I love Her Majesty so much.
She really is Lloyd's only equal/superior.

Now, I really want to see Her reaction once his curse of ugliness is dispelled one day. She judged him only by his merits, skills, intentions and devotion up till now. It would be fun if it's revealed that he is actually fairly good looking without the curse.

They have a bad or newbie TS (Volt), I'm guessing, and he has trouble reading the TL note maybe?
What's for sure is that their QC (Dinger) is really bad at his job. Seeing the credits, that was actually his only job...

He's not just that anymore.
He's the Swords-master of the Kingdom now.
His status should be pretty much the same as the Mage's now.

But how?!?
How broken your mind must be to think that ruining that girl makes you the automatic winner...
I mean, wouldn't that make the MC even more pissed, and make sure he focuses 100% of his wrath solely on you?

How is that winning?!?

Well, no.
The said Royalty already attempted to kill him and other nobles of his country, not by following protocol and tradition, but by assassination.
Yeah, killing that mage would create issues, but the MC has enough reason to kill him legitimately, and ultimately, that would create less problems.

Breaking the propriety, using power and violence to threaten and inflict fear on the mage, and verbally menacing him in front of witnesses isn't something that would be acceptable either, and would probably lead to war anyways.
If war is bound to happen either ways, killing the most destructing weapon, best strategist and also the General of the enemy's army would be a pretty good move, actually.

Soooo, the supposed hero just let someone who tried to directly kill his father...
Someone who has mind-controlled multiple woman and is effectively graping them all the time.
A tyrant who kills and steals and grapes and destroy.

What a wonderful hero he is.

It's like the trolley problem, but on the side where the trolley is originally going, there's thousands of people, on the other side there's only one person, and that's actually Hitler.
Inaction can become the worst evil.

I'm not saying I gave up, I just thought this was a pack full of missed opportunities.
But tell me, do you think the fight we just saw would have been any different, at all, if it happened before his training montage? No, it would have been the exact same.
Which make me wonder, what was the point of that training then? What in the world convinced the super strong tribe to give the MC magic deus ex blood after this pitiful display of cockiness and weakness?

I'm just sad about the missed opportunities, not the whole story. It's not ruined for me yet.

Now, if the magic blood makes the MC so strong that all the training we went through becomes meaningless, that would piss me off a bit...

Well, you're right that the opponent wasn't the weakest, but he is definitely not strong in the tribe.
They don't order THE BATTLE KINGS by strength... but ordinary brothers and sisters are definitely weaker. But you're right that he is not the weakest because they mentioned that the first Battle King doesn't like the MC, and would chose a tough opponent...

I wasn't expecting him to flat out win, but at least struggle a bit. He not only couldn't do shit, he wasn't even able to comprehend what was happening..
They've shown us months of hard training and character development, but at the end of the day, it was for nothing... hard work is for chumps, let's just dope the MC with special deus ex machina blood.

I'll even wager, from what was shown in this chapter, that when the MC is done with his training with the strongest people on the planet, he'll get accepted as one of the strong too... but immediately meet someone stronger as soon as he goes back to the "real world"... which should be impossible...

What was the purpose of the training arc?!?
If the MC get trounced by the weakest of the weakest of the tribe right after it...
That's just dumb storytelling... he should have been beaten BEFORE the training arc...
Or even better, he should have barely won against that chump, get more cocky, then get destroyed by a mid rank in the tribe.

This was a pretty bad chapter IMO...

Insanely talented young actor, crazy genius writer, legendary director...
Dude, this movie will be epic... and chaotic.

Yeaaah... Kinda hope the end of this fight marks the end of the whole story.
I don't really see the point of this insane power creep, especially when suddenly, everybody is getting dumber.

The whole point of the story is how the MC wasn't happy at the end of his life for having focused only on martial arts... and this arc purpose is, it seems, to have the MC completely focus on martial arts...

I'm fairly sure she's been perfecting herself from childhood because of something that happened in their past.
I think that in her mind, if she keeps being perfect, and she keeps ridiculing him, he will only have eyes for her.

That's pretty fucked up, and should be considered abusive behavior... but it makes the story interesting.

I would love if, in the future, the MC starts dating someone else, an honest girl who asks him out herself... and then Takamine would get desperate, try to be honest too, fail, try to get back in time, but it would be pointless somehow, because the MC would still keep his memory, then she'd probably try to be sexually aggressive or something...... that could be a fun arc or two.

Jealousy? I thought it was pretty clear, no?
I mean, she clearly has a crush on the FMC, a one-sided and hidden crush.
She's been hiding her feelings because she just decided on her own that she wouldn't be appropriate to be the FMC's partner.

Then an old, depressed and pitiful dude comes around and steals the FMC's heart with no effort, while she was away.

BTW, I hate Kawakami.
She was clearly forced into this story, but is utterly non-essential to it. You remove her, and the story doesn't change AT ALL, not one bit. Only my frustration would get better.
You remove any other supporting character, some changes would happen, good or bad, but Kawakami is just a waste of panels.

Damn.
I've paused reading this for 2 years, and we are still in the same battle...
Still hit or miss on the side characters background.

And still cucking the MC at every opportunity.
Like, he finally chose to save lives instead of hiding his powers, gets immediately put in prison for a lot of chapters.
Proves his usefulness in actual battle, the dude that he was actually trying to impress just suddenly dies.
Learns hand-to-hand combat to get better, immediately copied and countered by the enemy after one use.
Learns special evolved hand techniques to counter that, exact same thing happens.
Even his special trait of being a unique human/kaiju hybrid is taken from him.
Finally unleashes the beast, going full beserk, then immediately "killed" and the spotlight is again stolen by the secondary characters...
Kaiju N°8... Maybe they should have named this series something less dishonest... like "Kaiju Defense Force" or something.

Well I guess I'm parking this in my "paused" series list... for 2 years... again.

Fuck me, he is like peak psychopath.
I love him.

I think it's time...
It's time for the author to address the issue of the fire department, the police, the army or any goddamn adult being nowhere.

I mean, OK, they use violence... but they apparently also kill, like serial kill, they have drug dens, are growing drugs, refining drugs and selling drugs, they have gambling dens, and take adult money from kids, they grape and traffic people, selling minors to perverts and producing illegal porn of it... and now, they just bombed a building in plain view.

I find the MC's powers and the tower of trials he is going through more believable than the rest of the shit happening here.

Why not make the story about young adults in a fictional and fantastical dystopian and violent Korea, ruled by gangs and violence?!?

The firescans version is so much better.
This translation is not only bad english, it's just plain wrong sometimes... and just shit some other times (like repeating the same text in two bubbles)

WTF.
The author keeps adding fuel to an already uncontrollable fire.
This is escalating faster and faster.

I'm thoroughly enjoying this.

Damn. I’m almost more pumped about the MC reuniting with his horse than with his childhood friend…

Fuuuuu...
I mean, the Saintess is really cute, but completely batshit crazy.
Like, in that last panel, if you don't look at her eyes, wifey material... but the full picture is definitely dangerous.