STORY SO FAR, if you want to binge only the latest arc, start with ch124 where shadow warriors was first introduced.
we are now in the empire special forces of magic (plus shadow warriors) vs serie's continental mage association featuring first class mages arc. motive is yet unknown but the empire is conspiring to assasinate serie in the grand ball during their national foundation festival. it's been established in earlier chapters of this arc that shadow warriors have been ordered by the empire to kill mages for a long time already (frieren is on their list) and not disclosing why.
it's been hinted that "kanone", the character with a long black ponytail from the special forces of magic, may be lineal, a first class mage undercover in the empire and was the one who reported the threat on serie's life. in chapter 131, she allows ubel and land to escape after getting captured.
the latest chapter (132) ends with most of the shadow warriors gathering, probably to have some sort of meeting to prepare for the assassination. frieren has also started making moves herself by imbuing magic/mana(?) on the coins she used to purchase from one of the shadow warriors (stall holder)
so far, on the empire side, we've been introduced to 10 shadow warriors (governor lowe, mercenary, barkeep, bar poster girl, sister, father, librarian, vagrant, stallholder, and blacksmith) and 4 special forces of magic (kanone, neu, weg, and captain phrase).
on serie's side, we have first class mages lineal undercover in the empire, frieren, fern, stark, sense, falsche, and ubel and land duo.
gluck, from the el dorado arc, denken's father in law and macht's master/partner in crime (my ship), makes an appearance as he was assumes he is to be executed for his crimes while governing weise. however, the empire orders him to go back immediately to weise where he will await his verdict and denken must also go back with him. gluck assumes this decision was made to remove denken from the imperial city due to some "political strife" (empire vs serie). he also mentions he's met phrase before and should have let macht kill her back then. (it's also established that land has encountered phrase in his childhood and that ubel bears the same likeness in power with phrase)
thus, denken is out of commission in this arc. which is fine since he's had a lot of screen time in el dorado. he's also in a weird position of being both an imperial mage for the empire and a first class mage of the continental mage association so both sides cannot trust him. however, he's leaning more on serie's side stating he "has no regrets being a first class mage". he also says he will "lay out the groundwork" before he leaves to weise with gluck which is probably related to his conversation with sense in this chapter.
there is speculation that the missing shadow warrior is the gorrilla warrior, sein's childhood friend so we might see him back in action?
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Lowkey thought it was the age difference was doing some quick math for a moment
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i stopped reading at ch 119 to let it marinate for a while and it was the best decision ever!
story so far: lloyd requests to see the endgame spoiler where he finds out that everybody dies in the next 3 years as if to follow the flow of the original plot (restoration phenomenon of fate). at the dragon king's suggestion, lloyd decides to find the truth gem (aotearoa) in the merman kingdom to find out how to defy fate and save the people he loves in this "program". he's currently on a mission to collect 5 materials to rebuild said truth gem which is actually a building. the last material is in seoul so he's going back there. lloyd is also slowly dying because winter heart is freezing his actual heart. father of dragon king says he will need to absorb eye of summer to counteract the freezing. new antagonist blood mage in cahoots with king of hell to kill lloyd. blood mage wants revenge for lloyd outing him as a criminal while king of hell wants to retire and have lloyd as his successor.
5 materials to rebuild truth building (missing page in ch151 describe this):
- tauranga (foundation of the castle, blood mage x winter butt arc)
- taupo (gangster centaurs arc)
- hauraki and takapuna (with tyrannus, father of dragon king verkiz, and creator of winter butt)
- Finally kia ora (with dragon king verkiz, but he sent it to seoul)
good time to end here and marinate again. loved all the arcs! next time i read he'll be off to seoul! see you in 1 year!
I wanna marinate this but it's sooo tempting to read it
lol a yr is crazy
I binged it and it was really good and I have so many questions
i find it so weird that we never see nam doha die. it always restarts from bada's POV after he dies and he just asks doha "how did you die?"
I'm still wrapping my head around the saving with cassette tapes. What does he save? I thought if he saved, he would restart the game from that save point but he always starts in the car again. Is he saving items? But he also mentioned one chapter that would need to redo puzzles in order to get the mission item again so it also doesn't get saved?? Someone mentioned that he's saving memories? Can't he just die and not save and lose or his memories and return to being a game character? Or is it because he's already saved so his memories will always retain from his last save point??
did him seeing doha kill a random villager trigger something? I'm so confused, will reread and patiently wait for s2
ok i just finished rereading and I understand the cassette tapes in the bags are actually a shocking revelation
ch11 p21 - bada: remember items don't count in the inventory until the game starts
ch8 p18 - bada: you can only save after the killer appears
ch30 p18 - bada: the save will only be recorded after the killer appears
ch13 p6 - doha: the tape already in the cassette player contains previous save data right? is it alright to throw it (old tape) away?
bada: yes cause the newer tape creates new save data. EVEN IF YOU KEEP THE OLD TAPE, IT WILL BE GONE IN THE NEXT GAME (session). why do you ask?
doha: just wondering. thought it'd be a good idea to keep a copy in case something went wrong.
ch22 p20 - doha: even if everything you say turns out to be wrong, I'm not leaving your side
seongchan discovers that doha is keeping two cassette tapes in his bag, one with yellow color (hyungshin's tape from the car) and another tape with green color. why the hecc does he have two tapes on hand and the green one has a check on it???
doha is so sus, why do i feel like he knows something about the game that bada doesnt?
and seongchan feels that the tapes look "familiar".
i kind of agree that maybe those tapes were tapes owned by other NPCs?
I think Nam doha doesn't die at all, considering how the cassette tapes are fully functional my idea is that he literally rewinds the tape and the story starts over
And Seongchan saw Nam doha use the tape to save in a previous run, that's why he remembers it, but what you said is also true I think
"im sure one of you mustered up a lot of courage to express your feelings" vol1ch5 flashback was included in this chapter (when narasaki french kissed chika o.o) so i went back and read the entire vol1 again (man the art has changed) and I'm thankful for narasaki's courage and motochika for falling in love with him too
the author has written their characters so well even back then, when you read vol1 they actually feel and have the same energy as two young high school boys and they've come so far now as adults in uni T-T
the closing chapter for this volume is just chef's kiss: natsuki turning down le high school boy firmly and finally, chika worrying about natsuki when the girl wanted to talk, chika learning how to make pancakes for natsuki, even kurisu becoming an actual good friend (despite the attempted assault) coming thru with his character development in their story was good to see
"kisses don't feel good unless you love the person you're doing it with" what kinda virgin ass logic is that
Eeeh i kinda agree with him on that tbh… like halfway anyway. I’ll still get kinda aroused if I’m kissing someone i don’t like but that’s mostly cause of the atmosphere? The actual feeling is usually just meh so i wouldn’t say it’s all that great.
Agreed …. Honestly I won’t kiss someone unless I like them. Kissing randoms or doing things with them is like self harm for me. Feels good in the moment but after I feel icky
exhausting but fulfilling read, the type of story i will probably only read once in my life. two broken people in a masterfully written love story with lots of drama that kept me holding my breath and cursing in frustration. to me, the uke was unlikeable in the first season with a severe inferiority complex and excessive pride but i was pleasantly surprised by his character development in the middle of season two. the seme was a violent lover but also slowly learns to control his aggressive love. i love that they learn to communicate more towards the end and they acknowledge their mistakes and imperfections. it was worth the read and I'm looking forward to the side stories.