Ok, since I’ve finished the chapter altogether last week…
Thoughts
Monica’s conclusion on Felix’s secret cracked me up. I understand the logic and all, but come on, how could an adult person have come up with such a conclusion?
I don’t like Felix’s attitude at all! Oh-so-bored prince who treats people like toys This is a common trope though. I don’t know if the author plans to get these two together, but at the moment, I don’t like it.
It’s the only thing that can wake her up after all, so it has to be true!
Yeah, he’s a… bit too “playful”.
I don’t think this is going to be romance. And I can’t really see those two together anyway; the prince sees her as a plaything, and even if she had any interest in romance, she would absolutely hate the attention that would come with dating such a public figure. (Also she’s already married to math and magic.)
First, in regards to this left over question from last week: The purpose of the scene where Caroline and her cronies talk in the corridor seemed to be to give us more information about Brigitte and Felix. We now know that they were childhood friends, and many people think Felix is bound to become the next king and Brigitte his wife, but most girls at school still drool over Felix anyway. This probably means that Brigitte will become an antagonist if (when?) Felix starts to show romantic interest in Monica. And I’m almost sure this will happen at some point (though I also think this ship is doomed from the start because being a prince’s consort, let alone a queen, is so public a position that Monica could never be happy with it). It seems like Felix finds Monica interesting precisely because she’s the only girl who doesn’t either fawn over him or agressively pursue him.
I don’t like his attitude towards Monica, either, but I do feel a little bit sorry for him because he doesn’t seem too keen on becoming king and thinks about it as the point where the “fun” part of his life will be over. Seems like a rather crap situation for a teenager.
And so…his great big secret, the one the whole chapter was named for, is that he likes to sneak out at night to experience…night life?
Felix knows the classical fairy tales like Sleeping Beauty and Snow White: when a girl is sleeping or even dead, a prince has to come and kiss her.
The trick works well on Monica to awaken her out of her math trance after shouting and slapping didn’t show any effect and Nero was shut out and couldn’t help.
Yeah I definitely expected more out of this, especially given that it was given quite a bit of importance early on. Lana and Nero have taken the sidekick spot lately. It’s a bit weird frankly because I think it was the most interesting dynamic,with Isabel knowing her secret but not her motivations and wanting to help but not necessarily understanding Monica’s behavior.
That’s why I’m also careful with the theory that the author will “ship” Monica and the prince. That seems to be implied in this chapter but that doesn’t seem too mean much.
Yeah - I think she was actually the first character we met! It seemed like she’ll be around for the mission, made up backstory/relationships and all, only for her to suddenly completely disappear from the story after visiting the principal together with Monica.
When @2000kanji mentioned her name, I actually had to think a little who Isabelle was. I wish I was kidding.
I guess that’s the disadvantage of reading so slowly. I think in in-world time, the whole assassination mystery arc has taken what…2 days? So since Monica and Isabelle don’t share classes and live on different floors, it’s not too weird that they haven’t seen each other, but for us, it’s been weeks. I also miss her, though.
I mean, the series is 11 volumes and still ongoing. That’s enough space to ship everyone in the cast with everyone else if the author wants to.
That’s very true but with their elaborate backstory and their facade of hating each-other, I really expected that the relationship would be central to the dynamics of the story. I thought it would be some kind of wacky Sherlock/Watson detective story. Instead that dynamic played out in the principal’s office and then that was that. A lot of the dialogue between Nero and Monica could instead happen with Isabel for instance, which I would argue is generally more interesting than “Instagram cat memes: the character”.
I don’t think that would work, because Monica is too tongue-tied around Isabelle to have fully fledged conversations about random topics. Right now, Nero is the only option for when the author wants to introduce some information by having Monica speak freely. And since Monica’s extreme shyness is the central premise of the story, I think it would also create pacing issues if she just snapped out of it and warmed up to Isabelle too quickly. I kinda expect that the rest of the story will consist of little arcs where Monica gets used to different secondary characters and starts to feel more at ease around each of them. If this part gets over too quickly, Monica would just turn into an overpowered witch with no real flaws afterwards.
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This is a common trope though. I don’t know if the author plans to get these two together, but at the moment, I don’t like it. 
