Fran continues to be the cutest non-isekai protagonist in an isekai. Her specialty of brutally mauling and restoring her victims is 10/10, and it never fails to be amusing. Sword dad hit the jackpot with his adopted daughter.
The only thing I could think of after seeing the 'Slash and Heal' was that she now has a few hands to lend and a few legs others could use to stand on.
Imagine if they were to get a torture skill and someone appraised them and saw it. Then they immediately jumped to the conclusion that the MCs are evil and tried to torture/kill them based on that. There is a limit to "MC gets a free pass at being a horrible person without being called out".
What I initially question is their logic and their hypocrisy. Imagine if the MCs (both sword and the girl) found another person with torturer or assassin skills and then jumped the gun and killed/tortured that person, but that person only killed/tortured other bad guys. They see a skill and then they say "yep, that person is totally evil, but not me. I can have ALL the evil skills and get away with being randomly called evil for the virtue of being the protagonists".
@angelusalvus they dont judge people by their skills, you greatly misunderstand this.
He checked or rather confirmed just his class and titles therefore he basically knows what he did to some extent, but the main reason he attacked in the first place was because this assassin tried to break into the room of 2 royals who were kidnapped once beforehand.
There is no point where she is a horrible person. She may be not the nicest person and no saint and all, but she does what she needs to do and what is according to the rules of her world. Torture may be bad even for criminals in our world, but in their world it isnt that easy. As long they dont go and torture random people your opinion is completely besides what the situation actually is.
It's pretty much a really agressive blue whale combined with a sailfish, and both still exist. ( it was about half the size of the ship, and that isn't a small ship like a fishing boat )
But considering its a monster that allegedly attacks ships, yeah people in our time would probably go out of their way to kill them off if they could.
That said, without magic it might be hard to do safely.
You would have to take into account its face scales are harder then mithril ( which usually is stronger than most none magic metals ) so it could probably sink a metal ship too if you get it angry.
I never really went over all of her skills in the novel(it's really fucking long ) but I don´t think she ever is going to get one.
The problem is that Fran really isn't all that good at torturing people.
She basically just cut off their limbs and heal it back again until they break from the pain.
it works sure, but it's super ineffective and she is one of only a few who could pull that off.
High-level healing magic like that is kind of rare.
Also...
Nobody would be able to able to tell because they are going to get an ability that blocks most types of detection pretty soon.
So many responses. Most of the people replying to me don't seem to realize that I'm not calling Fran evil. I'd say she's just rather amoral and savage in some pretty big ways. But she's still just a kid who hasn't really been taught right from wrong. She hates slavers and wants to kill and hurt them because they enslaved her and her killed her family iirc. Of course she's savage against such people.
"Fran is a horrible person for torturing people and shouldn't jump to conclusions"
Seriously? What?
In this case, we have someone with the "assassin" skill breaking into your house in the middle of the night, tried to poison himself when caught, etc. (What else could he be? Santa Claus?). And in the other torture cases we have blue cats threatening to enslave her which is not only a crime but her berserk button since blue cats have pretty much enslaved her entire race.
Also remember the sword can tell truth from lies. If said person WASN'T guilty, he wouldn't need to be all shady, lie, and get a few limbs removed.
@Dragou
I'm not against her killing or torturing in the situation, especially because she had to do it to save others. However, it's the logic they used to justify it that irks me.
@angelusalvus
I even explained their reasoning. They caught him red-handed. Thats why they attacked. Not because his skills.
And I guess skills mean to be decently good at something when it comes to such ohysical things. Like just because you swing a sword wont give you a swordmanship skill, because you dont have skill.
@Kaldrak Sword MC is still a sword. A sword drinks the blood of the righteous as eagerly as it drinks the blood of the guilty. That's what a sword is.
@Goldenzeal Tuna is a sought after fish all over the world. Although fish populations are also protected (or there are attempts to protect them), whales are still highly above them. Maybe because they are mammals, not fish? Who knows. Only a few nations still hunt whales, while pretty much all nations with water access fish. In our world the thing also would have just some bone to protect its head. It would be effective against wooden ships, to a certain extent, but ramming steel ships would give the fish a headache.
I made the assumption that it would magically be transported into our world with its magical properties intact, but imagining how magical creatures could work in reality is fun too.
If you want to make a none magical animal out of it then yeah, it would probably be bone or some kind of shell and probably would be not as dangerous... ya know...because magic...
It could actually still be made out of metal, but it's quite rare for the animal kingdom to actually use metals but they do exist.
A lot of biological materials are better than metals anyway and don't rust to give a few advantages. ( also if you want to be "that guy" you could point out that calcium technically is a metal)
An example pretty I'm sure everybody knows is that spider silk is stronger then steel if it was upscaled. ( imagine if we had spiders the size of cows, that would be pretty crazy... )
Also, a woodpecker can do some pretty crazy stuff because of how its brain is shielded from the impact force when it's pecking wood.
Nothing stopping the whale from having something similar to prevent itself from getting brain damage when it rams ships.
That said, an animal like that would have to have had some kind of reason to ram its face into rocks to naturally evolve like that...
So I guess you would have to make it a rock / metal-eating whale or something 😅 ( we both know that would most likely never happen, but hey... its fun to speculate. )
Could be, but there could also just be that there is no skill for torture.
Considering what you learn in some later chapters of the novel regarding how the skill system actually works, it makes sense that some skills just doesn't exist yet.
minor spoilers for like manga chapter 300 or so... ( its really far off )
The gods may or may not be artificial intelligences / the people from the MC´s earth. (it's not confirmed, but hinted to be true )
The gods artificially created the skill system, and because all "evil" gods have been purged or sealed from the system by the other gods.
( we only really know about one, possible two evil gods so far though )
All skills are made by absorbing memories from heroic people and integrated into the system so other people can use it later
( we actually get to meet a guy who has made his own skill in this arc IIRC )
So because the gods actively choose what skill to integrate and their pretty high standard for it, it makes some sense that your everyday torture wouldn't be good enough to be made into a skill.
You would need quite literally god-tier torture skills for them to make it into the system if the gods even want it to be there in the first place
( they have rejected stuff like nuclear power magic that's too dangerous and things they dislike so they could just be like" Nah we don´t like torture, let's not make it a skill" )
Also, just from observation but none magical skills are a lot rarer than those who are. ( but that could just be the confirmation bias talking )
