{"id":12830,"date":"2025-08-28T06:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=12830"},"modified":"2025-08-28T08:35:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:35:42","slug":"witch-and-mercenary-2-4-torture-princess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/witch-and-mercenary-2-4-torture-princess\/","title":{"rendered":"Witch and Mercenary #2-4 &#038; Torture Princess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0DPHK9GB3\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">second<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Witch-Mercenary-Light-Novel-Vol-ebook\/dp\/B0F2X3HJL4\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">through<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Witch-Mercenary-Light-Novel-Vol-ebook\/dp\/B0F8KYV849\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fourth<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/im-quitting-the-heros-party-7-witch-and-mercenary\/\" title=\"I\u2019m Quitting the Hero\u2019s Party #7 &#038; Witch and Mercenary\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Majo to Youhei<\/a> novels expand the protagonists&#8217; circle of acquaintances while keeping the same general atmosphere. The series does however look to be building toward some kind of large-scale confrontation with the expanding number of potentially conflicting factions involved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B07KPBBL14\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isekai Goumon-hime<\/a> starts out unnervingly similar to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/the-hero-laughs-1-5-broke-mercenary-8\/\" title=\"The Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time #1-5 &#038; The Strange Adventure of a Broke Mercenary #8\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nidome no Yuusha wa Fukushuu no Michi o Warai Ayumu<\/a>, especially considering they were originally released within a month of each other. It makes me fear this will fall apart later in a similar way&#8230; but maybe it can instead succeed where that failed. Hopefully it does because darker stories like this one aren&#8217;t particularly common.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second through fourth Majo to Youhei novels expand the protagonists&#8217; circle of acquaintances while keeping the same general atmosphere. The series does however look to be building toward some kind of large-scale confrontation with the expanding number of potentially conflicting factions involved. Isekai Goumon-hime starts out unnervingly similar to Nidome no Yuusha wa Fukushuu no Michi o Warai Ayumu, especially considering they were originally released within a month of each other. It makes me fear this will fall apart later in a similar way&#8230; but maybe it can instead succeed where that failed. Hopefully it does because darker stories like this one aren&#8217;t particularly common.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1175,28,1181,1180,1174,510],"class_list":["post-12830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-chohokiteki-kaeru","tag-fantasy","tag-isekai-goumon-hime","tag-keishi-ayasato","tag-majo-to-youhei","tag-young-adult-novel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}