It turns out Nicole’s love of reading may be what saves her from a potentially awful fate. When the option to study abroad in a country that allows women to live as freely as the men do, it’s too attractive to pass. Will Nicole be able to successfully run away from her regretful fiance and live a new life all for herself?
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Info about this series (ongoing)
There are currently two volumes published in English, and three in Japanese.
TL;DR thoughts
The misunderstandings are still going strong in this volume…making Nicole start to feel a little bit clueless. Perhaps it’s because she has her head in the clouds thinking about all the books she wants to read? Either way, I hope she gets her happy ending.
My thoughts on this volume (Spoilers!)
While I am still enjoying this series, I found the gag of Nicole being completely oblivious to Keios’s feelings to become a little stale in this volume. While he absolutely deserves everything that happened to him in the first volume, it’s clear that he’s really trying in this one. While I still feel a lot more sympathy for Nicole than Keios in this situation, I am hoping for some—any—kind of change in their dynamic to happen soon.
In this volume, Keios is clearly trying his best to make things right and I commend him for that! He spent a lot of time explaining the situation to the classmates he thinks could potentially help him and puts their suggestions to action. We get to see a completely new side to him here, as it becomes clear that he truly is just an incredibly awkward boy when it comes to romance . The flashbacks to his childhood also really helped me understand exactly what kind of person he is. This by no means excuses how he treated Nicole in the past, but it makes it clear that he’s not a bad guy at heart.
So, we watch as he follows the suggestions of the people who know Nicole better than him…to no avail. No matter what, she doesn’t understand the fact that he likes her. And at first, I was completely on her side—he does have a track record for only talking about his female best friend, after all. But as time goes on and he switches up his tactics, her not understanding his feelings even a little bit started becoming a little strange. I mean, he basically hugged her and yelled “she’s mine, stay away!!” to another man in front of a room full of people, and she still didn’t understand he has feelings for her.
Putting aside my mild annoyance at Nicole’s obliviousness for a moment, I do really love her character! She’s an avid reader, and it seems like it’s her love of reading that will open up her world. She spends the majority of her time studying the language of a neighbouring country so that she can read their fairy tales, slowly becoming more and more competent. She had already known that women who live in this neighbouring country are permitted to work—something that the women of the kingdom cannot do—but she didn’t know that she was able to become an exchange student and temporarily move there.
So, potentially, she could study over there, find a good job, and stay there forever! Had she not picked up reading and studying the language, her only option would have been becoming a housewife in the kingdom, essentially being forced to mary Keios. Now that she has more options…I wonder what she’ll do.
I think that Nicole may be the type of character that just really doesn’t care about her own romance so long as she has her fairy tales, but there have been a select few panels that have me doubting that. Perhaps Keios just hurt her too deeply that she’s not allowing herself to see his intentions now that he’s trying? Either way, I hope she can have her best happy ending.
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