Kousuke has armed the refugees and repelled a large-scale invasion of gizma, defending the elf village. Now his next objective is to reclaim the former Kingdom of Merinard and lay it at the feet of his mistress, the dark elf Sylphy! As a first step, he must conquer and tame notoriously monster-ridden and harsh Great Omitt Badlands! Good thing Sylphy knows a thing or two about taming…
Overall good volume, but tended to be kind of drawn out in some ways. I wish there was more struggle or something that helps make things seem more dire. The ending helped with that notion for sure, but we’ve yet to see the “elf village” have anything truly bad happen yet, but I have a feeling this story could get darker and more climactic setups. Glad to see a bathhouse created, needs more stuff like this tbh.
-1 star for a lot of repeated jokes and very similar drawings/perspectives specifically during dialogue scenes. Needs more variety in those departments.
Back down to the slower pace which I'm absolutely fine with as it feels like it's building quite nicely, especially with that last panel, the next volume looks to be a big development one