Tensei Ouji wa Daraketai - Vol. 2 Ch. 14

[MangaDex]

 

[mukiex]

He finally got his catball!

 

[AzureOtaku]

That's adorable.

 

[scripted]

I WANT ONE!!

 

[xyzzy]

When you have to make your alternate world so stupid that they don’t even know what a rainbow is, just to make your MC seem even smarter and more special

 

[Kirin-kun]

Rain and sun at the same time never happens?

No fountains?

It's pretty stupid to not notice how rainbows appear.

 

[Liver]

what the fuck that's cute as heck

 

[lunarrider]

is hotaru the 1 with white fur n odd eyes?

 

[PsychoJing]

@xyzzy isn't it just the religious though? His father considers the rainbow thing to be a myth.

 

[xyzzy]

@PsychoJing

That’s the thing. This is a medieval society with magic and scholars and shit, but the entire population hasn’t seen a rainbow after a rainshower and figured out a correlation?

 

[gda19]

Omg why are they so cute

 

[Tych]

I got the Diabeatitus from this chapter get me some insulin

 

[wolfeng]

@xyzzy

Maybe it's so ingrained in their culture that they think a god usually descends after rains. It kind of makes sense with rain being so precious for the farmers, like the gods blessing their future harvest etc.

 

[Hank]

@xyzzy You know that the myths mentioned here are the same as myths from our world... Right?... The Greeks and Romans had "scholars and shit" who were far more advanced than those alluded to thus far in this story, yet Iris was still a goddess. The correlation between rainbows and fountains/rainshowers was also pretty common... But was explained away via those myths rather than magically understanding how white light consists of the full spectrum of visible light, which are differentiated by their wavelength, thus allowing them to be separated when passing through the interface of two materials with different indices of refraction at a certain angle.

"God is blessing us" is a much more reasonable conclusion to make when everyone believes in such a higher power and nobody understands optics.

Also, note how those who actually believed it was a bridge were all commoners and the boy who only saw it because he was skipping studying it. Nobody there understood how rainbows formed, but they were all willing to ask. You would probably have the same reaction if a kid brushed away some mystery of quantum mechanics like it was common knowledge as well, even though we do have "scholars and shit."

 

[PsychoJing]

@xyzzy ah...i see your point

 

[PrivatePublic]

@Hank Was going to make a big post like you but you covered it for me. Just going to leave a few links here for the apparently uneducated commenters about how people in our world once viewed rainbows.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_(mythology)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifröst
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Serpent

 

[Vasqueztion]

@Hank, @wolfeng, @PsychoJing, @xyzzy (Everyone in this conversation on rainbows and myth)
So, I went back through the story. Turns out, there's a fountain in the courtyard of their home (Chapter 7, first page + panel). One, which, given the look of the panel itself, would very much be hit with light regularly to produce the "bridge of god". So I have to agree with xyzzy, this seems like a pretty terrible cop out to make the protagonist better than everyone else.

Maybe this only really applies to the larger "connected to the sky" rainbows like the one he created... idunno

 

[endo54]

I will just say this, the picture in the credit looks like a tragedy where a boy keeps petting his dead pet while waiting for his dead~

 

[TheTanJar7]

So cute I love the creatures in this story

 

[nal]

young boy's pet quest: the manga