悪役令嬢なのでラスボスを飼ってみました 2

Following Aileen's successful quest of conquering Claude, the demon king, and becoming his fiancée, the story moves on to the game's sequel in this book. In a true otome game series standard, the second game has its own heroine and last boss, and it also takes place in a different place. This allows us to see a popular genre in otome games that we didn't have the chance to see in the previous book: school life. Due to certain circumstances, Aileen decides to disguise herself as a male student and sneak into Misha Academy in the hope of preventing destruction.

As far as the story goes, this second volume is a little weaker than the first for me simply because I find school settings rather restrictive. It limits Aileen's activities to only things she can do inside an academy, even though she's still a brilliant main character. She also gets a whole new batch of pawns allies, and considering the game has a fandisk and even more sequels, this will probably be a reoccurring thing. The story does a pretty good job distinguishing all the new side-characters though, so no complaints from me.

Again, the only reason I'm rating this 4★ is the translation. It's still stiff with weird wording choices, and at times it really diminishes my enjoyment because the lines don't flow naturally. There's still a lot of usage for “to begin with” as a sentence opener, and also plenty of lines which were obviously translated literally without any paraphrasing. Not sure if they're going to maintain this quality for the rest of the series, but for this book the translation is still subpar. It really doesn't do the original justice.

Please, be thorough with the editing and proofreading for future volumes. I will not stop saying this until it gets better, because it's really such a shame.