As angsty and harrowing as all these new developments are, I do think it's kind of funny/ironic that Penelope didn't forsee this possibility with Eclis before now. Like, the whole reason any of this is happening is because girl got herself trapped in an otome game. Bad ends with an obsessed yandere are a pretty common feature in otome games. Penelope's gotta get good.
In all seriousness, I understand why someone realistically would forget about game mechanics when they're constantly afraid for their life, but still. Kinda funny that all this drama is still par for the course in a dating sim.
I mean there's no way she would know because she never actually finish the game since she keep getting executed. And she never knew that Yvonne is such manipulative bitch.
I disagree. Like the other person said. She never finished the game. She died every single time before the coming of age event. Eclis never became a yandere (wasn't twisted)in the game both in Yvonne playthrough while in og Penelope playthrough she couldn't have known.
Imagine getting isekaid in idk Code realize or Tokimeki girl side games. There are no yandere in this game (some say Saint Germain is a yandere. They're delusional. The guy kidnapped Cardia/mc because he was ordered not because he loved her). If you get isekaid in this very fluff, optimistic, raindow colored games you wouldn't expect the character to be twisted. Same way if you get isekai in an otome you haven't like Tengoku struggle (a new otoge coming this year), you have no clue how the characters will be.
I don't think initially in the game if you play as Yvonne (the super easy route) that there were many bad ends at all? It seemed that she was loved through and through by all the male leads too.
Yes I'd agree with the survival instinct really killing away all rational thought about game mechanics lol. Now it ain't as simple as 100% = clear
I shave to add too that Penelope never played otome games before this one. This is her first otome game that was recommended to her by a friend bc it was popular. And like said before in the OG game there was no yandere LIs. Thus she prob doesn't know this unpopular/popular trope in the genre
Ooo thanks for more context!
Yeah. In the og game. Yvonne's story is very smooth sailing with everyone spoiling and just naturally liking loving her. The only villain in the story was Penelope. We can assume Yvonne only obstacles are her remembering her past and birthright and surviving Penelope's bullying.
She did finish the game as Yvonne to unlock hard mode which was Penelope though? Just that she didn't experience it fully from Penelope's perspective.
And she mentioned how it was easy to win over the love interests as Yvonne, but no mention (thus far) of how the objective was completed
No. I don't remember where in the novel, but no. Penelope's playthrough was an expensive and money grabbing DLC. It shows once in the webtoon too. If Penelope dies in a bad end she has to PAY real money to restart. The Penelope's story is hard because 1) too many unreasonable bad ends 2) the Penelope micro transaction of og Penelope's playthrough discourage people to play it ergo there ARE no guide online = Reason why Siyeon (sorry if wrote wrong) keeps failing and never went past the coming of age event. He can assume the dlc was added later recently.
I liked the relationship between Iana and Isaac, but also it felt kinda rushed and out of nowhere. Iana already has, what, four(?) potential suitors and you're telling me that some guy who she hasn't even known for that long and who she was only using to further her own goal in the first place is the one she loves the most? That she would give up on 9 volumes of efforts to stop her sister from becoming the Saint just for this guy? Sorry, author, I did really like the dynamic between them, but you're going to have to put a little more time and effort into their relationship to get to me to believe that's something the main character would do on her own without the plot forcing her to do it.
Has it been known that the characters were in their late teens this whole time? Did I just forget because I originally read this through the fan translations a while ago? Does anyone have a chapter/page reference for when their ages were mentioned before the bonus chapters?? Because I had to do a double-take when I read that Shiki was only 17.
Damn, I forgot how much I liked this. Jericho very believable as a teenage girl. She doesn't act like she's secretly an adult and she isn't too immature either. She's really a great female lead and I can't wait to see where this story goes now that's it's back to updating.
Somehow, this is worse than if her kind family was just an act and was secretly using her the whole time. Seems like they all genuinely cherished Wisteria until the younger sister was in danger and then they all turned on her. The ex-love interest is especially nasty. The younger sister clearly loved Wisteria, and I genuinely can't imagine her being okay with marrying a man who told her beloved sister to die in her place. Not to mention, the asshole had the audacity to forbid talking about her and allow bad rumors to spread about the woman who loved him and also took his wife's place as sacrifice. I hope Rosalie divorces him - but knowing these types of stories, Wisteria will probably come back and forgive him and wish them happiness and absolutely nothing will be resolved in a satisfying manner.
Don't know about her divorce him, but it seems she keeps trying to block any mention of her because of guilt. I do wonder why they're calling her a criminal by saying she stole the holy sword. Since it chooses its wielder.
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH. I WISH UPDATES CAME FASTER BUT THANK YOU, TRANSLATOR, FOR THE WORK YOU DO.
I was pretty set on wanting Azure to be endgame until this volume. I still like him, but it's never going to work out if he stays as king, because he'll have to put the kingdom first over Nina like he does here. Nina needs someone to support her, and I think Sett does a much better job. That being said, I'm not convinced the author agrees with me. It's hard to think the endgame will be anyone but Azure, considering that the author describes him as "perfect boyfriend material."
I know Riftan is being an ass and he sucks for that but also I kind of love it. I don't think I'd enjoy Maxi's growth and her learning to take charge quite as much as I do now if Riftan was acting perfect and automatically supportive. Watching him want to protect her but be stupid about it and watching her want to help and putting her foot down and not put up with his well-intentioned bullshit is great, and I think the conflict between their characters and their desires is fun to see now that Maxi has grown a bit of a backbone.
I agree! I like him more as a character in the setting he's in because of his flaws, and they make a good backdrop to showcase Maxi's strength of character. Obviously in a modern setting he'd be terrible and you'd hate a friend to be dating him, but I think he's "realistic" within the realm of the story. And like you said, if he was perfect, it would be less "Maxi saved herself" and more "Maxi was saved by a big strong man". Nothing wrong with that, but it's definitely a common trope.
It is frustrating seeing Maxi upset though ╥﹏╥
I'm glad we got a happy ending for Hari and Moogil, but damn, there was so much more I wanted to see. I wanted to see Hari get introduced to Simon. I wanted to see Hari and Moogil go out and find his grandparents. It seems like Hari has decided to start acting again and I would've loved to see how she made that decision. But here we are at the end, so I suppose I'll have to be happy with what we got. Maybe we'll get lucky and there will be bonus chapters.
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