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EP. REVIEW: Ascendance of a Bookworm [2019-10-26]

Watch it again. She's wearing a deadpan expression the whole time she's blasting him, until she knocks him out cold with him foaming at the mouth. When he goes down she gets this little smile, and as she raises her arms to really take him out, her eyes look even more malevolent, and she's still smiling. It's more obvious in motion, but I can't do gifs.

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The only problem with this is that, like in most stories, she didn't killed him because satan forbids the protagonist from ever killing anyone no matter what.

"If you kill him you're the same as him", remember?

Uhhhhh no? That's explicitly not why the blue priest stopped her. The way he talked her down was to tell her that if she killed him, her entire family would be executed as accessories in the murder of a noble. Main didn't stop because of some notion about being "the same as him" or anything of the sort. She stopped to protect her family.

If you ask me, the real question is why the merchant girl didn't do the same, unless she simply decided that being a concubine was the better option, since she gets to have a shop in a privilegiate spot.

Eh, Myne wasn't executed in the spot because she is a walking battery and they have none and was more valuable alive than dead, that's why the author made evil Pope to faint, when he woke up the magic contract was signed and there was no going back.

Had he been awoke most probably would have ordered Myne to be executed.

It was a business decision by Ferdinand, this series it's quite... capitalistic, by lack a better therm.

If you ask me, the real question is why the merchant girl didn't do the same, unless she simply decided that being a concubine was the better option, since she gets to have a shop in a privilegiate spot.

Minos_Kurumada wrote:

Eh, Myne wasn't executed in the spot because she is a walking battery and they have none and was more valuable alive than dead, that's why the author made evil Pope to faint, when he woke up the magic contract was signed and there was no going back. Had he been awoke most probably would have ordered Myne to be executed. It was a business decision by Ferdinand, this series it's quite... capitalistic, by lack a better therm. If you ask me, the real question is why the merchant girl didn't do the same, unless she simply decided that being a concubine was the better option, since she gets to have a shop in a privilegiate spot.

But they don't need her to consent giving her magic, they can just tie her in a dungeon, put the magical artifact on a stick and poke her with it.

Heck they don't even need her at the temple, Myne need them waaaaaay more than they need her. They could just tell her to pass by every week to give some magic, that work for her and works for them. And at this point Myne is rich enough to buy book on her own, so she really doesn't need to be at the temple. Just like the pope is surprisingly chill about working with a person who tried to kill her she's surprisingly chill working under him.

Minos_Kurumada wrote:

But they don't need her to consent giving her magic, they can just tie her in a dungeon, put the magical artifact on a stick and poke her with it. Heck they don't even need her at the temple, Myne need them waaaaaay more than they need her. They could just tell her to pass by every week to give some magic, that work for her and works for them. And at this point Myne is rich enough to buy book on her own, so she really doesn't need to be at the temple. Just like the pope is surprisingly chill about working with a person who tried to kill her she's surprisingly chill working under him.

And then the devouring kills her because she goes into a depression, the sickness was designed by the author to force the church to help her since she needs to be happy.

I knew it was coming but I'm still disappointed by how little issues arises from Myne choking the priest. Imagine you'd hear that your new co worker literally choked the boss almost to death during the interview, would you just whisper in their back and cast glance at them? The archpriest himself decided his incredible revenge was going to be<gasp> give her annoying servant! What next, he'll put thumbtack in her shoes?! Oh the humanity! That'll show her for almost killing him. Talk about turning the other cheek.