Ah sorry, I forgot to give you the meaning. It means “the fact of receiving an attack”.
It’s important in game as some skills only activate when receiving an attack, or can not be used when receiving an attack (being staggered).
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By the way, have you had the time to catch up yet? 
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Almost. Will probably finish catching up today. 
Edit: Officially caught up. 
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By the way, what’s happening so far? (I.e. what can I mention without spoiling anything)
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Um so, I read a few pages past this so I will hide it in case afunian or others haven’t read all of this yet but
Summary
I am at the point where Bell is at the restaurant in order to thank the girl who works there and then he hears someone making fun of him in front of Valenstein and runs off towards the dungeons. Then, I started reading a bit about Eina sitting in her office on a rainy day.
Feels like things are starting to move a little bit, plot-wise, which is nice.
Also, of course, every single female character is already in love with Bell, which is…standard I guess.
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I dont mind spoilers I have seen both seasons of the anime, dw 
(maybe others like ditto-san havent though)
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I am almost to that part, where hes looking for the tavern in the center.
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Oh, ちなみに, afunian, I really strongly recommend amazon kindle’s version of this book, or at least the next one. You can get an in-book, Japanese-to-Japanese dictionary. I really love that for looking up words that I am unfamiliar with without breaking the feeling of continuous reading.
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I know what you mean, I read a page or two on the kindle version (volume 1 was free quite a while back, months before the club, so I have it) and as you say the dictionary feature is nice. I just really enjoy reading paperback, I normally have jisho open on my laptop in front of me when I read japanese.
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And, sadly, it’s not going to get any better (I guess that’s a spoiler… but is it really?)
About that part
Oooh the part inside the dungeon is my favorite of the book
Also, running off from ミヤ母さん’s restaurant without paying? Someone is gonna get in trouble 
(or not, who knows 
)
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Haha, yeah. I think I would definitely not want to be on Miya’s bad side. She, alone, seems like a tough cookie, but she also has a bunch of strong people who seem to like her a lot…やばい！
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Oh you have yet to see exactly how strong the people she has are 
Im not sure if Naphthalene-san has even got to those parts yet!
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Well, I guess I have some things to look forward to then. 
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Well, I’m close to the end of the anime, so if you have seen it, I’ve seen it too, probably
If you are talking about a certain level 4, then yes, I have seen that person in action twice by now
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Yup, thats the one! If volume 4 goes that far I wonder how far ahead the novels are from the animes!
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I’m on volume 7 now (although I haven’t started reading it yet). The first season covers roughly the first 5 volumes, and the second season volumes 6 and 7 (so I’m technically only half way through that).
There are 15 volumes in the main story so far (one more coming out soon), plus 7 or 8 extra covering different characters. So the anime isn’t that far along the story.
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Also I started reading volume 7 and… oh god. I know this isn’t at all the right place to talk about it but
it puts focus on the red-lights district. Illustrations are very close to pornographic delimitation. On the wrong side of said delimitation I would say.
It’s not the first time I complain about the illustrations (although I mostly do it in my own thread to not spam this club), but I really wish there was an illustration-free version of the story…
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Oh I just found your thread, didnt see before, definitely should read that.
I guess if any section has the worst illustrations its gonna be the red light district, hopefully it gets a bit tamer from there
Edit: So I got to reading that thread, it seems like theres alot of fan service even in the books, but also im glad you seem to enjoy the story? Thats what I was thinking at the start too. It has its own unique(?) plot that imo far separates it from a random fan service story
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I had a question from a piece of p79, does this: ちゃっかりしてるよなぁ mean something like “they played/fooled me”?
I’m wondering how much you know here…I have no idea how one can quote the spoiler bits (it keeps blurring/unblurring…), but what you just said is actually a (minor?) spoiler even to yourself.
P.S. I know about the Lv 4 you are talking about, but there may be much more to the story. Fujino-sensei has been very stingy about it… or I am simply imagining everything 
But yeah, Miya is definitely scary 
She’s also a kind person though.
You can just read the summaries online and die from spoilercide 
I’ve somewhat forgot some things in between but the last arc (I’ve read) was long but worth it (as much as the first one). It also gives new meaning to Bell’s actions. I think that counts as character development.
I agree. The harem thing and fanservice are definitely there (especially in the illustrations) but it has a plot. I think the arc I mentioned before proves that the fanservice is just a decoration to the real story.
P.S. It doesn’t reinvent the literature but it’s definitely unique. Just wait…
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