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The Villainess Is An SS+ Rank Adventurer

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waito_x said:


Juliette just needs to find some rare items plus an ironing board, in order to make a one of a kind enchanted cloak, the kind with one of those quick-draw Fear spells. Nothing completes the villainess look quite like descending from the clouds, cloak billowing, people spilling and stumbling over their grits to get away.
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I place my bet on ten chapters, or two-thirds of the way through the next arc.
 
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I knew it!

It is in this arc, now we just need an oblivious Juliette completing the tasks accidentally and the big "NO!" at the end.
 
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It is in this arc, now we just need an oblivious Juliette completing the tasks accidentally and the big "NO!" at the end.
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Ah, that might work. I expected that she first declines but then needs to do something that requires the rank.

It also seems my chapter guess was way off, that was very quick. (Then again, she didn't agree yet.)
 
Durin said:
find out that you need to be a B rank to be paid for B rank quests
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Considering how much of a shit they don't give about adventurers lives? That seems unlikely.

Also the whole cat thing is getting ridiculous.

Get some raw cow liver and all the cats will go for it, they freaking love it.

Let me guess, the kingdom doesn't have many cows left?
 
Pinklestia said:
Considering how much of a shit they don't give about adventurers lives? That seems unlikely.

Also the whole cat thing is getting ridiculous.

Get some raw cow liver and all the cats will go for it, they freaking love it.

Let me guess, the kingdom doesn't have many cows left?
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not a care for adventurers regulation
an excuse to make sure that only vetted members get the best jobs regulation
 
The cat thing is clearly another tactic being used by the Duchess of Granholm and the casino conspiracy.

Their whole scheme to date appears to be undermining the kingdom to soften it up for conquest. To that end, they gave encouragement to the first sorceress who was creating a famine, they stirred up trouble with the fay and the rebellious duke, they created chaos with the smuggler's guild in the capitol, and so on and so forth.

So, given that powerful, reasonably loyal adventurers are a huge military asset to a kingdom, they're sabotaging the Adventurer's Guild. The early advancement for adventurers is based on rescuing cats. That's how they get experience and income. The conspiracy is stealing all the cats they can get their hands on, and vanishing them. That discredits the adventurers with the rest of the population, and throws a wrench in their normal recruitment and promotion pipeline for new adventurers.

They were doing the same thing in the port city, they just hadn't smuggled all the cats out of the city yet. Hence the entire warehouse full of inexplicably stolen cats. Juliette stumbled into that particular tentacle of the operation before it completed, and rescued those cats, but there's an equivalent cat-theft operation near every other guild HQ, that nobody has broken up yet.
 
Phigment said:
The conspiracy is stealing all the cats they can get their hands on, and vanishing them.
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Unlikely, because one of the cities has way too many stray cats. My guess is that they moved cats to different towns and cities, and being cats, they just more or less stayed in their new locations.

That both seems like a better plan and one less likely to be found out or fooled up. The blatant theft of cats was made to hide the relocation of cats!
 
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I acknowledge and accept that refinement of the dastardly scheme in question.

It had somehow escaped me that some HQs were reporting excess cats in the area, even as their adventurers were unable to return missing cats to their humans.

It's also possible that instead of relocating the cats, the felines in question are being rendered unrecognizable. Perhaps magically turned to a different color or size, to prevent them from being identified and rescued, and then released. That would also explain the many strays and lack of rescue success.
 
So, having pruchased book one using audible credits, I came across some interesting information.

During her first encounter with the implied A rank adventurer in the garden, she mentions he was moving as slow as a snail. She also compared him to the royal guards, who she said moved fast when training.

I think the royal guards are considerably more powerful than people think.

Actually, I think this small kingdom is far more potent than the world thinks.
 
Couch-Gamer said:
So, having pruchased book one using audible credits, I came across some interesting information.

During her first encounter with the implied A rank adventurer in the garden, she mentions he was moving as slow as a snail. She also compared him to the royal guards, who she said moved fast when training.

I think the royal guards are considerably more powerful than people think.

Actually, I think this small kingdom is far more potent than the world thinks.
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As I said earlier, I think the royal family is all kinds of weird too, with Juliette and her sword shenanigans, her bar-busting sister and her mad scientist (superweapon-making type) sister. We have insufficient characterisation of the parents to comment and they have all sorts of mad bullshit occurring naturally within their borders, Granholtz and the Casino Conspiracy Conglomerate merely sabotaged their existing measures (adventurers) and competition.

Pretty sure her eldest brother, the Crown Prince is also a harem protagonist.
 
I think its the inverse of where copella came from.

In her country everyone is insane but from how she tells it the leadership is mostly sane.

Here the leadership has all the madness and the rest of the population is...

well not normal but about as normal as one can get.
 
Couch-Gamer said:
Actually, I think this small kingdom is far more potent than the world thinks.
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Yes, but not really. It's sort of implied that her perception of time shifts based on what's going on. So, everything is normal speed to her most of the time, but whenever someone or something attacks her they seem to slow down. Similarly, she doesn't notice, but she moves at superhuman speeds when she uses one of her absurd abilities.

Which is a long way of saying the Knights are probably really good, but the comment about them being fast has to be taken in context. Just she wasn't involved and probably wasn't trying to pay attention.
 
EmperorArthur said:
Yes, but not really. It's sort of implied that her perception of time shifts based on what's going on. So, everything is normal speed to her most of the time, but whenever someone or something attacks her they seem to slow down. Similarly, she doesn't notice, but she moves at superhuman speeds when she uses one of her absurd abilities.

Which is a long way of saying the Knights are probably really good, but the comment about them being fast has to be taken in context. Just she wasn't involved and probably wasn't trying to pay attention.
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But they are probably slightly better than A-rank Adventurers and probably have better cat-finding and teamwork skills as well. It's interesting that although her skills are no better than a princess, her princess skills of ignoring NPCs have extended to Physics themselves, allowing her to overpower her enemies with pure speed and excessively honed niche techniques. Imagine a parasol technique where she moves faster than light itself to give herself some shade, now that would be truly OP.

Now if Juliette leads them and gets her sister to provide Lightsabers and Blasters...
 
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    Glossary of ranks:

    F rank: Little to no experience. Brand new recruits and common bandits.
    E rank: Trained but lacks practical combat experience (or vice versa). Majority of soldiers, adventurers and armed combatants.
    D rank: Highly trained, seasoned in battle or both. Knights and veteran adventurers.
    C rank: Expert in their chosen field. Capable of instructing others. Often regarded as the highest achievable goal for the majority of people.
    B rank: Masters of their craft. Able to perform techniques and feats beyond the strength and speed of even the most talented individuals.
    A rank: The pride of a nation. Able to single-handedly turn the tide of battles.
    S rank: Legendary warriors capable of bringing down a kingdom.

    Rank assignments are often arbitrary and wholly subjective. Some organisations exist which formally regulate ranks amongst their own members, such as the Adventurer's Guild. The Adventurer's Guild, as the original inventors of the ranking system (The Oldest Ladder), is considered the golden standard for rank evaluation.

    Weapon masters and famed individuals may also assign ranks at their leisure. Some may choose to entirely self-evaluate. The worth of a rank is often decided by the reputation of the individual or organisation which gave it. Rank misidentification often occurs. Outright rank deception (knowingly pretending to be more powerful) can also occur, but comes with the peril of being caught, pointed at and bullied for the rest of your life.
     
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    • A common comedy plot is people thinking someone is either much weaker or much stronger that they actually are. That can include the individual in question.

    Usually when they think they are stronger that they really are, the comedy is in how they think they did something awesome when it fact it wasn't.... and no one tells them or they are so self deluded they think it was awesome anyway.

    When they think they are weak is usually for them to think they did nothing special when it actually is. The later one can go from comedic to tedious if the author just has people praising the person who is stronger that they think they are but either never let that person know how awesome they really are or the person thinking they are lying to them.

    That is because not only repetition can get tedious, it basically ends with an Op character whose only real problem is that they are more awesome that they think they are.

    In the case of this story the protagonist already thinks she is awesome, because she is a princess and she actually is.

    The humor mostly comes from the "Princess forcing to rough it up" other people reactions to her and the clockwork girl being nuts.

    And probably one or two things I am missing.
     
    Pinklestia said:
    A common comedy plot is people thinking someone is either much weaker or much stronger that they actually are. That can include the individual in question.

    Usually when they think they are stronger that they really are, the comedy is in how they think they did something awesome when it fact it wasn't.... and no one tells them or they are so self deluded they think it was awesome anyway.

    When they think they are weak is usually for them to think they did nothing special when it actually is. The later one can go from comedic to tedious if the author just has people praising the person who is stronger that they think they are but either never let that person know how awesome they really are or the person thinking they are lying to them.

    That is because not only repetition can get tedious, it basically ends with an Op character whose only real problem is that they are more awesome that they think they are.

    In the case of this story the protagonist already thinks she is awesome, because she is a princess and she actually is.

    The humor mostly comes from the "Princess forcing to rough it up" other people reactions to her and the clockwork girl being nuts.

    And probably one or two things I am missing.
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    The other thing would be her ridiculous "training" that gave her near Saitama levels of sheer bullshit powers, which leads to her sort of overestimating all her threats, I think only the alchemist girl or the casino boss girl is going to actually give her a Boros-style showdown.
     
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