I was a bit startled when I read the name of the elder brother. Cain and Abel?! What is going on here? 
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My feelings exactly…
Abel → can actually create living souls.
Abel → Specializes in destruction
Abel → can probably kill souls
RIP Cain.
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Nice catch on the names 
it didn’t ring a bell at all for me in katakana 
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“It’s a long chapter, but I can probably read it in a week if I divide it between several days”
reads it all in one day anyway
Also Abel is so cute. And the way Rojica and Rakkasei supported him as well, so sweet. I just felt a bit sad on the scene with his parents, that he left before he heard everything they were saying… <\3
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A great chapter with so many nice moments. I found ロジカ’s 「オイラも褒めてぇ」moment particularly cute (who exactly is the parent here? 
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Seeing the book page was a bit daunting, but it ended up not being too bad. I added a few of the words I hadn’t seen before to the vocab list so hopefully someone reading it in the future finds it useful. Also, I completely forgot about this whole Abel sideplot since reading the manga a couple of years back. It’s a nice refresher and reminds me why I loved the manga so much the first time I read it.
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Thanks, every little helps. I got inspired by your good example and added some more.
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Page 29 reference
Only halfway through, but joining the Abel love. Also, ロジカ caught on to last chapter’s peanut mystery so fast, I’m impressed.
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Ah, Boodil’s comment reminds me…
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I don’t think Abel has shown that he can “create living souls”. The thing he did with the peanut is described by him as “spirit possession” on page 28, which makes objects “move like a living being” and since he doesn’t seem particularly proud of it, it’s probably a completely normal kind of magic.
In contrast, he also says that only special grade sorcerers can affect living beings, so the thing he did probably has nothing to do with “living beings”.
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I might have to re-read the peanut chapter since my memory is a bit fuzzy at this point, but that’s not my impression at all.
Certainly, Abel talks about spirit possession, and certainly, that’s what Abel was trying to do when he created the spirit that goes into the peanut - but I think the actual effect is completely different (and he never gets to witness it, that’s why he doesn’t think he is able to use that magic well).
I mean, the Peanut doesn’t feel like an animated inert object, but like an actual living being with personality, affection for its parents, and even a death wish. I highly doubt that would be beginner or even intermediate-level magic. I feel this is the manga just showing that Abel is actually very powerful but he doesn’t quite realizes this at that point.
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Oh, yeah… thinking about it, the peanut seemed to definitely do more than just “moving like living being”. I’m not sure I’d call it “creating a soul” still (it’s probably just a much stronger level of spirit possession), but I agree with
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So you think he tried to summon a soul but created a new one by accident? Intriguing.
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I’m done with the chapter and even soldiered through the textbook page. It was a chore, but how else am I gonna learn magic?
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So, that was suspiciously wholesome. I went into it like “k, let’s see who’s gonna die this week” and instead got this story of an adorable kid making friends, learning to respect himself and impressing his bullies. Given what kind of story this is, surely it won’t end there. I’m almost afraid to pick up the next chapter, because it’ll probably be the next apocalypse.
The origin story in the textbook: Does anyone else think this might tie in neatly with the worldbuilding backstory from volume 1? A magic king giving magic drugs to people to alter their genome and enable them to do magic sounds a lot like the kind of project that created the poison-emitting giants and し-さん.
According to the textbook’s classification, Abel is already a confirmed Class A magic user, because we’ve seen him work magic on a giant boulder. It remains to be seen if he’s actually Special Class. If so, that would be irony-level rotten luck for ロジカ. Imagine you’ve been hoping to find a magic user with the once-in-a-hundred-years special talent to work magic on living people to make your legs longer…and then you actually meet one but he’s got a specialty that only lets him make legs shorter.
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| Week 3 | August 5 2023 |
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| Pages | 61-74 |
| Chapter | 11 |
- I’m reading along
- I have finished this part
- I’m planning to catch up later
- I’m skipping this book
- I’m reading this book after the club has finished
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At least this time the character had it more than coming. Also, congrats 2OC3aOdKgwSGlxfz for essentially deducing what happened!
And I’m so glad Abel doesn’t seem to remember any of that…
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I was laughing reading all the speculation last week about Cain since I’d already read chapter 11.
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I wasn’t sure what to expect since I hadn’t read ahead but damn… those last pages sure were impactful…
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Haven’t read yet but I’m already subscribed to the thread and forgot to not open, so thank you everybody for using the spoiler tag 
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Now I’m caught up 
Some sentences were long and a bit tough for me, had to read them several times. Enjoyed the plot of the chapter!
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I was expecting “that” to happen, still horrified when it happened.
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