Villains Are Destined to Die - Vol. 1 Ch. 23

[MangaDex]

 

[jumbowlshrimp]

I’m here

 

[cucunya_inosuke]

♡

 

[rlackbabbit]

I wouldnt mind being choked like that, by him specifically

 

[Firemorfox]

I dunno if that chokehold is hot or impressive. Maybe both. Like, dude's tied up and can still beat you up, nice!

 

[ItsHanabi]

I shall rejoice in all the upcoming Iklies scenes

 

[Inori]

I'm lowkey disgusted at how little the authors care about financial matters in their works. 1 million? 10 million? Pfft, whatevs, it's just fictional currency, right? Oh look, my finger slipped, and she's bidding 100 million gold now.

You know what, I don't usually nitpick like this, but let's assume we're talking real gold here. Let's also assume one coin only weighs 3 grams (which is pretty light, even by modern standards, I used my own country's currency as a reference point). So the MC just casually dropped 300 tonnes (660.000 pounds) of gold in the hands of slave traders. Just 'cause.
What the hell, why am I even so obsessed with this...

 

[LilMato]

haha getting choked to death by thighs, what a way to go 🤤

 

[defianze]

Well , I guess gold is not a precious metal in their world ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[skyenets]

ngl, wish that was me between his thighs 😳

 

[Leonhart93]

@Inori You're right, that type of ludicrous spending always irks me off. I have no idea how much that money is worth, but we can assume 10 millions is a lot, since once that bid was done no one wanted higher.
So 100 millions is a stupidly huge amount that no one in his right might would just burn them, when like 20 millions might have done it just the same.
Her line with "I wanted to bid 10 times from the start" also proves that she has about 0 ability for bidding and she's just admitting to just throwing numbers around since she can't be bothered to think about it, but that might be besides the point 😂

Finally, what this demonstrates is:
1. The author s*cks at keeping the suspension of disbelief
2. It's incredibly easy to throw away money you haven't worked for (or actually even seen).

 

[gum_rummy]

Some of you thigh guys need help. Lol.

Inori and Leonhart, you’re both right.

 

[Ghost_Bear]

Thick thighs save lives gang✌😌
And yeah the money scaling is wack, Imma just turn off my brain

 

[MeAKAErik]

Highest bid is 10 million, about to sell when she says 100 million. Why? Cause hurr durr derp dee durr durr durr big numbers are cool. Nice job wasting 90 million gold of your father's money. I'm sure that will curry her lots of favor with the people she is worried about literally murdering her.

Totally unnecessary overspending aside, the values make no sense anyway. https://www.measuringworth.com/slavery.php estimates the average value of a slave in today's money at around $100,000. No wonder, considering the value they can provide in labor. Yet in the previous chapter, a slave sells for as little as 100 gold. As such we can have a rough currency conversion of 1 gold = 1000 dollars.

Consequently, she just paid the equivalent of A HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS for one slave.

Obviously the family doesn't even have even close to the equivalent of that much money to throw around. So it really is just a total, flagrant disregard for worldbuilding so the author can write down ultra cool big numbers.

 

[Scunt]

@MeAKAErik
Agreed spending that much gold for a slave is too much even 10 million is just ridiculous. I thought when I first saw it at the light novel it might've been a mistranslation.

 

[Althevia]

Why pay so much when you can easily get him for less? Not sure why authors act like reckless spending is cool.

 

[yuchiyo]

Woow. They really treated him so badly!!!

 

[Eviltwin]

Asian authors tend to throw nonsense numbers around.

In most of these settings, commoners can live for weeks if not months with a single gold coin and here we have an MC wasting millions.

Drop the million part in this story arc and bidding 10 to 100 gold coins, it would still be over the top but far more realistic.

 

[Lunarvclipse]

get you a man that can choke a guy with his thiCC thighs

 

[cococattsu]

yikes guys no need to compare irl bidding here, just chill out

also…

Spoiler

this is Iklies story and been part of the game

, so need to get pissed with Pene ridiculously bid on Iklies

Spoiler

that 100M is nothing when he got obssessed and sacrifice himself for Pene