It's how court politics goes, and a demonstration of sincerity. She could have gathered information from, kidnapped, or outright killed Max and there was nothing Kiyoung would have been able to do to stop it. But she didn't. It's a demonstration of her power, as well as her desire for long-term cooperation with him rather than just short-term gain (which she could have gotten from harming Max). It's easy for people to say they want to work with you, but sometimes it takes a moment of vulnerability that they don't take advantage of in order to demonstrate sincerity, which is also why Kiyoung immediately recognized her intentions after seeing Max unharmed.

Why is the MC even bringing this guy along, anyway? There are other top rankers from other nationalities who seem far more willing and eager to cooperate, and it doesn't look like Sophia will be unable to participate just because Baron can't. He's not even a proper antagonist by this point, just annoying.

That's one hell of a change.

This is a world effectively without internal energy. It's a problem if he uses his flowery energy since it's visibly pink, but the idea someone would be able to do all of this stuff is too absurd to the common person for them to conceive of it, and even the strongest are able to recognize something at play and his part in it, but not know exactly what happened. It's like someone with 20/20 vision showing up in a place where nobody has ever been able to see.

As for the S-Class Fighters, they're at the top of the world in terms of strength and craving excitement. They can tell Xie Yan isn't a fallen fighter so it's not a crisis, and the unfamiliarity of his methods piques their curiosity and interest.

How do you have this kind of error when the two team names are so different and also so long? This is a lack of quality control to an absurd level.

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It's a really good one. It's at times like these we get to see that she didn't get to where she is completely on the laurels of her father—she has legitimate acumen and abilities that were being hampered by her weaknesses in others. Her skill at schmoozing and interacting with high-society people was high enough that her poor self-control and incompetence in finance didn't cause as many issues as it would have otherwise until Dojoon stepped in to force it.

I knew the aunt would end up becoming willing and more fulfilled under Dojoon's circumstances, but I didn't know to how much of an extent, too. It seems like respect is something she's always wanted but never fully got from her own family, but Dojoon is willing to listen, accept her expertise, and even go along with it as seen when she suggested he come with her to influence sales.

Seol-Ah was chastising MC for even insinuating eating a squirrel before, but here she brings it up with Bi-Ah as though it's a given to do so. xD

Because they're like ten years old. Just about everyone at that age—MC included pre-regression—is a little shit, especially when part of a prestigious clan.

He wasn't. He only gave them the blood essence so they could lure and potentially turn Jarodin, everything else was their own business and happened without his assistance or interest. It's the main reason he gave zero cares about what happened to them.

No. MC has already witnessed his subordinates' deaths before, and the AI also treated it as though it was a given the times it happened. The thing that will happen in the future—the truth the MC will uncover or even that will take place—is implied to be even more soul-crushing than that. If it's something that would cause the MC to give up despite everything he's been through thus far, I actually think it might have something to do with the system, like if the MC goes off the rails from expected storylines the AI will simply force him to dead end himself, effectively creating a fate he cannot fight against.

He actually performed his move really well. He orchestrated things behind the scenes so she would get a taste of something she'd always wanted—prestige and independence from her father—and then indirectly brought it down around her. He cornered her in silence using the stock exchange to trap her without her knowing, and then offered her a raft when she was floundering in the water. The thing is, truthfully speaking, she'd never wanted the responsibility that came from running a company in the first place, she just wanted the privileges and prestige. Dojoon keeping her on board and allowing her to maintain the comforts of her lifestyle while simultaneously dealing with the harder aspects of the job means she'll soon come to prefer the arrangement after Dojoon takes over compared to before.

I legit think she hasn't been mentioned or shown even once before now. Already a fan of her, though.

It'd probably be closer to "was his face always so radiant?" Using light-related terms for attractiveness isn't absent in English, it's just not "shiny".

I'll be right there with you if he does something like that, though this touches on something important. In literature there's something known as the "moral event horizon", where a character does something so heinous they can no longer be redeemed in a narrative sense. It's a bit of a meta analysis, but this story has been rather lighthearted and largely avoided serious topics or thought, with the latest chapter being a prime example of that—a more gritty or serious mafia story could have had her poisoned or similar, but she passed out after just a little bit of alcohol, turning the seriousness into comedy instead. It's hard for me to imagine the author pushing the male lead beyond the moral event horizon after all the effort they've gone into establishing him as sympathetic and misunderstood. I could be wrong, but this author just doesn't seem the type, so there's probably not much to worry about.

Her being related to murderers is actually a strong reason why this makes sense. How many people has her father killed in his lifetime as the mafia family head? What about her bodyguard whom she is close to, who can casually say he's trained to kill people? And yet, despite being part of the mafia and doing bad things, they're still good people and people she cares about.

It's been shown there's a lot of uncertainty about whether Leonardo is the actual villain—this isn't a matter of "letting the Joker live". It's worth pointing out Batman himself is a criminal who runs around as a vigilante beating the crap out of people, and yet he's typically not portrayed as a villain for the readers.

Looks like the solution to the floor's problem is going to be an egg hunt.

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These censors, man. And of course, I always end up reading it as worse than the original actually was....

That's not the case. Although Krampus has to fall back into a defensive fight now, that's only because she'd lied to him, causing him to overextend his forces towards the fortress. If he'd found out about her loss and knew things were so disadvantaged, he could have easily called off his march, withdrawn, and started assaulting Runda's territory with the troops instead. Krampus could have even contacted Nebula and come to some manner of truce before or after he initiated hostilities with Runda; Nebula hadn't made any overt attacks towards his territory despite the persistent sabotage, so it's not beyond the possibility Nebula simply has other things he wants to focus on rather than actually marching on Krampus's land.

Runda is in a terrible position right now, and it would not surprise me in the slightest if Nebula used it against her. The fact she withheld such important information for her own sake means the alliance isn't that strong, and she's also willing to betray for her own gain (or to prevent her own loss).

It's a bit annoying how many liberties the author takes with the MC's power level, raising it up or pushing it down whenever it's convenient for the plot. Why is he performing so much better here than in the test against his "rival"? He's dodging multiple magic attacks with ease without even being able to move his feet and casually cutting people down from multiple angles, but it wasn't even eight chapters ago he was struggling to overcome a single student combatant. It's hard to feel invested in this great and terrible faction when there's probably a dozen and a half characters in the academy alone who could single-handedly stomp it down, at least according to comparative power scaling.

Hell yeah. I was worried it got axed or dropped or something.