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Start Date: Feb 15
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Week Chapter End page End % End on Page Count
Week 7 四章 2/2 ~103 35% End of 四章 ~15

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Proper nouns

Name Note
ケルベック伯爵領
ウォーガン山脈
リディル王国
アガサ 侍女
イザベル・ノートン ケルベック伯爵令嬢
アラン 馬丁、アガサの弟
シェフィールド 風の精霊王
モニカ・エヴァレット 沈黙の魔女
ネロ
アニー
ミネルヴァ school
ルイス・ミラー 結界の魔術師
リィンズベルフィード (リン) 風の上位精霊
ライオネル 第一王子, 27 yo
フェリクス 第二王子, 18 yo
アルバート 第三王子, 14 yo
セレンディア学園
クロックフォード公爵 第二王子の祖父
ダスティン・ギュンター 作家
ロザリー・ミラー ルイスの妻
アーロン・オブライエン 生徒会会計
エリオット・ハワード 生徒会書記
ブリジェット・グレイアム 生徒会書記
ニール・クレイ・メイウッド 生徒会庶務
シリル・アシュリー 生徒会副会長
(フェリクス・アーク・リディル) 第二王子、生徒会長
ヴィクター・ソーンリー 先生
ラナ・コレット 2年生
セルマ・カーシュ 保健委員

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Notes on this part

We have contact, I repeat, we have contact!

…actually, a lot more contact than I was expecting for the first actual meeting, haha.

Also, that was an awfully well-aimed flower pot?

Okay, with a position being freed up in the council and the possibility of getting close to the prince by way of joining the council actually mentioned by a character - I guess we have a pretty decent chance that this will actually happen? Somehow?

「……わたし、あの人と……会ってる」

The prince, I assume?

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This week

Lol, yeah. Very touchy-feely, our Felix.

That flower pot was indeed suspicious.

Definitely. So, he’s sneaking around alone at night. The plot thickens.

Also, I want to know more about why cats can turn into people in this world.

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Agree, and that’s actually makes me even more suspicious of the prince’s entourage.

It was a bit creepy! I’m glad it was extra highlighted that he is a bakemono cat, though.

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One more note on this part & a reply

I totally forgot to comment on something earlier. Or maybe I wanted to forget.

ボンヤリとそんなことを考えていると、黒い影は握りしめた酒瓶をモニカ目掛けて振り下ろす。

Previously I thought that Monica was pretty lucky to be adopted by her father’s former student (if I remember correctly?), but after this sequence I’m not so sure that she had a good time there :frowning:

If it’s ice guy: That might be another explanation why he was so quick to shut up Aaron with the ice gag last chapter. We are supposed to think that he just had enough of him, but maybe his actual intention was to keep Aaron from leaking that his mind was tampered with?

(On the other hand, he probably would’ve gagged him much sooner then.)

Wait, did I miss that? I only remember him being called a 使い魔.

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Summary

This term wasn’t used in the book, I just used it because he can 化ける into human.

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Comments

Oh yes, I completely forgot to comment on that part, because I read this chapter last week and my memory is already getting fuzzy. Looks like there’s some traumatic backstory here with an abusive, alcoholic adoptive father. I’m certain that didn’t exactly help with Monica’s social phobia. Unfortunately, I also don’t quite remember the details we’ve got in previous chapters (Was he her father’s student? How old was Monica when her father died? Etc.)

Since we’re in the part of the mystery where everyone’s a suspect, I’m also keeping an eye on ソーンリー, the adult supervisor. He’s in a good position to lurk in the background at student council meetings, which also gives him a lot of opportunities to gain knowledge and access to Felix. Speaking of which, he’s one of the few characters where I can’t quite figure out what the name is supposed to be? Is it Thornley?

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Yay I’m caught up.

Summary

I don’t have much interesting to add that hasn’t been said above already. But cat turning into human is not something I was expecting. And I too want to know more about her upbringing. Her level of social anxiety is so extreme that it could be linked to something there.

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this week

I think what was creepiest about Nero transforming into a human was that he was described being mid-twenties, while Monica is still 17. Hopefully the author doesn’t try to make him into a potential love interest or something like that.

My dictionary says Thornley, so I’m sticking to that one indeed.

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Finished Chapter 4 (still behind but hopefully will catch up before the end of this book, haha). I have one plot question:

plot question

Monica awakes from being knocked out by, possibly, a flower pot (I say possibly because she’s in a daze and has a flashback to when she was abused in the care of her dad’s apprentice/disciple?).

I didn’t quite understand how she was knocked out and ended up at the medical office. Before that, she was in the old garden, in a young man’s embrace (i’m assuming its Felix…). Something was falling (a flower pot) when she used magic to blow it out of the way and it crashed onto the ground. So the two were safe…

Then she wakes up in the medical office. Was she knocked out by a 2nd flower pot? :thinking:

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plot answer

She fainted from being overwhelmed.

A few lines after the flower pot falls down, it is described that she is completely overwhelmed by all that has happened and that her “thread of tension that was stretched to the limits snaps”:

不審者扱いされて取り押さえられ、頭上から植木鉢が落ちてきて、そして初対面の人間に抱き寄せられた。
モニカの頭は想定外の事態の連続についていけず、限界まで張られた緊張の糸がブツリと切れる。

And then right after that description she faints (白目を剝く):

「…………はひゅっ」
白目を剝いてひっくり返ったモニカを、金髪の青年が慌てて抱きとめた。

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Summary

ahh. なるほど. I did read that sentence and did not realize the meaning until now. Thank you!

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I would assume it’s only 使い魔. Just like how Louis’s familiar takes a human form.

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