The Beginning After The End (Web Novel)

Ignoring Arthur wearing her long lost dead brothers cloths and showing her his body I just want to add, Tess jumps from 5 to 13 and in her first POV back, she’s already fantasizing about their kids and upset Arthur isn’t kissing her. She even assaults him in the hospital and forces an unwanted kiss while he’s immobilized. Yikes? She keeps pressing until he caves, kisses her, and promises to wait for her to grow up. Reminder: Arthur rejected Lilia, saying she was just “grateful” for being saved—but that logic didn’t apply to the lonely 5-year-old princess he rescued from slave trafficking and lived with for three years. All in all TurtleMe is a genius. He has people crying over "ships" like there was ever more than one option past the school arc, and than people crying over Studio A-cat slaughtering the novel while cashing there checks.

Also teenage brain is exactly how she is portrayed. They fantasize. Sorry to say compared to C chicks. Tessia is the better character and FML

And as for the kissing that's wild to say assault on Arthur. Like bro what if he didn't like her he would have rejected her like he did Lilia and C chicks name

No not what happened with Tess she didn't like him like that at first she was grateful, I mean sh*t old man said himself that she had to mature more than usual because people would take advantage of her adults and kids alike. Arthur was the first FRIEND she had and over the years he stayed there with them she grew to like more. It's like y'all completely ignore story and it's sad

You're exactly what I described— along with rewriting the story. Gratitude turning into affection puts it lightly lmao. The moment Tess returns in Xyrus, she's fantasizing about babies, playing damsel, screaming into her pillow over not getting a kiss, then forces one on Arthur while he's immobilized-and STILL gets angry he sees her as a friend and tries to guilt him. That's heart-eyed generic isekai slop of a infatuated love. Like Sakura over Sasuke. Arthur rejected Lilia for confusing gratitude with love after saving her once. Tess? He saves her from traffickers, from her core imploding, from a literal NTR villain, shields her from a bomb—and we're told that somehow isn't the more extreme version? There's no build-up. It goes straight from "omg you saved me" to "why won't you kiss me!" with nothing in between. It's not realism, it's not a slow burn—it's just a shortcut. Personally? I'd take Seris—no weird kid angle, actually competent, least damsel esque. But hey, enjoy your anime!

And the traffickers was the start of the friend ship, then they lived together for yrs while he got better they got to know each other better chemistry started to happen, so then Tess likes him, and tbfh she has no idea he's a grown man mentality. And Arthur already established and asked her to wait so he can be ready and also her she agreed, she's no rushing I mean Arthur even said himself he already knew she liked him but he didn't wanna accept that and he said him self he was acting childish cuz of that, it's like putting a piece of food Infront of an animal then u eating it.

And last I kinda agree, but at the same time u Authors with this type of story can't really stay in the childhood for too long, cuz criticism is at the max with reincarnation stories. If we saw them together with the time skip, u would 100% have a different view but we don't cuz of the time skip

Not what happened again, he kissed her forehead in the manwha and in the novel on the cheek then she starts fantasizing. And it's not gratitude turning into love cuz of the gratitude it's the years of being together, since Arthur has to stay what 3 yrs 4 yrs, idr. While Lily liked him instantly cuz of the gesture of helping getting a mana core. 2 completely different people and 2 completely different reactions.

Ah, you're baiting me at this point last comment lol 1. Wrong her first reintroduction, and she's already obsessing and fantasizing before any kiss. (Chapter 46 on this website) 2. Wrong again, more obsessing and gaslighting him after she forces herself onto him on the hospital bed—and no, it wasn't on the cheek in the novel. (Chapter 61 on this website) You're dodging the point. The early volumes of TBATE where generic isekai slop with romance lazily slapped on, and this is what it led to not even 15 chapters later. It's one thing to say you don't agree-but don't blatantly lie about what the novel says. What applies to Lillia applies to Tessia ,a damsel, even more “Because I don’t mean it in a conceited way. To her, I’m something like a hero who saved her life. She may have fantasies about a relationship between us, like any young girl about her idol, but that doesn’t mean she is in love. It’s more of an infatuation" Chapter 43 (Arthur on Lillia) Read your own book. Good riddance

Also while I can agree they were "the same at the start" being a damsel in distress they two are completely different as well, one was bouta actually f*ck*ng have a horrible life while the other just cuz of the pressure of possibly not getting a mana core was saddened. Even when Tess got saved she treated him as a friend nothing more or less. We don't seeeeee her "flirting" with him till after the time skip which was like 3 yrs of CHEMISTRY that we don't seeeeeeeee. While the other is like maybe a 1-2 and she instantly likes him cuz of the help he did with the mana core seeeeee the difference

I never once said the beginning wasn't a basic Isekai it's obvious. But the fact that people similar to yourself won't at least try to understand characters and just passively hate on them is wild. I like c chick as a character but comparing the two is unfair for her consider one has most the the story to develop well might I add. While c chick was basically there to fill a quota of more of a damsel in distress as u call them

1. She's wants something to happen she's a kid with a crush, the thinks Arthur at least has some feels which he does other wise why Tf would he kiss her on the lips. (Reread that part I forgot been a minute). 2. "Gaslighting him" is a crazy take when he himself said he couldn't and asked her to wait. She's a child mentally hea and adult and he knows there is no gaslighting the peck on the lips he did was to give him time. Cuz guess what as "soon" as he came back they made a promise together

So Basically? Weak --> Strong ^ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀/ ⠀\ ⠀⠀⠀×2 ⠀ ⠀| ⠀⠀--->Stronger ⠀⠀___________

It's a good schema, just the X2 is actually more than just 2, MC get powercrept pretty often, but just not as blatantly as other WN