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This week’s chapters felt harder than the others for me, especially the bento making part. But I got through it.
I’m still a bit confused about the end of chapter 54 though. So how I understood it was that Abel stabbed his brother through the shoulder with his sword. But wasn’t he using a practice sword? Did I misunderstand the line or was it supposed to be that he’s so strong he stabbed his brother even with a practice sword?
I think the bento part would have been hard for me if I didn’t have the image of the anime scene in hand. Was very confusing with the different points of views of what was happening. Mia/Tiona/Riora/Keithwood/Anne each had a different focus/perspective.
I have to say I zoned a bit in and out of Chapter 54. Probably shouldn’t have waited until the last day to do these.
From what I understood, it said it was a practice sword, but depending on the strength and where you hit with it, it could cause slight injures.
But then as you say it says the sword entered, so it gives the image that he was able to penetrate the body somehow.
Eurghh, I really want to keep loving this story as much as I did in the beginning, but this whole bento arc just doesn’t hit the way the “Mia and Ludwig casually get a hospital built in the worst slum in the city” arc hits.
If the bento arc were easier rather than more difficult, that would be… better. Maybe I will go back to a minimal and/or zero look-ups strategy for these chapters…
Cooking has no business to be such a hard read. What even? It’s cute girls failing at cute things and a guy being a mama bear to fix it, why was it so hard
Yeah, I was also very confused about the swords used. I assumed they were wooden, then I realized they are metal (from metal on metal sounds), so metal non-real swords
I think the image from kendo where shinai hits the shoulder but doesn’t actually break the skin is what we’re supposed to imagine here
Haitta like a hit going through, same as a football goal is also “haitta”. Not actually entering the body, but not being deflected/caught/stopped/hit
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