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you're free to your opinion of course, but to me it's just boring. it's like in an anime when you're awaiting the big showdown but they keep having hot spring episodes.what I wish Maxi had been able to say to Riftan in the moment is "it sounds as if it is you who is not in love eith me, not the other way around. perhaps the girl you saw from afar was more gentle and gracious than I am, more obedient and clever. and now that you know me for who I am, you are disappointed if you wish to tell me that you do not love me, then tell it. or I enjoin you to think about it deeply, as you suggested I do."of course, Maxi can't put on that cold mask like Riftan can, so she probably wouldn't be able to pull that speech off. but something like that would be much less boring than what we got. at this point I wish Maxi would break up with Riftan and figure out her own way in the world. it's clear by now he'll never stop resenting her for not locking herself in their bedroom permanently.

I wonder why he thinks being pregnant was the thing that put her in danger during the last campaign? While pregnancy is indeed dangerous, even today, I think the only reason Maxi survived at all when she emptied her mana to save Ethe Lene was because she had a child to take that death for her. Though that's not confirmed within the story it really seems like she went so far beyond the boundaries of her mana level that the only explanation was that she took her child's mana, too. Though it's probable that if she were to learn that was the case she would find it devastating, so it's probably best that no one has suggested it. Maybe if Riftan had ever bothered to ask her about her experience that day, he would be able to figure it out.

oh, is that the reason. DST screws us once again.

Does anyone else think Kuahel is carrying a torch for Maxi?

FINALLY. I have a feeling the next chapter still won't contain any communication, though.

What principles has Miram demonstrated so far, though? So far the only "good" thing she's done is join this expedition but if she's secretly a dark mage they might have wanted her there as a spy and to help thwart the expedition.

It's not as if he's intentionally torturing here. I'm absolutely certain what he's displaying here is a guy who either thinks he's been dumped or is about to be. His lack of communication is because he's way too convinced that she's going to do a "we need to talk" that ends in him being single. Of course he doesn't want to have that conversation!

I'm even more convinced that Riftan thinks she wants to break up and that's why he's cold and avoiding her. He wants to keep her from giving him the breakup speech until they're safe. New suspicion: Could Miriam have had something to do with the Ogres attacking Maxi? It seems weird that she's so universally hostile to Maxi, to the point that she didn't feel humbled and re-assess when she learned how Maxi had single-handedly turned the tide if the last war. And she's so quick to dismiss anyone finding it strange that Maxi was targeted. I thought she was just a bully but I'm starting to find her suspicious. Finally: Go, Anette! That is fantastic advice, and I suspect Maxi will try it out! She probably wouldn't have thought of it herself, but now that the idea is in there I doubt she can resist! For future reference and for people who don't have the countdown timer on their app, UTOT updated at 8PM CST on Sunday. I don't know the day the next update comes (I think it's Tuesday in my timezone), but I'm guessing it'll be at the same time on that day.

Darn it, my phone doesn't have that. maybe it's because I'm on an older phone? Or maybe it only works on Apple phones? Does it say how many hours away until the next update? Technically it's already Monday morning in Korea.

where is this countdown you mentioned?

I've been thinking about this chapter since, like every one else, I'm tortuously waiting for the next update. a lot of comments are saying that Riftand's attitude here is a reflection that he's still hurt and angry that she left. while those feelings are definitely there, I don't think that adequately explains his behavior to Maxi - that's too simplistic. Think about all the times Riftan has gotten angry at Maxi before. The first scene of the novel, he's angry because he thinks his wife's "refusal" to come to Anatol his her rejection of him, and her fearful attitude towards him in person seems to confirm it. Chapters later, he becomes enraged when he thinks she's asking for divorce. Later reasons for anger are about his insecurities that he can't properly protect and provide for her - the time she was almost hurt by invaders, his learning that she wants to become a mage - none of these things are ever about what she's done, not really: the are about Riftan's fear that he isn't good enough for her, that she'll leave him or get tired of him and run away. And one of the most recent scenes we have if Riftan before this moment is going to see his sister-in-law's child and feeling despair that perhaps he will never have a family again. All that knowledge should inform us on his inner thoughts during this scene. I think the reason he turns off his emotions is because this meeting is the equivalent of meeting an ex you're still in love with. He wants to kiss or scream at her, but he fears he doesn't have the right to do either anymore. This may seem like an unreasonable conclusion especially since she's written him letters while at Nornui, but the last time the two of thrm realy spoke together, he basically said that if she left for the tower that that was the end if thier relationship and she *left anyway*. He's had a lot of time to think about that incident in the interim. Maybe her leaving was her way of saying, "OK, let's break up." Maybe she has no intention of ever returning to Anatol. Maybe the "I miss you" messages didn't mean to Maxi what they mean for Riftan, and she was just expressing loneliness. Maybe, maybe, maybe. He's had three years for his insecurities to cause him to overthink everything and for those fears to get stronger and stronger. So this scene isn't about him trying to hurt her or express his rage over what she's done, it's trying to protect himself from their inevitable break-up, to keep it together long enough to protect her life and then watch her walk away. Because of his insecurities, he doesn't think about how he might seduce her back or convince her to stay, he doesn't realize how seductive he is as a man at all, despite the many women throwing themselves at him. His dumb broken brain just goes straight to "it's hopeless, how could someone as amazing as her decide to stay with me if she has a choice?"