Though I May Be a Villainess, I'll Show You I Can Obtain Happiness! - Vol. 13 Ch. 2 - The Villainess and the Masked Knight

[The_Shadow385]

Always hurts my heart when there is a scene of a little kid trying to buy something that is clearly worth way more than they ever could have, but they just don't know.

 

[Cynic]

Cost just a hundred times more than what she charged, Sir? That's dirt cheap even in my modern world standards. We're talking about pennies from a little poor peasant girl afterall. A hundred times of that is still nothing.

Also, I have no idea how her parents exhausted themselves to death by having fewer customers.

Stress can do more than you think. Probably also more than what we are being told, something even more nefarious was probably afoot but our FL may not have known. Possible evidence: The way she's treated by most of the people in this story.

Anyway, that whole thing smells too much like the current climate. People being too nosy and reporting others? Law enforcement being corrupt? Yeesh.

 

[OSAITUS]

kind of feels like, if it had more room (more than 1 chapter), it could be better... but i like it, also like it that it did not end up with the two of them together... kind of wanting to see them bickering like friends a bit more, even the "the nobles weren´t caught" is like "we really want to make more of this"

 

[Raeandra]

Lemme talk to the snit—I mean neighbors real quick. I just wanna talk.

 

[rayto34]

It's not a mirror as much as an aggregator and also where many scanlators fled to following the purge of 2025 and the new Terms of Service. comick is somewhat unscrupulous, similar to bato in that they will host official translations (more or less flouting copyright law instead of skirting it). So what is more accurate is that your work is being scraped / stolen to be hosted there.

sadly its one of the better aggregator in amount of chapter and availibility overall. some of flaw I found is just the fact that some series isn't getting updated. bato and 1 other site I wont name is probably the only site with more complete chapters of very specific manga I was looking for

 

[kucchi-desu]

I like the line about not knowing true malice. The rest of the story though...was there actually one? Feels more like the author had an idea but didn't bother to flesh it out. Can't even ship the MCs with so little to go on

On the plus side, the art is serviceable and the little girl precious

This is what I also felt. I feel like this story could've benefitted more from adding more depth but I guess the lack of more pages to use limited them.

 

[Hakurei06]

I feel like there's room for actual 'villainy' in this plot. it's one thing to fleece some rubes, but if they're willing to come to your store, they probably aren't doing too badly unless they're acting on social pressures to spend beyond their means. like sure, the odd idiot or two will bankrupt themselves shopping at your store, but by and large, living off the largess of the filthy rich isn't really revenge, right?

Like sure the money goes to a good cause, benefitting the disadvantaged, but I'd find it way more on-brand to use it to undermine the nobility. either as a class or targeted at the worst offenders. done right you can help out the underclass as well, but using the money to fund charities and orphanages feels like a bandaid solution unless it was a secondary goal in pursuit of some other objective, like bolstering the church or mercantile class.

i mean, yeah, it would have taken more pages than the author probably had to show all that, but hinting that her charity money incidently funded some shifty but scrupulously legal political maneuvering involved in the downfall of some houses wouldn't take up more than what we got here.

 

[Ovnidemon]

I kind of wish that the little girl would appear in the end, that she understood it was all a lie

 

[burnpsy]

I was honestly more invested in the story of the kid than the main characters here.

 

[hihighhullo]

Even for a one-shot this story was all over the place

 

[TheGodEmperor]

Would sure like this to get way more tbh maybe not super long series, but long enough like One Within The Villainess

 

[Jayswing103]

I really don't know why, but this just really gives me Fuufu Ijou Koibito Miman vibes.