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

[Anonymous0070]

I reread the entire story every couple updates and keep a light eye out for other people's conclusions I myself didn't draw. The take you're pushing back on is the most pervasive that isn't supported by the text.* People will truly die on any hill to pity insecure, dirtbag dudes.

I reread the WN from time to time because Remilia The Cold-Blooded Monster > * and frankly her casual, "It’s not a war crime if they deserve it" just tickles my happy place.
I circle back around to the manga when a new chapter comes out.

 

[oui_je_danse]

Tagging is shit, so it's not "fair". There are stories tagged as romance where the main couple don't actually become a couple at any point, or tragedy because the MC has one parent and the other is vaguely described as having died or left in a sentence or two.


So if I think it's gay if one guy hugs another, I can tag it as yaoi, under roughly the same parameter.

You described a love triangle. According to that definition, any love triangle that does not end up with a threesome is NTR or a complete wash, because someone is going to lose.

Well, obviously! At the logic we're at Yaoi is any time a piece of media 1) has two male characters 2) that talk to each other 3) about anything other than good ol' 100% heterosexual American football. Yeehaw! 🦅 😂

 

[fuuka_adachi]

To be fair there are stories that are tagged as NTR despite the characters not being in a romantic relationship. e.g. childhood friend, crush, sibling? (don’t ask).
I think for some it’s more about someone losing the person they love to someone else rather than the actual relationship status itself. Using that parameter I’d say this falls well within the use of NTR.

Then you mean it's NTR because Emi lost Will and all of her beloved friends at the first chapter, right?

Will already dumped Emi, so at this point, yeah, he might be broken-hearted, but not NTR-ed here. Sometimes people used the NTR word just wrong, I would suggest using the word "angst" instead in this case.

 

[fuuka_adachi]

NTR means cheating, adultery. Guys, please don't frame that on Emi, or Remilia.

 

[eminyan]

I honestly feel so bad for him since he was charmed, brainwashed, and manipulated into turning on Remilia by that delusional sociopath. Without Pina they probably would have solved everything happily and had their future together or atleast he wouldn't have been humiliated like this

Others have said this but if you’ve looked into the explanations for their behavior + his inner thought process, he ALWAYS knew Remi wasn’t truly guilty. Despite that, he literally confessed to being a witness of a crime… which did not happen. Even the damned king knew that his son wanted to knock her down a peg, not actually “correct” her wrongs.

Isn’t that, in itself, insane to think about? Someone who finds your attempted (alleged) murder not to be the main focal point, but rather their ego instead?

We even saw how he reacted when the second prince earned rightful attention for his political activity + Remi’s younger self who had to apologize for being better than him. If you look deeply into his character, his behavior has always been in line with his character.

 

[EldritchNeko]

It was a guy named Romano, one of the servants in the Graupner dukedom (Remilia's family) Remilia's bodyguard. It's one of many instances where Pina whored herself out to get people on her side. This Romano spread a rumor that Remilia made a pass at him and when he refused, she brought up and threatened his family to force him into serving her.

The same servants she bribed and bumped uglies with were the ones feeding her info on Remilia as well as sneaking out some of her possessions. It's how she managed to get Remilia's handkerchief for that fake altercation in the courtyard.

The reason Pina was so insistent on anal sex was to preserve her virginity for Will.

Damn. That's super fucked up, but also about as hilarious as expected. So, in the novel, did Remilia (or her knight - blanking on her name) happen to somehow get a recording of this or something?

 

[Kriosfear]

Damn. That's super fucked up, but also about as hilarious as expected. So, in the novel, did Remilia (or her knight - blanking on her name) happen to somehow get a recording of this or something?

Yeah, it's one of the recordings she collected with replay magic.

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