Weeks 2-3 | 妖魔と下僕の契約条件 1

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I’m not complaining! I am really enjoying this book so far, and wouldn’t have thought to pick it up on my own. So thank you for nominating it!

I wasn’t sure given how the original legend ends with the criminal falling back into hell after he shouts at the other sinners the thread is his alone, and then the thread breaks.
I like your hopeful interpretation more though. Like the thread in itself is a hopeful symbol, and its fragility is a result of freewill and hubris, not an inevitability everyone is doomed to.

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Well put, that’s exactly how I saw it!

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Now I feel like I need to read this :grin:

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Highly recommended; references to it pop up everywhere. (Plus it’s just a good story in and of itself, imo.)

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Catching up

Weeks 2-3

Week 2 was morally painful to read - this kind of “everything sucks and everyone sucks and life is painful” prologue is not new (damn, his bike was stolen a while ago too???) to me, but I wish I got to see his mom’s opinion more in the beginning.
By the time I reached that flashback I had a solid feeling she’s mean and now I’m feeling guilty lol.

Week 3 - THAT WAS BRUTAL.
I obviously read “jidousha” as “jintensha” and spent a while thinking how can you be so broken after being hit by a bicycle and if there were multiple people there, did all of them drive over you, WTF???
So that’s awkward lol.

Yeah, reading through the painful bits in Japanese means taking a while to marinade in the negative feelings. He was also awake for forever! Even his consciousness doesn’t know what’s good for him and keeps him awake, yikes!

Hope my boi gets some good feels soon! Even though geboku doesn’t sound reassuring for now.

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Finally started reading this and had a bit of a chuckle at this comment… more like out of the frying pan into the fire… :see_no_evil:

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