And her best friend happens to be one of the girls who notably quarreled with her in public. :lol
And Tabitha doesn't know about the ones who went behind Louise's back. To us and Louise, Kirche is not as vicious due to being upfront about it, as well as acknowledging Louise's progress. No
wonder Tabitha is almost in a blind panic.
More like the downsides of not preparing for what Gamer's Mind will seem like to others.
No, I think it is a downside of Gamer's Mind. Mostly for the fact that Louise hasn't
even noticed her change in personality yet.
Montmorency is completely correct in what she has been saying.
"I- What- No! Don't even…" She sighed, rubbing the bridge of her nose. "Just don't go there. It's improper." And besides, Montmorency?
This is Louise, who is a friendless, somewhat depressed arrogant barely- a mage. She is
if I remember the LN correctly, very traditional from both her upbringing but also in an attempt to give people less avenues to attack her from.
Not only is what Derflinger saying sudden, but frankly somewhat embarrassing whether what he is saying is true or false and an avenue for her detractors to go after her. Louise should be mad at him, and defensive considering the rumors about her faking her magic. She is calm instead.
You were desperate but you didn't miss meals or skip classes or train into the night! You're off! You're quiet, focused, you're cold!
We may forget because, Louise truly has a focused personality, but she has never been a
quiet focused person. Louise is the type that shouts, stomps her feet in arguments, and gives her all in an argument, never mind the consequences. Cold, Montmorency calls Louise, and she has been. While it might have saved her life with Irukuku, Louise is emotional, she brings home the letter to Henrietta instead of burning it because of it's sentimental value. That emotional sentimentality has been missing, she didn't confront Tabitha on spying on her, she didn't yell back at Kirche, she swallowed quietly what the school would say about her being brain damaged. Yes that was the "optimal" choice, to do otherwise would have been stupid, but it would have been a
human kind of stupid.
Montmorency was panting by the end of her rant, flushed, gripping Louise's shoulders like she was going to disappear if she let go.
The Louise Montmorency has being seeing this past week, is not the Louise Montmorency has known throughout her schooling. This is kinda reading to me as the part in a horror story when someone is changing too quickly, into someone that is a mockery of themselves. Either that, or the sudden personality change people often display before trying to commit suicide. Louise feels the best she has in a long time, but to all outside perspectives, she is changing much to quickly to not have the alarm bells ringing.
Louise looked back at her, entirely unperturbed. She'd almost snapped back with a callous 'why do you care', but Montmorency had been nothing but civil ever since the debacle with Guiche.
Again, you can see Louise's original reaction. Which would have been perfect to reassure Montmorency, because Louise
doesn't think before she acts. Her response is to reasoned, to practical. It reads like a computer program's attempt at a perfect response, that misses the human element to it. Louise is to cold Montmorency said, and you can see it in how her blazing fire of a temper is a smoldering ember, dying unoticed.
So Montmorency had also noticed something was off? She should be more careful in the future. Well, it wasn't like she planned on training like she had the past days again.
Louise not listening, is Louise but she should be much more worried. This is, oh I messed up, I'll do better next time. Louise should be panicked, because if people find out about her seeing things, well it ranges from bad to very bad. Louise has been very off, and since we the readers like Louise, have been seeing the improvements, we didn't see the shadows of these developments.
