The One Within the Villainess - Ch. 25 - The One Who Passes Through This Gate

[Nixhou]

We are eating so fucking well...

 

[AlecHero]

I feel bad for the Remilia's first fiance lol... Getting brainwashed only to watch your actual love being taken away.

 

[saltedp0tat0]

Something I noticed about the original work where Remilia is the villain is that the story itself is about the protagonist being the center of male characters. This work is something false Pina would be attracted to who chases after the love and validation of guys specifically and will throw any girl under the bus to do so. But "Remi", even though she is also a fan of the work, found sympathy for the story's most neglected character. Through Fate's twist, this "Remi" changes the entire narrative by loving the most powerful character of the story. Strangely, it is also about Remilia loving herself by loving Remi.

So when Remi fell into despair, no one knew it yet, but now they're facing the most powerful version of Remilia, a villainess who has experienced love, earnest and freely given. While I think Remilia is born with some kind of anti-personality disorder, her ruthless tendencies are focused on saving the world the way Remi would have had because that's what Remi wanted. And that's one of the greatest love stories I've read in a manga.

I just wish Remilia was also able to be known by others like Demon King Angel instead of him loving the mask. But Remilia seems to be content to give away her life for Remi so...

 

[Meo]

Angel really picking the best time to declare his love.

Page 18 just cracked me up. Pina's head being there like some magical disco ball illuminating Angel and Remi's love. Made all the more funny since beside her we got the devastated guys and I know in front of that sparkly ball is a psycho murderous face.

 

[saltedp0tat0]

I feel bad for the Remilia's first fiance lol... Getting brainwashed only to watch your actual love being taken away.

There is an extra chapter on the prince's perspective in which he wonders why he eventually likes Pina even though he feels disgusted at her actions of touching him even when he says no so many times. But when Pina starts accusing his fiancee, he takes it as a chance to humble Remi, who has made far more accomplishments than him as a noble. This has also been his flaw from the start when he rejected Remi for being too successful than him, but when he saw her cry because of it, he realized she was just a girl and accepted her back. It just turned into a problem due to the misfortune of "Pina" residing inside the Star Maiden's body.

 

[Meo]

I kinda feel sorry for the prince (and also a bit for most of the rest) though, he (they) didn't hold any interest at all for the b!tch before she used "brainwashing" charm potion and whatever else it was.
It's sort of like blaming someone for a car crash when someone else had cut the brakes on their car, it wasn't something they really could control.

I do understand that she feels betrayed by all of them but she knows those facts and that there's only one person (with the possible exception of some of the lesser witnesses) responsible, yet she insists on taking revenge on people (mainly the prince) who really can't be held responsible for their part in the events, I hate to use the term "victim blaming" but that's precisely what it is, basicly: he got drugged so that he couldn't think clearly, "set up" and lost his love. And that is somehow supposed to be his own fault?

EDIT: Ok... one person so far seems to think that someone who goes to a bar and ends up drugged and raped deserves to be dumped, destroyed and ridiculed

No. They still had their mental facilities intact.

Let me give you a real life example. You have a best friend that is very encouraging to you, s/he adores you and praises you to the sky and makes you feel good. You have a girl/boyfriend who's very proper, perfect, and straight A, straight lace. Your bestie tells you your g/f or b/f is bad mouthing them, tripping them, tossing them down the flight of stairs which is VERY AGAINST their personality.

Question...do you believe you bestie because...they make you feel good?

As you noticed he doesn't dislike Remi, he doesn't hate Remi. He wants to knock her down a peg. In fact, him and everyone else still very much love her. He's not some a zombie that's been drugged. He just can't bring himself to "hate" Pina but it's not like he doesn't find her exhausting.

EDIT: OK...so I guess maybe the Prince is a heroin(e) addict and Remi is his girlfriend that wants him to get clean. He knows she's right but he'd rather banish her and help falsely accuse her than to get rid of his addition.

 

[Dragou]

I feel bad for the Remilia's first fiance lol... Getting brainwashed only to watch your actual love being taken away.

It is honestly not suprising but also disappointing that this falso take appears AGAIN AND AGAIN. People and the ability to read and understand doesnt mesh with each other anymore.

Did you read the Story and Comments?
How often was it stated that they are NOT brainwashed and totally able to judge and control what they do?

So how does your false take appears here yet again?

 

[XionSteel]

ye, git some

 

[hiphopopotamo]

I just looked up "the one within the villainess novel" and it's the first link, its chapter 14. The chapters after that are the pov of the other romance targets. Warning tho, it will spoil the ending of the novel and it's not very well translated.

Here, it's machine translate to some extend, you are looking for is from ch14 onward

Thanks!

 

[ResinEM]

So how does your false take appears here yet again?

I mean, if Pina's "love potion" played no role in what happened to Emi, then why was it a thing at all? It must have had at least some influence on people's actions, or else nobody would care. I think Pina and her potion bear some responsibility for what the boys did, even if only a little.

Also, IMHO the story hasn't done a good job of showing exactly how the boys could have resisted Pina's "charm". Apparently they could have, but there aren't any examples we can point to. It would have been more convincing if there was at least one not-a-douchebag male character stuck in Pina's thrall that still managed to do the right thing when it involved Remilia.

 

[EchoGirl]

I just looked up "the one within the villainess novel" and it's the first link, its chapter 14. The chapters after that are the pov of the other romance targets. Warning tho, it will spoil the ending of the novel and it's not very well translated.

Given how compelling the story is i'm surprised no one's gone outta their way to re-translate it lol

 

[WereMuppet]

No. They still had their mental facilities intact.

Let me give you a real life example. You have a best friend that is very encouraging to you, s/he adores you and praises you to the sky and makes you feel good. You have a girl/boyfriend who's very proper, perfect, and straight A, straight lace. Your bestie tells you your g/f or b/f is bad mouthing them, tripping them, tossing them down the flight of stairs which is VERY AGAINST their personality.

Question...do you believe you bestie because...they make you feel good?

As you noticed he doesn't dislike Remi, he doesn't hate Remi. He wants to knock her down a peg. In fact, him and everyone else still very much love her. He's not some a zombie that's been drugged. He just can't bring himself to "hate" Pina but it's not like he doesn't find her exhausting.

EDIT: OK...so I guess maybe the Prince is a heroin(e) addict and Remi is his girlfriend that wants him to get clean. He knows she's right but he'd rather banish her and help falsely accuse her than to get rid of his addition.

So you are one of those people that think that the "charm" spells/potions/abilities in these types settings is nothing more than a slight influence in how they view a person?
He did a frikkin 180+ in how he viewed the b!tch, that's some levels of magnitude beyond "believing someone because they make you feel good", it's straight up brainwashing, he was unable to not trust the b!tch even though he just a short while before didn't trust her at all and unable to trust the girl he was madly in love with just before this, if you call that having their mental faculties intact then you're insane.

EDIT: Also, are you saying that he even had a choice in getting "drugged"? Because that's what your heroin addict scenario is implying. If so, it's the same as saying that someone getting drugged at a bar/party chose to be drugged.

 

[Hcheaz]

NOOOOOOOOO PLEEEEEAAAAASSSEEEE JUST ONE MORE, JUST ONE MORE CHAPTER, I NEEEEED TO SEE IT PLEASEEEEE

 

[Lazymesa]

Phew, almost done, hope the original star maiden is freed soon (I forgot her name). Thanks for the chapter!

Emi

 

[EchoGirl]

Emi

No, that's the one inside Remilia who is 'sleeping', the star maiden 'Pina' is inhabited by another earth/reincarnator

 

[FabioGross]

By the looks of it, just five or six chapters more to finish everything, meaning, three years more to wait and beg for new chapters

 

[sketchy333]

i’m getting edged so gard this is driving me insane. I HAVE TO WAIT ANOTHER MONTH FOR THAT CRAZY GIRL’S MENTY B???????

thank you for the translation, as always 😭🫶❤️‍🔥

 

[TheGodEmperor]

Looking forward to all the comeuppance coming. Also seeing this was #9 in top ten sales of manga in Japan was really nice to see

 

[kurosov]

I mean, if Pina's "love potion" played no role in what happened to Emi, then why was it a thing at all? It must have had at least some influence on people's actions, or else nobody would care. I think Pina and her potion bear some responsibility for what the boys did, even if only a little.

Also, IMHO the story hasn't done a good job of showing exactly how the boys could have resisted Pina's "charm". Apparently they could have, but there aren't any examples we can point to. It would have been more convincing if there was at least one not-a-douchebag male character stuck in Pina's thrall that still managed to do the right thing when it involved Remilia.

The boys were harbouring their insecurities, envy, spite and possessiveness before they ever met Pina. Individually they wouldn't act because they had to keep up appearances.

The real consequence of the potion is that it brought them together. They "liked" Pina enough to humour her actions. Letting her act showed them a weakness to exploit an opportunity to act on their desires towards R/Emi.

Had things developed without Pina's involvement those negative thoughts and emotions would have continued to build and they'd have eventually acted on them in a different manner.

Imagine if Pina never came along, the prince married R/Emi and then eventually became king. He's now in the highest level of power and nobody hold authority over him any more, There's nobody for him to fear and nobody to hold him back. Do you think the little shit would still be pretending by then?
He's probably end up faking some other charge against her to bring her down, imprison her and have the world think she's dead while he has her locked away as his personal toy.

So you are one of those people that think that the "charm" spells/potions/abilities in these types settings is nothing more than a slight influence in how they view a person?

The problem here is you're applying a non existent set of rules from some other story to this one to justify your take.
This isn't us thinking something about charm potions in these stories in general but how it has been explicitly stated to work in this story.

EDIT: Also, are you saying that he even had a choice in getting "drugged"? Because that's what your heroin addict scenario is implying. If so, it's the same as saying that someone getting drugged at a bar/party chose to be drugged.

One of the boys was completely unaffected by the potion, knew she was using it and still went along with the plan.
Your analogy with addiction does not fit the situation in any way at all. The potion wasn't addictive, it didn't change them beyond increasing how much they liked the girl.

 

[Lichon]

So sad I did not wait for more chapters, so I revel in full the agony of the Star Maiden, but at least I got the beginning - from my "first row VIP" chair