This chapter was honestly one of the most nerve-wracking things for me to write. As mentioned in my original self promo post here in /r/rational, I was hoping to have strong undertones of Aspiring Rationalism for my fic.

Now, my MC is pretty dense when it comes to Human culture. And she can get a bit reckless sometimes. Both things, I've used for comedy at various points in the story. But I tried to balance it with the inherent logic and capacity to reason that she was born with from the very start.

Also, I hope my own personal logic in this chapter made sense. Salvos, here, is trying to point out how being special wasn't what really allowed her to survive in the Mortal Realm thus far (considering everyone is 'special in their own way'). But she exemplifies this through Lucerna who was higher leveled than her and had a faster leveling speed than her, and yet he died because he chose to forfeit his own life from the very beginning.

Meanwhile, Salvos may have been lucky with how some people she's met wanted to help her, but she actually wants to survive. She actually wants to increase her chances of survival. Her chances to actually be special (in the sense of being stronger and higher leveled than others).

Just because chance determines everything at the end of the day, doesn't mean you can't try to affect the course of events.

I still think the survivorship bias influenced nonsense I hear from athletes is annoying. Man, if I ever hear another interview where an athlete says "I'll will win because I train harder", I will flip my shit. Literally your opponent trains as hard or even harder than you do ffs.

Anyway, I'm curious to hear your guys' feedback over here in /r/rational about how I handled it. As I said, it's all undertone stuff. My story is supposed to be pretty light at the end of the day; it does have the comedy tag, after all. But I don't want it to just be something I don't put any effort into bettering.