@Lily-Garden Buddy cop with belligerent romantic tension!

Volume 18 (Premium Edition): A Bonus Short Story & Full Wraparound Cover Jacket illustration The Hunter’s Pride and the Clan Member’s Thoughts

I had a spoiler for the rest of the story here—but, after re-reading it I really think I can get a full volume out of it—so, I am taking the spoiler down—if I really do run with it, I hope to be done by the time Vol 10 of the official story is complete. I hope I can keep it interesting, although the main character really hasn’t appeared in the real story—but, I think that part of the fun of a fan-fic is to go places where the main story doesn’t—while keeping with the spirit of the series (but, there is a decent chance Mia will take center stage anyway —since that is what happened last time when I tried to move her to the sidelines).

@rkkn said in Oversummoned Vol. 1 Discussion!:

I was wondering why he never gave anyone, not even his BFF "Sensei", the very simple explanation for why he was always sleeping midday, when doing so would have made his life way easier. Turns out he was a sadistic sociopath the whole time!

but I still don't think it really fits together. Nothing really points to him waiting for the perfect moment to turn on everyone including her. Or was there? Did I miss it?

Apparently the point of that was so well hidden that all of us missed it. Or it didn't make sense. One of those.

Either the author has intentionally written a character who is a sadistic psychopath with some kind of multiple personality disorder, or the author neglected learning how to write characters consistently.

My guess it the author was winging it so much that they were writing the webnovel from week to week without a detailed plot outline, and the LN editor didn't make them fix that by adding some foreshadowing and rewrites to the earlier parts.

This gets my vote for "most disappointing series of the season" since it seemed to have a lot of promise in the earlier parts before the author threw that away.

@Ojive eagerly waiting for those volumes.

Somehow I missed reading the final part until going, "Huh? What's going on?!" upon reading the first section of the next volume.

Well.
My prediction as to the solution/resolution was a tad off the mark.
More than a tad.

He did stand off the current Guardian Knight.
He didn't act as Carina's Guardian Knight as part of her 'qualification conflict' thingy.
He did act in a manner allowing the various Great Spirits involved to hammer out a non-aggression pact.
Nobody died. This time, anyway.

So.
He and Charlotte know how each of them feels about the other.
His reputation has been sent through the wash. (This is a good thing.)
There's been a peaceful [?!] resolution of the conflict between North and South. For certain values of 'peaceful', anyway.
Life should be good now.

Queue hysterical laughter, given at least three volumes to go.

What was in the new update for vol 1?

I was actually a pretty big fan of the romance to start with, I thought it portrayed a marriage of convenience slowly becoming more well. I got frustrated when their relationship increasingly became one of vassal and servant. Much of the interactions we see of Zenjirou and Aura is him making reports to her. The fact that the story is going to become a harem, with focus given to the next girl (look who gets the covers) doesn't say good things about the relationship between Zenjirou and Aura. It's just going to be more Aura imposing on Zenjirou, Zenjirou accepting said imposition as necessary and Aura worrying about when her imposing on Zenjirou will reach a breaking point but not actually working on improving things for him.

Something I find pretty frustrating is that Aura is pushing Zenjirou into getting a concubine, something he does not like, but a few times when he displays a rapport with a woman she is quick to squash it. Granted the few times it's happened the lady was politically nonviable, or at least undesirable, as a concubine, but shouldn't she be encouraging him? I would love it if they were monogamous, but Aura doesn't think that is viable.

@Windsagio to be fair, it makes sense that you'd lock out account names like that from being created anyway, but yeah it gets the odd double take.

Overall interesting volume with getting the gang back together as the premise states. Felt like Part 8 was rushed. Rushed because:

spoiler

Hahah I have been resisting the urge to ask the dreaded question for a week now, because I already know the stock answer. XD

@RichardM Please see this topic about future volumes:

https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/3478/future-volume-release-schedule

Having finished Volume 2...

A bunch of folks who want everything to devolve into chaos, eh?
Being stymied left and right by the very embodiment of chaos.
Chaos desires good food, sweets, a nice long bath, and a fluffy comfy bed, thank you very much!

More seriously, I think Mia is onto something when she takes the perspective that if she could get warped back in time, so could others.
So do your best to prevent circumstances arising that might lead to that occurring, and since she's only got one sample to work with, assume everything concerning the event is relevant.

So, yeah, to the extent possible during times of crisis, real or staged, insure that nobody dies.
If someone gets taken captive and brought to trial, do not impose a death sentence.
Don't treat folks such that they develop a grudge.
Beware of odd meteorological phenomena.

And, on the off chance that things end up going south, build good relations with folks in obscure locations who cook tasty food!

A phrase I often use is that of Enlightened Self-Interest.
At a certain level Mia embodies that in her actions.

Currently, the LN consists of eight volumes, of which this was number two.
The mind reels!

Concerning the Chaos Dudes: Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?!

@Geezer-Weasalopes

The horse characters are some of my favourites in the series.

Volume 1 (Premium Edition): A Bonus Short Story Follow the Giant Fish!

Reading this long after the rest of y'all, and not going through your comments as I'm not finished with this volume yet.

So, Kazuhiro's gramps wasn't just make a chance comment that happened to line up with what was really going down.
Kazuhiro doesn't grasp that when he shifts worlds, he shifts worlds.
Who knows just how early on in his life it was when a near relative glanced in to see how he was doing in his sleep and saw the blankets slowly settle to the bed, the lump of his body no longer there.
If it's not a hereditary thing, I'm sure there was some freaking at first, but then when he reappeared in the morning, and the same happened night after night...
You adjust.

I suspect you would worry about what happens the first time he went to sleep in the arms of another, how they would react.
That no news of such freaking was heard could have one of several explanations, with variations, I suppose.

He never got close enough for such to occur, or he didn't do the world shift in such circumstances. It didn't go poorly. It did go poorly, but didn't cause a stir.

Options 2 & 3 have the sub-options of they travel with him or they don't travel with him.

Anyway, it'll be interesting to see what gets shared with him by his gramps down the line, now that his gramps knows that when he shifts worlds, anyone in his arms shifts as well.
Or at least a specific girl shifts as well, and she doesn't freak out about it.

Had to post, as this is where folks would get what I'm burbling about.

Ah!
I was nearly at the end!

Gramps could tell something was concealing the true form of her ears, and properly identified her as a half Elf half Fairy.
That, plus other comments of his, leads me to believe this inter-reality travel isn't new to Kazuhiro's generation of his family.

Ugh.
So, the one maybe-hero collects intriguing women, does he, and then discards them once bored.
And the rings on his hands are tied into this.
One wonders what race he really is...

Future volumes will hopefully reveal more, along with his getting his comeuppance, I hope.

I can assume that Zorace was the one who taught Fie how to write in Orstoll Standard and that is why he recognizes Fie, but I can't figure out what he meant when he said about the agreement he made with someone else, or what Fie meant when she thought a similar exchange had just happened earlier.

Gramps

A veteran doctor, and old colleague of Luomen. Gramps makes a living preparing medicinal herbs in the woods outside a village near the capital with his new assistant Kokuyou.

Gramps was the son of one of the previous village chiefs and a slave girl. He has a sister and a niece, who turned out to have gotten involved with Pai-niangniang, and for their sake he agreed to let the White Lady and her associates use his pigeons as a means of long-distance communication.

After Maomao got the full story out of him, she convinced him to switch sides and help Jinshi catch the White Lady.

@Exagone313 I disagree. I think he did think this through thoroughly, and since even though it would be good for the Empire it would be bad for whatever fuckery Shu Kojin has planned, he decided his plans were more important than the Empire. Kojin is that guy through and through.