The Duke of Death and His Black Maid - Vol. 5 Ch. 62 - Viola Running From Home

[MangaDex]

 

[beweyen]

Endless

 

[shoker]

awwwww shiet bad feels inc

 

[sherish]

OOH SHIT

 

[enaxion]

Even though this is a light hearted slice of life show I can't understand how can't he feel the need to touch the people who rejected him.

 

[nfzeta]

@enaxion Oh given the dark undertones that pop up every now and then I pretty much figured he went through that phase of wanting to.

 

[Mnuchinboo]

Tbh he could threaten his mother with death if she continues to be a bitch .

 

[Kaarme]

@enaxion
Yeah, although they treated him poorly, at least he got a nice house and servants. He couldn't have lived among many people anyway, so he had to go. Otherwise there would have been corpses. If the main house wants to cut expenses, then he's going to have a big problem.

To answer your question, living with Alice makes him much happier than killing people.

 

[sillymangareader]

YABAI.

 

[jak]

Finally we get to learn more about his terrible mother.

 

[RedOnYellow]

This manga doesn't need to be edgy. The Duke is a nice guy.

 

[Markgraf]

Rob is so damn smooth. That Princess line was 10/10!

 

[Starbright]

Makes sense why his family abandoned him with a mother like that the duke might be lucky to not be under her finger anymore.

 

[Wordsmith]

@Kaarme

IIRC, the house he got was falling apart in places and a complete mess in others (and still is. IIRC, the areas we tend to see are the few they use regularly and as such had cleaned up and repaired), the first servant he got was half-blind and increasingly senile (and also chose to go with him, since he pretty much raised the Duke), the second he got was inexperienced and also chose to join him due to being in love with him (and potentially there being bad blood between her mother and the Duke's), meaning he only really has servants because the servants decided to work for him.

The main estate has been trying to pass him over in the line of succession (which is a major thing in any culture, especially if it deals with a noble title, especially if it's a title as high-ranking as duke, it's a huge insult, and is pretty much disowning him and kicking him out of the family all together).

Disinheriting someone is the sort of thing wars have been fought over.

Honestly, I'm wondering where his father is.
While the story is called the Duke of Death and people refer to him as Duke at times, he's actually just the heir right now. His mother can't do anything to his inheritance without his father getting involved, since it's his title and his estates.

 

[Wabewalker]

@Wordsmith

IIUC, the title of "Duke" is just an invention of the translator; the original manga is vague about his exact title.

 

[ShimizuA]

@Wabewalker The word that used in the tittle is bocchan, usually trandlated young master.

 

[riflow]

Spoiler

So we get to meet the worst mother now eh? The one who started all these poor kids complexes.

 

[kuma]

We go into mother now? Ok

 

[Tarage]

Viola is cute tho.

 

[Yautja]

Great another stereotypical evil, controlling, abusive but likely has a justified and logical reason for being a total cunt parent.