Woah, how the h*ck did I not notice this before? This is my second time reading this.

He just said "You're 10 years too early to be asking me on a date" but Ohga doesn't know he's an adult.

I thought maybe they just accidentally drew a speech bubble instead of a thought bubble, but Ohga replied to it 🤔

Hehe, that's adorable 🤣 Imagine how awkward you gotta be to hear that from someone who's enrolled in the same school as you, and come back with just "It's not a date!"

So worried about social discomfort that potential crime doesn't even cross his mind 😂

A better question would be "How am I treating the people around me in my day to day life?"

If you're not causing problems for other people, you're a good person. Simple as that. ✌

What you choose to do with your recreational time is a major contributing factor to what your personality is like, and by extension, what your behavior is like.

Being deprived of what you enjoy will only make you unhappy, and that'll be everyone's problem. Take care of yourself so you can take care of others.

This next bit of info may sound crazy, because it takes an amount of real world experience and deep/close human interaction than many people have access to, but...

The FREAKIEST people have the BIGGEST hearts. That is NOT an opinion.

Think about it in terms of practicality. It helps SO much with perspective to have such bizarre feelings.

The kind of people who kick their kid out of their home for being transgender are always the kind of people who are only having sex in missionary position under a blanket with the lights off and no talking.

To someone like that, it doesn't take a whole lot of deviation to make them consider something inexcusably abnormal, inevitably problematic, and in need of correction.

But to a person who's into freaky stuff, they have the perspective they need to understand that that's not a big deal.

When they've got WAY weirder stuff going on between their own ears and know they're consistently behaving themselves, they don't expect that person is inevitably gonna cause trouble.

You have to reach a high level of comfort/trust with most people before they show you every part of themselves, and people just plain don't do that enough.

Oh wow, that's a real thing? Have you seen both of those traits within the same individual yourself?

I ask because sometimes when people point out what seems like a contradiction, they haven't genuinely seen any confirmed overlap. They're just correlating things they've seen from multiple individuals within a group of people that's really too big/diverse to fairly do that with, so it's kind of an illusion.

That would be fascinating if it's real. I'd be interested in hearing that person's rationality 🤔 But they'd probably think I was just one of those people who think randos have to prove themselves to them. As if their approval is crypto currency 😆

I've seen young-looking adults have pretty bad stuff said to them. Stuff like "Anyone who would be attracted to you is a pedo." It's cruel, really, because like you said, it could mess with their dating prospects really badly.

It's one thing to just be single and feel lonely, most of us have been there, but I can't imagine having my mind altered in a way where as soon as anyone showed interest in me I would be afraid.

Especially if THAT was the reason. Like what if I wanted my own kids, but couldn't get that idea out of my head? Obviously my partner would be the other parent in that scenario.

If the only kind of partner I can attract is the kind that wouldn't be appropriate for the role, then wtf do I do? Does my DNA dictate that I can never have family??? 😥

About the age thing, there has been a good bit of evidence found recently that the brain isn't performing at optimum efficiency until 25. I saw it in a Netflix documentary. It was pretty compelling.

Raising the threshold for adulthood might be the right decision in the interest of society, and we all know something's gotta change, because people are just way too unkind and unhappy on average.

Idk where the line should be, but I know one thing. Dating is not the only expectation that's relevant to this. Adulthood comes with responsibilities and privileges, and wherever that line is, that's where ALL of them begin.

If someone's not mentally fit enough to decide for themselves who to date, they shouldn't be expected to hold a job and pay their own bills either. No adult privileges, no adult responsibilities.

If we're gonna start calling a 24 year old a kid, we're also gonna stop calling them a loser for not having their own house. Don't get me wrong, that shouldn't be happening even now, but you get what I mean.

Is that criticism? 🤔

I ask because escapism is generally looked on in a critical way, but you're talking about the only sickness in the world where asking for help gets the person killed.

That's the only reason why there's still no cure. Can't do research without volunteers. Scared people hide. As long as the stigma remains, the crimes will too.

The people who believe they're the most virtuous are uninterested in a cure, because in reality they're just full of hatred. They don't want to protect. They want to harm. They are actively assuring that the risk remains constant.

I think desperate improvisation is to be expected. It's healthier than just resenting the world until it turns them into a monster.

"If I'm already hated by everyone just because of who I am, regardless of my behavior, then where is my incentive to behave? Other than criminal charges, I don't have any. I'm just gonna do whatever I want, as much as I can get away with."

👆 That right there, that's a mental place none of us should be letting anyone get to. The person who comes to that conclusion is about to become everyone's problem. We all have a personal stake in that.

Now that "do whatever I want." part varies from person to person, so this mindset is more dangerous in some people than it is in others. That particular group would cause more harm than most.

Not all of us have kids, but factoring in all the indirect harm that that stuff leads to (victims minds get messed up. It makes them do bad things too), I think it's in all of our best interest to be sure that group is adequately incentivized to restrain themselves.

Whatever they need to think/feel/believe/do in order to avoid victimizing someone, that's the right move to make. All thoughts are effectively non-existent if they don't manifest in behavior. And like I said, they can't ask for help, so you better hope they figure out something.

That whole "Push the unpopular person until they snap" protocol does not have a great success rate. I think anyone who's attended a school can vouch for that.

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Hehe, I adore smart wise goofballs so much. That epic analysis was brought to us by BallsDeep69 💪

That's not a sassy backhanded compliment, either. BernieBear isn't one of my accounts that fit the theme, but I've done a lot of that elsewhere, so it's very pleasant to see what it looks like from an outsider's perspective.

A funny response to that question I pray to see this happen someday, ideally not as part of a parody but as the single instance of 4th wall breaking in a long-running story, would be...

"Bro no offense to your appearance but I have NO freaking idea. You can't just size someone up in fiction. Grand Zeno looks like a happy meal toy."

That's still more than I had before! Thanks!

Now I wonder if reject just means they don't interact at all. Like they can be in the same place without causing anything extra to happen. Otherwise wouldn't mana disrupt healing? The MC probably still has more aura than mana this early on.

Maybe the stuff being foreign to its current location is a big factor. He did say it was his opponent's aura, so maybe it's a temporary residual effect like water making someone wet. So if he hadn't just fought an aura user, his own aura wouldn't be making it hurt.

I think that would be a neat way for it to work from a writer's perspective. I see the potential for characters analyzing the composition of stuff to figure out things like detectives.

That would be convenient plot armor for explaining how two people who saw the same situation got different information and took different actions.

THANK YOU scanlators! That was a wonderful story we might have missed out on 🥰

Obviously thank you author too!👏👏👏 I've seen some of this person's other stuff and I really think they're a gem. I hope they're happy wherever they are, ideally being treated the way all people should by someone special 😊

I'm curious what pages 45-50 say, but I'm guessing it's not translated because it's not important.

I noticed there's one girl on each page and what looks like centimeters mentioned in each one, so maybe it's just that basic stuff like height and blood type and zodiac stuffs?

I always thought it was cute that so many authors decide on little stuff like that for all their characters. Idk what my logic is, but something about how it's not relevant to the story makes it seem more sentimental and wholesome.

If anyone's seeing this in the Latest Comments section, don't look if you're sensitive about lolis. They're on the pages you'd have to look at and I don't wanna upset anyone 🙏

OOF. Someone help me judge something, and if you're seeing this on the latest comment section, don't look if you're sensitive about lolis or age gap. It's not hentai but there's nudity and the situation's really lewd. That's a fair warning. I care a lot about your wellbeing but not at all about your judgment 🤙

On page 30 did he just fall like that because of the momentum, or did she grab his neck with her legs and pull him? That makes a huge difference.

I can tell they didn't wanna re-draw those Japanese symbols, and I wouldn't either but I wanna know if they mean like grab/pull/squeeze or something like trip/fall.

Not if you're a hot girl. (Sarcasm) some people really think that way, though. I saw a convo somewhere where a girl kept asking a guy why he said no, and he kept saying he didn't need a reason, so she asked if he was gay.

Not only is that the farthest thing from anyone's business, but she said it in an accusatory way, like it'd be a crime 🙄

Imagine being so arrogant you think you can have anyone who considers your genitals compatible. Yuck.

Nailed it 💪

Not all heroes wear capes. You should still get one though.
Idc what that lady from The Incredibles says. Capes are poggers.

I don't consider it impolite to ignore me. I'm a chatterbox and most people are much busier than me. Only if ya feel like it 🤙

Hehe, I love that kinda mom/grandma tendency where if someone is young and thin they got like a gattling gun full of home cooked meals ready, like they're an EMT and it's a medical condition 😅

As long as they're completely respectful about it, I mean. It's not an unreasonable thought that the person may not be being taken care of, like they don't have much of an appetite because they don't have access to good food.

But the ones who don't respect science and won't acknowledge that some people stay like that no matter how much they eat, that's not okay. There's a reason that's still in the gene pool. It's the best way to be in some circumstances.

I thought it seemed weird that some people in really harsh environments have survived forever among dangerous animals even though they're super scrawny, like the Kenyans. But having such a thin light skeleton and only enough muscle for basic movement slays there.

We take this for granted, but it's actually a really big deal to be the only ones in the animal kingdom that can craft containers. Every animal needs water, but they can only drink when they find it, and only then and there. They can't take any with them when they leave.

Just 2-3 scrawny humans each carrying nothing but a canteen and a spear can kill any predatory animal like a lion or something. The lion knows if it gets hurt even a little bit it's gonna be too slow to catch prey and its whole family will die, so fighting isn't worth it even if it'll probably win.

It'll try to just move on, but the people will just follow it until it's exhausted and then kill it easily. It can't stop to drink water or the people will catch up, and the people can drink while they're still walking.

With fur it can only sweat from its paws and nose, but humans have sweat glands all over our bodies. If you count the water container factor, humans have the best physical endurance of any species. Not from a strictly physiological/biological standpoint, but in an effective sense, yes.

The scrawniest ones are the best at it too. I'd personally rather be big and strong like Rifenhardt but I'm in a first world country. Food isn't scarce and even the homeless have access to public transportation, so there's a limit to how much you gotta walk.

The most significant danger where physique factors in is fights between humans, and they onky last a few seconds, so endurance isn't as crucial.

Can someone gimme a hand with this? Which one is which, and what do the arrows mean?

Please don't just say exactly what the character said. I read it. I don't understand.

I'm certain the purple is mana since they rank the levels of magic by numbers of stars. Don't need help with that.

Yellow is normally used as a color for divine/holy/radiant stuff, but the emblem in the yellow looks like a humanoid upper body with some kind of energy around it. Of course that could be anything, there's lots of glowing body stuff in these Asian action stories, but I think aura would make the most sense in this one.

I would expect red to be used for power related to physique, for the same reason as the yellow being holy. It's just a somewhat consistent trend across fiction. But the red emblem looks more like a religious symbol. I know there are tons of religious symbols besides a cross, and that that's closer to a plus sign than a crucifix, but with the arcing lines and the diamonds...

Idk maybe I'm being irrational but I see divinity in the red emblem and physical/bodily power in the yellow emblem. And neither possibility seems to align with what was said in the description of their interactions. I'm sure the arrows are meant to symbolize the interactions, but I don't get how.

The ones between purple and yellow look like they have a fragment missing. The ones between yellow and red look like they're half crumbled. And the ones between purple and red are bouncing away from each other.

This is reminiscent of the kind of charts you see in video games that explain type advantages for strategy, like rock/paper/scissors type stuff, but I haven't noticed any element of that kind of inherent advantages in this. And if there were, the arrows wouldn't look the same going both ways between two emblems.

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Hmm, fair point 🤔

Well, I mean, not in a real fight, but I bet I could beat him in Smash or DOA 😎

Just look at them ginormous hands. Ain't no way he could use a controller.

I'm a bit built for a human but I'd look like femboy on chemotherapy next the smolest orc at this event, so I hope brains count for something 😅

The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell ☝🤓

(Researching orc dating etiquette now)

Very few species are monogamous IRL. Worth a look 🤷

Fuck, we need more chill orcs like this in fiction. It's a healthy lesson to teach that being badass is different from just being mean and arrogant. The orcs in Skyrim are particularly bad.

She really stuck her neck out by complimenting a human like that while in a position of authority and knowing the racism is that intense.

We all know damn well that even though he's built more like a typical orc than a typical human, you could still find a stadium full of orcs who would all react like she's disgusting even though 100% of them would smash if they knew nobody'd judge them.

At least, that's what people are like about sexuality IRL. Her husband is based af too. It would've been very easy to interpret that sleep thing as patronizing or in some other way disrespectful, but it didn't hurt his pride at all. So polite.

Just said "Thank you for the courtesy!" and ready to fight, unphased by what would have been a loss in a war, because this isn't a war. It's serious, but it's still a competition. It should be fun. He's psyched to fight someone who's good.

THAT's a badass. Not a mean arrogant ruthless bully. A badass.

And the first bad character design I've seen in this entire manga happens in chapter 216. That's very impressive 🙂👏👏👏

Oof. "Tyrants in the making" hits the nail on the head. I was just talking about them as leaders in another comment. Didn't think of wording that apt.