Bloopy's Favorite

This spoiler could be found in Novelupdates forum. Here's the link; https://forum.novelupdates.com/threads/please-dont-eat-me-saha.102123/page-3

I just copy-pasted what was written there. So, here's part 1. I'll comment the next part here.

This happened after ch.11 of the novel. Ertha and her siblings were already in the duke's mansion.

Ertha is making a preparation for the wedding, while Ethan and Charles are learning etiquette.

Because Zahid destroyed the Vatican (he did this because of the Pope who has an interest in Ertha) on the day the Pope calls Ertha, the Emperor calls him. Ertha comes along with Zahid. That’s where they meet the prince of Bahalun, Hesion. He’s the wizard of water. He actually admires Zahid.

Then suddenly Ertha’s hand was hurt by roses’s thorn (i kinda forgot this part and i lost the raw for this particular chapter so it might not be 100% accurate). Hesion smells her blood and his focus gets blurry. That’s the beginning of his interest towards Ertha.

As a punishment for destroying the Vatican, Zahid will join the battlefield again, he’ll bring Ertha after their wedding, other people only kniw that they will go on their ‘honeymoon trip’.

Ertha goes to the market, but she gets kidnapped. She’s surrounded by a lot of men, and scared. Zahid saves Ertha.

After he saves her, he’s been thinking by himself, he never feels this way (cares about someone) up until now.

The Princess of Bahalun, Diana comes to the Duke’s residence when Zahid hasn’t arrived yet. She meets Ertha.

When Diana hears Zahid has arrived, she tells Ertha “pardon me for what I’m about to do” then she poured the drink on her. Zahid sees it and did the same to the princess.

Ertha accompanies Diana to change her clothes since it’s ruined. Diana tells Ertha that she likes her, she warns Ertha that Zahid is a madman. Ertha sees Diana’s body and notices there’s a lot of bruises on her body. (Ohoo, what happened to her)

Ertha and Zahid ride a horse in some-kind of garden field. Charles and Ethan ride a pony. They have a very good time here (this place will be mentioned again in the future, when they’re—cough)

The wedding day is finally come. They kiss very passionately. It becomes the talk of people. On their first night. Ertha is on her period (I’ve gave spoiler for this one). They spend the night while talking.

They go to the southern part, the place where they have a war with Niacal. There’s Zahid’s place too in there, called the Ishtaban Castle, they will go there.

Zahid had two types of knight. But the one who mentioned frequently is the Nameless Knight, Ronya is the leader (she’s a woman), Anchen is the deputy. Anchen...that big guy..is really like to read romance novels, while Ronya is a crazy woman.

When they’ve arrived on the southern part. Ertha is currently alone in the bedroom. She falls asleep. Then realizes someone hugs her, and the person is not Zahid. She recognizes who the person is, he’s Hirkan, the wizard of earth.

(A little information: Hirkan has used magic since he was a child, Niacal uses him to join the war. He has never been purified before and use all kind of accessories in his body made by the crazy Pope, Xenosius, but it’s not enough).

When Hirkan comes to Ertha, he’s already been so desperate and hurt. While hugging, Zahid suddenly cames and he’s mad. Ertha tells Zahid not to kill Hirkan. Hearing she mentions Hirkan’s name, Zahid says “you’re already familiar” but Ertha can’t say it’s because she knows from the novel.

Hirkan is still desperate, suddenly Ertha’s body moves by itself and tries to scratch her neck using the blade, she’s bleeding. Zahid stops her and deals with Hirkan. (Her action was controlled by Arantium at the moment). This is where the Nameless Knights see for the first time that Zahid is a wizard (because no one know). Later Ronya realizes about the contract marriage since Ertha is purifier, Zahid is a wizard.

(Another information: don’t forget about Essis, the God and Arantium, the betrayer who once was an angel in this story, they will play an important part, really really important)

While sleeping, Ertha dreams about Arantium that night. She sees Arantium was really mad at Essis. She’s been speculating that Arantium is not betrayer since this moment. When she wakes up, Ertha can’t breathe, Zahid helps her until she calms, they end up kissing in here).

Because they already capture Hirkan, they have a negotiation with Niacal and decide to end the war and Ertha offers a deal. Hirkan will come with them (Zahid and Ertha). Ertha will purify him. This happen without the knowledge of anyone in the Empire, only a few people will know, even Charles and Ethan don’t know.

The war ended quickly, then Zahid and Ertha go to Ishtaban Castle. They walk on the beach. While Zahid leaves her for a while, a man tries to flirt with her. Zahid comes, but the man still persistent, he doesnt recognize Zahid. Zahid attacks him in the end. Then Zahid and Ertha go to Arantium temple. The man from earlier brought his ally, turns out they’re pirates.

Zahid asks Ertha “which one would you choose? Fast and cruel or a little longer but less cruel?” Ertha is scared because she’s still traumatized by the kidnapping. Zahid says it won’t happen again, he will make sure of that and closes Ertha’s eyes.

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Okay, so after our MC is with the beastmen (as mentioned in canon, beastmen are discriminated against). Because MC's kingdom announced that they now have the miko, the rival kingdom (I'll just call them K & RK for short), is amping up their enslavement of beastmen & invading other villages. A group of survivors (cat beastmen) end up meeting with MC & the wolf village.

The 7th Prince of RK (13 years old, emo, sad, has no political power) is forced by his dad to lead a troop to invade the villages. His men invaded the cat village & later captures Gaius' dad, who chooses to die rather than give up the location of the wolf village.

When Gaius' dad doesn't come back, Gaius runs into the woods to look for him, but is nearly captured by the Prince's men. MC rushes in to save him & her miko powers create a massive whirlwind that forces them to give up & leave. (7th Prince will remember this....)

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MEANWHILE, back at K castle - The church is suspecting Alice to be a fake miko. One of the priests who received a prophecy from God about the miko finally woke up (they all got knocked into a coma shortly after getting the prophecy) & tells them that Alice can't be the miko because the miko should be brunette. So the priest is put under house arrest for a brief while since they have to figure out how to handle this as they already publicly announced that they have the miko. Also, because of Alice's displeasure with the Princess, she was forcibly engaged to the politically unimportant 7th Prince of RK as a pseudo-exile/punishment (she is around his age).

They exchange letters & the 7th Prince asks her if her country really has the miko. Through their letters, 7th tells her about his encounter with the MC & Princess tells him of her suspicions regarding Alice. They slowly manage to put together the real truth from the bits of information they have.

K Kingdom is seemingly falling into ruin with bad harvests & bad weather, even Alice's mom becomes ill. The church, after interrogating the parents about whether or not they had another child, finally are forced to admit that they don't have the real miko. They also condemn the parents, who are defiant & self-righteous to the end. The parents even go so far as to blame Alice for not helping them escape house arrest & blaming MC for all their problems.

The twins' mom used to be from fallen nobility & has become obsessed with regaining her former standing - which is why she's so fixated on Alice (because of her noble-like looks) & hates MC, thinking that she's creepy & uncute. The dad's just a dick who agrees with everything she thinks. She's in complete disbelief of her illness, yelling that she's the miko's mother & should be blessed by God.

Alice is also under house arrest & being charged with the crime of pretending to be the miko. She's outraged & shocked that people aren't treating her with love & respect, but after spending some time in her cell, she self-reflects & realizes that the weird ones were the villagers & her parents, who lauded everything she did, even if it was just existing. Their fanaticism had completely brainwashed her & now that's she's away from any fawning or adoration, she becomes aware of her own failings.

K Kingdom breaks into civil war because of the natural disasters & the fake miko, one of the princes uses the unrest as an excuse to depose the king in a coup. Princess is forced to submit to his faction as she has no power. The nobility in this faction are going to put all the blame of the civil war on Alice, who again - is a freaking KID, & have her executed to appease the ignorant masses.

Princess goes to visit Alice in her cell & to rescue her. They chat briefly & when Princess asks Alice about MC, Alice is like ".....sister? I have a sister? You mean that person who lived in my house?" which shows just how AWFUL the parents treated MC. (I mean Alice didn't even fucking know they were related????)

Anyway, Princess takes Alice to her estate way out in the country to be her maid & to teach her common sense since Alice lacks any real-world knowledge because of how fucked up her village & parents were. Alice is genuinely happy & adapts fairly well, although she is a bit saddened over her label as "fake miko" & how people literally want her dead because of it. A gardener almost tricks her into sneaking out of the estate, but Alice respects Princess' efforts to help her too much to betray her promise to stay on the estate. The gardener grows impatient & attacks her, but luckily Alice is saved by the other staff. Alice asks Princess if she's not allowed to leave because she's the fake miko, but Princess informs her that it's because of Alice's unique looks, which unfortunately make her a prime target for the slave market.

Alice & Princess develop a very close bond & Princess is the person that Alice loves & respects the most, & wishes to always stay by her side & help her. Alice does occasionally think about how MC is doing, but not that often since she's not familiar with MC at all.

The mother dies from illness & the father is captured as a slave during the civil war. He swears vengeance & hate on both of his daughters, blaming them for everything. He escapes & runs into the same woods they abandoned MC in, except since he doesn't have God's blessings, he is immediately killed by a monster. He does not regret or repent his actions even as he's being torn to shreds.

The priest was released from house arrest & sent by the church to go look for MC. He travels into the woods with a female swordsman as his companion. This whole episode has disillusioned him from the church & he just wants to serve MC faithfully.

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MC comforts Gaius over the loss of his father. The wolf village is forced to relocate in order to avoid RK's armies. They encounter an elf village, which is cold to them even though they allowed them to stay. The elves refuse to tell them their names.

MC's spiritualness causes her to run into the elves' elder, who is surprised by her ability. It's revealed that the elves were planning to sacrifice the wolves to a demonic creature that has been holding the elves' spirit tree hostage (it's what sustains their village). MC is able to use her spirit powers to defeat the creature & the elves are shown that the creature was never going to uphold its promise as it already drained the spirit tree dry. The spirit tree grants MC a seed to create a new spirit tree (& thus a new elf village) as it dies. The elves & wolves reconcile, although it takes a while for the wolves as they acknowledge the apologies but will not forget this. The elves swear to make up for their error, no matter how long it takes.

So now it's MC, wolves + elves traveling together. They eventually find a nice spot to plant the spirit tree & settle down. They encounter a group of gypsies(?) (not sure what the term is, they look human but they have magic tattoos/markings on them, so they're considered demihumans like the wolves, cats & elves). Unfortunately, there is friction between them & one of the wolves is killed in a conflict that turned physical. The gypsies end up giving their leader's daughter to the village as a political hostage. The gypsies live in their own settlement outside the village for now, while the girl lives in MC's house.

A group of winged people are drawn to MC & fly down to the village to meet her, fighting with the wolves in the process. Nobody has ever heard of this race before (they look like humans but with bird wings) & apparently the winged race is aware of the land-locked races, but they just don't care about them. All they care about is their God & being around MC makes them have the same feeling they have when praying to their God. It's revealed that their God is in fact a massive dragon (wind god) & that MC's miko affinity is best with creatures of flight & wind magic (although she CAN learn all magics.)

Dragon summons MC for a chat & gives her a massive infodump on what a miko is. There is one miko in each generation, but it can appear in any race, which is why it took so long for a human miko to appear (think ATLA rules & how it takes like over a century between a Water Tribe Avatar & the next Water Tribe Avatar :]). Dragon has befriended (& fought) mikos of many races over the years (It was a demon race Miko who eventually befriended Dragon after many battles). A previous miko was on really good terms with Dragon & blessed the entire forest it lives in as a gift.

Mikos are loved by God, but it's more like uhhhh they're the Ultimate Lucky Student lmaooo? Basically, they can still die of natural causes or by just being really dumb, but they have a lower chance because of their high luck stat that extends to their home & surroundings. If they no longer consider an area to be their home, its luck stat abruptly reverses back to normal (which is why K Kingdom was falling apart & the village was in ruins), & it's made worse if the area relied entirely on that luck & didn't bother with putting effort into things.

Village: who cares about fertilizer or anti-pest defenses when we have amazing harvests every year!
Village, 1 year later after MC leaves: FUCK.

And that is why MC had such a shitty life. Because she only had a high passive luck stat & was not guaranteed happiness. Dragon points out that if God controlled how her life went, God would have to control everything & that would negate the whole point of humanity's free will, so while MC is favored by God, MC is not literally Jesus. She's just super lucky & has powerful magic.

Dragon then gifts its egg to MC, saying that the dragonet inside will immediately inherit its wisdom of many years & be a good companion to MC. The winged people are very excited about this & end up becoming a real addition to the village & not just mildly troublesome visitors. The egg hatches into a smol cute dragonet that can't speak yet (makes cute baby noises) but understands & knows basically everything already.

Priest & Swordswoman eventually make it into the village & they are put under house arrest until the village can determine their trustworthiness. MC is worried because the Priest is fanatically devoted to her & idolizes her, & she is afraid that he'll do something drastic if he perceives something to be a slight against her in any way. She tells him her fears upfront & how she does not trust him because of this. He is incredibly moved by her straightforward & honest demeanor & swears to serve her righteously & properly as a person, not as a perfect being. Also, he won't return to the Church or tell them where she is.

Swordswoman has a crush on the Priest & MC encourages her to confess. Priest refuses because he must remain chaste as he is a devoted servant of the Miko. MC tells him that she doesn't care about other people's relationships, so he & the swordswoman try out this awkward new dating thing.

MC also blessed Gaius as a Miko's knight, which unlocked his true potential (he can now turn into a full wolf) & his fur turned silver. MC eventually has the village reconcile with the gypsies & has a proper conversation with the hostage. The hostage is no longer a hostage but lives in the village & she also gets blessed by MC, which unlocked her ability to buff people with her dance (kinda useless in battle since it buffs everyone, not just allies).
She also celebrates her 12th birthday with the villagers.

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7th is seriously against all the beastman slavery but feels helpless to do anything but to obey his father. Princess reams him out for being a coward & this pushes him to drastic measures. He now is secretly organizing a beastman slave rebellion against RK Kingdom, buying up tons of beastman slaves & secretly freeing them, letting them escape to beastman freedom movements & to the forest where MC's village is. He also cuts off his engagement with the Princess as to not implicate her in the chance that he fails in his rebellion. Because of his slave buying, he's slandered in RK as a beastman obsessed prince/pervert.

It's revealed that the cat beastmen from earlier were all captured & enslaved. One of them (the one most prickly to MC) was bought as a plaything by a noblewoman. He sucks up to her instead of trying to escape as he wants power in order to free ALL slave beastmen, not just his fellow villagers. The other catbeastmen lambast him as a traitor because of his simpering behavior. 7th makes contact with him & he teams up with 7th in order to fully realize the rebellion. He provides him with contacts to the dragon beastmen rebels, who provide 7th with a water spirit stone to enhance his water magic.

RK is now in open civil war with the slaves & 7th & his troops fight battle after battle to meet with the other princes & to plead with them to join their cause. The princes refuse each time & 7th is forced to kill them one after the other with water magic before finally besieging the castle & killing the king. Now crowned the feared & bloody king of RK, 7th grants a pardon to the cat beastman & reveals how he was assisting with the rebellion & wasn't actually a traitor in order to clear his name among his kind. The nobility fear 7th & the beastmen, expecting a tyrannical reign from them, but 7th is tired & just wants peace & reconstruction. Princess goes to meet him, disregarding the fears of her servants as she believes in him, & insists that their engagement is still valid as she already sent her troops to him to support his coup, so she's involved either way. 7th finally cracks a genuine smile & relents.

The escaped beastmen who made it to MC's village relay the news of what happened to RK & K Kingdoms. The village is obviously torn over the enemy, 7th, being on their side. Gaius in particular, struggles with his feelings of hatred towards 7th & the rationality of beastmen joining 7th's coup. MC assures him that it's natural to feel that way. 7th's men escorted the ex-slaves to the village, but they are kept under close watch & aren't trusted by the villagers yet. The soldiers work hard to gain the villagers' trust.

The priest & Lan decide to make a children's storybook in order to properly relay MC's miko identity (as she now accepts its responsibilities & meaning) to the village since it's getting so big. MC agrees & they work over how to properly tell MC's life in storybook form. MC vetoes the priest's version as it villainizes Alice too much & she wants to keep Alice's portrayal brief but neutral in the book. The book starts with a very brief intro of MC's life in the village & mainly focuses on her & the griffons, as that was when MC truly began to live. Book 2 is focused on the wolves.

As hard as it might be to belive, children are quite sensitive- especially in their development stages. As a growing teen Jeanette should be becoming more aware of the emotions and feelings of those around her. Ejikiel (I think that's his name?) is very aware and sensitive towards every one's feelings around him, despite being two years older. They lived in the same roof and were brought up similarly enough that if she wanted to Jeanette could've learnt something form him but instead she allowed herself to be coddled until she struggled to be her own person. As nice as she is Jeanette has no other reedeming quality other than her kindness. She's oblivious, far too trusting, selfish, unable to think for herself and weak willed- at this point she's more of a deadweight than anything. Jeanette's nativity is the product of her own close mindedness. She is aware of the reason for her isolation, and believe it or not is quite okay with it. She's been conditioned to believe that its for her own good so she can end up with her father. As long as any action done gets her close to her dad she is willing to endure. That isn't a child that's been mistreated but instead a child who has been filled with unchecked ambition. She's so wrapped up in the fantasy of reuniting with her dad that she's thrown all logic away. If her father loved her, why did he never search for her? Why did she have to hide who she was up till now? How come her mother ran away form him? A little bit of thought would've given her the thought/idea that her 'father' didn't care and still doesn't care for her, it would've allowed her to question things and those around her- maybe even spur her to investigate. If my long lost father called me up for tea yet always fell asleep before we uttered a single word then that's not a win for me. I'd feel awkward and like I've been dusted aside. The answers that I'm looking for as well as the questions I want to ask are being pushed aside. She also has a brotherly figure who showers her with love and a caretaker that provides for her and cares for her even without her best intentions in life. Jeanette may have grown up without her parents and a shitty 'father' figure but she certainly wasn't lacking in love- chasing after a father who seemingly abandoned her when there are others willing to love her just as much casts her in a negative light for me. Also, Jeanette is NOT a child, maybe by law, but not in terms of mentality, emotions and physical body. She has passed the point where she can now tell right from wrong, the point where she can tell when someone is in pain or full of joy without them having to say so verbally. Her extremely low EQ is so annoying because it's the only excuse she can come up with for her ignorant and selfish behaviour. I don’t need to be a genius to be able to tell when my friend is feeling uncomfortable- in fact most children can tell. You can say that Jeanette might be a special case but there’s a level of oblivious you can be before you just come off as willingly ignorant. The whole premise for me hate towards Jeanette is due to her inconsiderate nature towards Athy’s feelings. Its the fact that she’s creating a paradox on herself. She sees Athy as her sister and her family and yet not once has she asked to see how she’s fairing, instead she’s happy to have her fathers love and attention while just having her ‘sister’ there is good enough to fulfil her image of a happy family. You can’t argue that at 14 you aren’t able to tell when someone is upset or in emotional pain? It’s not like Athy is even trying to hide her feelings. We can't sympathise with her bacuse in our eyes she's being extremely greedy and naive, she willing turns her head the other way when Athy feels down when her dad is brought up and pls let's be real. No true friend would purposely talk about the person hurting you as he spoils another- no matter how low ur EQ is, that's just not ok. Jeanette is disliked because she's shown characteristics of a person who prefers to live in her own perfect bubble instead of facing reality.