Hagure Yuusha No Aesthetica [Light Novel]

[sandhy88]

Can anyone tell me what happen to Kuzuha in vol 10?

I heared that Akatsuki become lolicon.

And what happen to the rest of student council member after Hikami defeated?

[blackwhite67]

I asked that last one. Hikami's dead and the others with the exception of Haruka just vanished after being defeated.

[houkoholic]

Originally Posted by sandhy88

Can anyone tell me what happen to Kuzuha in vol 10?

Spoiler:

She felt left out and useless because in the last few battles she didn't do anything important, plus she thinks that Akatsuki only look upon her as a child, but like the other girls she had started to develop feelings towards him thus she is troubled by this speculation since she fears that she's not even on equal footing as the other girls. So to test her theory she sneaked into Akatsuki's bed when he was sleeping and kissed him on his lips but got no reaction from Akatsuki which further re-enforces her speculation.

Later in the novel after she revealed her worries to Akatsuki he proved to her that what he really thinks of her by his "usual methods" - ok not THE usual method because he didn't grope her and get her off or anything like that but he did gave her a deep French kiss.

[sunsown]

@houkoholic Thanks for the summary.

Spoiler:

The last picture in volume 10 with a teary eyed myuu held by akatsuki, what is the conversation between them?
In one of the coloured pictures akatsuki is shown to be shrunk in front of kuzuha. Does this happen or is it an imagination?
What is the situation that resulted in the coloured bath scene with myuu?
What is the aim / goal of cocoon1?
How was akatsuki's sister's story said? Was it told by akatsuki to the girls or was it a recollection? If it was narrated by akatsuki what was the situation that made him tell the story?

[bludvein]

Is that really all there is to the whole backstory with Akatsuki's sister?

Spoiler for ..:

Because I really have to say Akatsuki doesn't have the moral leg to stand upon and blame others. His brother's plan may have not been all that nice, but considering it was a last resort and Akatsuki had nothing.....Even the bit with Gouki is a misunderstanding of sorts, although I can see how it got to that point.

I mean, either one(especially Gouki) deserve a family beatdown, but not for "their part" in the sister's suicide. They deserve it for going off and generally being assholes.

[houkoholic]

Originally Posted by sunsown

@houkoholic Thanks for the summary.

Spoiler:

The last picture in volume 10 with a teary eyed myuu held by akatsuki, what is the conversation between them?
In one of the coloured pictures akatsuki is shown to be shrunk in front of kuzuha. Does this happen or is it an imagination?
What is the situation that resulted in the coloured bath scene with myuu?
What is the aim / goal of cocoon1?
How was akatsuki's sister's story said? Was it told by akatsuki to the girls or was it a recollection? If it was narrated by akatsuki what was the situation that made him tell the story?

Spoiler:

That was Myuu apologizing to Akatsuki after listening to his story of how the real Miu died because she realised that Akatsuki had at least projected some of Miu onto her (including the regrets that he couldn't save and protect her) and the many times before she tried to throw her own life away like Miu did (especially the time when Myuu jumped off the cliff when Phil was chasing them) which must have triggered those painful memories for Akatsuki.

Akatsuki did shrink - it's a side effect of him using too much Renkankeikikou so the body physically shrinks to a size where it doesn't require as much ki to maintain his body functions until the body's ki reserves are fully replenished. In this state a secondary personality with its own memories and mental age suitable to the age appearance of the body (so that of roughly a six/seven year old) also surfaces to take control of the body while the primary personality (the normal 16 year old Akatsuki) resides in the background but fully aware of the situation. Since this happen after Kuzuha kissed Akatsuki it led to Kuzuha thinking that it was her fault.

The bathroom scene is when Myuu Listy and Haruka took the shrunk Akatsuki for a bath, let's just say some of the habits from the primary personality don't go away even with the secondary child personality in control, or maybe that's just animal instinct in every male's DNA upon seeing a nice pair of boobies and lots of naked bodies of pretty girls.

I guess if you speak in very general terms, COCOON's goal is making a world with peace and absolute order free of pain and suffering but with misguided totalitarian methods, quite typical of your RPG antagonist.

The story of the death of the real Miu was told by Akatsuki to the girls, he had decided to tell them the full story since last volume when the girls had professed their determination to follow him so he knows that he owns them the real story.

Originally Posted by bludvein

Is that really all there is to the whole backstory with Akatsuki's sister?

Spoiler for ..:

Because I really have to say Akatsuki doesn't have the moral leg to stand upon and blame others. His brother's plan may have not been all that nice, but considering it was a last resort and Akatsuki had nothing.....Even the bit with Gouki is a misunderstanding of sorts, although I can see how it got to that point.

Spoiler:

The part about needing to wipe Miu's memory was pretty selfish on Sakuya's part because it was only to protect his identity as a vampire and his potential position as the leader of COCOON (all COCOON members adopts an alias to protect their real identity, not even fellow COCOON members knows each other's real name), also in the process Sakuya would also wipe Akatsuki's memory as well which means he would no longer remember his sister nor Miu remember him. The dilemma is there.

[sunsown]

@houkoholic Thanks for the answers.

Spoiler:

I guess if you speak in very general terms, COCOON's goal is making a world with peace and absolute order free of pain and suffering but with misguided totalitarian methods, quite typical of your RPG antagonist.

Is the goal of cocoon no 1 the same or does he have a different personal goal?

Was it elaborated on what the reaction of cocoon no 1 was when akatsuki's sister died?

[houkoholic]

Originally Posted by sunsown

@houkoholic Thanks for the answers.

Spoiler:

Is the goal of cocoon no 1 the same or does he have a different personal goal?

We haven't gotten to that yet, Micheal/Sakuya's appearance thus far has been very limited.

[blackwhite67]

So what does being a vampire entail in this series? I remember in the anime Sakuya stepped of a plane in broad daylight so I'm guessing vulnerability to sunlight is just a myth.

Are the girls living with Akatsuki?

What became of the students? And who did the BABEL personnel side with?

What abilities does Kobato have? I recall there being an illustration of him helping one of the girls fight the student council?

Also, I'm guessing that Myuu can't take the conceptual barrier down? Has her cover as Akatsuki's sister been blown to the other students?

[houkoholic]

Originally Posted by blackwhite67

So what does being a vampire entail in this series? I remember in the anime Sakuya stepped of a plane in broad daylight so I'm guessing vulnerability to sunlight is just a myth.

No idea. As I said before Micheal/Sakuya's appearance thus far has been very limited.

Are the girls living with Akatsuki?

Yes

What became of the students? And who did the BABEL personnel side with?

Some left, some stayed. Not everyone is going to converge on the same conclusion or the same plan for the future, that much should be obvious.

What abilities does Kobato have? I recall there being an illustration of him helping one of the girls fight the student council?

Not sure, but he's no push over that's for sure.

Also, I'm guessing that Myuu can't take the conceptual barrier down? Has her cover as Akatsuki's sister been blown to the other students?

Yes Myuu has currently has no control over the barrier, they don't even know how long it would last. Most of the unimportant people still don't know about Myuu's true identity, but it's safe to say for those which matter, like COCOON and Scarlet Dusk, knows.

[blackwhite67]

I recall an illustration in which Cecil met with Sakuya. Can you explain what happened there?

[houkoholic]

Originally Posted by blackwhite67

I recall an illustration in which Cecil met with Sakuya. Can you explain what happened there?

I don't recall there was one.
What happened between Cecil and Micheal/Sakuya's meeting was already answered here.

[blackwhite67]

Oh sorry about that. So whatever happened to those bits of spoilers you posted before about volume 10 being about the girls saving Akatsuki for a change?

Just how did the girls blackmail the richest woman in Japan and where was Akatsuki when she told the girls to kill the most useless one? Has it been explained why she uses a cyber body to interact?

Back to Hikami's fight with Akatsuki, could Akatsuki project his sword in ki too or was it just his body?

I understand Akatsuki had the advantage what with Hikami being unable to touch him and Akatsuki being able to hit Hikami, but how was that advantageous considering Hikami's hax regenerative abilities you described? You mentioned that Akatsuki combined his ki barrier with his absolute barrier. Could you give an example of just how powerful this defense was?

In the anime, Sakuya mentioned that Hikami could have taken out Zahak using BABEL's lights. Was it ever said what that was?

[yuiichi9]

Who is Kobato? What happen to the rest of the members of the student council beside haruka after the fight between akatsuki and hikami?

[houkoholic]

Originally Posted by blackwhite67

Oh sorry about that. So whatever happened to those bits of spoilers you posted before about volume 10 being about the girls saving Akatsuki for a change?

I guess it wasn't completely correct. But if you really want to talk about something they achieved this volume they did hold off the raiders when Akatsuki was still trapped in his younger form and won over Takako.

Just how did the girls blackmail the richest woman in Japan and where was Akatsuki when she told the girls to kill the most useless one? Has it been explained why she uses a cyber body to interact?

Spoiler:

They tricked her into revealing that she had always preferred to continuing to provide assistant to Akatsuki over COCOON, recorded the conversation and threaten to reveal the message which would mean she had no other place to go to because once COCOON learns of this they would not trust her. Also the girls figured that it was Takako whom was in the more desperate situation with the dissolving of Japan but she just bluffed her first hand.

Akatsuki was forbidden by Takako to help or even know the nature of the challenge, plus he trusted them to win so he took the time instead to find Motoharu.

Takako has companies involved in developing cyborg technology, apparently this is one of the first usable prototypes so she's test driving it herself. Of course there are advantages to this too because then she won't have to show her real face in front of people thus keeping her identity safe. Akatsuki was instantly able to recognise her only due to his ability to read her ki signature.

Back to Hikami's fight with Akatsuki, could Akatsuki project his sword in ki too or was it just his body?

Just his body.

I understand Akatsuki had the advantage what with Hikami being unable to touch him and Akatsuki being able to hit Hikami, but how was that advantageous considering Hikami's hax regenerative abilities you described?

He can cause so much damage that was overwhelming to the regenerative abilities. Plus Hikami would still die if he gets decapitated or chopped in half for example, it just seems that most stab and cut wounds fatal to normal humans aren't fatal that's all.

You mentioned that Akatsuki combined his ki barrier with his absolute barrier. Could you give an example of just how powerful this defense was?

Remember that ice column Hikami used on Tanaka? Originally his ice magic "only" allows him to create cold air that is almost at Absolute Zero temperature, but with the extra power he can disregard physical laws and use cold air that is beyond Absolute Zero. He used the souped up ice column to freeze Akatsuki but it has no effect on him.

In the anime, Sakuya mentioned that Hikami could have taken out Zahak using BABEL's lights. Was it ever said what that was?

Basically a really big ass laser. Hikami used it to shoot down the nukes that were targeting the island.

Originally Posted by yuiichi9

Who is Kobato? What happen to the rest of the members of the student council beside haruka after the fight between akatsuki and hikami?

Kobota the old man/professor/technician who gave Akatsuki the bike and developed the systems and AD and stuff.

The rest of the student council members disappeared.

[blackwhite67]

Oh, so the raiders attacked when he was vulnerable. That makes sense.

Who was that woman in the lab coat with Takako and that guy in the lab coat with Sakuya in volume 10?

About Leon:

I understand Akatsuki let Leon stab him when they fought as payback, but was Akatsuki really struggling against him? I mean Akatsuki defeated Zahak and took his powers so I thought Leon would've been a cakewalk.

About Gouki:

Could you explain the Ousawa family history concerning Gouki? Someone else posted that Gouki was a regular dad until he was taken to another world. He got more power than usual and started Scarlet Dusk.

You posted that COCOON has the phoenix cells AKA Onizuka. Does that mean Onizuka is outside of the conceptual barrier surrounding BABEL? If they have Onizuka and Tiana is with Onizuka then what's gonna happen to her considering she's a member of Scarlet Dusk?

[houkoholic]

Originally Posted by blackwhite67

Who was that woman in the lab coat with Takako and that guy in the lab coat with Sakuya in volume 10?

The woman with Takako is Kurono Ai.

The other guy with Sakuya is another one of the COCOON members whom hasn't done anything.

About Leon:

I understand Akatsuki let Leon stab him when they fought as payback, but was Akatsuki really struggling against him? I mean Akatsuki defeated Zahak and took his powers so I thought Leon would've been a cakewalk.

Spoiler:

As Leon is a zombie his ki is slightly different than normal humans and contains "death" in it, which adversely affects Akatsuki whenever he makes contacts with Leon as that is essentially bringing "death" upon himself. Also Leon is strong you have to remember he was the previous yuusha.

And with Zahark it was actually weakened because it fused with Phil. Akatsuki said that Phil Zahark was less than half as strong as the original.

Could you explain the Ousawa family history concerning Gouki? Someone else posted that Gouki was a regular dad until he was taken to another world. He got more power than usual and started Scarlet Dusk.

Yeah he's just a normal human like the others until he got transported to the other world. He seems to be a very nice dad until he came back and just disappeared for unknown reasons yet.

You posted that COCOON has the phoenix cells AKA Onizuka. Does that mean Onizuka is outside of the conceptual barrier surrounding BABEL? If they have Onizuka and Tiana is with Onizuka then what's gonna happen to her considering she's a member of Scarlet Dusk?

Onizuka was taken to UK where Sakuya and COCOON HQ is. Tiana is taken prisoner and they put a collar around her which prevents her from using her magic and conceptual ability. COCOON otherwise lets them roam fairly freely inside their HQ and as said before they are interested in swaying Onizuka to fight for them (and would probably use Tiana as bargaining chip/hostage when push comes to shove, though right now they are playing nice and egging Onizuka on by saying that it is now his turn to protect Tiana etc).

[chancs]

This series deserves to be translated :sob:

[Insane]

Originally Posted by chancs

This series deserves to be translated :sob:

Yeah, same here. I'm seriously yearning for more OP harem MC like Akatsuki (I'm getting tired seeing beta-type harem MC that gets the girls simply because he's a nice guy). It's very refreshing to see a MC in harem story that is clearly dominating his harem not giving any crap.

[chancs]

Originally Posted by Insane

Yeah, same here. I'm seriously yearning for more OP harem MC like Akatsuki (I'm getting tired seeing beta-type harem MC that gets the girls simply because he's a nice guy). It's very refreshing to see a MC in harem story that is clearly dominating his harem not giving any crap.

For now I am surviving by the tid-bits mentioned here