Shirobuta kizokudesuga zensenokiokuga haetanode hiyokonaotoutosodatemasu - Vol. 2 Ch. 6
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I was pretty sure that the kid's soul absorbed the adult but the ideas and thoughts he has are wildly inconsistent with this idea. He goes kids books must exist but that makes sense only if the primary is the adult from our world and not the kid.
He also goes the education level of the territory is low and that's a disaster even though Rottenmeyer is specifically saying this is normal. It doesn't make sense for his reactions to be this way if the kid is the primary soul.
He also goes the education level of the territory is low and that's a disaster even though Rottenmeyer is specifically saying this is normal. It doesn't make sense for his reactions to be this way if the kid is the primary soul.
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I agree, I want to believe it's a kid with memories of his past life but the story is making it about a typical reincarnatee. Feel like the author is forgetting the kid comes first
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It's a common trope really; the one reincarnating does so in a young child, who has few memories to start with (what are your earliest memories from?), who has suffered from neglect and is basically a blank state.
The main reason he's a strange child is not that he doesn't know basic things like who are the gods, because the kid had no education prior to the elf tutor so it's normal that he knew nothing, but that he is clearly educated (with reading and calculation thanks to his previous memories) while lacking all the knowledge of this world that would usually come with such education (because you don't teach reading and writing in a vacuum, it comes with reading books and summarising them or introducing various subjects such as the god to have something to talk about).
The kid was neglected by his parents and was raised by servants who were always bending to his whims and tantrums, so he was sheltered. He also grew fat because he overate, partly to comfort himself and partly because there wasn't anything else to do. I doubt he's ever seen anyone outside of the mansion he lives in so he knows absolutely nothing about the world besides what he's currently learning from his tutor and asking questions to the servants and can only make assumptions by referencing the memories from his previous life.
It's a common trope really; the one reincarnating does so in a young child, who has few memories to start with (what are your earliest memories from?), who has suffered from neglect and is basically a blank state.
The main reason he's a strange child is not that he doesn't know basic things like who are the gods, because the kid had no education prior to the elf tutor so it's normal that he knew nothing, but that he is clearly educated (with reading and calculation thanks to his previous memories) while lacking all the knowledge of this world that would usually come with such education (because you don't teach reading and writing in a vacuum, it comes with reading books and summarising them or introducing various subjects such as the god to have something to talk about).
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The common trope is specifically the opposite of what I'm saying. In the common trope the previous life entirely subsumes the existence of the current life because the previous life usually just had a larger existence/experiences. They rely on the common sense and expectations of the previous life because fundamentally they are the same person they were in the previous life just in a different body.
The impression this story gave me was that the kid entirely absorbed the previous life. This is not an adult in a kid's body, this is a kid in a kid's body with some extra memories and experiences. Ageha even refers, on a few occasions, to the memories from the past life as being a separate entity from themselves. Chapter 1 even specifically says Ageha devoured the memories of his past life. In chapter 3 at several points when referring to something from the past life and it's relation to him he uses "I" instead of I. Making a clear separation between the him of right now and the him of the past life. Ageha expecting kids books to exist for no reason and thinking the low education level being a disaster despite what Rottenmeyer is saying is inconsistent with this portrayal. These two things only make sense if the previous life version of Ageha was the main controller or he is arbitrarily unable to separate himself from these bits of knowledge despite it not being a problem previously.
I'd say you misunderstood.
In the first chapter, page 5, he states that his mental age is that of a thirty year old. On page 9, he states that he is no longer his old self but this is ambiguous. Does he mean that he is no longer his previous life? Does he mean that he is no longer his kid self? Does he mean both, that he is no longer the kid nor the past self?
As you say, from chapter 3, we can clearly see that he does denote a difference between his current self and his previous life.
From that, my conclusion to the previous ambiguity is that he's both no longer the kid and no longer his previous life; he is something new, a product of both memories and experiences existing in his current body.
I will add that, in chapter 3 still, he is shown having trouble going through the memories of his kid life; it's all hazy to him and a smaller part of his current self.
So from what I see, he is very much following the common trope. If he was still a kid, who simply had knowledge but not a sense of self imported from his previous life, he'd still be throwing tantrums, he'd remember the recipes and think to recreate them because he wants to have a new experience of tasting this food from his memories. He'd act in awe at the taste because it'd be a new experience for him. But it's not, because all the experiences from his previous life are now a part of his current self and of course they'll have changed him. He has consistently not been acting like a kid from the very beginning.
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Honestly, I like this approach to introducing things from his past life. He doesn't just try to do things, but he instead asks questions to approach the subjects obliquely.
This is further reflected in the people around him. The chef, for example, didn't react to the idea of a savory pudding with awe upon being asked about it ("What a genius idea!"); initially, he texted with amusement, ("What interesting ideas children have"), and then with intrigue after being asked if the only go well with salt ("I hadn't thought about it like that before"). It feels much more natural, like the chef could have gotten there by himself, and the only reason he didn't was due to conventional wisdom; it took a slightly different line of questioning to move his thinking from "Why would you do it that way?" to, "Well, why not try it?"
Everything that we know about the world today came about because someone asked themselves that very question. Some of them even lived long enough to tell us!
This is further reflected in the people around him. The chef, for example, didn't react to the idea of a savory pudding with awe upon being asked about it ("What a genius idea!"); initially, he texted with amusement, ("What interesting ideas children have"), and then with intrigue after being asked if the only go well with salt ("I hadn't thought about it like that before"). It feels much more natural, like the chef could have gotten there by himself, and the only reason he didn't was due to conventional wisdom; it took a slightly different line of questioning to move his thinking from "Why would you do it that way?" to, "Well, why not try it?"
Everything that we know about the world today came about because someone asked themselves that very question. Some of them even lived long enough to tell us!
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Since the emperor said that he can do whatever tf he wants, sensei better adopt our piggy boi 😭😭😭😭
Regulus is such a sweet child.
Regulus is such a sweet child.
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