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奥様のご懐妊おめでとうございます。
お子さんが生まれた時のお祝いの品は、数学の入門書で良いでしょうか？
ルイスさんのお好きな数学書があったら、教えてください。
It’s only 3 lines in and it’s already a very good report.
だけど、精神干渉術式は完璧ではなかったので、
Apply ice magic to burnt area.
そこをわたしが現行犯で捕まえました。ちょっとやりすぎました。ごめんなさい。
“I caught him. Also I overdid something but refuse to elaborate. Sorry!”
ただ、ことあるごとに「豚が……豚が……」と謎のうわごとを繰り返しているとかなんとか。
Looks like he was also captivated by the beauty of Mr. Sam’s pig’s numerical series! 
モニカ・エヴァレットの思考回路は、ルイスにはどうにも理解不能である。
I recommend reading “Secrets of the Silent Witch” for a deeper understanding.
「何故、第二王子の護衛を〈沈黙の魔女〉殿に依頼したのですか？」
Are we really getting an answer to this?!
魔術は高威力、広範囲だったり、追尾などの特殊効果があると、それだけ詠唱が長くなる。
それなのに〈沈黙の魔女〉は、高威力かつ広範囲で、しかも特殊効果がてんこ盛りの魔術を無詠唱でやってのけたのだ。
…I guess something slipped through the book edits, huh?
edit: See replies.
だから少しでもモニカに自信を持たせようと、ウォーガンの黒竜退治に引きずっていったのに、黒竜を撃退した後は、逃げるように山小屋に引きこもる始末。
Hum. “I want her to get more confidence because seeing someone who is so much better at magic than me deprecate herself so much frankly hurts me.” is at least a much better reason than “I enjoy her suffering”
「陛下は私に『第二王子を内密に護衛せよ』と命じましたけどね、私は陛下のお言葉を額面通りに受け取ってはいないのですよ……『第二王子を秘密裏に監視せよ』──それが、陛下の本音だと私は思っています」
Hum hum. And if that’s the case, it would make sense to give that order to someone who is not part of the second prince’s faction.
Are we solving all mysteries in this chapter that came after the epilogue? 
人当たりの良い柔らかな笑顔の下に、何かおぞましいものが蠢いているような──そういった不気味さをルイスはフェリクスに感じた。
Wow. “Like something repulsive/disgusting is squirming under the surface of that smiling face” is probably the most graphic and most damning description we ever got of Felix.
「つまり、強い者である第二王子と〈沈黙の魔女〉殿を、同時にいじめてやろうと」
ルイスは正解とは言わず、ただニッコリと美しく微笑む。
I guess despite what we learnt previously the fact that he enjoys the struggles he inflicts on Monica doesn’t change. He calls it “bullying the strong”, but it just feels vindictive.
「納得しました。ルイス殿の評価を『強い者いじめが好きな性格破綻者』に訂正いたします」
Also he absolutely deserves Rin.
フェリクスが紅茶を飲み干すと、侍従に化けたウィルディアヌが控えめに口を挟んだ。
I wonder how much you can choose who becomes your (?) spirit, or if it’s more of a “you get what you get” thing. ウィルディアヌ seems perfectly suited for a prince, making me think that that is probably no coincidence. Nero is a good match for Monica, although he sometimes feels a bit more pushy than Monica would probably like if she could’ve chosen. Rin seems far more cheeky than I’d expect of someone Louis has chosen himself.
ソーンリー教諭を逮捕した〈結界の魔術師〉は、さぞクロックフォード公爵に恨まれていることだろう。
Not catching that guy would’ve made it much worse over time for the academy though? Or I guess maybe Crockford would’ve liked to catch him himself without making it public.
「あぁ、そろそろ尻尾を出す頃だと思っていたのだけど、獲物を横取りされたようだ。〈結界の魔術師〉は、私の周囲を嗅ぎまわっているからね。その過程で、ソーンリーの犯罪に気づいたのだろう」
冷ややかな声で呟き、フェリクスはポケットから小さなブローチを取り出した。
Ooooooh. I wonder if he destroyed the thing himself on purpose?!
だからフェリクスはブローチを貰ってすぐに、ウィルディアヌに命じて破壊させたのだ。
We’re really solving all the mysteries in this “after the epilogue” chapter.
なんにせよ、しばらくは慎重に動いた方が良いだろう。
So… I guess there is actually something to hide, then. Nice.
「あぁ、どうせ七賢人を監視役に仕向けるなら、〈結界の魔術師〉より、あの人にしてくれればいいのに」
It’s him! It’s him after all! He’s the blue-eyed guy in the prologue who was fascinated by Monica’s magic!!
「ウォーガンの黒竜を撃退し、翼竜の群れを一瞬で撃墜した、この国の英雄。世界でただ一人の無詠唱魔術の使い手である、千年に一人の天才魔術師……」
Yessssssss!
It’s fun that he’s independently fascinated by her twice, even if (or especially because?) both feelings differ by a lot
また、加筆修正するにあたって、全体的にＷｅｂ版よりもモニカに優しい修正がされています。
?!??!?!??!?
I guess that is his one redeeming quality.
Agreed. The epilogue didn’t even provoke any live-tweeting reactions from me. It wasn’t bad, but this was definitely more interesting.
Did it? I don’t remember any new information we got apart from “the king probably wants to watch the second prince”.
Am I misunderstanding that second sentence? Because I think he absolutely, 100%, without a doubt is that guy from the prologue. And for that reason alone I think that he doesn’t know yet who Monica is; he clearly isn’t directing that fanboyish zeal towards the Monica that he knows.
Let me know if there’s anything fun I missed in the character portraits. I gave the first four a very cursory read, and decided that it’s probably not worth the effort to read them without added furigana and Yomichan lookups. (And then I threw the afterword into ChatGPT because I’m definitely not sifting through that to find out whether it contains anything interesting.)
And thanks to everyone participating in the threads! A fun book is only half of what makes a book club great 
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? Also (and this is a stretch…more stretchy than this whole theory … was his whole plan from the beginning was to set up Louis so that Louis would send Monica to Selendia and right into his grasp…!).
