On page 12, when she references the "master tactician", the author is most likely referencing Fire Emblem. Some of the games have a tactician class, and their robes look just like the MC's.
Every chapter of this manga makes me double-check and make sure I didn't start reading somewhere in the middle by accident. Everything about it feels like a sequel or spinoff of another manga.
Thanks for the tl, I think you've made as much sense of it as can be. This manga is truly a masterpiece of the "gruesome spectacle" genre, were you almost don't want to read but it's impossible to look away.
I was going to make a joke along the lines of "Thank you for reminding me about this,"...
You should be getting heavier, regardless of fat/muscle ratio, until you're 20(give or take).
I don't think I've ever seen a manga acknowledge the fact that teens grow. It usually just happens as sudden changes to their character design when they go up a grade, there's never a mid year growth...
@alacaelum That's a really good point. If they reigned it in a bit and devoted some panels to showing some actual preparation or planning it would feel a lot less like a negative trope, but authors tend to just skip to when the character's plans all succeed and they expect us to just accept it.