so looks like one of denrimi's named officers from last chapter is already dead. classic case of getting named only to die a short while after to someone else to show his strength

turns out, he is just a piece of trash

what happened to those gold coins he had at the start? though i guess ladle sword is funnier

yeah and it's not surprising since it's a story from hina, her stories are usually on the wholesome or sad side rather than scary and tragic like mc's stories

and considering heki talks about a trap i assume that's also not just this, probably has some tunnel system too to escape. but i feel like shin will chase and against expectations will kill either one or both of the important generals next to riboku while ousen also prevails against the trap against him. riboku says that he is keeping shin busy but to bait shin he needs to be around nearby to keep him chasing, if something unexpected happens he will have a hard time to respond to it while running around as bait

we get to see the king of bones(i assume and only the back) in the picture with crimson and the monarchs. king of claws looking back at crimson too interestingly enough. also Ruoxi recognizes Lapi's ability and calls him Lapi-san? kind of weird
edit: actually the monarch of roars is missing there too, maybe the guy to the right is monarch of bones and middle is former roars?

it's even worse than that. it's a filler chapter that doesn't contribute anything

not sure which named member of the hi shin is with him here currently with this charge, but since we had a bunch of lovers death flags and since she is probably the least important member out of the 4 i think Kaine will likely die, though there is a scenario where the named guy next to riboku dies but i really think kaine is the most likely

that chief is an idiot, she let all of them live and he tried to kill her brother again. no 2nd chance for him i guess

hmm i thought this manga was in the 90s? where did that phone come from?

my life has been good even though i am not living in the safest place in the world. but imagine living in a 3rd world country where with one wrong step you could wind up dead(or worse) as a below average guy/gal where basically everything is against you on your way to gain some semblance of the life some people would call hard earning less in a year than what ai could earn with a minimum wage job in japan in a month. now imagine that + someone with a similar or worse life story and you got hell difficulty. also ai's childhood not even the harshest story in manga(talking about realistic ones obviously), you could find dozens with worse childhoods

hell? this is not even close to hard difficulty when it's in a country like japan and with her looks. with just a little bit of street smarts she could be in a similar position to what Miyako wanted to be and not have to resort to worse/shadier stuff. luckliy for her she landed on something better than that

wait really? is that the next arc of this story? what is wrong with the author

did the novel also end like this? since on both sites i usually check i see the novel as ongoing so i was curious if it went further in the novels