Though I May Be a Villainess, I'll Show You I Can Obtain Happiness! - Vol. 8 Ch. 5 - The Goddess Wants Me to Do It

[fanerik]

honestly would love to see this story fleshed out as a full series, this was so good and this has a lot of potential
kudos to the author and artist 👏🏼👏🏼

 

[looc64]

It’s unlikely that the prince and his child became commoners or anything

Probably a high rank noble at the very least. Just that He and his family line can no longer be royalty

Of course if it was a situation like King of Thrones loves doing then there will probably problems further down the line

Pretty sure that in a lost of inheritance systems there are tons of nobles who don't actually have their own rank?

Like if you're idk a Duke's younger brother then you're a noble and you're probably more powerful than at least some lower ranked dudes with titles but you don't have a title of your own.

 

[mahtan]

The answer for the last question is wrong, thus the judgment should have failed.
The correct answer is that she was banished for the crime of attacking her family and servants, or whatever it is that they pinned on her, since the question was which crime she was banished for and it doesn't matter if she was innocent or not since it doesn't change that she was banished for those crimes.

 

[Darrenb209]

Pretty sure that in a lost of inheritance systems there are tons of nobles who don't actually have their own rank?

Like if you're idk a Duke's younger brother then you're a noble and you're probably more powerful than at least some lower ranked dudes with titles but you don't have a title of your own.

They'd be Lord "Name" of the House of "Dynasty Name". They'd have less legal influence than a lower rank with an actual title but so long as the title holder backed them they'd have the defacto influence of the House standing behind them.

It's one of those areas where the formal legality and the practical situation differed strongly.

 

[looc64]

They'd be Lord "Name" of the House of "Dynasty Name". They'd have less legal influence than a lower rank with an actual title but so long as the title holder backed them they'd have the defacto influence of the House standing behind them.

It's one of those areas where the formal legality and the practical situation differed strongly.

Yep yep. Point is that even with no title at all that baby still sorta outranks at least commoners in practice.

Overall though it's situation is a mix of factors that would make your status way lower than it is on paper and way higher than it is on paper.

 

[JamieTMR]

The answer for the last question is wrong, thus the judgment should have failed.
The correct answer is that she was banished for the crime of attacking her family and servants, or whatever it is that they pinned on her, since the question was which crime she was banished for and it doesn't matter if she was innocent or not since it doesn't change that she was banished for those crimes.

Well... The thing is, it's more "What actual crime was I banished for? What actual crime did I commit?"

Iirc, it's better phrased in the OG short story, but still...

...The moment I saw the "first question" page, I went "AWWWHHH YISS, IT'S HERE, IT'S HAPPENING!"

Because folks are right, this story is peak, and very fairy tale like.

 

[mahtan]

Well... The thing is, it's more "What actual crime was I banished for? What actual crime did I commit?"

That still don't make the answer correct anyway. The "actual crime" was still the one pinned on her anyway, that doesn't change because the action was done and the sentence fulfilled, and the second one is a sixth question so it would be invalid by the rules set by the story.
Again it doesn't matter that the accusation was false and she was innocent, what matters for the question made is what happened at the time and which crimes were pinned on her since the banishment was carried on the assumption she was guilty of the crimes.
This is a question of "truth" and not of "justice".

 

[Mivy]

Loved this chapter

 

[Meo]

I really liked this one. Because she really did do everything herself. And although she's "kind" she's not a doormat.

It's weird that the sister would not go ahead and purify it herself when she saw how things were going. Supposedly she was not doing it due to her health, but it's far worse for your health to lose your head. Unless her having holy powers was also a lie, but it's hard to believe they were able to fool the church too into declaring her a saintess.

I assume there a difference in power. Purifying a whole city and resting for 5 days to recovery is probably not a "normal" thing. Perhaps the sister was able to purify say...a gymnasium full of people, that power could still be consider the power of a Saintess but it takes her a month to recover.

 

[xXPenisXx]

Disinheriting the prince and his completely blameless children soured this one for me. The executions also seemed out of proportion but are at least defensible I guess.

 

[parkourse]

unironically the five-question framework was really fucking cool

but as Shiden mentioned:

The weakness in this story is that with a perfect lie detector, all they really had to do is submit any initial testimony to the same scrutiny.

For any crime whose punishment is above a certain threshold, allow the accused to defend themselves before God, with a massive increase in penalty if they are found lying.

"I am innocent of the charges leveled against me"

"TRUE"

Boom. Problem solved.

 

[Log_in_Name]

I kinda feel bad for Kaizen, cause he's more or less being fooled, lied, and used.
But at least after being called out on page 27 he start to accept his own mistake, and own it.
In the end his action also more or less help Meylin clearing her accusation.

That's his fault, and the problem itself.
He is the crown prince, the next king, and yet he is fooled this easily, all it took was some digging here and there. He failed miserably at his job, and wronged a woman so bad he basically sentenced her to death, written off as an exile [Remember what black haired dude said, he left her her to be eaten by monsters].

 

[Wataterp]

So they never checked to verify if the step sis was ana actual saintess? Incompetent

 

[blackLuna]

Based on the chapter title and the first few pages, I thought the twist would be that the goddess ordered Meylin to play the role of villainess for some reason, and the sister knew about it. Still a really good chapter compared to the last few.

The worst villain in this one has to be the Duke, who for some godforsaken reason decided to allow his step-daughter to pull this shit off rather than helping his blood-related daughter. If they were half-sisters I would've bought it more. Maybe the stepmother provoked the situation, but she wasn't even mentioned in the chapter, so who the hell knows what her involvement was.

I'm reasonably certain that they are half-sisters.

Both Japanese and Korean seem to use the same terms for siblings who are not fully related (translated into English as half-siblings, stepsiblings, adoptive siblings, foster siblings, and siblings-in-law), as opposed to full-blooded siblings. And the same terms for legal parents (translated as stepparents, adoptive parents, foster parents, and parents-in-law), as opposed to biological parents. At least, colloquially.

Both languages also have specific terminology, but translators (especially second-language English speakers) and MTL alike can mess up due to the differences in lexical distinctions.

Other common examples of such differences include noble and royal titles, horse-drawn conveyances, dinning spaces, domestic workers, and junior/apprentice/training classes of individuals.

Thus, translations frequently speak of "stepsiblings" or "siblings-in-law" who share a parent, "female kings, dukes, etc." (rather than "queens regnant" or "duchesses suo jure"), "luxury wagons," "restaurants" inside private homes (it's supposed to be a dinning room), "head maids" (the actual term is "housekeepers"), "personal butlers" (that would mean "personal head-of-servants" — the intended term is "valet"), "apprentice maids or butlers" ("scullery maids," "hall boys," and "pages"), and "apprentice knights" (the intended term is "squires" — you can never have "apprentices" without apprenticeship; there are separate terms for some training-classes, when none is available, you add "-in-training" if distinction from regular/full members is necessary).

Now you will be almost as bothered by these gaffes as I am.

 

[Supperdude9]

Is the Stepsister INT 0? She manipulated things to get wed to the prince yet she was doing nothing when FeMC started these questions. Prince was saying there was an uproar. What was the stepsister even doing at that point? She should have made some attempt to stop more truth getting out. A manipulative person should have seen where that was going right away. I mean she got what she deserved but what the hell was she even doing?

 

[ngkn92]

Nice. MC actually abuses her OP power to do some villianous revenge.