Look at you doing all the detective work once again!

made it all the way up to chapter 85 in this episode btw

Neat! How many chapters have been released total?

I think this series does the politics/negotiation side of things a lot better than the actual warfare. The tough thing about writing characters like Rosell and Mireille that are supposed to be geniuses is that they can really only be as smart as the author.

Very true. I was reading the Destiny’s Crucible series (which is not a Japanese LN series… crazy, right?) and the author did a good job with this particular isekai because the MC is basically a smart Earthling placed down on a Medieval Times planet so he’s constantly like, “I THINK this is how stuff like this works, but I’m not sure.” It allows him to get things wrong. Unfortunately things got really boring in the 4th book and I haven’t gone back to it.

But back to Aristocrat, the strength really is in the character development and political intrigue so I can let some tactical buffoonery slide. I mean, one battle basically boiled down to “My mage is better than your mage” so it’s whatever XD