Tensei Renkin Shoujo no Slow Life - Vol. 1 Ch. 4 - The journey toward the royal capital continues...

[Upro2021]

thanks for translating!
it looks fun so far

 

[Odious1]

She doesn't know her worth and, frankly, for a story, it's a bit idiotic. "3 meals and a nap????" Fr?! Lame af! Meals; my own castle; a resonable but HIGH amount of riches (basically, give me what I'm truly worth as the ONLY alchemist in the world); the highest security available; a guarantee of a lazy, healthy, happy and SAFE life for all me and mine's existence! That's how it's done! If you don't do this in the story then it doesn't match what a REAL person would do. If you can't match irl then you're story doesn't relate to reality, aka us real folk. If you can't relate to irl then your story, character, or your characters actions have zero basis, so they can only come off as complete and utter bullshit. That's storybuilding 101, just sayin😙

 

[Odious1]

"Look, you dont seem to understand your worth. You can be titled Master Apothecary." His next actions: drags her away by the collar... brah... 😮‍💨. These two things don't match, at fukn all. Ntm, her mentality is that of a 4 year old. If she is held in such high regard, why would it be okay to drag her away by the collar? Would a knight actually do that to an ESTEEMED GUEST?!Would someone from a civilized Earth nation be okay with that😑? No; are you fukn kidding me; and fuk no! So, wtf? Is she tarded? It's the only logical explanation. That's how the writer wrote her because they don't know how to put a proper story together. Anyway, I'm off this train wreck. This writer can't write for shit. The mc is just some goof going along for the ride that the author forced on her character and on the entirety of the story. That's not fun to read, it's just a pile of author forced dogshit (which, isn't even a proper story to begin with)😒.

 

[RedJacketGuy]

Don't know if it's a translator or an author thing, but I just can't get past "Count of Marquisate". Someone proofed that and thought "Yes, he's Count Fahrenheit, lord of Marquis's Territory."

 

[Izaya_Onisai]

That bastard really is rude how dare he hit her... she really learned nothing from her past lifes she should demand the best treatment and never let herself be anyones servant work for yourself and hire people for everything you need.

 

[Kaarme]

I kinda like to see one that is realistic scale for once. Medieval cities were actually small.

Depending the country. Paris in 1400 had over 200k people. London a little over 50k. Stockholm less than 10k. Looking at the small capital in this chapter, I'd say the population of the whole country has to be on the low side.

But then again, the author of this manga is an airhead, so maybe we shouldn't trust too much in what we see.

 

[titundo]

Don't know if it's a translator or an author thing, but I just can't get past "Count of Marquisate". Someone proofed that and thought "Yes, he's Count Fahrenheit, lord of Marquis's Territory."

Yup, I look at "Gerhardt von Fahrenheit, Lord of Marquisate's Domain, Count of Marquisate" again and again trying to make sense of it.

Generally, the hierarchy goes Duke > Marquis > Count > Baron so "Count of Marquisate" makes no sense. He's either a Count, who controls a county, or a Marquis, who controls the marquisate (and possible counties directly). If he is to be "Count of Marquisate", he's merely a count in the marquisate, but in no way can be the lord of the marquisate. "Count of Marquisate" would be like saying "Prime Minister, the President of the Presidential Republic".

Plus, is it the translators or just Japanese quirks, but what the hell is "Lord of Marquisate's Domain"? A marquisate is either the rank of the marquis or the territories controlled by the marquis. Marquis (not "Count of Marquisate") Gerhardt, "Lord of Marquisate's Domain" is saying "Gerhardt, the marquis, the lord of the territories controlled by the marquis". Again, it's like saying "Donald Trump, President of America, president of the territories presided over by the President of America". Instead, "Gerhardt von Fahrenheit, Marquis of Wherever" is enough. Probably most famous for Americans would be "Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette", or "Marquis of La Fayette", not "Lord of La Fayette Marquisate's Domain".

 

[Tavero]

how... how do you even manage to overwork all experts in a field through mere simple market-demand? Why did they not simply start limiting their output at what was comfortable, likely raising prices to match, and live cozy lives where they work 2 hours per day and make bank?
Particularly the later ones who saw what was happening and held all the leverage.

I find it doubtful that an entire highly advanced art (which she describes as "millennia" being too little time to reach middling potion-levels, while in her time they could do much better) would be monopolized by a single nation, and can disappear with it falling. But even if it were monopolized by one, then the alchemists would simply not opt to get overworked to death. They would find greener pastures, emigrating to other countries (again, doubtful noone had already in the entire span of that art) or simply finding other jobs until they can work as an alchemist again without the state forcefully working them to death (and it must have been capital punishments, as otherwise many ppl would simply opt not to work that hard).

Mangaka needed a reason to make the protag shine so he pulled one out if his ass.
A witch hunt of one overzealous pope or king would be much more believable than overworking every single alchemist.

Reminds me of the DnD Darksword series where a whole caste/type of mages died out because their magic "forecast" was story breaking powerfully. Essentially a perfect vision of the future, sometimes centuries in the future.

At least there they died out because the magic was inherited by an recessive gene and visions that are are further in the future and more accurate were able to turn the caster into a vegetable or even kill them.