Tensei Akujo no Kuro Rekishi - Ch. 49

[MangaDex]

 

[fuyukaisenpai]

thanks for putting in the work nice to see what's happening in this manga

 

[Slayer_]

thank you for the upload!

 

[mahtan]

What, in the five realms of the material plane, is even happening here?

(Really if anyone could do a TLR because I don't remember anything)

 

[SatchelBagman]

What, in the five realms of the material plane, is even happening here?

(Really if anyone could do a TLR because I don't remember anything)

Having just finished binging the intervening chapters elsewhere:

The fellows on Pages 29 and 30 are the Knights of Schwarz, a mysterious group that started showing up several volumes ago explicitly trying to get the Dark History back on track (in those explicit terms — they know how the narrative goes and are looking to force the plot beats that lead Konoha to become the Saint and journey to defeat the Demon King). Ventus was previously known as Officer Mika, a member of the police force that we met back during an incident where a duchess was kidnapping beautiful girls and drinking their blood (Iana was considered a prime suspect for the standard reason of Nobody Trusts The Villainess as seen throughout the series and also because Officer Cheneau, the primary face of that police force, was the older brother of one of the victims of Iana's activities before Konoha Satou reincarnated into her).

Iana managed to delay Konoha awakening her Saint powers for a whopping nine volumes before the Knights forced the issue during one of the History's apparent "natural" attempts to get things back in order: the Temple set up a series of trials to determine who would be named as the new Saint between Konoha and a character not in the History named Isaac Casablanca, an orphan raised by the church after a brief period of hell living as the known child of parents who were condemned criminals. To try and keep Konoha from becoming the Saint, Iana chose to aid Isaac in the trials; Aqua of the Knights of Schwarz was running a lot of interference around the temple during this time, including altering the third trial to trap Isaac in a story of his ideal world, which led to Iana uncovering memories of her time before her reincarnation when she entered the story to pull Isaac out of it. (During this time Iana and Isaac became very close.)

The culmination of that interference, and the tipping point that awakened Konoha's powers in the altered course of events, is that Aqua killed Isaac and threatened to reveal his background as the child of criminals to the people if she tried to tell the truth about what happened and didn't get the story back where it was supposed to be. To defend Isaac's honor, Iana took credit for Isaac's death and made an attempt on Konoha's life that resulted in her being shot by the police and falling from a balcony (with her body yet to be found classic Disney villain style), the distress of which awakened Konoha's Saint powers from seeing her precious little sister die.

Iana's memories also revealed that the late Countess Magnolia had received a pair of prophecies about her daughters: that Konoha would save the world, and that Iana would die and empower Konoha. The girls' mother wrote of these prophecies in her diary and hid it away, but a young Iana, on a hot streak of literally every attempt she made to do good and support her sister ending in tragedy, found and read of the prophecy right around the time her reputation as a villainess was starting to cement itself, and we see her at least once contemplate how the world would unfold if she were to survive and Konoha were to die. (That the Knights' title for the story depicting her ideal world where we learn about this is "That Time When the Villainess Defied Her Fate and Destroyed the World" should give you an idea of their priorities if the fact that Ventus killed Cheneau because he wasn't a character from the Dark History and therefore might complicate things if allowed to live while Iana is on the run didn't underline it.) We also see, in a flashback of Yomi's, that during the time when Iana was younger but still considered a villainess, one of her "acts of villainy" was eating all of a package of desserts given to Konoha as a gift, which Yomi learned Iana knew were actually poisoned, so pre-reincarnation Iana's feelings about her sister were evidently not as straightforward as everybody in the Rose Kingdom thought they were.

Now Iana's back in action with an eyepatch and a new hairstyle after recovering from the events of the Saint Trials arc. She had made plans to try and get the story back on track like the Knights wanted, starting with engineering the creation of Konoha's special weapon (in the original story she had threatened the creator Orochi into making it before she died, but that happened a little before the point where she was reincarnated, so she made plans to help it along another way only to discover that Ventus had done most of the work by threatening the lives of the creator's fellow researchers), but meeting with Mika, learning that he's one of the Knights, and learning that they won't even allow the Orochi's little brother to be spared (his death originally being a motivating factor for the Orochi to travel with Konoha on her journey) and that Mika killed Cheneau to prevent the story from being derailed (i.e. Iana changed the story to save the people she cares about and the Knights killed someone close to one of their members just to preserve the story) have all led to Iana deciding she's not going to play along anymore.

Other notable developments include:

Spoiler

It turns out Iana put in a request for ninjas to assassinate Konoha before her reincarnation, and although Sol's old assassin friend Ognis took care of most of them, the series of events necessary to defuse the bomb of "Iana's name is on the client list for hired assassins attached specifically to a request to kill Konoha" resulted in her blackmailing and/or killing all the other nobles who availed themselves of ninja services, including the ones who enslaved Sol and incidentally earning the dubious loyalty of the remaining ninjas (she has evil minions now, that's why nobody found her body when she got shot despite being unconscious for weeks).

Guinefort's old military academy pal/bromance Yatori Ranunculus, who is a doctor and practitioner of spirit magic (originally introduced in the Dark History as a point of drama to challenge Konoha's relationship while Guinefort was in a coma), had a tense introduction while Iana tried to keep him away from Konoha only for him to pivot his suspicions to her before learning they're both very similar in liking Guinefort and wanting him and Konoha to be happy; this arc culminates in either the first or second time we meet Agni, the first named Knight of Schwarz, who attempts to put Guinefort in a coma to get the story back on track. In the closing business of this arc, Yatori declared himself as a prospective fiancé for Iana. (Yatori was later kidnapped by the ninjas to administer medical care to Iana after she got shot.)

Sol went on an extensive back-and-forth journey on how much to trust Iana that mostly came to a head in the ninja arc, then lent his assistance to Iana during the Saint trials (one of Isaac's priest "friends" stole his priest license and Iana and Sol went undercover to an underground casino to get it back) and later swore an master-servant oath to Iana on his own initiative, which made her ordering him to kill her shortly before she got shot a bit of a twist of the knife.

Yomi has gotten engaged to the daughter of a nouveau riche merchant family with connections in the arms manufacturing business, both to feed his father's greed and for his own plans, and he's just shown up again in this chapter after a long time out of focus.

The Knights remain largely mysterious; there seem to be five of them, but we've only seen two (and a half?) of their members not cloaked and hooded/masked. Agni is still the most upfront of the bunch; Aqua has maybe take off his weird music-clown mask once and has mostly been seen in disguise as a hooded/veiled priest during the Saint Trials arc; we only learned Mika was Ventus at the end of that same arc; and Terra and Caelum have only been encountered in group shots with minimal characterization, the latter notably seeming to be the closest to the "Universalis" that they seem to be taking orders from.

A bit of a disorganized outline, but I think that covers most of the major points from the last 48 chapters of 30+ pages each.

 

[mahtan]

Having just finished binging the intervening chapters elsewhere:

The fellows on Pages 29 and 30 are the Knights of Schwarz, a mysterious group that started showing up several volumes ago explicitly trying to get the Dark History back on track (in those explicit terms — they know how the narrative goes and are looking to force the plot beats that lead Konoha to become the Saint and journey to defeat the Demon King). Ventus was previously known as Officer Mika, a member of the police force that we met back during an incident where a duchess was kidnapping beautiful girls and drinking their blood (Iana was considered a prime suspect for the standard reason of Nobody Trusts The Villainess as seen throughout the series and also because Officer Cheneau, the primary face of that police force, was the older brother of one of the victims of Iana's activities before Konoha Satou reincarnated into her).

Iana managed to delay Konoha awakening her Saint powers for a whopping nine volumes before the Knights forced the issue during one of the History's apparent "natural" attempts to get things back in order: the Temple set up a series of trials to determine who would be named as the new Saint between Konoha and a character not in the History named Isaac Casablanca, an orphan raised by the church after a brief period of hell living as the known child of parents who were condemned criminals. To try and keep Konoha from becoming the Saint, Iana chose to aid Isaac in the trials; Aqua of the Knights of Schwarz was running a lot of interference around the temple during this time, including altering the third trial to trap Isaac in a story of his ideal world, which led to Iana uncovering memories of her time before her reincarnation when she entered the story to pull Isaac out of it. (During this time Iana and Isaac became very close.)

The culmination of that interference, and the tipping point that awakened Konoha's powers in the altered course of events, is that Aqua killed Isaac and threatened to reveal his background as the child of criminals to the people if she tried to tell the truth about what happened and didn't get the story back where it was supposed to be. To defend Isaac's honor, Iana took credit for Isaac's death and made an attempt on Konoha's life that resulted in her being shot by the police and falling from a balcony (with her body yet to be found classic Disney villain style), the distress of which awakened Konoha's Saint powers from seeing her precious little sister die.

Iana's memories also revealed that the late Countess Magnolia had received a pair of prophecies about her daughters: that Konoha would save the world, and that Iana would die and empower Konoha. The girls' mother wrote of these prophecies in her diary and hid it away, but a young Iana, on a hot streak of literally every attempt she made to do good and support her sister ending in tragedy, found and read of the prophecy right around the time her reputation as a villainess was starting to cement itself, and we see her at least once contemplate how the world would unfold if she were to survive and Konoha were to die. (That the Knights' title for the story depicting her ideal world where we learn about this is "That Time When the Villainess Defied Her Fate and Destroyed the World" should give you an idea of their priorities if the fact that Ventus killed Cheneau because he wasn't a character from the Dark History and therefore might complicate things if allowed to live while Iana is on the run didn't underline it.) We also see, in a flashback of Yomi's, that during the time when Iana was younger but still considered a villainess, one of her "acts of villainy" was eating all of a package of desserts given to Konoha as a gift, which Yomi learned Iana knew were actually poisoned, so pre-reincarnation Iana's feelings about her sister were evidently not as straightforward as everybody in the Rose Kingdom thought they were.

Now Iana's back in action with an eyepatch and a new hairstyle after recovering from the events of the Saint Trials arc. She had made plans to try and get the story back on track like the Knights wanted, starting with engineering the creation of Konoha's special weapon (in the original story she had threatened the creator Orochi into making it before she died, but that happened a little before the point where she was reincarnated, so she made plans to help it along another way only to discover that Ventus had done most of the work by threatening the lives of the creator's fellow researchers), but meeting with Mika, learning that he's one of the Knights, and learning that they won't even allow the Orochi's little brother to be spared (his death originally being a motivating factor for the Orochi to travel with Konoha on her journey) and that Mika killed Cheneau to prevent the story from being derailed (i.e. Iana changed the story to save the people she cares about and the Knights killed someone close to one of their members just to preserve the story) have all led to Iana deciding she's not going to play along anymore.

Other notable developments include:

Spoiler

It turns out Iana put in a request for ninjas to assassinate Konoha before her reincarnation, and although Sol's old assassin friend Ognis took care of most of them, the series of events necessary to defuse the bomb of "Iana's name is on the client list for hired assassins attached specifically to a request to kill Konoha" resulted in her blackmailing and/or killing all the other nobles who availed themselves of ninja services, including the ones who enslaved Sol and incidentally earning the dubious loyalty of the remaining ninjas (she has evil minions now, that's why nobody found her body when she got shot despite being unconscious for weeks).

Guinefort's old military academy pal/bromance Yatori Ranunculus, who is a doctor and practitioner of spirit magic (originally introduced in the Dark History as a point of drama to challenge Konoha's relationship while Guinefort was in a coma), had a tense introduction while Iana tried to keep him away from Konoha only for him to pivot his suspicions to her before learning they're both very similar in liking Guinefort and wanting him and Konoha to be happy; this arc culminates in either the first or second time we meet Agni, the first named Knight of Schwarz, who attempts to put Guinefort in a coma to get the story back on track. In the closing business of this arc, Yatori declared himself as a prospective fiancé for Iana. (Yatori was later kidnapped by the ninjas to administer medical care to Iana after she got shot.)

Sol went on an extensive back-and-forth journey on how much to trust Iana that mostly came to a head in the ninja arc, then lent his assistance to Iana during the Saint trials (one of Isaac's priest "friends" stole his priest license and Iana and Sol went undercover to an underground casino to get it back) and later swore an master-servant oath to Iana on his own initiative, which made her ordering him to kill her shortly before she got shot a bit of a twist of the knife.

Yomi has gotten engaged to the daughter of a nouveau riche merchant family with connections in the arms manufacturing business, both to feed his father's greed and for his own plans, and he's just shown up again in this chapter after a long time out of focus.

The Knights remain largely mysterious; there seem to be five of them, but we've only seen two (and a half?) of their members not cloaked and hooded/masked. Agni is still the most upfront of the bunch; Aqua has maybe take off his weird music-clown mask once and has mostly been seen in disguise as a hooded/veiled priest during the Saint Trials arc; we only learned Mika was Ventus at the end of that same arc; and Terra and Caelum have only been encountered in group shots with minimal characterization, the latter notably seeming to be the closest to the "Universalis" that they seem to be taking orders from.

A bit of a disorganized outline, but I think that covers most of the major points from the last 48 chapters of 30+ pages each.

To be fair I am more confused now, the story is really contrived, but amazing resume.

Thanks!