Seems a bit odd that in Effa’s eyes, Rozemyne looked 5 to 6 years younger than Tuui and the gap appeared even bigger than what they used to have AFTER Anwachs gave Rozemyne the growth spurt. Everyone else commented how Rozemyne now looked her age… well the fake noble age anyway. If we took Effa’s words as gospel, she’d look like she is just about to be baptized, which seriously contradicts what the nobles and even Tuuli said. I wonder if this is a translation mistake and she was actually thinking about how the visual age difference prior to the growth spurt, rather than after. Or she might be just as, or maybe even more, biased as Gunther, but going in the opposite direction. ^^

Keep in mind that Ferdinand is an absolute master in keeping his emotions hidden and putting up fake emotions that seem to fool anyone other than Rozemyne, and maybe his name-sworn, so it’s entirely reasonable for the royal to not take him at his word, just because he says he doesn’t want to be Zent… not to mention I seriously doubt he bothered to ask Ferdinand, whether he wanted to be Zent. The only thing we know is, that Trauerqual essentially put an ultimatum before Ferdinand: Replace Sylvester as Aub Ehrenfest, marry Detlinde, or get executed. And as we’ve just seen in this chapter, he believed that had Ferdinand made a move for the crown, at that time, it’d have resulted in a civil war and thus needed to be averted. Ferdinand making a more to become Zent after marrying into Ahrensbach hadn’t been thought of either, since it wasn’t an option anyway at the time, and was a path only potentially opened up by the discovery of the magic cricle and the assumptions this lead to.

I very much doubt that Raublut is to blame for Trauerqual’s reaction here. His words are entirely in keeping with what else we know of his true feelings. I also very much doubt that Raublut could have forseen Detlinde’s action and the immediate reaction by the Sovereign Temple, making it unlikely he could have been able to get Trauerqual drugged up enough to alter his mind, between the incident and this meeting. I also don’t really see what Raublut would have to gain from manipulating the Zent here and now.

This makes me wonder… does Yurgenschmidt have cats?

Considering there are cat-like feybeasts (Zantze, Fetze, Goltze line) and how at least some feybeasts and -pants have non-magical cousin animmals, it’s entirely possible, but was there ever any mention or appearance, that I fail to remember?

Those paranoid nobles… “She helped us to an imeasureable degree and put all her card openly on the table, instead of keeping them as aces up her sleeve… she must be planning something suspicious!”

Back when the bride stealing ditter happened, I assumed that Hildebrand vented his frustration by saying he wished someone would save Rozemyne, in the precense of the drugged sovereign knights, thus inadvertedly causing the incident, but nope, this was clearly entirely Raublut’s doing, since the knights didn’t get anywhere near Hildebrand and had more information than the prince.

I don’t know about the goddess of time… why would the goddess reveal to them, that Ferdinand was going to be engaged with Detlinde, but wouldn’t actually marry her and then erase their memories of it?

If it wasn’t for the specific mention of Ferdinand marrying “Aub Ahrensbach,” I’d have thought someone tried to make him marry Alstede, or some other female Ahrensbach archduke candidate, but had to scrap their plan and used Trug to hide it ever existed. Could the use of Aub Ahrensbach be a mistranslation, or maybe a missing word, like Aub Ahrensbach’s daughter?

Wow… just when a small spark of sympathy is sparked for Barthold, for actually caring for his sister, it is immediately squashed and my bad opinion of him made even worse. And I now also hate Oswald more than I already did. I really hope he’ll suffer a fate far worse than merely sinking into obscurity.

That moment of Gunther internally gloating over looking like a knight, on the back of Damuel’s highbeast was so cute and so Gunther. ^^

I love the new bonus manga. Lieseleta’s picking up “cuteness is justice” from Rozemyne and Ferdinand’s reaction were priceless. :D

But unlike with Damuel and Brigitte, there at least weren’t any boken hears there (other than Tuuli’s anyway). And there is a small hope, that with the desperate need to keep her out of the loop now lessened, if not entirely gone, they might still make it work, if Karin were to ever visit Alexandria and happen to run into Benno there.

I’m really torn on this… on one hand in their world it’d be a great match, would get Benno a wife he gets along with well, after the hardships he endured with Liz and would get Karin out of an enviroment in which she’s likely stigmatized to at least some degree, in part for potentially being seen as “used goods” and in part due to guilt by association with her father, who cost his duchy quite a bit and was punished accordingly.

But on the other hand Benno is at least 15 years older than her (more than 17 Earth years by the way), which is more than Ferdinand and Rozemyne’s 13 years apart, and without the fuzzy factor of Rozemyne’s mind being a mix of the child born in this world and a fully grown adult from Earth.

That Tuuli was in love with Benno, even if just briefly, really caught me off guard. I never would have guessed this.

Damn… I already felt bad for Karin, from what little the main story gave us, but I never considered, how the other Klassenberg people might treat her, after coming back. Considering it was Klassenberg that forced through the purge, I would not be surprised if a certain level of vindictivness were to run in the entire duchy, not just the archduke (or rather former archduke). I hope Otto’s being mistaken here. Or alternatively, that Karin does find a way to come to Alexandria and win Benno’s heart… or rather convince him of the economic benefit of their marriage. I think without the need to keep business secrets from her, they’d get along very well, probably better than many other arranged marriage partners do. And with Benno now being associated very closely to a full-on Aub, not to mention the Divine Avatar of a goddess, even Klassenberg merchants should be a bit weary of messing with him and accidentally getting into trouble over it.

I am rather confused about the gods supposedly not approving of traveling merchants drinking alcohol in a bar… why would the god of alcohol exclude hard-working merchants? Maybe it’s a matter of some of the soldiers disaprooving of their haunts being “infiltrated” by “greedy money grubbers” and so the traveling merchants learned to keep a low profile in such places, and they just told their children about this being the will of the gods, to make them accept it more easily. We saw how hostile Lutz’s family was toward any merchant, and I doubt they’d exclude the traveling ones from their ire.

Nice to get some time with Renate. From the main series we know barely more than her existing and playing Karuta with Kamil.

Rico’s chapter was quite something… reading about the horrible conditions from Myne getting pretty much only a glimpse at it, before fainting was already haunting, but now to have the perspective of someone inside? Wow…

So Yurgenschmidt people believe the moon and the sun are the same source of light, with it being called moon, when it’s dimmed by the God of Darkness’ cape at night… so does that mean their moon is never in the sky at the same time as their sun, like it happens at times with our celestial bodies of Earth and consequently they never have lunar or solar eclipses?

The side-story was a bit confusing. First we hear that the second mixing invites extended family, only for the actual thing to have solely the parents and one of Thorsten’s brothers plus his wife present, with excuses being made for the missing siblings alone. Siblings are usually not considered extended family as far as I know. There’s also a sentence that makes it sound as if engagement feystones are exchanged at the second mixing, if the mixing itself goes well, only to once again be contradicted by the actual event, when the pair only makes the decision when to exchange the stones, and even decides to exchange them unusually early, rather than waiting for the third mixing. This feels like someone in the writing or translating pipleline mixed the second and third colour mixings together.

But the final scene with Angelica trying to copy Rozemyne’s mannerism was just adorable. :3

Though now thinking more on it… Kamil was described as a smat child, so shouldn’t he wonder how Myne even knew what a book was, much less love them, at a time, when they didn’t have a single scrap of parchament in their house? With the whole Divine Avatar of the Goddess of Wisdom, there’d even be an easy way out of the true explanation at hand, with which Rozemyne could dissemble. ^^

Even though I wanted to see the explanation to Kamil, I liked the story for Trauerqual even more. After all the suffering he went through and living a life, the endless sisyphus touling, that never showed any payoff and paying for the sins of his brothers, seeing him see the fruits of his labour for the first time since the war, was heartwarming. I hope what remains of the Werkestock population, will come around and be able to forgive him, for what the greater duchies and circumstances forced him to do… or that they’ll at least keep the old grudges to themselves, so they’ll die with their generation, rather then being passed down to their descendance, like it happened in Ehrenfest with the Leisegangs and Gloria followers.

Looking at the map and the alteratered borders discussed in Volume 11, I feel like Eglantine could have given Ehrenfest some of Zausengas’s territory, instead of giving it all to Klassenberg. I know Sylvester said he didn’t need anything beyond walking back on Rozemyne’s adoption and marrying Sigiswald, but everything considered, a bit more appreciation than that would have been warrented, even if it was just a small portion of the former duchy, like drawing a straight line between it’s Frenbeltag and Klassenberg borders, as a symbolic gesture to the rest of the country.

I bet most duchies will think that it was solely Rozemyne and Dunkelfelger who did everything, while thinking the rest of Ehrenfest didn’t do anything and having this false assumption “confirmed” by Ehrenfest not getting any reward for their role in the fight. Sure they only gave rear-line support, but that’s still more than literally any other duchy apart from Dunkelfelger and not-yet-Alexandria.

It’s almost a shame we got the Epilogue from Lutz’s POV. I’d love to be in Rozemyne’s or Kamil’s heads during the reunion. I guess there’s still a chance we will get a Kamil POV chaper, that overlaps with Lutz’s epilogue. I certainly hope so, especially if they give him a more complete explanation, after Rozemyne and Ferdinand left. Nevermind… I am so used to having side-story chapters, after the epilogue, I forgot this was the final release… :( Oh well, maybe we’ll get something in the dedicated side-story books.

It was funny how Rozemyne said she was glad, Kamil still cried when she holds him. No wonder Lutz thinks he’s dealt with enough wackos for one life time. ^^

I always thought that Florencia was neglectful and was assuming that Rozemyne was being educated by Elvira (without bothering to ask Elvira whether this assumption was true) and thus didn’t lift much of a finger herself. I never realized the precarious situation she was in in regards to Rozemyne.

I guess she isn’t a complete failure as a mother after all… even though I still hold a bit of resentment for it taking the Ivory Tower incident for her to take back control of Wilfried’s education, rather than immediately doing it the moment Veronica was out of the picture, several months before.