@guysaresohot44 @CronosusCZ Aside from the sale and execution that sounds like https://mangadex.org/title/36763/the-labyrinth-raids-of-the-ultimate-tank worked on by the same scanlation team.
@AbyssalMonkey It doesn't feel like that much of a contrivance to me since as her thought bubbles said in the last few pages the country has very limited experience with magic and in fantasy most mental control spells also make it that much harder to realise the disruption to their thought...
I believe Saki 2 is a distraction and while we all worry about history repeating instead Itsuki will be murdered, especially after raising the death flags of giving up smoking for his health, and talking about his adopted daughter and the grandkids last chapter. I'll even go one step further and...
@sherlock0790 They signed on as a guarantor, basically it's someone using House Grail's reputation to get a loan they would otherwise be refused. If the person getting the loan fails to pay it off then as the guarantor House Grail is legally required to pay the debt. Though the author is...
I'm pretty confident she's the grown-up version of the young girl he saved from the assassin group on one of his early missions, the one who was guarded by the cloaked expert back in chapter 10 or so. She popped up again just before this mission when he bought the necklace for his daughter.