After all his whining and emotional blackmail he is finally going to carry his weight.

Artists need to stop doing this. This bow is basically strung backwards and would be pretty useless like this.
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It was kept vague, but it might be the emperor. He's the only person she has called father if I remember correctly. But her being a mage and the mystery of who her father is makes it possible that she is the daughter of a dragon. What makes me doubt it is that the emperor didn't notice anything, only that she is a mage.

From what I hear they changed quite a bit from the webnovel.

I read these scenes in the light novel a few years ago, and I don't remember if she had line of sight on the prince. I don't think she had anyone projecting the target to her or Raphael would have told Rimuru about it. A limited clairvoyance skill would justify her needing to be outside, and as for her aiming for the prince that would be habit. Even if she doesn't need to aim at him at all if she had training in fire arms she would take aim without even thinking.

That might be interesting. I don't remember if she was alive when he died the first time.

They're a legendary race. The absolute strongest of the beastkin that challenged the gods and lost. They were all going to be killed and Solderet took pity on them and kept some alive to train his contractors.

The brother had his tendons in his wrists and ankles cut and his mana sealed. He was basically made a cripple so he could never hurt anyone again. MC was also too weak to kill him in that fight. Your desire for death doesn't mean he wasn't punished. As for his stepmother, she never abused him. Julian was uncomfortable because he didn't want her to discover his act as a good for nothing. Also this world is one where demon contracts exist. They needed to be sure no demon was involved.

His stepmother had good reason to confirm the truth behind his sudden change and growth. And his brother was punished by his father, MC never forgave, sympathized, or down played his brother's crimes.

It's also possible that the Demon King Draven is all of Draven's resentment that remained after he died. He said himself that you no longer wanted to revenge when he died, he just wished for love and acceptance. In reality he may not have forgiven everyone but "let go" of his hate and unintentionally unleased Demon King Draven.

Mu Ae was taken a little more than 10 years before Dan Sa Yu traveled to the mainland. Looking back at the beginning it looks like it was 11-12 years tops. Time passes as Sa Yu is trained and his master kills the followers of the three hermits, but the only stated passage of time given is six months and that is after most of the three hermits followers have died.. Also, the big bad from Yuan mentions her (not by name) that she needs to open her heart to the "young master". That might be referencing her son, but he is going to be really young. With the current pace of the story he shouldn't be more than 13, maybe 14, when we finally see him. Unless the author says later that more time passed between Mu Ae getting kidnapped and the final battle with the hermits the kid seems too young to play a major opponent to Sa Yu. But I admit that it seems more unlikely that Mu Ae somehow avoided marriage for 10 years, it's not impossible just more difficult to justify.

The comments I had been seeing the day I wrote this felt like they were putting the majority of the blame on Altina, and I was feeling a touch frustrated lol. I agree with you that they each have flaws and traumas that cause them both a great deal of pain and stress. Nice to see someone looking at them both reasonably then picking one and staning them lol.

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It's refreshing to see such a genuine friendship between Hayoen and Gayoeng. This kind of mutual teasing is fun to watch.

Yup, I knew it. This author loves their soap opera drama. I'm not going to celebrate the MC asking for a divorce, but from a more realistic perspective it might be the healthiest thing for both of them to step away from each other. But I don't that the author will follow through with it. Something will happen to pull the two together again. Or circumstance will require they stay together. If I were to guess from the way the story is going so far, I think Astina is going to get grievously injured protecting either the crown princess or Teriod. And that will pull him to her again. Maybe, just maybe something like that will get him to grow up a little bit.

She is hurting as much if not more than he is. She has made some attempts to accept her relationship with Teriod, but his need for assurances and him constantly reopening her emotional wounds has made that all but impossible. Not to mentions her issues make it hard for her to be sure what her feelings for him are. He is fixated on her feelings for Theodore, he has convinced himself that she cannot love him if she still loves Theodore. Expecting her to magically love again and let go of everything that happened in her past life is ridiculous.

To be honest I see them both as victims. He is very immature, and she is horribly traumatized. They are both so caught up in their own feelings (pain) that it's hard for both of them to make good decisions.

I like how she deals with his dramatic possessiveness.

I'm a little confused. She is right that they didn't treat her like family, that brief flashback showed that they did treat her fairly well for a stranger and a commoner. That room had a good sized window tbh, and it looked like she had that room to herself. I would have been wary of a six year old capable of fighting of and possibly killing grown men too.

That's a surprisingly good looking long sword. It looks functional and beautiful. Most fiction design weapons way too chunky.