Oh sorry for the bad wording, I was referring to Santa Cruz’ house as “palace” as well. (Isn’t it called like that? It sounds like it’s big enough to deserve the name 
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Re Chapter 4:
Rationally I am with you, but emotionally I can’t let go of the idea yet. (How this can turn out? Great anger can produce great passion, you know 
)
I’m sure he’d rather have some body parts rot off of him…
That’s what actually worries me the most right now…
Oh you didn’t by any chance read the second short story in Murata Sayaka’s 殺人出産 🤰🔪 Book Club, did you? That was a bit of a different take on the subject 
That would be fire! 
Re Chapter 5:
I thought it might be romanized as 食う 
My understanding is that Kaito had only commented on how Zenocrate was written in Tamburlaine (back then in the dressing room of the theatre in, hm, vol. 5 I guess? Or was it 4?), and Kit likens this to his relationship (as of now) to Geoffrey/Nigel.
Kaito had criticized that he deemed it unlikely that a woman who had been assaulted by a man whom she had just met and whom she didn’t love would have a hard time loving said man from the bottom of her heart.
Kit retells his reaction to this criticism by saying that he was ashamed of what he had written and that he had not thought it through from her perspective, and that this would make Tamburlaine much better understandable. He should hold her in high esteem and not touch her until her father had conquered Egypt, in fact so much as to make her wonder why he didn’t touch her at all. Which would give Kit the opportunity to make Tamburlaine talk to Zenocrate in order to make her understand that, and also to demonstrate that Tamburlaine is not only strong at war (but also with words).
Now (back in the “now”) Kit latches onto this and likens it to the relationship between G/N and Kaito.
(I think the parallel is that Geoffrey and Nigel also hold Kaito in high esteem and first talked to him to win his heart, instead of fucking him right away.)
Then he says that the only difference is that Geoffrey and Kaito have not had sex yet [while Tamburlaine and Zenocrate had sex after her father conquered Egypt, is my take here]. “Or did you?”
(how subtle, Kit, how subtle 
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I think Kit is actually criticizing Geoffrey here for doing that: そんなところまでナイジェルと同じか。 using Nigel’s overly high esteem of his mother (that keeps him from being interested in any real women) as an example to explain his criticism. Which of course brings Nigel up against him
He is talking to Nigel: ナイジェルにだけ聞こえるように囁いた. And yes, after Nigel is complaining whether they are really planning to take this detestable person on their long journey, Geoffrey asks him to be patient and tells him that afterwards “you can do with him what you like”. (And I don’t expect that to be friendly things )
Re Chapter 6:
Riiight?
It was obvious that Kaito behaves just like that, but I was really surprised that he could reflect on it like that. 
Definitely! I’m getting more and more the hang of seeing Vicente and Kaito together.
It’s so ridiculous, I keep giggling about it each time I think of it
Glad you agree with me!
By the way, I’m planning to start Vol. 11 around the end (-ish) of January. Do the two of you think you can manage to catch up to me until then?