An insert depicting the epilogue:
In couple of days I will craft a survey to gather some data about how would y'all like to see the community continue. If you have some ideas please share them.
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I vote having prepub as a spoiler safe zone for upcoming releases. So Manga, Short Stories, Fanbooks and the anime. While the other areas will be used for when the thing gets officially released.
Then again I haven’t run a sub so, whatever continues the conversation is good for me.
I'm not opposed to turning this into an ani.social equivalent for light novels if the community thinks that would be useful or is a good idea.
Gonna miss prepubs
Also yay for confirming a 3rd short story book. So 3-4 more books to look forward to.
- (already out) 1st short story collection
- 2nd short story collection
- 3rd short story collection
- H5Y
It's almost a shame we got the Epilogue from Lutz's POV. I'd love to be in Rozemyne's or Kamil's heads during the reunion. ~~I guess there's still a chance we will get a Kamil POV chaper, that overlaps with Lutz's epilogue. I certainly hope so, especially if they give him a more complete explanation, after Rozemyne and Ferdinand left.~~ Nevermind... I am so used to having side-story chapters, after the epilogue, I forgot this was the final release... :( Oh well, maybe we'll get something in the dedicated side-story books.
It was funny how Rozemyne said she was glad, Kamil still cried when she holds him. No wonder Lutz thinks he's dealt with enough wackos for one life time. ^^
There's a couple of bonus stories (MTL translated) that may offer you some relief:
https://seeker142.github.io/honzuki/drama10ss (Effa POV)
https://seeker142.github.io/honzuki/p5v12ss (Trau POV)
Even though I wanted to see the explanation to Kamil, I liked the story for Trauerqual even more. After all the suffering he went through and living a life, the endless sisyphus touling, that never showed any payoff and paying for the sins of his brothers, seeing him see the fruits of his labour for the first time since the war, was heartwarming. I hope what remains of the Werkestock population, will come around and be able to forgive him, for what the greater duchies and circumstances forced him to do... or that they'll at least keep the old grudges to themselves, so they'll die with their generation, rather then being passed down to their descendance, like it happened in Ehrenfest with the Leisegangs and Gloria followers.
Though now thinking more on it... Kamil was described as a smat child, so shouldn't he wonder how Myne even knew what a book was, much less love them, at a time, when they didn't have a single scrap of parchament in their house? With the whole Divine Avatar of the Goddess of Wisdom, there'd even be an easy way out of the true explanation at hand, with which Rozemyne could dissemble. ^^
How much did y'all cry
A lot
Yes
I desperately want more of this but alas it's better to end things on a high note than drag them on endlessly. At least for now there will be side stories to read so it's not over quite yet but that's also just me huffing copium, I'll miss the weekly Pre-Pubs and the discussions about them.
I am sad that it is ending, but what a beautiful ending. I was pleased for the interaction with Sigiswald showing him to be just as terrible a person as we thought, and watching Ferdinand interact with Myne's commoner family was everything I could have asked for in that scene.
The ending manga panels are just delightful.
Looking at the map and the alteratered borders discussed in Volume 11, I feel like Eglantine could have given Ehrenfest some of Zausengas's territory, instead of giving it all to Klassenberg. I know Sylvester said he didn't need anything beyond walking back on Rozemyne's adoption and marrying Sigiswald, but everything considered, a bit more appreciation than that would have been warrented, even if it was just a small portion of the former duchy, like drawing a straight line between it's Frenbeltag and Klassenberg borders, as a symbolic gesture to the rest of the country.
I bet most duchies will think that it was solely Rozemyne and Dunkelfelger who did everything, while thinking the rest of Ehrenfest didn't do anything and having this false assumption "confirmed" by Ehrenfest not getting any reward for their role in the fight. Sure they only gave rear-line support, but that's still more than literally any other duchy apart from Dunkelfelger and not-yet-Alexandria.