!

 

[Beinmote9z]

i shouldn't have opened this comment section😭

It’s a pity that Lily was raped she certainly won’t be allowed to marry Alfred anymore.
Perhaps at the end of the story Alfred will marry someone else
Lily will be sentenced to be hanged for being a pirate. (

 

[ChancedPotato]

It's facinating how having the ML be the MC in this kind of story can make you see how kind of insane FLs are when you're not on her side. The usual cliche misunderstanding actually feels believable when you don't see the usual shenanigans the FL gets into before the ML misunderstands something.

 

[ChancedPotato]

Actually, now that I think about it more her getting attacked and maybe raped kinda ruined this story for me. I feel like the author jumped the shark or changed the entire tone of the plot, there will denifinely be no way for a happy ending now since it feels like the tragedy flag can't be removed anymore. I'm predicting it now, ML will commit murder suicide after she becomes too infamous for ML to let her live.

 

[UdenEmpati]

The magic of writing is such that you can create a scenario where he can't actually do that, and is forced out of his comfort zone of military orthodoxy to get into more complicated situations. Fascinating stuff!

Your scenario doesn't really gel with the first chapters of this series, though.
Sure, it'd work if you just re-wrote the entire thing from scratch, but that's not what we have.

And at that point, you might as well just say "I'd like this better if it were a different story".
And it wouldn't be better, you'd just find it more to your tastes.

 

[misopogon]

And at that point, you might as well just say "I'd like this better if it were a different story".
And it wouldn't be better, you'd just find it more to your tastes.

Oh, I assure you, if it were more to my taste, it would be better!

 

[UdenEmpati]

Oh, I assure you, if it were more to my taste, it would be better!

Okay.

 

[eren760]

So nobody is going to point out that her stupidness got two people killed in the first chapter who were trying to save them and she didn't feel a thing about them 😔😔
She was lonely because her CF wasn't there to play with her whose fault is that that happened.If she wanted to be with him why not join the navy like him and be with him most of the time.
I wish she didn't have a peanut size brain

 

[E45onmyWhip]

this girl stupidity is insane.

 

[E45onmyWhip]

anyways its meh.

 

[BlessedSushi]

Al's already stated that he went off to fight pirates to protect Lily.
But he's oblivious to the fact that in "protecting her", he's also actively "losing her".

And as I said initially - I think one sticking point that will factor into the narrative between them, is that Al has always failed to see Lily for who she is, and has always failed to understand what it is she wants from him and for them both. And that's with her telling him, repeatedly - but he just ...doesn't hear it.

As for the "mentally unwell" line that's been getting thrown around for the last couple of chapters - I push back against it because I don't think it's substantiated thus far.
She's energetic, she's got a childish streak even into young adulthood, but calling her "mentally ill" feels like a lazy writing-off of her character when we're still getting everything established in how she's gotten to where she has, over the years that were skipped between the first chapter and what's followed.
It's easy to say "bitch be crazy", but it's dismissive and unfair, this early in.

If the narrative itself portrays that she's actually insane or something, then I'll amend my judgment in light of that added context - but until then, I think it's premature and, honestly, a little problematic to just label the female lead in light of that.

Actually I think she may be mentally unwell, but not for the reasons others gave. Energy is one thing, but consider that now she's been brutally attacked TWICE, possibly raped, and she's showing no signs of slowing down. There's not a chance in the world that that wouldn't leave deep and horrible scars, added on to the fact that she feels abandoned by the one person she cares about. If we are to believe that she did the things she was a part of, then antisocial personality seems to be the tip of it. Her attachment to Alfred is also unhealthy.


But even with all that said, I love her character. All it would take for this to end is for Alfred to acknowledge her as a human being. Not a single time have we seem that happen. His view of "childhood friend" is extremely skewed.

 

[BlessedSushi]

This manga just reminded me of "Reincarnated" by Kendrick Lamar. "All I ever wanted was love and approval."

 

[RezaKingA]

I don't see where these comments are coming from tbh. Lily isn't a little puppy dog that should get depressed because her childhood friend "abandoned" her. Why is she even obsessed with her childhood friend in the first place? All of those years, she could have done literally anything else. The obsession in itself is a sign of mental unwelness. Her escapades as a pirate only prove that. I still don't want this to be a romance. The Male lead just seems like an innocent duty-bound public servant, and the Female lead is an insane siko adrenaline junkie who's needlessly obsessed with him.
Her obsession has already put them both in danger, it's gotten her brutally assaulted at a minimum (if not raped), and is causing a nightmare for the target of her obsession. It'd unironically stop her if the Male Lead moved on from her permanently. ML's dad should marry him off asap to end this madness. She's endlessly unlikable atp.