If she wasn't FOURTEEN I would've actually enjoyed that ending
It's not like it was implied they're a couple in this lifetime bro... It was meant to be wholesome that he gave her up and she was able to be reborn without memories and live another life and he's fulfilled to watch her be happy from afar. Chill.
Sorry, the version I know is the novel, and there their encounter in this life still leads them the same romance route. Guess I forgot the manhwa can be interpreted differently ╮(￣▽￣)╠my bad/gen
Now damn that's creepy. Gives Nanatsu No Taizai vibe and that already gives me enough ick.
I hate Persen with a passion but tbh if he's gonna turn crazy because of whatever's been messing with everyone's head, then he might as well beat some sense into his shitty dad while at it. It'll be the one and only time I'll be rooting for him lol
I laughed way too hard at his eggs literally SHOOTING out directly upwards like
Honestly, the FL here is so good I was shocked. A lot of these tropes of "girl becomes independent after having her heart broken" do a terrible job of having the FL have real and relatable ambitions, but here they're doing a wonderful job so far of growing her interests and showing her fascination for women's rights. Go feminism!!! Hell yeah!! Her little circle of supportive friends is also super cute to watch, I loved the jojo-posing lol
I'd say I'm liking the ML so far, and I can see in this comment section I'm a minority. Honestly, it feels a bit too much to get mad and call Caius (Keios?) a loser when he's still a teenager... like, he 100% deserves a lot more groveling since he was being neglectful of Nicole, but if there's ever any time for him to learn from his mistakes, this is it so lol I just hope he actually grows as a person and becomes appreciative of Nicole and her drive.
I'm no king of social awareness and social cues (human interaction as a whole, really...) so honestly I just can't get too mad when a character is shown to be genuinely unaware of what he has done. Like, as long as it's not malicious, it could always be salvageable ig ╮(￣▽￣)╠rn he is really delulu tho so I hope his character development kicks up a notch soon...
She's great, I agree. And he's the perfect counter in that he embodies EVERYTHING she's struggling against while professing he LOVES her.
His parents? no obstacles at all.
His friends? wholeheartedly root for HER
Schoolmates? genuinely in awe of her, cheering her on and protecting her PEACE to reach her goal
What's his contribution? Ask her out on dates, because he wants to make good on time he lost with her, while taking away from study time towards the final steps of her goal, not even noticing how selfish that notion is.
Does he notice her perseverance? Her bravery? Bullheadedness? Willingness to invest herself and apply herself with all her might and passion?
Even the testing rival looks straight ahead at her, while her fiancé possibly STILL doesn't know WHY she learned a language she didn't have to learn. Because he can't be bothered to ask and only reluctantly learns to let go of this notion that somehow, from now until forever, everything she does has to revolve around him. And woman working, women having ideas, women having dreams aside from marriage just isn't compatible with this.
So he better get his head out of the hole he put it in. I know he will, but he should like... start hurrying about it.
Personally his actions don't really come across as him wanting her whole world to revolve around him, or him being actually against her studying abroad or even working-- it's just that if she left while still not caring about him, he could easily lose her forever; especially since she has been mentioning breaking off their engagement quite a lot the past few chapters. And he has no idea how to win her over until her departure (and, tbh, there is no way he could considering the damage done). So I just see this as more of him panicking than being against what she stands for.
The thing about taking her on dates when she could be studying isn't that bad, though, because nobody stays too healthy by doing nothing other than study... so taking her on breaks from studying would be kind of sweet of him actually-- but unfortunately, he's going about it in the worst way possible. Because rather than trying to connect to her meaningfully in the time they have, and trying to understand/empathize with Nicole's drive and strong will, he's just trying to think about ways to buy himself more time. Which sucks, bc it's basically like he forgot the main thing here should be Nicole.
Knowing how storytelling usually goes in manga, things are probably going to continue this way until she inevitably leaves and he notices last second then tries to follow her abroad. Which is good, in the fact she's probably still gonna go, but also sucks because he's going to remain this blind for a few more chapters... but atp that's just speculation so.
I just hope he starts trying to actually communicate and connect with Nicole soon enough.
For those scared about the next chapters/the ending:
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There is one (1) minor misunderstanding midway through chapter 5, but it gets resolved before the end of the chapter. It ends on a fluffy note, and following chapters are equally as sweet (but also a bit raunchy lol). Only happy tears to shed here!
where to read the raw pleaseeee
you can read the raws on bato under the same name :D
I got the link for nH, but you could probably find it in other websites as well with the og kanji title
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https://nhentai.net/g/571112/
They're not raws tho, they're a chinese translation
i searched it on bato already, that's why i asked the op
thanks babe
Oh my good god they are so cute I think I might have a stroke
I think the harakiri was a bit unnecessary given that the village people showed up anyways but this looks very promising!! I'm excited
i backtracked to see it again and he didn't stab himself, he was stabbed by his family from the start. it just looked like he stabbed himself bc we didn't see his family behind him yet
i backtracked aagain, he did stab himself. and then got stabbed again lol
Yeah what a way to kick a man while he's down
Okay uh. Wow. This was one wild fucking ride. Like that is one damn bigass family drama-- I'm kinda upset at how easily everyone in the sea rabbit family just started accepting lions after going through the trouble of literally doing a surprise wedding for Towa and Hikaru like they were cheering after one page of monologue. I kinda wish the message was "if your family's against your happiness, forget them and just live your damn life", instead of it turning into this weird self sacrificial story for the lion clan.
Also, wtf is up with Hikaru and Towa's older brother? There was def *something* happening between them but why was Hikaru laying his hands on the brother of the person he supposedly has a situationship going...??? Not only that, but he talked out of his ass too, saying Towa was running away. Learn to speak up yourself before u start judging others, dude. You're doing literally nothing to get out of this weird ass situation yourself.
Literally the only properly supportive person to Towa aside from Issei (but also he got yoinked to Germany and Towa was avoiding telling him shit...) was Towa's dad for that ONE panel of him saying "you can do whatever I just want you to be happy" so now I'm just here wondering how he survived is that freaky clan. That entire clan is so fickle AND crazy it pisses me off; Towa should've legit just ran away from them and started anew with Issei. His dad and weirdo wimpy brother (I mean, he didn't HAVE to drag his brother in broad daylight while their whole extended family was nearby yk) can come too, I guess.
But. Anyway. This was a pretty good story, I actually really liked it. Issei and Towa were cute. But I was also super pissed off by that second volume, so I had to let it out... ahem. Sorry for the rant.
Everything about engagement annulment got resolved so quickly it felt kinda anticlimactic, and the whole "going back in time 5 times" thing got pushed to the side... but the two of them are cute together, so I can't say I'm not enjoying myself so far~
They were so cute this chapter I'm-- please give us more cute 'n clingy Kael....