It was always implied that it was more of a magical issue than a case of looks. The Evil God picked her because she happened to have the same ‘essence’ as his kind.
She’s described as if she’d be considered entirely beautiful if not for the terror from seeing her eyes too, so having a passive, untoggleable magical enhancement on the eyes as the source of terror rather than the eyes themselves as the source of terror makes plenty of sense.
I disagree. Of course the extreme effect she got after being transported is magical, but in chapter 1, it is mentioned that she has had problems with her eyes since childhood. Nothing out of this world, but they are scary eyes. And that picture is nothing like that.
You’re wrong. That’s exactly the opposite of what I just said. The human Anri on earth was chosen by Evil God because her eyes were magical. He didn’t give her the eyes. He just buffed them to ‘average evil god level’. It’s the other way around.
He happened across a human who miraculously had the same quality as an evil god, and decided to [spoiler].
Actually no, in the first chapter, the Evil God said she had dark eyes that, forgive me for not having exact words, festered like limpid pools of the world’s dark or negative feelings…sorry that’s as far as I remember without rereading, but still, they should be black at least, right?
Let me copy the part of chapter 1 that I’m talking about here:
“Having a small chest just doesn’t have any benefits and doesn’t cause any harm either, but my eyes and atmosphere have caused real harm.
Since I was small, because of these eyes and this atmosphere, people around me have been pointlessly afraid of me.
Even though it’s not like I was going to do anything to them, once our eyes met, everybody looked away.
Even when I approached a famous delinquent senpai, he bolted away.
There have even been times when yakuza-ey people with punch perms dogeza’d before me.”
That’s not magic yet right? Or did I misunderstand and she have small-scale magical eyes from birth? If not, at the very least I was expecting that her eyes would be Ryuji from toradora level.
“When he had spotted that girl in a high ranking world, he had unconsciously sighed in wonder. It wasn’t often that you’d find a human with eyes close to his kind’s.”
That’s not the only one either. Enough. Discussing this with you has long become inane.
Yea, I know what you mean it’s almost like with “Yomigaeri,” I had something else pictured for No-Life, Demon Princess, and even Tena’s miko outfit. Plus, is Anri-sama wearing a nun’s habit?
Demons in this worlds are basically white-haired elves in appearance. Or maybe you’d say that Elves are blond-haired demons? yadda-yadda, fantasy creatures.
“They did say she was 14 so she was certainly younger than me, but perhaps because of malnutrition, she was more petite than her age, and was one or two heads smaller than I was.”
She looks more like the sacrificed girl. . . . . oh well maybe it’s on the perspective the artist must have drawn her w/ some distance in mind. . .but in my imagination she was more like the secretary look. . .oh well nice pic!
BOW DOWN TO OUR BEAUTIFUL LORD AND SAVIOR! ! GAZE UPON HER EYES BASK IN HER SEXY GLORY!! ANRI ! ANRI! NOW COME SPREAD HER GLORY ACROSS THE WORLD! !! AND WE MUST INVADE NORWAY! WE INVADE NORWAY AT DAWN !!! LONG LIVE ANRI SAMA!!!!
Kinda the norm, right? After a volume or two, they start a monthly/bi-monthly manga. Seems like every light novel these days has a manga adaptation. At least that’s how it seems.
Anri looks exactly like what I thought.
I guess she must be thinking “wait why do I look like a last boss? I’ll sue the illustrator” while looking unexpressive.
Leonora has a bigger “plot” than I thought. Also, I imagined Anri’s eyes to look more empty. Like, as if there was a void in those eyes or something. But it’s still nice.
I most definitely didn’t think of Tena as a loli in my mind… what the heck… well whatever… I will just have to keep my mental image of Tena and use it instead of this one when reading.
I’ve been imagining her as the first one here http://etrian.wikia.com/wiki/Hexer so Tena has been somewhat of a loli in my mind too. But…I was kinda hoping my expectations would be exceeded…oh well, it’s average enough XD Leonora however…wasn’t supposed to be wearing a fluffy dress in the beginning right? There’s armor so I’m assuming that’s what she raided the dungeon with.
I always pictured Leonora and Tena as having short hair. I don’t know why for Tena but Leonora is a battle type so having short hair would make more sense for her. As for Tena I always seem to imagine her having a more developed chest after receiving her blessing, but then again I forgot she’s only 14.
Actually, they look nothing like what I my imagination came up with, not that that’s a bad thing really. I’m actually kind of shocked that my impression of their chests was backwards.
I tend to re-read the stories but ‘minor’ details like entire character descriptions seem to just not register.
This is entirely my own problem though. I’ve always had a tendancy to read way faster than most people I know, and that seems to come at the expense of not absorbing the details.
That`s the authors fault for not giving Tena the personality of a child. She was going out to town and doing chores for Anri without any issue or even the slightest hint of childishness.
Tena is way cuter than what was I expect. Anri-sama, no ones would blame you if you cuddle her every night if she’s that cute you know… Or rather, wanting to cuddle a super cute girl wont stop you from being straight! So just go for it!
Besides the problem of the eyes, she was always described as the “cool beauty” not the “cute kid next door”. Expected her to be a bit more stone faced and angular.
Oh well. It’s the story that counts.
Still think Sheepy’s title trans makes a lot more sense. Evil God Average, rather than Average Evil God. One is a goal that got out of hand, the other is a title.
Would love to see the manga version, especially the part where all the creatures in the forest and dungeon high-tail it out of there as soon as she steps inside. :) I can see it now. 1st panel she steps inside. 2nd panel nothing happens, 3rd panel, everyone runs outside. lol
Ignore all ‘English’ titles. A lot of these WN turned LN have google translated titles as subtitles for some reason. I think to make it look fancier. Sometimes they have actual English taglines too.
A particularly ridiculous example was ‘Revived the Devil’.
This is extremely close to how I imagined the characters.
The No Life King is scarily close, even the robe is pretty much exactly what I pictured, the only difference is I had a less beret-like crown in mind.
Tena is basically identical to what I imagined too, other than her outfit. I actually didn’t think the author intended her to be that loli-ish; I just hoped, and pictured her like that anyway.
I thought of Leonora as looking a little older though, with a much more practical armour-dress and darker skin.
http://www.alphapolis.co.jp/webContStory/each/145033369/
お兄ちゃん、やめてぇ！ 
Is that anri-tama?
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Those eyes …
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Personally, this is a case whereby having a picture is bad for the story. The eyes are nowhere near as scary as described :(
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It was always implied that it was more of a magical issue than a case of looks. The Evil God picked her because she happened to have the same ‘essence’ as his kind.
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She’s described as if she’d be considered entirely beautiful if not for the terror from seeing her eyes too, so having a passive, untoggleable magical enhancement on the eyes as the source of terror rather than the eyes themselves as the source of terror makes plenty of sense.
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I disagree. Of course the extreme effect she got after being transported is magical, but in chapter 1, it is mentioned that she has had problems with her eyes since childhood. Nothing out of this world, but they are scary eyes. And that picture is nothing like that.
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You’re wrong. That’s exactly the opposite of what I just said. The human Anri on earth was chosen by Evil God because her eyes were magical. He didn’t give her the eyes. He just buffed them to ‘average evil god level’. It’s the other way around.
He happened across a human who miraculously had the same quality as an evil god, and decided to [spoiler].
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Like, it literally says this, so there’s no room to deny it.
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Actually no, in the first chapter, the Evil God said she had dark eyes that, forgive me for not having exact words, festered like limpid pools of the world’s dark or negative feelings…sorry that’s as far as I remember without rereading, but still, they should be black at least, right?
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She’s Japanese, so yeah, she has black eyes. She still does. It’s noted by other characters, as I recall.
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Let me copy the part of chapter 1 that I’m talking about here:
“Having a small chest just doesn’t have any benefits and doesn’t cause any harm either, but my eyes and atmosphere have caused real harm.
Since I was small, because of these eyes and this atmosphere, people around me have been pointlessly afraid of me.
Even though it’s not like I was going to do anything to them, once our eyes met, everybody looked away.
Even when I approached a famous delinquent senpai, he bolted away.
There have even been times when yakuza-ey people with punch perms dogeza’d before me.”
That’s not magic yet right? Or did I misunderstand and she have small-scale magical eyes from birth? If not, at the very least I was expecting that her eyes would be Ryuji from toradora level.
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How on earth would SHE know if she had something superhuman or not? It’s the Evil God’s quote that states it.
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“When he had spotted that girl in a high ranking world, he had unconsciously sighed in wonder. It wasn’t often that you’d find a human with eyes close to his kind’s.”
That’s not the only one either. Enough. Discussing this with you has long become inane.
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Yea, I know what you mean it’s almost like with “Yomigaeri,” I had something else pictured for No-Life, Demon Princess, and even Tena’s miko outfit. Plus, is Anri-sama wearing a nun’s habit?
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She recharges an item every time she gets hit :P
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Its the robe that she accidentally wore for an hour when she was staying at the inn and forgot to change.
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It’s her hood. xD
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Anri is in the Final Boss spot. Excellent.
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hm…
anri is not that scary
honestly, i am disappointed :(
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Anri was never scary.
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unless you see her bathing like a certain peeper~
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Are you okay? If you think Anri is scary, then there must be something wrong with your head. Maybe you should take a rest.
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Don’t look in her eyes, don’t look in her eyes!!
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HELL YAAAA! Meep the characters are light years away from how I imagined… but not in a bad way! TYVM~
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Aww… Kinda expecting more of a menacing stare from Anri-sama … It turns out it was just like more of a glare ….
Thanks for the cover post Este-chan :)
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Anri is beautiful… Wanna make her my Wife!
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So pretty. Leonora especially made my heart throb. She looks like an elf XD.
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Kreyto! Do you Skype?
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The princess of the demon country is an elf?
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Demons in this worlds are basically white-haired elves in appearance. Or maybe you’d say that Elves are blond-haired demons? yadda-yadda, fantasy creatures.
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Well the Demon King family does have summoned human heroes in their ancestry if what Leonora said is true.
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Still doesn’t justify them being elves.
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Sure it does, mix of human genetics with demon genetics. Usually in fantasy settings that means either long ears or horns.
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i see ain. . . i mean the Loyal Lich on the back! wahahahahaha how come the maid looks young ain’t they got the same age? or am i wrong?
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“They did say she was 14 so she was certainly younger than me, but perhaps because of malnutrition, she was more petite than her age, and was one or two heads smaller than I was.”
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She looks more like the sacrificed girl. . . . . oh well maybe it’s on the perspective the artist must have drawn her w/ some distance in mind. . .but in my imagination she was more like the secretary look. . .oh well nice pic!
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BOW DOWN TO OUR BEAUTIFUL LORD AND SAVIOR! ! GAZE UPON HER EYES BASK IN HER SEXY GLORY!! ANRI ! ANRI! NOW COME SPREAD HER GLORY ACROSS THE WORLD! !! AND WE MUST INVADE NORWAY! WE INVADE NORWAY AT DAWN !!! LONG LIVE ANRI SAMA!!!!
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why is everybody following me to Norway…
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Hmm…. Still prefer this as her face.
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Impossible
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That looks like my bath scrubber.
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Well, those are the eyes you see when you lock eyes with her, but only the adventurer from the side story saw that face…
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I always imagine Anri to have that “Sadako” image… so kinda disappointed with this… but still “cute” nonetheless :3
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Well, it’s been said she’s pretty multiple times, and it’s just that when people look into her eyes, they end up seeing all the evil in the world.
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“Average of Evil Gods”… Let’s… just pretend that’s a subtitle or something, and not really the title…
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These days they always google translate WN adaptation titles. Don’t know why.
The only decent one I’ve seen is Kenja’s.
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leonora big…
i assume there will be flag between her and the hero
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who feels a manga coming along in about 6 months to a year after the release of the light novel.
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Kinda the norm, right? After a volume or two, they start a monthly/bi-monthly manga. Seems like every light novel these days has a manga adaptation. At least that’s how it seems.
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Cool~
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Anri looks exactly like what I thought.
I guess she must be thinking “wait why do I look like a last boss? I’ll sue the illustrator” while looking unexpressive.
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Leonora has a bigger “plot” than I thought. Also, I imagined Anri’s eyes to look more empty. Like, as if there was a void in those eyes or something. But it’s still nice.
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Yeahh
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thank mr skeltal
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Something about Anri-sama’s face reminds me of Yukino from OreGairu.
And of course, Leonora’s PLOT.
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The cover makes me think that Leonora is the MC while Anri is the villain of the volume.
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Hahaha! This, so much!
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Anri’s expression remind me of this http://imgur.com/WyzbyvM
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UOOOOOOOOOOOH LEONORA LOOKS HOT!!
THANKS FOR THE PICTURE !
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What kind of Offering i should present to Al-kawaii-ty Anri, for me to get close to leonora
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Is that Kirito ?
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I was frankly expecting her pupils to have patterns resembling (Fate/hollow ataraxia) Avenger’s tattoos. But its OK, HAIL ANRI-SAMA!!!
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Undying King looks like a certain skeleton from a mobile otome game
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An-chan is…. more like a boy.
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alphapolis huh…? i hope the author not take down his WN page and still continue write on it
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Anri-sama looks like the last boss…
Leonora has a lot of plots…
Tena is… SO CUTE <3 I want to cuddle her <3
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My favorite part is that the No-Life King is wearing some sort of beret…
Thanks so much for posting this ani-ue!!!!
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The No-Life King looks pretty cool.
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I thought she was flat since that guy offered to change them. XD
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Well… This is most certainly NOT how I envisioned Tena in my mind… –_–
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I most definitely didn’t think of Tena as a loli in my mind… what the heck… well whatever… I will just have to keep my mental image of Tena and use it instead of this one when reading.
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The angling is a bit weird. The camera is actually a bit above her head.
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Boo~ boo~ at least show us Anri~s full body design and her hood is too plain boo~
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I’ve been imagining her as the first one here http://etrian.wikia.com/wiki/Hexer so Tena has been somewhat of a loli in my mind too. But…I was kinda hoping my expectations would be exceeded…oh well, it’s average enough XD Leonora however…wasn’t supposed to be wearing a fluffy dress in the beginning right? There’s armor so I’m assuming that’s what she raided the dungeon with.
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ah, by ‘her’ I meant Anri, and since Tena was supposed to be younger, she’d be even smaller.
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First LN. Then anime. THEN THE WORLD.
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I always pictured Leonora and Tena as having short hair. I don’t know why for Tena but Leonora is a battle type so having short hair would make more sense for her. As for Tena I always seem to imagine her having a more developed chest after receiving her blessing, but then again I forgot she’s only 14.
Actually, they look nothing like what I my imagination came up with, not that that’s a bad thing really. I’m actually kind of shocked that my impression of their chests was backwards.
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”Thinking that, I looked at the screen, when I found that a beautiful girl with long silver hair flowing behind her was reflected on the screen. ”
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I tend to re-read the stories but ‘minor’ details like entire character descriptions seem to just not register.
This is entirely my own problem though. I’ve always had a tendancy to read way faster than most people I know, and that seems to come at the expense of not absorbing the details.
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That`s the authors fault for not giving Tena the personality of a child. She was going out to town and doing chores for Anri without any issue or even the slightest hint of childishness.
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Tena is way cuter than what was I expect. Anri-sama, no ones would blame you if you cuddle her every night if she’s that cute you know… Or rather, wanting to cuddle a super cute girl wont stop you from being straight! So just go for it!
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Anri-chan is too “cute” to be proper. :(
Besides the problem of the eyes, she was always described as the “cool beauty” not the “cute kid next door”. Expected her to be a bit more stone faced and angular.
Oh well. It’s the story that counts.
Still think Sheepy’s title trans makes a lot more sense. Evil God Average, rather than Average Evil God. One is a goal that got out of hand, the other is a title.
Would love to see the manga version, especially the part where all the creatures in the forest and dungeon high-tail it out of there as soon as she steps inside. :) I can see it now. 1st panel she steps inside. 2nd panel nothing happens, 3rd panel, everyone runs outside. lol
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Ignore all ‘English’ titles. A lot of these WN turned LN have google translated titles as subtitles for some reason. I think to make it look fancier. Sometimes they have actual English taglines too.
A particularly ridiculous example was ‘Revived the Devil’.
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I am happy EGA got some illustration, not so bad in my taste, rather quite good I guess.
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Yeah, it’s not to my taste either. Anri isn’t hot enough.
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I had been imagining Leonora as some kind of silver-haired Etna, but clearly the huge tracts of land version is better.
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This is extremely close to how I imagined the characters.
The No Life King is scarily close, even the robe is pretty much exactly what I pictured, the only difference is I had a less beret-like crown in mind.
Tena is basically identical to what I imagined too, other than her outfit. I actually didn’t think the author intended her to be that loli-ish; I just hoped, and pictured her like that anyway.
I thought of Leonora as looking a little older though, with a much more practical armour-dress and darker skin.
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I did not expect her plot. Also No Life King is a lot more blue-clothed than I expected.
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Huff huff Anri-sama please look at me with those eyes
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