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結婚と皇位継承争い、Ｗ決着!?
善良さ故に奪われ続けた前世の反省から「悪徳領主」を目指すリアム。
師匠の安士に背中を押され、彼はついにロゼッタとの結婚式を挙げることを決めた。
しかし皇位継承権を賭けた代理戦争に巻き込まれ、結婚式は中止の危機に陥ってしまう。
それでも最初は決着を急ぐ気のないリアムだったけど――
「わたくしはダーリンと一緒にいるのが幸せなの」
敵の姦計も味方の裏切りも食い破る、逆転の一手を打ち出すのだった！
一方、戦争の裏ではリアムを排除するため最凶の刺客が生まれようとしていて……!?
悪徳領主が目標なのに花嫁を幸せにしちゃう（？）勘違い領地経営譚、第10幕!!
善良さ故に奪われ続けた前世の反省から「悪徳領主」を目指すリアム。
師匠の安士に背中を押され、彼はついにロゼッタとの結婚式を挙げることを決めた。
しかし皇位継承権を賭けた代理戦争に巻き込まれ、結婚式は中止の危機に陥ってしまう。
それでも最初は決着を急ぐ気のないリアムだったけど――
「わたくしはダーリンと一緒にいるのが幸せなの」
敵の姦計も味方の裏切りも食い破る、逆転の一手を打ち出すのだった！
一方、戦争の裏ではリアムを排除するため最凶の刺客が生まれようとしていて……!?
悪徳領主が目標なのに花嫁を幸せにしちゃう（？）勘違い領地経営譚、第10幕!!
352 pages, Paperback
First published March 25, 2025
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June 14, 2026
Great addition to the series. Some solid progress in the main plot with the succession conflict moving towards a resolution while setting things up for the natural follow up. Liam even shows a bit of growth and no unintended lucky twists either. I hope it sticks, because I did get fed up with that particular character quirk, funny at first, but I felt it was enough. We will see. So, great characters, and solid over-top comedy without much of the repetition of earlier volumes, so all in all a highly entertaining read.
December 15, 2025
This was pretty lackluster. The series feels stuck in a rut at this point. The formula has become painfully obvious: the Guide wants revenge and complains about his miserable fate, hatches a plan, uses his powers to set things in motion, watches it all backfire, shouts “I’ll get you next time,” and disappears into space.
Meanwhile, Liam stumbles into a perfect victory through dumb luck, misunderstandings, and help from his guardian dog. By the end, he has usually picked up a new companion for the ever growing almost-harem or an overpowered piece of equipment, often both. Rinse and repeat.
Even when something important happens, like actual character growth or a meaningful step forward in the larger plot, it gets rushed or glossed over so the book can return to describing battle scenes at length. This volume was supposed to deliver two major milestones: the long awaited wedding and Liam’s rise to Duke. Both are handled in half a chapter at most. Instead, more attention is given to Liam falling out with the new crown prince and long-winded battles, which feels like a strange priority choice.
I’m genuinely unsure if I’ll keep going. I don’t mind a formula, but when something important finally happens, it should feel special. Otherwise, what’s the point of continuity? At that stage, the series might as well commit to being an adventure of the week.
This volume is fine if you’re not tired of the formula yet. It’s just more of the same. Still, the series really should start thinking about wrapping things up. I can’t imagine there being more than one or two books of actual story left. A weak three stars for me, and maybe even a 2.5 if I’m being honest.
Meanwhile, Liam stumbles into a perfect victory through dumb luck, misunderstandings, and help from his guardian dog. By the end, he has usually picked up a new companion for the ever growing almost-harem or an overpowered piece of equipment, often both. Rinse and repeat.
Even when something important happens, like actual character growth or a meaningful step forward in the larger plot, it gets rushed or glossed over so the book can return to describing battle scenes at length. This volume was supposed to deliver two major milestones: the long awaited wedding and Liam’s rise to Duke. Both are handled in half a chapter at most. Instead, more attention is given to Liam falling out with the new crown prince and long-winded battles, which feels like a strange priority choice.
I’m genuinely unsure if I’ll keep going. I don’t mind a formula, but when something important finally happens, it should feel special. Otherwise, what’s the point of continuity? At that stage, the series might as well commit to being an adventure of the week.
This volume is fine if you’re not tired of the formula yet. It’s just more of the same. Still, the series really should start thinking about wrapping things up. I can’t imagine there being more than one or two books of actual story left. A weak three stars for me, and maybe even a 2.5 if I’m being honest.
March 14, 2026
Betrayal. Many succumb to the violence of human culture or fall under the lusty gaze of an over-powered ego. Further still, evading this fate, nobody is invulnerable to the wild, crass vicissitudes of an indifferent universe. And that's the problem with betrayal; once it starts, it never ends.
EVIL LORD v10 takes the scenic route. It's a fun, roundabout story that frames what Liam eyes as the end game. The imperial succession plan is a trifle, but it's all everyone talks about. Word has spread that Cleo (third prince) is contemplating going it solo and breaching the pacts that bind all of his previous alliances. Word has also spread that Calvin (first prince) is aiming to make one last stand to shove aside Cleo and make his case as crown prince. Count Banfield might have a word with these two bickering siblings.
And he will. But war has broken out (again). And House Banfield will have to pick a side and muster its forces for the good of . . . the empire? A random planet, run by an idiot baron, becomes host to a proxy war between Cleo and Calvin; winner takes all. In this context, I'M THE EVIL LORD OF AN INTERGALACTIC EMPIRE v10 opens the narrative with betrayal on the mind: imperial minds hope to betray Liam, allies to the betrayers plot a betrayal of their own, and then, the initial betrayers, accidentally brokering an opportunity for success, wonder if they've made a horrible, horrible mistake. So many characters and so many fools just don't think these things through.
The author appears increasingly willing to try out new storytelling structures to advance the core narrative of Liam-versus-everybody. This time around, it's character development via proxy battles, and readers climb into the minds of secondary characters whose allegiance is tested when failure appears both inevitable and enduring. What happens when the indomitable House Banfield suffers several, successive battlefield losses? What happens when Hydra, the home planet for House Banfield, suffers a security breach? What happens when the Seventh Weapons Factory is placed under martial law? And that proxy war? The actual war? It's gonna last a while.
To be sure, the fact that House Banfield pulls together a good 300,000 ships for a yearlong battle over the turf of some dumbass baron is worth paying attention to. But it won't take long for the young count, his trusted knights, and the reader, to figure out there are more conniving powers at play. Ending the war prematurely will cost lives and reputation. How much is Liam willing to suffer? (And even then, there's that wedding to Rosetta waiting for him back home.)
The wildest and most entertaining parts of the current novel rest in its secondary and splinter plots. For example, readers might encounter new mecha, artificial intelligence, and spurious scientific breakthroughs; but readers will also encounter a brilliant and compelling one-one-one fight in which a maturing Kurt Sera Exner takes on the book's top baddie.
Speaking of Kurt, the author's ongoing subtext of the character's gender dynamics continue to delight. Kurt's mech, the Vanadís Frey, has a rather suggestive (dual-layered) physical build, and the young man's encounter with Marion at a celebratory event speaks volumes. Marion, readers may recall, is the crossdressing woman (now a servant/maid) with a knack for charlatanism and spycraft. And so, when Kurt learns of Marion's ties to Liam, readers find a woman (Marion) who prefers to live as man, locking horns with a man (Kurt) who prefers to live as a woman, both of whom carry deeply conflicting sentiments about their brash patron. This novel series doesn't spend a lot of time on interiority, when it comes to most of its secondary characters (other than, perhaps, Claus), but EVIL LORD v10 picks its spots and does a lot with very little.
EVIL LORD v10 takes the scenic route. It's a fun, roundabout story that frames what Liam eyes as the end game. The imperial succession plan is a trifle, but it's all everyone talks about. Word has spread that Cleo (third prince) is contemplating going it solo and breaching the pacts that bind all of his previous alliances. Word has also spread that Calvin (first prince) is aiming to make one last stand to shove aside Cleo and make his case as crown prince. Count Banfield might have a word with these two bickering siblings.
And he will. But war has broken out (again). And House Banfield will have to pick a side and muster its forces for the good of . . . the empire? A random planet, run by an idiot baron, becomes host to a proxy war between Cleo and Calvin; winner takes all. In this context, I'M THE EVIL LORD OF AN INTERGALACTIC EMPIRE v10 opens the narrative with betrayal on the mind: imperial minds hope to betray Liam, allies to the betrayers plot a betrayal of their own, and then, the initial betrayers, accidentally brokering an opportunity for success, wonder if they've made a horrible, horrible mistake. So many characters and so many fools just don't think these things through.
The author appears increasingly willing to try out new storytelling structures to advance the core narrative of Liam-versus-everybody. This time around, it's character development via proxy battles, and readers climb into the minds of secondary characters whose allegiance is tested when failure appears both inevitable and enduring. What happens when the indomitable House Banfield suffers several, successive battlefield losses? What happens when Hydra, the home planet for House Banfield, suffers a security breach? What happens when the Seventh Weapons Factory is placed under martial law? And that proxy war? The actual war? It's gonna last a while.
To be sure, the fact that House Banfield pulls together a good 300,000 ships for a yearlong battle over the turf of some dumbass baron is worth paying attention to. But it won't take long for the young count, his trusted knights, and the reader, to figure out there are more conniving powers at play. Ending the war prematurely will cost lives and reputation. How much is Liam willing to suffer? (And even then, there's that wedding to Rosetta waiting for him back home.)
The wildest and most entertaining parts of the current novel rest in its secondary and splinter plots. For example, readers might encounter new mecha, artificial intelligence, and spurious scientific breakthroughs; but readers will also encounter a brilliant and compelling one-one-one fight in which a maturing Kurt Sera Exner takes on the book's top baddie.
Speaking of Kurt, the author's ongoing subtext of the character's gender dynamics continue to delight. Kurt's mech, the Vanadís Frey, has a rather suggestive (dual-layered) physical build, and the young man's encounter with Marion at a celebratory event speaks volumes. Marion, readers may recall, is the crossdressing woman (now a servant/maid) with a knack for charlatanism and spycraft. And so, when Kurt learns of Marion's ties to Liam, readers find a woman (Marion) who prefers to live as man, locking horns with a man (Kurt) who prefers to live as a woman, both of whom carry deeply conflicting sentiments about their brash patron. This novel series doesn't spend a lot of time on interiority, when it comes to most of its secondary characters (other than, perhaps, Claus), but EVIL LORD v10 picks its spots and does a lot with very little.
January 1, 2026
Betrayal
Somehow we all knew it would come to this when Mishima-sensei started hinting at Cleo's jealousy towards Liam. The royal line in power has a clear track record for petty underhandedness, with the newest contestant being the kind of shameless douchebag that would spend large sums of his only supporter's money then backstab that very support. I can't wait to see Cleo get owed.
Somehow we all knew it would come to this when Mishima-sensei started hinting at Cleo's jealousy towards Liam. The royal line in power has a clear track record for petty underhandedness, with the newest contestant being the kind of shameless douchebag that would spend large sums of his only supporter's money then backstab that very support. I can't wait to see Cleo get owed.
April 12, 2026
straight up galaxy fighting. I liked how this was more focused on the princes succession fight
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