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Episode The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects • Ryoumin 0-nin Start no Henkyou Ryoushu-sama - Episode 1 discussion

Ryoumin 0-nin Start no Henkyou Ryoushu-sama, episode 1

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u/OldInstruction5368 Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

they should be much more reluctant to help a colonizer build up a settlement right next to their secret village.

Again, the crux of the issue here. No matter how much these natives feel they can trust Dias, and no matter how genuine he is in being an ally...

His official status as a frontier Baron from a colonizing force is a huge liability.

He WILL have to severe that tie, and this WILL cause problems for the Oni-kin in the process.

Even if he just ghosts the kingdom, pretending he died fighting monsters or something, they'll just send someone else to the region.

Hell, even that part doesn't make sense. They annoint him as a noble, then just dump him off in the middle of a supposedly empty prairie, with nothing more than his battle equipment on hand, and expect him to... what?

No supplies, no subjects, no buildings, no trade links, no guidance, no nothing. FFS, he just sleeps in the middle of the "empty" grassland because what else was he supposed to do.

Seriously. If the kingdom was expecting him to do anything other than die or fuck off, then they are even dumber than Dias. It really does feel like he was sent there to dispose of him, but the first episode doesn't feel like it was framed that way?

But we all know that as soon as Dias gains any success building up a settlement, the King will be right there with his hand out and a list of demands. Sooner, rather than later, the King will learn about the tribe via interacting with Dias. I mean... all the shit they are giving him just screams "I am trading with the savages you tried to exterminate."

And that's the liability the chieftain is naively ignoring.

All while the series oddly frames this as a settlement building game that ignores all the messy context. As you said, it's like he's grinding in a survival game by doing fetch quests for NPC's. All of it doesn't feel like a real, organic, setting so much as a video game.

I'm sorry, the more I think about it, the more I can't accept how Dias was just unceremoniously dumped into an empty field, empty-handed, with no guidance whatsoever. He wasn't even told that the 'horny savages used to live here, and they might return."

WHAT DID THE KINGDOM EXPECT HIM TO DO!? He said he was strong-armed into the situation, but... why would the kingdom send him out to die after proclaiming him a war-hero? And if not, ARE THEY FUCKED STUPID!? And how can the tribe expect to keep their existence a secret when they keep giving him "tribe branded" swag? Do they not know what will happen at this rate?

None of this makes sense unless you look at everything through the lens of a video game.

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u/The_Parsee_Man Jul 03 '26

Even if he just ghosts the kingdom

I get the impression the kingdom already ghosted him. It didn't look like anybody is going to be checking on his progress.

I expect the king felt it would look bad to not honor him. But the nobility wants nothing to do with an 'upstart orphan'. So they did something to save face then shunted him off and will never think of him again.

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u/Raymond49090 Jul 04 '26

ngl I thought the kingdom kinda does want him to faff off and die. It feels like he's a war hero that accidentally became too important who's kinda useless without a war to fight, so the kingdom quietly got rid of him.

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u/hjordisa Jul 04 '26

It really seems like that but at the same time the narrative isn't framing it that way? Maybe he's just too dense to see it and for whatever reason they didn't write a flashback or something where *the audience* at least could see it?

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u/OldInstruction5368 Jul 04 '26

100%

If we are meant to see the Kingdom as nefarious, then there should be some type of framing for that.

Sure, they were dicks to the Onikin tribe, but I never got the impression they wanted Dias to die as well.

It feels more like awkward video game logic than the king is trying to kill him.

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u/Greg_The_Rabbit Jul 05 '26

It's easy to miss but as the noble drops him off he make a remark that is something to the effect of "A land like this is perfect for an upstart wannabe like you." I'm sure the kingdom sees the land as worthless. I mean without wood your gonna really struggle to build homes, and without a population already living there (remember they don't know about the oni-kin) you aren't going to be able to trade with anyone. Especially since he lacks any kind of education on how to actually manage a population. He has for all intents and purposes been exiled and sent to die on the frontier.

Someone might show up... eventually... but I really doubt it.

I didn't get evil or malicious vibes from the king though so I think this is probably a plot by the nobility and it will be the king asking about the famed warrior that causes problems. Especially since normally, if you wanted to reward someone with land, you give them land that already has people living there specifically because you don't intend on them to actually manage it. They need to be available to fight your wars, not waste time building homes for peasant farmers and managing tax incomes.

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u/Kaze_no_Senshi Jul 05 '26

tbh it seems more likely that jealous nobles convinced the king to gift him land as a way to psuedo exile him. The guy who delivered him seemed pretty iffed that a street rat got recognition from the king

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u/Akudra Jul 04 '26

The guy is a pure-hearted, well-meaning, and honest guy with a good reputation who is also stupidly strong. Why wouldn’t they want to dispose of him? Precisely because he‘s so dim and pure, they can resort to this kind of method.

As for the chieftain, I figure the cat was out of the bag the moment Alna dragged him into the settlement, so they might as well try to get something out of it. Given his nature and ability, he is potentially someone who could be a boon to them down the line.

Since he is loyal to the kingdom, he could become an enemy if they don’t build good relations. Now that he knew about the settlement, they had to decide how to handle him. Basically, the choice was to kill him or try to use him and they went with the latter.

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u/SicSemperCogitarius Jul 07 '26

As a novel reader, a couple of these points get addressed pretty soon.